===================================== MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN [4/2008] 7 April 2008 ===================================== In this bulletin 1. 17th ASAA Biennial Conference (Early registration closes 16/4/08) 2. CSEAS Seminar: Human Rights Protection 3. Seminar: Deadly Sins of Cocktail Ideology & Vicious Cycle of Poverty 4. Seminar: Indonesian Terrorism 5. CSEAS Seminar: Memory & silence in the Vietnamese diaspora 6. Inaugural Professorial Lecture 7. CSEAS Seminar: Reimagining Austronesia 8. CSEAS Seminar: Political economy of press conglomerates, Indonesia 9. Meet the Monash Archaeologists 10. Malaysian Film Festival 11. Book Club: Journey through Contemporary India 12. Chinese studies research program 13. ASACP Conference 14. Borneo Research Council Conference 15. Website of the month: IDF Southeast Asia node ===================================== Monash Asia Institute and Monash University News and Events ===================================== Item 1. 17th Biennial Conference Early bird registration closing on 16 April 2008 Hosted by Monash Asia Institute on behalf of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) The 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 1–3 July, 2008 The Sebel Albert Park Hotel, Melbourne, Australia ASAA and Monash Asia Institute invite you to the largest gathering of expertise on Asia in the southern hemisphere. We invite you to attend as a conference speaker or observer. Abstracts and papers are now invited. Early bird registration closes on 16 April 2008. All postgraduate students who register for the ASAA conference will be able to attend for free a Postgraduate Workshop on 30 June 2007. For registration and all other details see the conference website: http://www.conferenceworks.net.au/asaa/ For further information contact Key Conference Solutions T. +61 3 9870 2611 F. +61 3 9870 1723 Email: events@conferencesolutions.com.au ---------------- Item 2. Seminar Centre for Malaysian Studies and Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Thursday 10 April 2008, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Manton Room SG02, Ground Floor, Menzies Building (11) South, Monash University Clayton campus ‘Human Rights Protection at the Crossroad? International Law, Religious Laws and National Laws: Jurisdictional Division and Freedom of Religion in Malaysia’ Kerstin Steiner, Research Fellow, Asia Law Centre, Melbourne University Enquiries: Dr Jemma Purdey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Email: Jemma.Purdey@adm.monash.edu.au ---------------- Item 3. Seminar The Social and Economic Interface Research Network (SEIRnet), Department of Management Monash University Thursday 10 April 2008, 12.30-2pm. (Light lunch served from 12.30pm). N1.03, Building N, Level 1, Monash University, Caulfield Campus "Deadly Sins of Cocktail Ideology and the Vicious Cycle of Poverty in Developing Countries" Dr Kamal Siddiqui. (Economist and a Civil Servant, with a PhD from SOAS, University of London). The findings of in-depth longitudinal field research aimed at delineating the processes which cause, maintain, aggravate and reduce poverty and to evaluate the relative impact of both economic and non-economic factors on the poverty situation, the results of which have major implications for poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. RSVP: for catering purposes, please reply to seirnet@buseco.monash.edu.au by Friday 4 April 2008. Full details: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mgt/research/seirnet/index.html ---------------- Item 4. Seminar Global Terrorism Research Centre and Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University 16 April 2008, 3-4.30pm H Building, room H5.10, Monash University Caulfield campus ‘Indonesian Terrorism: What Studying One Attack Can Teach’ Ken Ward, Indonesia and terrorism Analyst Making use of police investigation reports and some prison interviews, Ken Ward will examine the Bali II bombing of 1 October 2005 as a case-study in the research of Indonesian terrorist operations. In this incident, three suicide bombers blew themselves up in three different cafes or restaurants. Ken will identify the main participants and the relations among them, consider the reliability of sources, and identify the main gaps in our knowledge of what happened. Finally, he will suggest what conclusions can be drawn from this case-study about the future of Indonesian terrorism. Ken Ward has observed Indonesia for over forty years, both from inside and outside government. He has many years of experience working as Senior Indonesia Analyst with the Office of National Assessments and in various diplomatic and advisory roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Ken now works as a consultant on terrorism and Southeast Asian politics and is currently working as a Consultant for Southeast Asia and The Netherlands on the Global Transnational Terrorism Project, with University of Michigan and John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York. He is author of a recent paper for the Lowy Institute, ‘Dealing with a democratic Indonesia: The Yudhoyono Years’ (March 2007). This is a joint seminar of the Global Terrorism Research Centre and Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University All welcome Enquiries: jenny.williams@arts.monash.edu.au ---------------- Item 5. CSEAS Seminar Thursday 17 April 2008, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Manton Room SG02, Ground Floor, Menzies Building (11) South, Monash University Clayton campus ‘Memory and silence in the Vietnamese diaspora: The narratives of two sisters’ Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, ARC Research Fellow, Centre for Australian Studies, Melbourne University Enquiries: Dr Jemma Purdey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Email: Jemma.Purdey@adm.monash.edu.au ---------------- Item 6. Inaugural Professorial Lecture School of Historical Studies, Monash University Thursday 17 April 2008, 6.30 - 8.30pm Cinema Campus Centre (Building 10), Clayton "On Courts, Cows and Conflicts in British India" Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Ian Copland Please RSVP by 14 April 2008 Tel: 9905 2164 or email Susan.Grist@arts.monash.edu.au All welcome ---------------- Item 7. CSEAS Seminar Thursday 24 Apr 2008, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Manton Room SG02, Ground Floor, Menzies Building (11) South, Monash University Clayton campus ‘Reimagining Austronesia’ Mark Donohue, Professorial Fellow, Linguistics, Monash University Enquiries: Dr Jemma Purdey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Email: Jemma.Purdey@adm.monash.edu.au ---------------- Item 8. CSEAS Seminar Thursday 1 May 2008, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Manton Room SG02, Ground Floor, Menzies Building (11) South, Monash University Clayton campus ‘Press ownership, commercial interest, and content diversity: Political economy of press conglomerates in post-Suharto Indonesia’ Hendrarto Darudoyo, PhD Candidate, Latrobe University Enquiries: Dr Jemma Purdey Postdoctoral Research Fellow Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Email: Jemma.Purdey@adm.monash.edu.au ---------------- Item 9. "Meet the Monash Archaeologists" Seminar Sunday 18 May 2008, 1:00 - 5:00 pm Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Presented in conjunction with the School of Geography & Environmental Science and Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Prof Alan Finkel, Chancellor of Monash University, will launch this programme. Archaeologists from Monash University will discuss their latest field work and research in Victoria, Papua New Guinea, Sardinia and China. Speakers include: "Treasures of the Taklimakan Desert, western China", Professor Jin Hai Long, Oasis Institute, Urumuqi (A research partner of the Monash Asia Institute) "Not hunter-gatherers: dating the antiquity of ancient Aboriginal eel farming in western Victoria", Dr Ian J. McNiven, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University "Contrasting early agriculture in New Guinea and Southwest Asia", Dr Tim Denham, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University "The archaeology of seafaring and ceramic trade in southern Papua New Guinea", Dr Bruno David, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University "Environmental change and the abandonment of the Punic-Roman port of Neapolis, Sardinia: pollen evidence from estuarine sediment cores", Ms Lucia Lancellotti, PhD candidate, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University Cost $25 Adult / $20 NGV Member / $22 Concession / $18 Student (includes afternoon tea) Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International Event code P0865 Telephone: +61 3 8620 2222 This lecture is supported by National Gallery of Victoria Public Programs. It is funded through the collaboration of the Monash Asia Institute and the School of Environment Science at Monash University. ---------------- Item 10. Malaysian Film Festival Friday 30 May 2008, 6.30pm Link Theatre, S Building Monash University Caulfield Campus Malaysian Film Screenings 2008 Special screening of 'Cinta' The Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, invites all Malaysians and friends of Malaysia to the second Malaysian Film Screening 2008 on Friday, May 30th. Bound together by the common theme of love, Kabir Bhatia's mainstream film-making debut 'Cinta' (2006) takes us through the relationship of five couples in metropolitan Kuala Lumpur as they seek to find and understand friendship in the name of love. Is love harder to find or is it harder to keep? A sacred and fragile monument to human lives and emotions, Cinta restores our faith in love and goes a long way in explaining why everyone needs it. Please see http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/cms/seminars/index.php#films for details or contact the Centre for Malaysian Studies at sasch4@student.monash.edu.au ===================================== Other News and Events ===================================== Item 11. Book Club Journey through Contemporary India Presented by Readings Books Music & Film and Asialink. Tuesday 29 April 2008, 6.00 for 6.30pm Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Center, University of Melbourne. PASSAGE TO INDIA – A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India Explore contemporary India with our experts who will share and lead discussions on their favourite books. Passage to India will review books monthly on Indian modern history, society and foreign politics. Books lined up for the series are: The Last Mughal by acclaimed UK historian, William Dalrymple and the 2007 Man Booker Prize short-listed Animal's People by Indra Sinha. The inaugural speaker for the series is Professor Robin Jeffrey from the Australian National University. Professor Jeffrey is an expert in the modern history and politics of India. From the 1960s he taught in north India for the Regional Institute of English and the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) before completing a doctorate in modern Indian history at Sussex. He is a graduate from the University of Victoria in British Columbia and University of Sussex. Professor Jeffrey is also the author of The Decline of Nayar Dominance, 1976; What’s Happening to India? 1986; Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became ‘a Model’, 1992; India’s Newspaper Revolution, 2000. He will be reviewing and sharing his views on The Last Mughal by best selling author/historian William Dalrymple. ENTRY: Free RSVP: To reserve a seat, please send an email to Asialink Events at events@asialink.unimelb.edu.au with "Passage to India – Robin Jeffrey" in the subject line. ---------------- Item 12. Taiwan research grant program Due Date: 31 May 2008 Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) research grant program. This program is designed for foreign professors, associate professors, assistant professors and doctoral candidates in departments related to Chinese studies at foreign universities, as well as researchers at related foreign academic institutes. The content of the research, to be undertaken in Taiwan, should be within the field of Chinese studies. Assistance provided by the CCS includes subsidies of research expenses, research materials service, liaison with universities and research institutions, and use of CCS facilities for ??? is the rest of this missing? Applications for research tenure of three months to one year are now invited. Applications should be submitted to the CCS by May 31 of each year before the year in which grants are intended to be used; notification of the CCS’s decision will be given by the end of August of the same year after a careful review. Details: http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ccs/EN/Reward1.asp Enquiries: Centre for Chinese Studies, 20 Chungshan South RD. Taipei, Taiwan email: ccsgrant@ncl.edu.tw ---------------- Item 13. Philosophy Conference The ASACP (Australasian Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy) is calling for papers for a 2 day conference: Date: 5th (Saturday) and 6th (Sunday) July 2008 Venue: International House (Melbourne University), Greycourt Theatrette, 241 Royal Parade, Parkville We are planning 6 panels: 1. Emotions and Feelings (in memoriam and to honour the late Robert (Bob) C. Solomon): (Kathleen Higgins will present key-note paper) 2. Heidegger, Nietzsche and Asian Philosophy; 3. Comparative Hermeneutics; 4. Variations on the Middle Way; 5. Indian Philosophy (possible themes are “Yoga” or “Cognition”); 6. Chinese Philosophy (a theme may emerge depending on submissions). Papers are 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for clarification, and a general discussion at the end of the panel. Please send proposals to: Enquiries: Peter Wong (for the ASACP 2008 Conference Team) School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne email: asacp.conference@gmail.com Details: www.philosophy,unimelb.edu.au/asacp ---------------- Item 14. Borneo Research Council 9th Biennial International Conference Borneo on the Move - Continuity and Change 29 – 31 July 2008 Including Photographic Competition and Exhibition (28 July – 1 August 2008) Venue: Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Objectives of the Conference: 1. To promote scientific research in the social, biological and medical sciences in Borneo; 2. To permit the research community, interested Borneo government departments, and others to keep abreast of ongoing research and its results; 3. To serve as a vehicle for drawing attention to urgent research and its results; 4. To coordinate the flow of information on Borneo research arising from many diverse sources; 5. To disseminate rapidly the initial results of research activity; 6. To inform the interested public on research in Borneo. This will be a multidisciplinary conference with plenary sessions, sessions devoted to special topics, and panels. Languages of presentation will be in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia Deadlines: Submission of Abstracts: 31 March 2008 Submission of Papers: 30 May 2008 Registration: RM 350 for participants & presenters RM 175 for students Conference & Exhibition website: http://sepanggar.wordpress.com Contacts: Conference: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, Kadazandusun Chair, School of Social Sciences Photographic Competition and Exhibition: En. Suhaimi Salleh, Communications Program, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Locked Bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Tel: 6088-320102, Fax: 6088-320242; Conference & Exhibition e-mail: brc2008ums@gmail.com ---------------- Item 15. Website of the month: The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Southeast Asia node http://www.idf.org/home/index.cfm?unode=3B96FDD5-C026-2FD3-8785E2AB07550B1B Diabetes and its complications have become a major health problem in the Asian region. There are currently over 45 million people with diabetes in the region. More than 95% of these people have type 2 diabetes, which comprises 20% of the current total world prevalence. =========================================================== The Monash Asia Institute Newsletter incorporates news items from the six research centres of the Monash Asia Institute, partner organisations and other groups working to promote Asian Studies in Australia. For further information about the Monash Asia Institute and this newsletter: http://www.monash.edu.au/mai/ To unsubscribe, please send an email to: monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au ===========================================================