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MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN 1/2007
23 January 2007
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In this bulletin
1. Congratulations to Monash Students for Mumbai Economics Convention
2. CSEAS Seminar: invitation for presentations
3. "Unexpected encounters", MAI Press
4. Call for papers: Transitions: Health and Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
5. Indonesia Council Open Conference
6. Conference: Migration and social protection in China
7. Exhibition IKAT: Asian resist dyed textiles
8. Asian Development Bank 2007 Internship
9. Call for papers - Conference on Regional Science
10.Call for papers - Conference Mekong Actual Outcomes
11.Conference: Imperial curiosity
12.Website of the month
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Monash Asia Institute News and Events
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Item 1. Monash University team wins trophy for Annual Undergraduate
Economics Convention, Mumbai 2006
Six students from Monash's Faculty of Business and Economics represented
Monash Asia Institute at the 8th Undergraduate Economics Convention, an
annual event organised by the Hyderabad Sindh National Collegiate Board
in Mumbai, India.
We are pleased to announce that the 2006 trophy was won by the Monash
team, and the best speaker trophy was awarded to a Monash team member,
Mr Sam Qualtrough. This is the fourth time in the 8 consecutive series
of this challenging and interesting event in which the Monash team won
the HSNCB trophy for the best research paper and presentation. We
congratulate the team members, Farid Zaid, Lucas Dent, Anh Cao, Ravi
Dutta, Sam Qualtrough, Shankar Kasynathan and Keeley Henessey on their
efforts.
The programme is jointly supported by Monash Abroad, the Department of
Economics (Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University) and the
Hyderabad Sindh National Collegiate Board. Dr Jayant Bapat of the Monash
Asia Institute accompanied the students to Mumbai.
Details for the 2007 December Convention in Mumbai will be announced in
the latter part of this year.
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Item 2. CSEAS Seminars
The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, invites
all researchers working on issues relevant to the Southeast Asian region
to present their work in the CSEAS Seminar Series, held on Thursdays at
11 a.m. during the teaching semester. Disciplinary specialisation is open.
Please contact Dr Trudy Jacobsen (trudy.jacobsen@arts.monash.edu.au)
with your name, affiliation, a title for your seminar, and the Thursday
of your preference in Semester 1, or to indicate your interest in
presenting in Semester 2.
Postgraduate students nearing the completion of their masters or
doctoral degree are particularly encouraged to submit a seminar proposal.
----Item 3. Latest MAI publication
"Unexpected encounters: neglected histories behind the AustraliañJapan
relationship" edited by Michael Ackland and Pam Oliver 2007, $34.95 ISBN
978 1 876924 50 8
Telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in
Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity and ambition in
times of war and peace. The essays collected here illuminate a variety
of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to
literature and the arts, the media and the justice system.
See:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/publications/jsmonographs.html#encount
ers
For Enquiries about the MAI Press: Ms Emma Hegarty, Publications
Officer, emma.hegarty@adm.monash.edu.au
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Monash News and Events
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Item 4. 3rd Signature Conference, Australian research Council Asia
Pacific Futures Research Network (ARC APFRN)
"Transitions: Health and Mobility in Asia and the Pacific"
Call for abstracts - Deadline: 2 March 2007
The ARC APFRN Local Organising Committee is inviting submissions for
oral, poster, performance, and session abstracts for the 3rd Signature
Conference to be held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, from
Sunday June 24 until Tuesday June 26, 2007.
Presentations should be relevant to one of our five broad conference
sub-themes:
1. Outsourcing and offshore labour: the production of illness
2. The mobility of viruses and their prevention
3. Disaster and violence, flight and forced movement
4. Commodification of the body, global technologies and global health
5. Emergent identities, social movements and wellbeing
Oral presentations and performance pieces will be allocated 20 minutes,
with discussion at the end of each session. Abstracts should be
unstructured and have a word limit of 150-200 words.
Abstract submissions will be accepted until Friday, March 2, 2007 by
email to:
kathleen.j.nolan@med.monash.edu.au or Fax: +61 3 9903 4508
Telephone enquiries to: Milica Markovic: +61 3 9903 4043 or Narelle
Warren: +61 3 9903 4506
For poster, session presentations and other details, see :
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/arc/index.html
---Item 5. Indonesia Council Open Conference (ICOC)
24-25 September 2007.
Hosted by the Indonesian Studies Program, Monash University with the
support of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia
Institute, Inside Indonesia, and the Caulfield Campus of Monash University.
This multi-disciplinary conference will provide a forum for the
presentation of new and innovative work on Indonesia, with particular
emphasis on bringing established scholars and newer Indonesianists together.
Call for papers and panels - Due date: 1 May 2007
Proposals for papers and panels are now invited. Proposals for papers
should include a title, brief abstract and biodata. Proposals for panels
should include either a suggested panel title only or titles and brief
abstracts for three papers.
Proposals for papers and panels should be received by Tuesday, 1 May
2007 and may be emailed to ICOC@arts.monash.edu.au
or posted to
The Indonesia Council c/o Mr Paul Thomas, Indonesian Program, School of
Languages,
Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Building 11, Monash
University VIC 3800
Phone: +61 3 9903 2478 Fax: +61 3 9905 5437
Further information is available at
http://indonesiacouncil.anu.edu.au/icoc2007.php
----Item 6. Conference: Migration and social protection in China
Beijing, China
25-26 September 2007
Monash University's Asian Business and Economics Research Unit together
with the Institute of Population and Labour Economics at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences and the Renmin-Monash Advanced Centre for
Economic Studies will stage an international conference on ëMigration
and Social Protection in China' on 25ñ26 September 2007 in Beijing.
Specific issues to be addressed include: labour market integration and
social protection, migrant participation in social security schemes,
migrant alternatives to state-sponsored social protection, migrant
working conditions, salaries and wage arrears, and responsibilities of
government in the provision of social protection.
Conference website,
http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/Conference2007/index.php
Enquiries, Dr Ingrid Nielsen, Ingrid.Nielsen@buseco.monash.edu.au
Professor Russell Smyth, Russell.Smyth@buseco.monash.edu.au
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Other News and Events
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Item 7. National Gallery of Victoria
Public programs for the exhibition Ikat: Asian resist dyed textiles
The exhibition is currently on at NGVI, St Kilda Road, until 12 March 2007
Collectors Floor Talks: "Ikat: Asian resist dyed textiles"
10 February 2007, 2:00 PM - 3:00 pm
Join textile collectors Russell Howard and Alexandra and Leigh Copeland,
as they discuss their collections of Tai and Central Asian textiles.
Cost: Free
Venue: Exhibition space, Level 1, NGV International
Note: No booking required as this is a free event
Special Lecture: "Southeast Asian Ikat"
19 February 2007, 6:00 pm
Join pre-eminent textiles scholar Robyn Maxwell as she discusses
Southeast Asian ikat. Includes opportunity for book signing.
Robyn Maxwell is the Senior Curator, Asian Art, National Gallery of
Australia and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Australian National
University.
Cost: $25 / $20 NGV Member / $18 Concession / $15 Student (includes
refreshments on arrival)
Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International (enter North
entrance, via The Arts Centre forecourt)
Event code: P0783
Bookings: 03 8662 1555
----Item 8. ADB Internship
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now inviting academic institutions
to participate in its internship program in 2007.
The purposes of ADB's Internship and Fellowship Programs are to offer
the opportunity to:
* work in a major international development organisation with a
multicultural environment
* gain a deeper understanding of development finance and the impact of ADB
* expand knowledge by learning from experienced professionals and
apply it to educational and practical experience
* make a presentation in a public forum at ADB
In order for your students to apply for the program, your school must
register with the ADB, agree with the selection requirement and process
as well as have regular participation with the ADB.
Please visit the on-line registration form -http://www.adb.org/Internship/ipf.asp -- for further information and
also the next step.
Other details: http://www.adb.org/Internship/default.asp
----Item 9. Call for papers - Due Date:7 February, 2007.
First Annual Conference on Regional Science
16 - 17 March 2007, Dhaka
Bangladesh Regional Science Association (BRSA) is pleased to invite you
to participate in the First Annual Conference on Regional Science
jointly organized by BRSA and the Department of Urban and Regional
Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on
16-17 March 2007 at BUET, Dhaka. We expect some international
participation in this conference.
Papers are welcome on any aspect of Regional Science, a
multidisciplinary field dealing with the regional impacts of national or
global processes of economic and social change. Topics covered by
regional scientists include behavioural location models, transportation
and migration, land use and urban development, spatial agglomeration and
segregation, new economic geography, interindustry analysis and trade,
environment and natural resources, urban and regional development, rural
development, social policy models, geographical information systems and
spatial data analysis.
Young researchers (postgraduate research students and researchers in the
beginning of their careers, below 30 years of age) are especially
encouraged to submit papers for a special session for young researchers.
Please submit an extended abstract (around 400 words) by 7 February
2007. Mail your entry in MS Word format to mzaman@urp.buet.ac.bd with
'BRSA paper' as the subject.
Website: http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/mzaman/brsa/callpapers.htm
----Item 10. Call for papers - International Conference on post-facto
evaluation of official development assistance in the greater Mekong
subregion (GMS)
Mekong Actual Outcomes
Northern Illinois University, De Kalb Illinois United States of America
5-7 October 2007
Deadline for paper abstracts and panel proposals: 15 June 2007
The Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies and
the Ohio University (Athens) Center for International Studies/Southeast
Asian Studies are pleased to announce joint sponsorship of an
unprecedented, Mekong-focused international symposium yielding
methodologies for assessing actual outcomes and achieving downstream
learning. The Conference publication will be a peer-reviewed interactive
e-book of reality-based best practice that should be generalizable
beyond the GMS.
Further details about the conference details can be downloaded at
http://131.156.68.45/mekong_conf_homepage_hq.pdf
Enquiries, Alan Potkin, apotkin@niu.edu, or Karla Schneider,
schneidk@ohio.edu
----Item 11. Conference: Imperial curiosity
Conference - Imperial Curiosity: Objects, Representations, Knowledges,
Hobart
27-29 June 2007
School of Art, Hobart
Alongside economic, political, and strategic motivations, curiosity
spurred the spread of empire. This interdisciplinary conference invites
scholars and curators to explore imperial curiosity with the University
of Tasmania's Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath. We want to bring
together those working in various historical, literary, ethnographic and
cultural collections with scholars from diverse disciplines: literary
studies, geography, Asian studies, history, indigenous studies, art
history, architecture, legal studies, museum studies, gender studies,
cultural studies and anthropology, amongst others.
For enquires please contact caia@utas.edu.au
For more details including registration form,
http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imperialcuriosity/
----Item 12. Website of the month
The Centre for Bhutan Studies
http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/
The Centre for Bhutan Studies website provides a link to the Journal of
Bhutan Studies, a bi-annual publication that presents scholarly articles
on the social, cultural, and economic life of Bhutan. The website also
has a link to Bhutan's National Bibliography, which can be downloaded in
a PDF file. It contains over 120 pages of references for books,
articles, and journals on Bhutan.
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