ANU COLLEGE OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
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CASS BRIEF
● May 2008 ●
Contents
Diary dates | Events | Lions Oratory | 2008 Federation Fellow | Freilich Foundation | Agent newsletter | Relaunch of Llewellyn Hall | Humanities Review | Humanities Launch | Graduate terminology | Comings and
goings |Bouquets
Diary dates
21 May
Media Skills Workshop for academics who may be interviewed by journalists. Details.
Events
Saturdays
(until 7/6/08)
ANU School of Music at the National Gallery of Australia; listen to live music performed
by staff and students of the ANU School of Music. Details
16 May
Dr Ian Britain, Editor, Meanjin (University of Melbourne): The Lives of Donald Friend.
Details
16-18 May
The Art of the Real: Creative Non-Fiction Conference, University of Newcastle.
12 June
School of Language Studies: Research Showcase. Old Canberra House. For details
email Peter Brown
11-12 June
Imagining the Real: Life on a Greenhouse Earth. A conference organised by Manning
Clark House in honour of Dr Barry Jones. Wednesday 11 June and Thursday 12 June,
Manning Clark Lecture Theatre 3. Program and registration form.
23 June-4 July
ACSPRI Winter Program 2008, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Full details.
21 July – 24 July
New Zealand recruitment trip and public lectures by David Marsh in
Christchurch/Dunedin/Wellington/Auckland. For details contact External Relations.
24 July – 26 July
‘Globalising Ethics and Politics’: a workshop for prospective Philosopohy graduate and
honours students. Full details
29 & 30 August
RSH Conference: Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds.
National Library of Australia. Further information, registration form and program.
8-10 September
Collective Biography Conference, National Library of Australia. Call for papers: deadline
25 April.
2-3 October
Let's Talk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia and New Zealand, Macquarie
University, Sydney. Call for papers: deadline 30 April.
3-5 December
Re-Orienting Whiteness Conference 2008, Melbourne. Call for papers: deadline 29
August.
8-10 December
Economics & Democracy Second Annual Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference,
hosted by RSSS. Call for panels, workshops and papers.
Billboard events
Don’t forget to add your conferences, seminars, lectures, exhibitions, etc, to the ANU Billboard where they
are of interest to an audience broader than your local program area. When you do so, please put the words
‘PLEASE MARK AS A CASS EVENT’ at the top of the Description field. If your event is tagged as a CASS
event it will also appear on our college home page.
Lions Oratory 2008
Marketing and Communications are coordinating this year’s Lions Oratory competition. Students will be
required to complete an online form and submit an oration plan, outlining a topic – based on the Lions core
values. These entries will then be collated into Colleges and the College will select a student to represent
CASS at the competition. We will let you know when this form is ready, so students can be informed. Further
details
2008 Federation Fellow
The ARC has released the results for the 2008 Federation Fellowship. Professor John Dryzek Political
Science RSSS is amongst the winning researchers. Only 14 Fellowships were awarded (instead of the
standard 25). The Biographies of successful candidates in the 2008 round can be found here:
http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/FedFellows_bios08.pdf
2009 Freilich Foundation Summer School
Applications are now open for the Freilich Foundation 2009 Summer School on the theme of Religion and
Bigotry. Visit the Freilich Foundation website or follow this link for more information.
ANU International Agent Newsletter
The International Recruitment Co-ordinator, Rohan McCarthy, is keen to highlight areas of the College in the
newsletter he sends to all overseas recruitment agents. The next one will be a ‘Spotlight on Linguistics’.
This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research internationally. Please let us know if your area
would like to be highlighted to prospective international students in later editions.
Re-launch of Llewellyn Hall
A gala concert was held on May 9 to celebrate the re-opening of Llewellyn Hall. The event was a huge
success with an evening of stunning music in an equally stunning new Hall. This was a wonderful occasion
to thank ANU and Canberra for all the support received by the School of Music in the renovation of the Hall.
Congratulations to all staff at the School for a wonderful evening.
New Home for journal
Australian Humanities Review is Australia's oldest and most prestigious online humanities journal. In 2008 it
moved to a new website, and will be edited by Monique Rooney and Russell Smith with the support of the
School of Humanities. The latest issue can be found online at <http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org>
Launch
You are warmly invited to attend a launch to celebrate the latest publications from staff and students of the
School of Humanities. Professor Margaret Sheil, CEO of the Australian Research Council, will launch Arts of
Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, edited by Lucy Neave, James Connor and
Amanda Crawford, and the first ANU issue of the Australian Humanities Review, edited by Russell Smith and
Monique Rooney. Professor Joan Beaumont, Director of the Faculty of Arts, will launch the new School of
Humanities website, and Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt, edited by Christian Barry, Barry
Herman and Lydia Tomitova Thursday 15 May : 5 - 6.30 pm, Humanities Conference Room, Top floor, AD
Hope Building, ANU. All welcome. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Books will be available for
purchase. Please RSVP by 12 May 2008 to Margaret.Brown@anu.edu.au for catering.
Graduate terminology
Chancelry has officially endorsed the use of the term 'graduate' (as opposed to 'postgraduate') to be used in
reference to coursework (graduate certificate, graduate diploma or Master degree) and research degrees.
This reflects international usage and our international standing (particularly our IARU membership). All
promotional material and correspondence (both external and internal) should reflect this change from now
on.
Comings and goings
Dean and Directors
We warmly welcome Prof Toni Makkai as the new Dean of CASS, Prof David Marsh as Director of RSSS
and Prof Joan Beaumont as Director of the Faculty of Arts.
New Staff Arrivals at School of Humanities
Welcome to Julieanne Lamond (English) and Bruin Christensen (Philosophy) who both started teaching at
the start of this semester.
Sad departure
Karen Downing has left her position as webmaster (and CASS Brief editor) to undertake fieldwork in the UK.
Karen will be back in the College in semester 2, but will be working on her PhD and tutoring. She has been
of invaluable assistance to CASS and her clear mind and good humour have contributed greatly to bringing
together the constituent areas of the College both through her work on the website and this newsletter.
Bouquets
Jacquie Lo and Helen Gilbert's Performance and Cosmopolitics (Palgrave Macmillan) has been shortlisted
for the Gleebooks Prize and the Literary Scholarship Prize in the 2008 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
To Professor Jon Altman (Indigenous panel) and Ms Janet Hunt (Governance panel) from CAEPR for their
selection as participants in the recent 20/20 summit.
The John Mackey Quartet, made up of staff and former students of the School of Music, who performed on
ABC Classic Radio’s ‘Sunday Live’ broadcast on the 27th April.
If you know of someone who deserves a ‘bouquet’, or have any information for the CASS homepage, please
email the External Relations Office.