ANU COLLEGE OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
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CASS BRIEF
● April 2007 ●
Diary dates
16 April
CASS Forum, 2-5pm, Coombs Lecture Theatre, drinks and nibbles after in the Coombs Extension foyer.
17 April
‘Building Peace in Northern Ireland: A Review’, public lecture by Her Excellency, The Rt Hon Helen
Liddell, British High Commissioner, and His Excellency, Mr Mairtin O'Fainin, Ambassador for Ireland.
5.30-7.00pm, National Europe Centre. Reception with light refreshments follows. RSVP. Full details.
27 April
Early bird registrations close for AAI 2: The 2nd Asian Australian Identities Conference, Melbourne
27 April
RSH Friday Forum: Voyaging to Antarctica via the Humanities - Tom Griffiths, author of Slicing the
Silence, in conversation with Carolyn Strange. 1-2.30pm, Old Canberra House
27 April
William Yang – Identity and Place, 1-2.30pm, Humanities Conference Room, AD Hope Building. Details.
30 April
RSSS Last Monday Seminar: The End of Monetarism, Dr William Coleman (Reader, School of Economics,
Faculty of Economics and Commerce, ANU), Discussant: David Gruen (Acting Executive Director,
Macroeconomic Group Australian Treasury), Moderator: Andrew Leigh. 3.30pm-5.30pm
Ross Hohnen Room, Chancelry
1 May
The Annual Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights: Empire or Cosmopolitanism? Professor Costas
Douzinas, Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck London. 6.30 pm,
Conference Room, Old Canberra House
18 May
CASS Prizes, Awards and Scholarship Presentation evening, 5-8pm, Hall, University House.
Contact Leanne Harrison.
24 May
Postgraduate Information evening, University House. Contact Leanne Harrison.
21 June
Explore Arts – a day of lectures and talks for Year 12 students. Further details and sample timetable.
Contact Leanne Harrison if you would like to participate.
28-30 June
AAI 2: The 2nd Asian Australian Identities Conference, Melbourne
13 July
Conferring of Awards, 2pm, Llewellyn Hall
17-20 July
Wandering Islands: AD Hope and Australian Poetry, ANU. Convener David Brooks. Registration enquiries
Leena Messina.
20 – 21 July
Rural Futures in Developed Countries: Australia, America, Europe. A seminar-style conference hosted by
the School of Archaeology & Anthropology. Further details. Enquiries: Francesca Merlan
24-27 July
Visual Cultures and Global Vernacularisms: The Case of Bollywood, RSH Visiting Scholars Program
Workshop. Registration enquiries Karen Westmacott.
Check the CASS Calendar for other important dates this month.
CASS Forum
This is an opportunity to participate in developments in your College. All are strongly encouraged to attend
the first College Forum for the year. We’ll be talking about the College research themes, our progress on
postgraduate student matters and much more. This is your opportunity to participate in setting the future
agenda for the College. There will be drinks after the formal proceedings; this will be a chance to meet your
CASS colleagues. Monday 16 April, 2007 from 2-5pm in the Coombs Lecture Theatre.
Templates
A number of Word templates have been added to the College suite of templates. Simple A4 black and white
templates for each of our constituent areas can be used for internal and cross-College communications. They
can be downloaded from the staff home page. Specific templates for publicising events (lectures, seminars,
conferences, etc) can be found on the External Relations Office site. These are available in colour or black
and white, at both A4 (flyer) and A3 (poster) size.
Atlas online
The online interactive version of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia was launched on March 26. The
website will allow users to overlay different maps showing many aspects of Indigenous life. It is based on
the 2006 book edited by CAEPR’s Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy. Bill said he was very pleased to see the
interactive component come to fruition, as he had always planned the book and the digital resource to be
complementary parts of the same project. Check it out.
Pivot table training
Statistical Services are running Pivot Table Training sessions for staff in the Colleges. These sessions will
cover the basics of using pivot tables, with a focus on the statistical information provided via the Statistical
Services website, and will be useful for both administrative and academic staff who already know how to
work with Excel spreadsheets. Each class will accommodate 9-10 participants. Tea, coffee, water, bickies
and course material will be provided. The Coombs PC Lab (Ground Floor, HC Coombs Building) has been
booked for four sessions:
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Thursday 3 May, 9.30am - 12.30pm
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Thursday 3 May, 1.30pm - 4.30pm
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Friday 4 May, 9.30am - 12.30pm
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Friday 4 May, 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Register by emailing Leone Nurbasari. Please note that the courses are free but your area will be charged
$30 if the registered staff member fails to attend.
“Appreciating Asian Australian heritage”
A free one-day short film festival and panel discussions on Asian Australian culture. To be held in University
of Queensland’s Duhig Building on Friday 18th May 2007 from 11am – 4.30pm, An Asian Australian Occasion
(AAAO) is a special event worth looking forward to as it features contemporary short films such as Fish
Sauce Breath - a 2nd generation Vietnamese cross cultural dating comedy, and The Girl in the Mirror – a
searching documentary of Australian teenagers who were adopted from overseas.
www.asianaustralianstudies.org/event_filmfestival.html or email Jacquie Lo
Bollywood
Visual Cultures and Global Vernacularisms: The Case of Bollywood
RSH, Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 July 2007
This four-day Visiting Scholars Program workshop will explore the impact of non-western visual genres on
global popular culture through analyzing the emergence of Bollywood as a global film and culture industry
since the 1980s. It will also examine new ways of theorizing the impact of vernacular/non-western visual
cultures on film and material culture studies. The workshop is aimed at graduate students and early career
researchers with an interest in global visual cultures with a specific focus on Asian film melodrama. But other
scholars who have been exposed to this film form in the Australian public sphere and have an interest in
knowing more about it are also welcome to register.
Convened by Debjani Ganguly, ANU Research School of Humanities, and Rochona Majumdar, University of
Chicago. Registration and further information.
PHD Career Planning
The Careers Centre invites all PhD/Masters students to join the PhD Career Planning Group for a session on
public sector career opportunities. 5:30 – 7:30 pm, 18 April 2006, Seminar Room, Careers Centre, JB Chifley
Building (Bldg 15), Arts Centre Lane (opposite The Gods Café). The purpose of the PhD Career Planning
Group is to provide a forum in which research students can discuss career related issues.
Bouquets
Research Office Team, recipients of a General Staff Endowment Fund award of $5,124
for professional development. Every member of the research team will benefit.
Ruth Lee Martin and Jenny Gall, future television personalities - the ABC's 7.30 Report
are considering a segment on Scottish music in Australia, after reading the ANU
Reporter article on their folk music research being done at the School of Music.
Frank Castles, awarded the Fritz Thyssen Foundation prize for the best journal article published in a German
social science journal in 2005. For those colleagues who read German the full reference is: Frank Castles,
Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger, 'Bremst der Föderalismus den Leviathan? Bundesstaat und
Sozialstaat im internationalen Vergleich, 1880-2005', Politische Vierteljahresschrift (46) 2005. Any prize is
noteworthy but the Thyssen Foundation award is the only prize for a journal publication in the German
speaking countries.
Russell Smith, contracted by Continuum Publishers, UK, for an edited collection of essays on Beckett and
Ethics, and commissioned to write a chapter on the reception of Beckett’s work in Australia for a volume on
the international reception of Beckett in the Thoemmes Continuum “Reception of…” series.
Alyssa Coursey, a first-year photomedia student, awarded the first ANU Foundation for the Visual Arts
scholarship.
If you know of someone who deserves a ‘bouquet’, please let Karen Downing know.