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● October 2007 ●
Contents
Diary dates ● Events ● ARC successes ● New director for RSSS ● New editors for Australian Humanities
Review ● China collaboration ● RSH 2008 Humanities Fellowships ● Professional development ● Harry Potter and the Holocaust ● Controversy Corner ● Comings and goings ● Bouquets
Diary dates
18 October
22 October
15 November
31 January
Graduate Studies Information Evening , 5-7pm, University House.
Deadline for submissions to the review of the education programs offered by the Centre for New
Media Arts. Submissions should address the Terms of Reference and be sent to the CASS
Committee Secretariat .
Deadline for RSH 2008 Humanities Fellowships.
RSH Visiting Fellowships 2009 applications close. Full details . Please let your colleagues outside of the ANU know about these opportunities.
Check the CASS Calendar for other important dates this month.
Events
17 October
17 October
18 October
19 October
24 October
29 October
29 October
Book launch : Culture in Translation - The anthropological legacy of RH Mathews , edited by Martin
Thomas. To be launched by Heather Goodall. 5.30pm, Friends Room, National Library of Australia.
CAEPR Seminar Series : Contemporary Aboriginal intellectuals and the language of rights: Larissa
Behrendt, Katarina Ferro. 12.30-2pm, Humanities Conference Room, AD Hope Building.
Book launch : Re-visioning Arts and Cultural Policy - Current Impasses and Future Directions , by
Jennifer Craik. 5.30-7.30pm, Members Lounge, National Gallery of Australia.
RSH Friday Forum : Secularism’s Future? Presenters Ned Curthoys and John Warhurst, Facilitator
Renata Grossi. 1-2.30pm, Old Canberra House.
CAEPR Seminar Series : (Im)mobility: further thoughts on the nodal network model for regional population structures in north east Arnhem Land, Frances Morphy. 12.30-2pm, Humanities
Conference Room, AD Hope Building.
RSSS Theme Seminar : Election 2007: The Howard vs Rudd battle? Wayne Errington (CASS),
Nicholas Stuart (The Canberra Times) and Murray Goot (Macquarie University). 3-5pm, Ross
Hohnen Room, Chancelry.
SchoolScapes . A new film by David MacDougall, launched by Dr Debjani Ganguly
5.30pm, The Theatrette, Old Canberra House.

31 October
2 November
12 November
16 November
20 November
28-29 November
4-5 December
6-7 December
7 December
12-14 December
CAEPR Seminar Series : Poverty, Deprivation and Exclusion Among Indigenous and
Non-Indigenous Australians, Peter Saunders. 12.30-2pm, Humanities Conference Room,
AD Hope Building.
RSH Friday Forum : Cinema and Affect. Presenters Guy Davidson, Monique Rooney, Catherine
Summerhayes, Facilitator John Docker. 1-2.30pm, Old Canberra House.
2007 John Passmore Lecture: ‘Considerateness’, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew University. 5-
7.30pm, Law Link Lecture Theatre. Enquiries .
RSH Friday Forum : New Currents in Trauma Studies. Participants Lynne Bell, Bina d’Costa, Fiona
Jenkins, Rosanne Kennedy. 1-2.30pm, Old Canberra House.
Public lecture: ‘The Dead Sea scrolls’, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew University. 2-5pm, Hayden
Allen Tank. Enquiries .
ANU Economics Showcase , Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research. 9am-
5pm both days.
Australian Labour Market Research Workshop , Curtin University
New Horizons in Political Philosophy : A Postgraduate Conference in Political Philosophy. Roland
Wilson Building. Enquiries .
RSSS Theme Workshop : Health Policy Across Nations. 2-5pm, Innovations Building Lecture
Theatre.
RSSS Conference: Governing by Looking Back : How history matters in society, politics and government. Online registration available.
ARC successes
ARC Discovery grants for projects commencing in 2008 were recently announced. The CASS success rate for these applications was 21%, the ANU success rate is 27.3% and the national success rate is 21.4%.
Congratulations to all the successful candidates:
Alison Booth, RSSS, Work-related training in Australia .
Nicholas Brown, RSSS, Looking after country: the work and context of Rick Farley .
Terry Hull, ADSRI, Youth in Indonesia .
Harold Koch, Faculty of Arts, Tracing change in family and social organisation in Indigenous
Australia, using evidence from language .
Jacqueline Lo, Faculty of Arts, Being Asian in Australia and the United States: Analysing ethnic representations in visual arts, popular culture, academia and community festivals .
Jill Matthews, Faculty of Arts, Mapping the movies: the changing nature of Australia's cinema circuits and their audiences 1956-1984 .
Howard Morphy, RSH, Contexts of collection: a dialogic approach to understanding the making of the material record of Yolngu cultures .
Simon Niemeyer, RSSS, Social adaptation to climate change in the Australian public sphere: A comparison of individual and group deliberative responses to scenarios of future climate change .
Marian Sawer, Faculty of Arts, The evolution of social movements .
Matthew Spriggs, Faculty of Arts, Persistence and transformation in Ancestral Oceanic Society: the archaeology of the first 1500 years in the Vanuatu archipelago .
Congratulations also to Jon Altman who was awarded an Australian Professorial Fellowship for his project,
Hybrid economic futures for remote Indigenous Australia: Linking poverty reduction and natural resource management .

ARC Linkage projects were also announced this month. John Dryzek, RSSS, achieved success with his project, Creating and analysing a citizens' parliament: Exploring the public's deliberative capacity . John’s industry partner is newRepublic .
New director for RSSS
The ANU will welcome back British political scientist Professor David Marsh, a former visiting research fellow who returns to the University as Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), taking up the appointment in April of 2008. Professor Marsh, former Head of both Political Science and Sociology at the
University of Birmingham, is recognised for his extensive research in the areas of governance, political science and democratic participation. He completed his PhD at the University of Exeter in the United
Kingdom and has subsequently held positions at the University of Essex, University of Strathclyde and the
University of Sydney. He has written or co-written eight books including his most recent, Apathy or
Alienation: Young People and Political Participation in the UK . He has published over 80 articles and 10 edited books.
New editors for Australian Humanities Review
Next year Monique Rooney and Russell Smith, both in the Faculty of Arts, will take over editorship of one of
Australia’s most influential humanities journals, The Australian Humanities Review . AHR is a crossdisciplinary journal that publishes work in literary studies, cultural studies, history and politics, especially indigenous politics. Founded by Cassandra Pybus in 1996, AHR is one of the world’s earliest online academic journals and has a wide overseas readership. It has featured writing by a number of high-profile academics, writers and other public figures, including Brian Castro, Inga Clendinnen, Simon During, John Frow, Rolf de
Heer, Marcia Langton, David Malouf, Humphrey McQueen, Meaghan Morris, Noel Pearson, Henry Reynolds,
McKenzie Wark and Alexis Wright. Monique and Russell are currently planning their first issue, a special issue on the theme of “The Idea of South: Australia’s global positioning”. The journal will be published from March
2008 by ANU E-Press, and will be produced as a Print-on-Demand journal as well as in its current online format.
China collaboration
The School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, has become the ANU locus for the new ANU/Chinese University of
Hong Kong International Centre in Human Values, signed into existence by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Ian Chubb, and his CUHK counterpart, Professor Larry Lau, in May, and to be co-directed by David Parker
(CUHK) and Simon Haines (ANU). The Centre’s three initial strands for research and teaching co-operation are literature/humanities, public health and business/economics, all fields in which substantial co-operative activities already exist between the two universities. At this stage it is envisaged that there will be opening conferences at both institutions on literature/philosophy and globalization in late 2008 and in 2009, with eventually a joint masters coursework degree on Western and Chinese literature, philosophy and art.
RSH 2008 Humanities Fellowships
The Research School of Humanities is inviting applications for three fellowships of $15,000 each. These will be offered to teaching staff in any of the humanities areas of the Faculty of Arts. The grant is to be used as teaching relief by a scholar for a semester in 2008 in order to complete a manuscript or to develop an ARC application for a well-conceived research project. Full details and forms .
Professional development

CASS Administration was pleased to receive funding from the Vice-Chancellor towards professional development to assist us in facilitating the many changes involved in becoming a centralised administration.
The team in our College Business Office were fortunate to be the first to participate in the PEP training scheme. Although they have not completed the training yet, they are already noticing that the techniques are helping them cope with the increased work load.
Harry Potter and the Holocaust
In the 6th Annual Lecture presented by the ANU Archives Program and the Friends of the Noel Butlin
Archives Centre on 18 September, Ann Curthoys considered what historians can learn from novelists, and novelists from history, with special attention to the latest and last book in the Harry Potter series. If you didn’t have the pleasure of being there on the night, you can listen to the podcast .
Controversy Corner
This month Ken Taylor, Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre, has his say on the debate around the proposed development of Old Canberra House and PhD candidate Ryan Walter explains why he thinks the PhD is in danger . And Barry Hindess comments on the Controversy Corner initiative itself.
Comings and goings
Debjani Ganguly formerly Director of Research in the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, is now Head of the Humanities Research Centre within RSH.
John Minns has been appointed Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies
(ANCLAS) for the next three years. The Centre develops research at ANU about Latin America and aims to become a focal point for Australian research in this area.
The School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, welcomes Christian Barry (Philosophy/CAPPE) and Hwei-Fen
Cheah (Art History) who arrived in time to start teaching in second semester; and Melinda Harvey
(English) who has joined the School since the mid-semester break.
The School of Social Sciences welcomes Peter Grundy to its teaching staff.
That CASS IT Office welcomes Kylinx Zhang who has joined the team and will be supporting people in RSH for the moment. The IT Office welcomes back Glenn Schultz who has returned to the team from extended leave. Glenn will be supporting the Faculty of Arts.
The CASS HR Office welcomes Tom Gowing who has joined the team.
The CASS Student Office welcomes Simon Walker and wishes Patty Oxborrow well on her 12 month secondment in Chancelry.
Bouquets
Congratulations to our 2007 ANU winners of Carrick Citations for Outstanding
Contribution to Student Learning:
Elisabeth Findlay, School of Humanities, for dedication and excellence in delivering innovative and inspiring Art History courses that prepare students for future careers as art historians and gallery curators.
Elizabeth Minchin, School of Language Studies, for implementation of teaching and assessment strategies that make Ancient Greek and Latin accessible to ‘ab initio’ (novice) students, building confidence and enthusiasm for further study.

Gilbert Riedelbauch, Digital Art and Design Studies, for creative and stimulating induction of firstyear visual art students into the professional use of new digital technologies.
Rebecca Kippen, Research School of Social Sciences, for teaching strongly relevant technical skills in demographic research to students of all abilities through real-world examples.
Gillian Russell, School of Humanities, on the publication of her latest book Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London , Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Tom Griffiths whose book, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South and Harvard, 2007) has won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction.
Guitarist Harold Gretton continues his award-winning overseas tour with a third place in Portugal against a very experienced field. Harold will be giving a concert in Ho Chi Minh City on his way home. Tim Cain from the School of Music points out that the School’s Guitar Area has notched up six international first prizes in the past 15 months.
Verity Archer, recipient of the 2006 Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) prize for best PhD for her thesis In Search of the Australian Dole Bludger .
If you know of someone who deserves a ‘bouquet’, please let Karen Downing know.