Arts News 2005

In a paper titled Growing Up: Risky Business? delivered in Hobart yesterday, Dr Peter Kelly, Head of Monash University's Department of Behavioural Studies, outlined why responses by the media, communities and parliamentarians to " schoolies'" behaviour could be related to adult anxieties and mistrust of young people's ability to make a safe transition to adulthood.
7 December 2005 (Monash Newsline)

A two-day international conference on Islam co-hosted by Monash and Deakin universities last month attracted world authorities on Islam Professor James Piscatori and Professor Bassam Tibi as keynote speakers.
7 December 2005 (Monash Memo)

Three Monash University scholars have been elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Professor Constant Mews, Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, and Dr Kate Rigby and Professor Andrew Benjamin from the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, were among 17 scholars to be elected Fellows last month.
7 December 2005 (Monash Memo)

The joint winners of the 2004 Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Publication Prize for best publication are:

Dr Adrian Schober for the book "Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film", published by Palgrave MacMillan. The book arose out of Adrian's PhD thesis "Contrary states: possessed child narratives in literature and film" for which Adrian was awarded his PhD degree on 20th of March 2003. Adrian was nominated for the prize by his supervisor, Dr Heather Scutter; and

Mr Simon Burgess for his publication "The Newcomb Problem: an unqualified resolution", published in 'Synthese' vol. 128. The article arose out of Simon's research for his PhD thesis, "An evaluation of the consequentiality account of rightness". Simon was nominated for the prize by his supervisor Dr Dirk Baltzly.

Both winners will receive a cheque for $1,000!

A Japanese cultural tour encompassing the modern, the kitsch, the elegant and the contemplative.
11 October 2005 (Japanese Studies Program)

Interested in shaping the future? Want our cities and suburbs to be liveable and ecologically sustainable? Then check out the new Bachelor of Regional and Urban Planning at Berwick.
27 September 2005 (New courses)

Thinking of a career in foreign affairs, diplomacy, politics and government or environmental research? Then the Bachelor of Arts (Global) is the course for you.
27 September 2005 (New courses)

Intensive Summer language program taught in Shanghai and Beijing
23 September 2005 (Chinese In-Country Program)

Are you a high achiever? Considering Honours in 2006?
Check out our Arts Honours Summer School
14 September 2005 (Honours Summer School)

Shadow puppetry exponent and Monash Asia Institute honorary research fellow Ms Jane (Jai) Hartnell is heading to Cambodia as one of Australia's Youth Ambassadors.
5 September 2005 (Monash Newsline)

The Monash Asia Institute has facilitated the donation of almost 1100 books to the University of Kabul library in Afghanistan.
2 September 2005 (Monash Newsline)

Monash University academic Dr Simone Murray has won the international SHARP DeLong book prize for the best work in print culture for 2004.
12 August 2005 (Monash Newsline)

The third annual Herb Feith Lecture will explore the difficulties faced by Indonesia in 2005 in maintaining national unity while striving to recognise diversity among its many islands.
1 August 2005 (Monash Newsline)

The British Economic and Social Research Council has awarded Monash arts and law scholars, together with researchers from the University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, nearly $500,000.
20 July 2005 (Monash Memo)

The Monash University London Centre has a new director, Professor Graeme Davison of the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts.
5 July 2005 (Monash Newsline)

The curator and collections manager at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) has been selected by the Australia Council to attend the Venice Biennale this month, as part of the council's Emerging Curators Initiative.
1 June 2005 (Monash Memo)

The late Monash academic Lorna Lippmann was committed to improving the plight of Indigenous Australians.
11 May 2005 (Monash Newsline)

Visual culture lecturer Dr Annette Van den Bosch is curating an exhibition of Vietnamese art on display at the Walker Street Gallery in Dandenong until 25 May.
4 May 2005 (Monash Memo)

Military training techniques employed by the Australian armed forces are problematic and detrimental to soldiers, Monash University researcher Jessica Wolfendale has claimed.
14 April 2005 (Monash Newsline)

Monash University has received a major endowment to establish a research chair in modern Israel studies in the university's Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation.
23 March 2005 (Monash Memo)

The Victorian Government's plan to accommodate a further one million people in Melbourne by the year 2030 is fundamentally flawed, say researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne.
22 March 2005 (Monash Newsline)