===================================== MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN 11/2004 4 November 2004 ===================================== In this bulletin 1. Seminar: Punjabi Diaspora 2. Seminar: Burmese Military and Reconciliation 3. MAI Postgraduate Seminar 4. India Update 2004 5. CSEAS Post-Doc Fellow 6. King's College Grant 7. Scholarship on Sri Lanka 8. Forthcoming MAI events 2005 9. New undergraduate archaeology course 10. AsiaSociety China Update Luncheon 11. Jim Fox Seminar, with Austronesian Languages Book Launch 12. Book Launch: "Key Issues in Development" 13. NUS ASEAN Research Scholars programme 14. Conference: Vietnamese, Cambodian and Lao Diasporas 15. Vacancy: South Asian Studies, Arizona State University 16. South Asia Essay Competition 17. Conference: Aid and Development in Conflict Situations 18. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies 19. Thai Music Workshop in Thailand 20. Website of the month: The Air Power Website of Australia ---------------------------------------------------- Item 1. Seminar Monash Asia Institute Thursday 11 November 2004, 10.30 am for 11.00 am Room E365, East Wing, Menzies Building (11) Monash University Clayton campus "Punjabiyaan di shaan wakhri: Ethnic Returns." Assoc Prof Anjali Gera Roy Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India Abstract Bhangra, the Punjabi harvest ritual transmuted as global dance music, simultaneously performs multiple identity spaces today, which I have named vilayeti (global), desi (Indian) and Punjabi (regional). As global music it constructs different, youthful subjectivities; as Asian music it becomes the signifier of Asian ethnocultural identity; and as Punjabi music it reaffirms a diasporic Punjabiyat. The examination of communities formed in relation to Bhangra demonstrates counter trends in postmodern subject formation, one pointing to globalization, the other to ethnic specificity. Bhangra performs its multiple identity places through multi-coding. While inviting the non-Punjabi viewer to participate in the dance and the music, it effectively shuts out strangers - brown, black and white - from the ritual Punjabi place. While the dance and music include, the Punjabi lyrics retained in contemporary Bhangra mutants and knowledge of the rules governing performance exclude. Through this strategy, Bhangra manages to cordon off a sacred Punjabi space, which is shielded from outsiders' profane gaze. While putting Punjab on the world map in the space created for regional cultures in globalization, Bhangra reconstructs the map of undivided Punjab by reaffirming Punjabi collective memories. About the speaker Anjali Gera Roy teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She has published a book on the oral written interface in Nigerian fiction and several essays on postcolonial literatures and theory. She is in Australia on a HRC fellowship of the ANU Canberra to research Bhangra's transnational flows. This seminar is free and open to the public - ALL WELCOME RSVP for the seminar (by 8 November 2004) to Sanjeev Veloo (Sanjeev.veloo@adm.monash.edu.au). Please use "Bhangra seminar" as subject heading of your message. ------------------------------------------- Item 2. Seminar Monash Asia Institute Tuesday 16 November 2004, 12.00 noon - 2.00 pm Room S822, Level 8 South, Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus "The Role of the Military Regime in the National Reconciliation Process in Burma." Mr Larry Jagan, former BBC, Asia Desk editor Abstract This presentation looks at series of major crises that have been affecting Burma in the last months and seeks to give the audience an update about the situation inside Burma. The presenter will discuss his analysis of the situation affecting the military regime and his own forecast on 18th September which predicted Khin Nyunt's fall. Speaker: Larry Jagan is a senior journalist and long-time Burma watcher. Formerly with the Asia Desk, BBC, London, he will presenting a paper at the Canberra Burma conference later in the month. Monash University is his alma mater. Free and open to the public - ALL WELCOME RSVP and Enquiries: Juliet Yee . Please use "Burma seminar" in the subject heading of your email. -------------------------------------------- Item 3. MAI Postgraduate Seminar Friday 26 November 2004, 10.00 am - 12.00 noon Room S822, Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus "The Epistemology of Function - Determining the Usage of Angkorean Temple Sites." Dr Alexandra Haendel Post-doc fellow, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute This presentation will introduce an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of appropriation of Angkorean temple compounds by devotees and priests, based on an understanding of the temples as dynamic, socially practised religious sites. Past analyses of the sites are characterised by a discourse of cosmological representation, limiting the scope of interpretation to the sanctuary towers. By shifting this focus from 'places' as configurations of positions and indicators of stability towards 'space' as composed of intersecting mobile elements, i.e. practised place, the temples can be understood as multi-dimensional, socially practised religious sites. This seminar will illustrate the application of this innovative approach by drawing on various temples from the early Angkorean period. ALL WELCOME Enquiries: Juliet Yee monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au ------------------------------------------- Item 4. India Update 2004 Wednesday 24 November 2004, all day with registration starting at 8.30 am Clive Price Room 2, Building 1, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT "India Today: The 2004 Elections and the Business Environment." Partners: Monash Asia Institute, SARU at Curtin University, International Business Unit at the University of New South Wales, the University of New England, the South Asian Studies Association of Australia. Background India is becoming increasingly important in terms of business opportunities for Australia as evidence by the very recent Lowy Institute paper "India the next Economic Giant", launched in August by the Minister for Trade, Mr Mark Vaile, MP. The Hindu published a report on 13 October citing arguments that India, along with China, is fast becoming the favoured Foreign Direct Investment destination, after the United States. India has risen from the sixth to the third position in the latest analysis on the FDI confidence index, by the global management consultant firm, A.T. Kearney. This India Update Seminar will reflect the growing importance of India in papers by government and private sectors speakers, and academics who will analyse aspects of the recent elections there and the opportunities for Australia which are emerging post-election. Speakers include: Mark Thirlwell, Lowy Institute Gayle O'Brien, Premiers Dept., Queensland & AIBC Neville Roache, AIBC Michael Gillen, University of Western Australia Sandy Gordon, ADFA Marika Vicziany, Monash Asia Institute Douglas Hill, University of Wollongong Desh Gupta, University of Canberra Rakesh Ahuja, University of Canberra & AIBC For updated and most recent details, see http://www.ce.canberra.edu.au/cc/activities/index.htm Registration by 18 November 2004 - download form from conference website: http://www.ce.canberra.edu.au/cc/activities/index.htm . Costs: $72.00 (inc.GST) - Full conference attendance, refreshments, lunch Full time students - Free (conditions apply) $35.00 (inc. GST) - Conference Dinner at the Jewel of India (Drinks to be paid separately) Drinks will be hosted by VC, University of Canberra. Enquiries: Dr Auriol Weigold , Room 9C12, University of Canberra, ACT 2601 Tel: (02) 6201 2545 ------------------------------------------- Item 5. CSEAS Postdoc fellow Dr Alexandra Haendel recently joined the Monash Asia Institute as the first post-doctoral research fellow of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies. She is preparing for publication various articles on Ankor. Amongst other things, Dr Haendel is working with Dr Penny Graham on a conference about the ancient religious sites of Southeast Asia and their relationship to the cities surrounding them. The date for this conference in 2005 is to be announced shortly. Dr Haendel is sharing an office with Professor David Chandler on the 8th Floor Menzies Building, and can be contacted by email: Alexandra.Haendel@adm.monash.edu.au ------------------------------------------- Item 6. Monash Asia Institute (MAI) wins travel grant to Kings College, London Dr Farid Bezhan, a research fellow of the MAI and assistant to the Director, has been awarded a travel grant to the Department of International Relations at Kings College, University of London, to work on a paper about 'Images of War in Afghanistani literature'. This new work builds on his recent writings about the history of Afghanistani literature. It also brings him into a group of scholars at the MAI working on regional security. Dr Bezhan is from the Persian Department of the University of Kabul, and migrated to Australia about ten years ago. He completed a doctorate at Monash University and has been publishing in English and Persian since then (during his time at the University of Kabul he published ten books). ------------------------------------------- Item 7. Scholarship on Sri Lanka The MAI is in the process of updating its database on South Asia beginning with scholarship in Australia about Sri Lanka. Kindly contact us with the details of your work. We are interested in hearing from members of staff and students. We need to have your name, email address, university address, the focus of your research on Sri Lanka, whether it is for a degree and the kind of degree, a list of your recent publications (only the last 2 years), and work in progress. Email your details to monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au, using "Database entry" in the subject heading. ------------------------------------------------ Item 8. Forthcoming Monash Asia Institute events: dates to be confirmed 4th Asia Pacific Regional Security dialogue: March 2005 The Ethics of the Commercial Excavation of Archaeological Sites: April 2005 2nd Monash Asia Institute International Conference in collaboration with the ASIA ON ASIA NETWORK (University of Kebangsaang, Malaysia and Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata): July 2005. =============================================================== Monash University events =============================================================== Item 9. New undergraduate course, Faculty of Arts, Monash University ARY2590/3590 East meets West: The Archaeology of the Indian sub-continent Semester 1, 2005 Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History A study of the interaction between the world of the classical Mediterranean and the Indian sub-continent from the fourth century BCE until the barbarian invasions of the fifth century CE. The unit presents an outline of the local cultures of the sub-continent, the changes resulting from Alexander the Great's conquests and the significance of international trade. Dr Andrea di Castro comes to Monash University's Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History from an impressive background of archaeological excavations, research and publishing in Italy, the Himalayan region and Australia. For more details, contact: Dr Colin Hope, Room S619, Menzies Building (11), Monash University, Clayton, Tel: 9905 3262 Dr Andrea di Castro =============================================================== Other items of interest =============================================================== Item 10. Special China Update Luncheon hosted by Asia Society AustralAsia Centre Monday 15 November 2004, 12.15 p.m. for 12.30 p.m. The Carillion Room, First Floor, Sofitel Melbourne 25 Collins Street, Melbourne "Growing economic ties between Victoria and China" The Hon Steve Bracks Premier of Victoria, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Veterans Affairs Premier Steve Bracks is currently undertaking an official visit to China. Joining him on his trip are representatives from a number of Victorian industry groups including the manufacturing, construction, biotechnology, education and automotive sectors. During his trip the Premier will be meeting with a diverse range of businesses and organisations including Ford China, General Motors Shanghai, the Victoria-Jiangsu Joint Economic Committee and the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. As Victoria prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2006 our links with China are becoming increasing diverse across a range of sectors. Premier Bracks will deliver this public address after returning from China to provide an overview of the trade and investment opportunities for Victorian businesses. About the speaker The Hon Steve Bracks became Premier of Victoria in October 1999 and was re-elected in November 2002. He was born and educated in Ballarat and had a successful career in teaching and the public sector before entering the Victorian Parliament as the Member for Williamstown in 1994. Cost: Asia Society/ AIIA/ ACBC Members $77* Non-Member $88* This event is supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs (VIC Branch) and the Australia China Business Council Victorian Division RSVP by Wednesday 10 November 2004 to Ms Naomi Smith, Programme Officer Tel: (03) 9650 0998 Email: naomis@asiasoc.org.au ------------------------------------------- Item 11. Jim Fox Seminar with Book Launch Thursday 11 November 2004, 3.00-5.00 pm (NOT Monday, as originally advertised) Asialink, 4th Floor, Sidney Myer Asia Centre The University of Melbourne, Swanston Street The University of Melbourne Indonesia Forum and the School of Languages, together with Asialink invite you to lectures on endangered languages and literature in Indonesia by Jim Fox "Oral Poets and their Compositions: Continuing the Voices of the Ancestors in Indonesia" and Nick Evans "Notes from the library of Babel". These will be followed by a book launch for Sander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann (eds) (2004) The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (London: Routledge) About the speakers James J. Fox is professor of anthropology and director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. His primary interests are the history and anthropology of Indonesia and East Timor. His research topics include rural development and resource management, the study of social organisation and symbolic systems, linguistic anthropology, and comparative Austronesian ethnology. He has done groundbreaking research on the structure of oral literature in eastern Indonesia. Nick Evans holds a personal Chair in linguistics at the University of Melbourne. His main specialization is in the study of Australian Aboriginal languages. His experiences working on these languages have fuelled a broader interest in the problems little-known languages raise for general linguistic theory, and in issues of language description and documentation. Apart from linguistics, his teaching and research interests also include the effects of culture on the emergence of language structure, the interface between pragmatics and semantics, and the use of linguistic evidence in native title claims. The lectures and book launch will be followed by drinks. Participants do not need to register. No charge for entry or drinks. Enquiries: Kathryn Hill, Research Fellow, Language Testing Research Centre University of Melbourne ------------------------------------------- Item 12. Book Launch The Australian Institute of International Affairs Monday 15 November 2004, 6.00 pm Dyason House, 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne Book Launch Key Issues in Development by Damien Kingsbury, Joe Remenyi, John McKay & Janet Hunt Published in New York & London by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 Keynote address: "Helping the world's poor" by Rev. Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia. Tim Costello is one of Australia's leading voices on issues such as development, urban poverty, homelessness, problem gambling and substance abuse. Educated in law and education at Monash University, he was appointed as CEO of World Vision Australia earlier this year. The notion of economic development has evolved from a relatively straightforward concern with industrialization plus increasing gross domestic product to a much more complex mix of quality of life, participation, empowerment and good governance - all of which have remained elusive to many of the world's poor. This major new text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the 21st century. The book launch will follow the Annual General Meeting of the AIIA. Free to the public but to assist with catering, please RSVP (by 12 November) to: AIIA , Tel:(03) 9654 7271 More information: http://www.aiiavic.org.au/ ------------------------------------------- Item 13. NUS ASEAN Research Scholars programme ASEAN Research Scholars Closing date: 15 November 2004 The Asia Research Institute of NUS invites applications from ASEAN citizens (except Singaporeans) enrolled for an advanced degree at a university in an ASEAN country for consideration as ASEAN Research Scholars. These fellowships are offered to students working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Asian topics, and will allow the recipients to be based at NUS for a period of three months. The aim of the fellowships is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Scholars will be expected to commence on 1 April 2005. Successful candidates can expect the following benefits: a. A monthly allowance of SGD$1750 which will be subject to tax b. A one time travel subsidy of up to SGD$1000 on a reimbursement basis upon being accepted for the fellowship. c. Access to library and computer resources on campus. Applicants are invited to email/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae, a 2-page outline of their research proposal in English (this may be accompanied by a longer statement in a Southeast Asian language) to the address below by 15 November 2004. Arrangements should also be made by which at least two letters of reference, one of which is from your principal supervisor, are sent confidentially to the same address by the same deadline. The research proposal must include the following details: 1) how the fellowship will contribute to the research; 2) the types of sources to be consulted in Singapore; 3) proposed work plan during the fellowship. You can look forward to excellent library and internet computer facilities at NUS' main library ([http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/]http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/) and the library at the Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS) [ [ http://www.iseas.edu.sg/library.html]http://www.iseas.edu.sg/library.html ] to facilitate your research for the dissertation. NUS' main library has 2 million volumes covering all topics while ISEAS' library has 200,000 on South East Asian topics, half of which are in South East Asian languages. Enquiries: Asia Research Institute, 5 Arts Link AS 7, Shaw Foundation Building, Level 4, Singapore 117570 Email: [ mailto:joinari@nus.edu.sg ]joinari@nus.edu.sg Fax : 65 67791428 Website: [ http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg ]www.ari.nus.edu.sg ------------------------------------------- Item 14. Conference (Re-)Making, (Re-)Inventing Culture and Identity in The Vietnamese, Cambodian and Lao Diasporas 20 - 21 November 2004 (A Two-Day Workshop) Old Canberra House Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Australian National University Since 1975 over two million Southeast Asian refugees have migrated to Western countries from the three mainland Southeast Asian countries of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam - making Hmong-Mien, Khmu, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese, and Amerasians/Eurasians some of the largest contemporary refugee and migrant populations in Australia, France, Canada and the United States. Refugees from mainland Southeast Asia are still coming to the West with recent reports revealing that the U.S. expects to resettle an additional 5,000 Hmong in 2004 (June 1, 2004 Star Tribune). Additionally, the U.S. recently signed a bi-lateral agreement with the Philippines to resettle 1,855 Vietnamese asylum seekers who fled Philippine refugee camps in the late 1980s for fear of being repatriated back to Viet Nam (April 15, 2004 AP). Southeast Asians refugee/migrants have steadfastly woven themselves into the fabric of their respective host countries. Communities such as Little Saigon in Southern California (USA), Cabramatta and Footscray (Australia) have grown and flourished over the past thirty years with foods such as "pho" entering the culinary vernacular in these host countries. In a number of cases these ethnic groups have achieved political representation in mainstream politics. This has led some to view Southeast Asian communities as (trans)migrant as opposed to strictly refugee in nature. As they made spaces for themselves in their new homes, many Southeast Asian migrants retained deep-rooted connections with their country of origin. Now, second and third generation migrants are reaching maturity and exerting economic, cultural and political influence. Technologies in communication and travel has allowed for this population to strengthen ties with individuals back home. This linkage has also facilitated interesting transnational networks and culture productions ranging from music to enterprise. For more details: http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/n_activities/workshops/2004/sea.htm Enquiries: Dr. Adam Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Dr. Kieu Linh Valverde, ANU South East Asian Studies Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research ------------------------------------------- Item 15. Vacancy: Associate/Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Religion in South Asia This is a new position in Global Studies and Religion in South Asia at Arizona State University. Applications are invited from scholars whose research in historical and/or contemporary South Asia focuses on the intersection of religion and in one of the following the thematic areas of study: governance; migration, borders, and identities; violence; natural resources, urban systems and development; industries of globalization; health and well-being; circulation of art, culture and intellectual property. Desired Qualifications: PhD and at least 2 years of teaching at university level plus research Applications close on 1 December 2004. Enquiries: Prof Anne Feldhaus, Chair, religious Studies/Global Studies Search Committee, Dept. of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, PO Box 873104, Tempe, AZ 85287-3104, USA. email: anne.feldhaus@asu.edu For more information: http://www.asu.edu/clas/religious_studies or http://www.asu/edu/clas/globalstudies ------------------------------------------- Item 16. South Asia Essay Competition Strategic Foresight Group announces an essay competition on "Individuals in Action: The Role of Common Citizens in Transforming South Asia" Closing Date: 31 December 2004 The objective of the South Asia essay contest is to invite ideas for action by common people to transform their own societies: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan and India. The essay should address the question: What can be done to transform the society in order to overcome the problems of corruption, injustice and inefficiency in the delivery of public goods? It should discuss the actions individuals or small groups can take to bring about transformation. The essay should not consider the actions that large organisations can undertake given their greater resources. The essay should reflect the reality and the experiences of society in any of the South Asian countries along with ideas or actions for change. It should also be forward looking and explore initiatives for the future. Prizes First Prize: US$1000 Two Second Prizes: US$500 each Certificates of Merit: Top five entries from each South Asian country Top five entries from non-resident community Last date for submission: 31 December 2004. Submission of entry must be by email or by entry form at the following website: http://www.strategicforesight.com/contest_terms.htm ---------------------------------------------------- Item 17. Conference School of Social Sciences and Planning, RMIT University 11 February 2005, 8.30 am - 6.30 pm Arrow on Swanston Function Centre 468 Swanston St., Melbourne, Australia "Aid & Development in Conflict Environments: What are the Lessons?" The conference will comprise a mix of keynote presentations and parallel sessions. Speakers will include practitioners from NGOs and community groups working in areas of conflict, donors, development and peace theorists. Specific conference themes include: - Maintaining humanitarian values in conflict environment - Aid responses to conflict situations - Post-conflict reconstruction - Aid in post-conflict environments Keynote speakers: Professor Kevin Clements, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland Afu Billy, Regional Rights Resource Team (Fiji) and Women for Peace Movement (Solomon Islands) Enquiries: Dr Matthew Clarke , Tel: +61 3 9925 3789 ---------------------------------------------------- Item 18. Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies The Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University invites applications for its 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies. Candidates from all social science disciplines, including history, are welcome to apply. The fellowship will cover a 10- or 12-month period beginning July 1, 2005 or September 1, 2005. The Fellow will devote half time to his or her own research and will teach one graduate-level course per semester. The stipend for 2005-2006 is $41,000, plus benefits. Eligibility Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements (completed and filed the dissertation) between July 2002 and July 2005. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. in a social science discipline, including history, working on modern Southeast Asia. Applications from individuals who hold or have held regular faculty positions will not be considered. Application Procedure Applicants should submit one original and two photocopies* of the following materials: -Application Cover Sheet (available at http://www.columbia.edu/weai) -Curriculum Vitae -Research Proposal -Graduate-Level Course Proposal -Three Letters of Reference (signed and sealed) Letters of reference may be those included in your placement dossier and may be enclosed with the application (if signed and sealed) or sent directly by the referee. *Only one copy of each letter of reference is required. All application materials (including letters of reference) should be postmarked on or before February 15, 2005. Faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. Candidates may be invited for a phone interview. All evaluations of applications are confidential. The award will be announced no later than April 30, 2005. Return completed applications to: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Mail Code 3333, 420 West 118th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10027 To obtain application materials or for more information on the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies, contact Robert Finkenthal, Program Officer, by phone at 212-854-9206 or by e-mail at rdf12@columbia.edu. Application information and forms are also available on the Weatherhead East Asian Institute website: http://www.columbia.edu/weai/ ----------------------------------------------------- Item 19. Thai Music Workshop in Thailand 16-29 May 2005 Offered by the Department of Music at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, for the first time. The workshop is an intensive course entitled 'Perspectives on Musical Arts and Cultures of Thailand.' Its aim is to enhance the development of cross-cultural understanding among a diverse group of individuals at an international level through musical activities. The workshop is tailored to meet the needs of music educators, community outreach staff, and undergraduate students in social, cultural, international, and Southeast Asian studies, and Ethnomusicology. The workshop will be conducted in three sections: studio lessons, lectures, and field trips. Each is equally important. Via a method of private/group studio lessons, the concepts distinct to traditional performances of Thailand will be presented with an attempt to reveal essential links between cultural context and musical style. Not only are prospective students encouraged to work on their musical skills during the workshop, but they are also encouraged to reflect upon their understanding of the complex process of music-making within a cultural context. More information: http://www.intermusiccenter.org/thaimusicworkshop.htm Enquiries: Ms. Pornprapit Phoasavadi, Department of Music, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 10330 Tel: (66) 2 - 218 - 4606 email: Pornprapit.P@chula.ac.th ---------------------------------------------------- Item 20. Website of the month: The Air Power Website of Australia http://www.ausairpower.net/index.html This website has been developed by Dr Carlo Kopp, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University and Mr Peter Goon, Managing Director of Australian Flight Test Services Pty Ltd (AFTS). Dr Kopp is working closely with the Monash Asia Institute in its Regional Security in Asia Pacific project. 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