The last great European explorer in Asia\, Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) walked through the sands and the mountains of Asia in search of the vestiges of ancient cultures. He mastered languages including Latin\, Chinese\, Sanskrit and Hebrew and discussed philosophical problems in Sanskrit with Indian pundits.
\nAhead of his time\, he recognised the internationalist nature of Buddhism\, [...]
Performing Arts Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University\, Victoria
\nThe School of Music – Conservatorium will host the first ever Australian conference devoted to British Music.
\nThe conference welcomes papers exploring any aspect of British music and musical life in any period. Papers are particularly encouraged which discuss forgotten or less-explored repertoire and composers. Without limiting the remit of [...]
The Fourth Australian Conference on Utopia\, Dystopia and Science Fiction
\n30 August–1 September 2010
\nA conference organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.
\nVisit the ‘Changing the Climate: Utopia\, Dystopia and Catastrophe’ conference site
Monash University Prato Centre
\nPalazzo Vaj
\nVia Pugliesi\, 26
\nPrato\, 59100\, Italy
\nA conference on the contribution of women to the history of political thought in Europe during the Enlightenment period.
\nFull details of the conference can be found on the Philosophy site.
‘From Sappho to … X’: Classics\, Performance\, Reception
\nTo coincide with Malthouse Theatre’s staging of the play Sappho…in 9 fragments\, Monash University\, the Victorian College of Arts and Music and the Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network are hosting a 3 day interdisciplinary conference on the relationship between performance and the Classics. The conference will bring together [...]
To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden\, Hidden and Censored Books
\nKeynote speakers will include:
\nProf Jenny Hocking (Monash University)\, author of Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life (2005) and Terror Laws: ASIO\, Counter-terrorism and the Threat to Democracy (2004)
\nView the Call for Papers
\nConference Themes
Manuscript\, Print and Digital Publications
\nLegal\, Religious and Cultural Prohibitions
\nHistories\, Modes and Strategies of Textual Censorship and [...]
Trauma\, Memory and Transformation: The Malaysian and Southeast Asian Experience
\nImportant Dates
Submission of Abstract: Monday 2 November 2009
\nNotification of Acceptance: Tuesday 1 December 2009
\nSubmission of Conference Paper: Monday 3 May 3 2010
In recent humanities and social science research there has been a cross disciplinary interest in notions of both trauma [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2010/06/22/conference-trauma-memory-and-transformation/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100616T033000Z DTEND:20100616T033000Z DTSTAMP:20100616T033000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: The Parable of the Ancient One" DESCRIPTION:"Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThe Parable of the Ancient One: A Medieval Hebrew Fiction from the Age of Alfonso the Learned
\nPresented by Raymond Scheindlin\, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature and Language at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nPresented by Jeremy Dauber\, Director of Columbia University’s Institute of Israeli and Jewish Studies and the Afran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language\, Literature and Culture.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nLife-rewriting: Israeli Autobiography Since the 1990s
\nPresented by Keren Rubinstein. Keren is at the final stages of her PhD in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation\, Monash University.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nAn Evil Empire from the West? Galilee and Rome in the Late Second Temple Period
\nPresented by James McLaren\, Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Theology\, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy\, Australian Catholic University.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
The Vietnam Inheritance: Cultural\, social and political legacies of the Vietnam War in Australia
\nAn Interdisciplinary Symposium marking the 35th anniversary of the end of the war
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nCall for Papers
\nThis symposium provides an opportunity for scholars from a range of disciplines to reflect on the impact of the war and its aftermath in [...]
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nPresented by Kate Rigby\, Associate Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Monash University.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nLearning from the Literary Theorists: Going Beyond the ‘Here and There’ to Rethink Antisemitism in History
\nPresented by Julie Kalman\, Lecturer in the School of History and Philosophy\, University of New South Wales.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nIsraeli Society Today: Clashing and Converging Identities
\nA graduate workshop exploring Israeli identities.
\nPresented by:
Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger\, Leon Liberman Chair\, Modern Israel Studies
\nProfessor Yedidia Stern\, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor
\nProfessor Yehuda Bauer\, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry\, Hebrew University
\nDr Ze’ev [...]
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nBetween Philosophy and Kabbalah: Metatron in the Early Writings of Moses de Leon
\nPresented by Nathan Wolski\, Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation\, Monash University.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Link Theatre S230\, Level 2\, Building S
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nPresented by leading British urbanist\, Ash Amin — Professor of Geography and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University.
\nThinking on the politics of integration in plural and diverse societies has only just begun to recognise how everyday habits of [...]
Lecture Theatre H1.25\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nMelbourne Jewry 1961–2008 — What’s True\, What’s New and What’s Distinctive?
\nIn 1968\, Professor Peter Medding published his landmark study of Melbourne Jewry in his book From Assimilation to Group Survival: A Political and Sociological Study of an Australian Jewish Community.
\nMore than 40 years later\, Professor [...]
Building H\, Level 8
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road\, Caulfield East
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nPresenters
Peter Medding\, “The Demographics of the Australian Jewish Community from 1968–2008”
\nJohn Goldlust\, “Who is a Jew and Who Cares?”
\nAndrew Markus\, “What is the Use of Community Surveys?”
Peter Medding is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
\nAndrew Markus is Pratt [...]
The Herb Feith Annual Lecture has been postponed.
\nDetails of the new date for this lecture will be published at the end of January.
McArthur Gallery
\nState Library of Victoria
\nSwanston Street
\nMelbourne
\nPresented by Dr Per Henningsgaard\, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by The Centre for the Book
Room H2.20\, Level 2\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nChristopher Riddell presents an eclectic insight into the advancement of policing and national and homeland security from within the shrouded walls of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
\nCombining his own personal experiences\, with those of his colleagues and associates in the security industry\, Christopher demonstrates the significant [...]
Bella Union\, Trades Hall
\nCorner of Lygon\, Russell and Victoria Streets
\nCarlton\, Victoria
\n‘Xanana: Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste’ by Sara Niner
\nTo be launched by Terry Bracks.
\nTimorese and World Music by Zelda Da.
\nSara Niner’s new book is the political biography of Xanana Gusmão\, leader of the East Timorese struggle for self-determination and first President of the [...]
McArthur Gallery
\nState Library of Victoria
\nSwanston Street
\nMelbourne
\nPaul McShane\, Convenor\, BookTown Australia: The International Book Town Experience: An Australian Perspective
\nThe Welsh village Hay-on-Wye is usually credited with being the first book town and it has certainly directly inspired many imitators around the world over the past 40 years. This presentation will review the growth of the book [...]
Rooms L2\, G08 and G09\, Law Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nHow Do I Look? Aesthetics Through Theory
\nCentre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies 2009 Postgraduate Colloquium
\nKeynote speaker: Dr Alison Ross
\nWhile contemporary research in the humanities considers a broad range of questions\, aesthetics arguably remains a central concern for us all. The colloquium organisers invite potential participants [...]
Room H1.16\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThis symposium will provide an opportunity for leading scholars in interreligious relations fresh from the Parliament of Worlds Religions to reflect on its main themes and to identify emerging issues pertaining to interreligious relations and research.
\nThe symposium is hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations and [...]
Room H784\, Level 7\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nAesthetics: An International Colloquium on Art\, Aesthetics and Imagination
\nPresenters
Agnes Heller\, “The Contemporary Historical Novel” (Keynote Paper)
\nMassimo Leone\, “Afterlife and Second Life—The Virtual Varieties of Religious Experience”
\nDavid Roberts\, “The Image and its Double. Three Theses on Illusion”
\nElizabeth Burns Coleman\, “Esthetic Appreciation as a Normative Ideal”
\nPeter Murphy\, “Living in [...]
Performing Arts Precinct
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nTo be or not to be… asking questions of Performance as Research
\nA two-day symposium and masterclass
\nThis event has a specific focus on how questions are asked within\, and of\, performance as an integral part of the research process. The symposium brings academic and professional practitioners together through performance presentations and [...]
Room H.126\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThe Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation presents a lecture by Rabbi Michael Melchior\, former member of the Israeli parliament and Honorary Chief Rabbi of Norway. Serving as a Rabbi in Jerusalem\, Rabbi Melchior promotes interreligious dialogue and campaigns for the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews in Israel.
Caulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nAustralasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference: Philosophy and the Work of Art
\nKeynote speakers include:
Tina Chanter\, De Paul University\, Chicago
\nMiguel de Beistegui\, Warwick University\, UK
\nRosalyn Diprose\, University of New South Wales\, Australia
\nSteven Crowell\, Rice University\, Houston
The Conference will also include special sessions on the work of:
\nGenevieve Lloyd\, Macquarie University\, Australia
\nJeff Malpas\, University [...]
Koori Heritage Trust
\n295 King Street
\nMelbourne
\nThe Government Owes a Lot of Money to Our People: A History of Indigenous Stolen Wages in Victoria is a new book by Andrew Gunstone and Sadie Heckenberg.
\nThe book will be launched by Sharan Burrow\, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. An address will be given by Aunty Dot [...]
Caulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nEU-ASEAN Relations in the 21st Century: Towards a ‘Strategic Partnership’? 26-27 November 2009
\nKeynote speakers
Professor Martin Holland\, Director\, National Centre for Research on Europe\, University of Canterbury
\nDr Yeo Lay Hwee\, Director\, European Union Centre\, NUS\, Singapore
\nProfessor Joergen Oerstroem Moeller\, Visiting Senior Research Fellow\, ISEAS\, Singapore\, Member of the Board of Governors ASEF
\nAmbassador David [...]
Monash University Conference Centre
\nLevel 7\, 30 Collins Street
\nMelbourne\, Victoria
\nKeynote Speakers:
Professor Massimo Leone
\nAustralian Endeavour Award Fellow in English\, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University\, and Research Professor of Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy\, University of Torino\, Italy
\nProfessor Lori Beaman
\nCanadian Research Chair in the Contextualisation of Religion in a Diverse Canada\, and Professor in [...]
5th Symposium on Discourse Analysis
\nDiscourse Analysis and Cultural Diversity: Conversations in the Melting Pot
\nVisit the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics for further information.
BMW Edge
\nFederation Square
\nMelbourne
\nIf you Love for Beauty…
\nEnsemble Liaison and Friends presents its final concert for the 2009 season. Featuring the internationally renowned Baritone\, Peter Coleman-Wright.
\nWorks by Mendelssohn\, Strauss\, Brahms and Schubert. Culminating with the heavenly Ruckert Lieder by Mahler is a very special arrangement for Baritone and Piano Quartet.
\nHanging Rock Wines served from 6:30pm.
\nBook now [...]
Towards a Developmental Ethology: Exploring Deleuze’s Contribution to the study of Health and Human Development
\nPresented by Cameron Duff\, Monash University
\nRSVP: mark.davis@arts.monash.edu.au
\nFor further information 2009 Sociology Research Seminars
\nProduced by Sociology\, School of Political and Social Inquiry
BMW Edge
\nFederation Square
\nMelbourne
\nMarking the 75th anniversary of the Shrine\, Professor Bruce Scates will be joined by a panel of leading historians: Ken Inglis\, Joan Beaumont and Katti Williams to debate the past\, present and future of the Shrine of Remembrance.
\nRefreshments provided.
\nLimited places\, book early via telephone 03 9661 8100 or email reception@shrine.org.au
Room E361\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nSmall Press as Argument: Editing Tinfish Press
\nPresented by Professor Susan M Schultz\, University of Hawaii
\nSusan M Schultz has lived and taught in Hawai`i since 1990\, where she is professor of English at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa. Her books of poems and poetic prose include Aleatory Allegories (Salt 2000)\, [...]
A Monash panel\, sponsored by the Social Aesthetic Research Unit\, is appearing at the Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections Conference\, Swinburne University of Technology\, November 18-19.
\nThe panel will present a roundtable session on the contribution of ’place-image-journey-locus’\, ’things-artefacts-objects-design’ and ‘body-theatre-performance-space’ to the act of creation and its representation. The panelists will discuss:
\nJanine Burke\, ‘Writing Intimate Space’
\nCreativity is a place. Memory [...]
Presented by Professor Alistair Thomson
\nWe all have stories about leaving.
\nLeaving is a universal human experience\, though its nature and meaning vary across time and culture. I realise now that over more than 25 years many of my oral history interviews have included very ordinary and yet quite extraordinary leaving stories. In this lecture we’ll [...]
Room H116\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nCassie Meyer and Jenan Mohajir from Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) will present a public talk on the work of IFYC and how you can be the change in your comunity by building bridges between groups\, organising social action projects and envisaging cooperation in your community.
\nThe Interfaith Youth Core is [...]
Room H5.95\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road
\nMonash University
\nPresented by John D’Arcy May\, Associate Professor of Interfaith Dialogue\, Irish School of Ecumenics\, Dublin
\nIt is often overlooked that ‘universal’ or ‘high’ traditions such as Buddhism and Christianity themselves began as ‘indigenous’ traditions in very particular cultures and societies\, which they then transcended as they engaged with cultures [...]
Seminar Room 1 and 2
\nMonash University Law Chambers
\n472 Bourke Street
\nMelbourne Victoria
\nYou are warmly invited to the following Criminal Justice Research Consortium (CJRC) Seminar
\nAccountability of States for Regime Conditions in Closed Institutions: A Global Overview
\nPresented by Emeritus Professor Richard Harding\, Centre for Law and Public Policy\, the University of Western Australia
\nPlease see the attached PDF brochure [...]
Iwaki Auditorium\, ABC Centre
\n120 Southbank Boulevard
\nMelbourne\, Victoria
\nThe Hush Music Foundation invites you to a concert featuring internationally recognised classical and jazz artists.
\nTony Gould (piano)
\nDavid Griffiths (clarinet)
\nDavid Jones (drums / percussion)
\nImogen Manins (cello)
\nEntry to this special concert is by donation\, supporting children’s hospitals around Australia.
Further information on the Hush site.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/11/03/cd-launch-hush/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091030T053000Z DTEND:20091030T053000Z DTSTAMP:20091030T053000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Japanese Studies" DESCRIPTION:"Japanese Studies Centre
\nBuilding 54
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nMotivation and Life Histories of Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia
\nPresented by Mr. Nobuaki Fujioka\, Ph.D.Candidate\, Hitotsubashi University\, Japan
\nSince the 1980s\, there has been a rapid growth of Japanese working holiday makers (WHMs) going abroad. The annual number of working holiday visas issued to Japanese people has increased by [...]
Goethe-Institut Melbourne
\n448 St Kilda Road
\nMelbourne
\nLimbus Vol. 2 (2009): Narrative der Arbeit / Narratives of Work
\nTo be launched by Emeritus Professor Gerhard Schulz\, University of Melbourne.
\nPlease RSVP by 28 October 2009
\nTelephone: 03 9864 8999
\nEmail: info@melbourne.goethe.org
\nFurther information is available from the Limbus page of the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics.
Rooms SG03\, SG04\, SG05\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThe Postgraduate Symposium is an annual event run by postgraduate students from the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. The event provides students from the school’s various disciplines with the opportunity to come together as a research community.
\nAcademically\, the symposium operates so that new [...]
Classical piano
\nView the School of Music-Conservatorium’s site for the full Sound Series 09 program
Japanese Studies Centre\, Building 54
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThe Debate of Ethnically-Oriented Social Changes in the Central Tokyo with Foci on the Ikebukuro District
\nPresented by Professor Tetsuo Mizukami\, Rikkyo University
\nAbstract
\nIn the context of global migration\, contemporary Japanese communities contain residents of various socio-cultural backgrounds. Due to the presence of foreign residents as “newcomers” since the late [...]
Room HB.36 Lecture Theatre\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nShape\, Clear\, Hold\, and Build: The Uncertain Lessons of the Afghan War
\nPresented by Dr Anthony H Cordesman\, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy\, Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Washington DC
\nBiography
\nAnthony H Cordesman holds the Arleigh A Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. He is also a [...]
Third year Performing Arts students present
\nIn Transit
\nIn Transit is an original interdisciplinary work for performance by writer/theatre maker Alison Richards and composer/musical director Natasha Moszenin\, working with third year Monash Bachelor of Performing Arts students.
\nSet in the endless time and space of an international airport lounge\, In Transit uses movement\, spoken and recorded voice\, sound [...]
Music Auditorium\, Building 68
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nMonash University School of Music – Conservatorium Sound Series presents
\nMonash Wind Symphony & The Air Force Band
\nAdult $10\, Concession $6
\nTickets available at the door from 7pm.
\nFurther information can be found on the School of Music – Conservatorium site.
Monash University is proud to present two of the top young jazz musicians residing in New York. Bassist Linda May-Han Oh lived and studied in Perth before moving to the US\, and is joined by the drummer Tommy Crane. Both musicians have performed with top musicians including Greg Osby and Jeremy Pelt as well as [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/10/22/lunchtime-concert-new-breed-of-new-york-jazz-artists/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091022T020000Z DTEND:20091022T020000Z DTSTAMP:20091022T020000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: How Can Sociology Engage with Indigenous Issues in Australia Today?" DESCRIPTION:"PSI Library\, Room W1010\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University\, Victoria
\nPresented by Dr Priscilla Pyett\, Associate Professor in Indigenous Health Research\, Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health\, School of Rural Health
\nAbstract
\nThe history of research on Indigenous issues in Australia is characterised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as unwelcome surveillance\, exploitation\, theft of [...]
Presented by Gary Dowsett\, La Trobe University
\nRSVP: mark.davis@arts.monash.edu.au
\nFor further information 2009 Sociology Research Seminars
\nProduced by Sociology\, School of Political and Social Inquiry
Arabic-Medium Intellectualism in Malaysia in the 21st Century
\nPresented by Dennis Walker\, Research Fellow\, Monash Asia Institute
\nThe Arabic quarterly al-Tajdid of the International Islamic University of Malaysia carries articles written by Malay and Arab staff\, and from Arabs in the Middle East. After 50 years of independence\, the sovereign Muslim state of Malaysia has the educational [...]
H116 Exhibition Space\, Building H
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\n‘Never Again.’ Yet Again: From the Holocaust to Rwanda and Darfur
\nThe Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation invites you to a lecture by Stephen Smith\, the new director of the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California and co-founder of the Aegis Trust\, the agency engaged in [...]
‘Damned Panero!’ Malediction and the writing of Leopoldo María Panero
\nPresented by Ramón López Castellano\, Monash University
\nReadings of Spanish contemporary poet Leopoldo María Panero have been heavily pre-conditioned by the halo of malediction that has accompanied the author since his appearance in the public scene in the mid- 1970s. This public inscription of the poet has [...]
‘Damned Panero!’ Malediction and the Writing of Leopoldo María Panero
\nPresented by Ramón López Castellano\, Monash University
\nReadings of Spanish contemporary poet Leopoldo María Panero have been heavily pre-conditioned by the halo of malediction that has accompanied the author since his appearance in the public scene in the mid-1970s. This public inscription of the poet has turned [...]
Room G3\, Centre for Theology and Ministry
\n1 Morrison Close
\nParkville Victoria 3052
\nFeaturing:
\nBrendan Byrne SJ\, Jesuit Theological College
\nMichael Fagenblat\, Monash University
\nThe conversation will allow Christian scholars and students to be stimulated and challenged by hearing from a Jewish philosopher who has studied Paul intensively in recent years.
\nRSVP: Friday 16 October
\nDanielle Mann
\nTelephone: 03 9341 5800
\ndmann@jtc.edu.au
\nProduced by the United [...]
Jazz
\nView the School of Music-Conservatorium’s site for the full Sound Series 09 program
When the ‘Other’ is your ‘Lover’: Interrogating Rabbinic Jewish Marriage
\nPresented by Melanie Landau\, Monash University
\nMelanie Landau is Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation\, Monash University
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Jazz
\nView the School of Music-Conservatorium’s site for the full Sound Series 09 program
Room B226\, Building B
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\n‘Multi-Speed’ Political Integration in Europe: Failures\, Successes and Future Perspectives
\nPresented by Professor Douglas Webber\, International Business School\, INSEAD Fontainebleau\, France
\nAt various stages in the last few years when the European treaty reform process has been on the verge of failing\, the spectre of a ‘multi-speed’ Europe has resurfaced. Such [...]
Classical Honours and Postgraduate Music
\nView the School of Music-Conservatorium’s site for the full Sound Series 09 program
Second year Performing Arts students present
\nBig and Little
\nWritten by Botho Strauss
\nDirected by Laurence Strangio
\nLotte is a divided woman living in a divided city in a divided country. How do we reconcile ourselves with our friends\, our family\, our lovers\, … with ourselves?
\nA dreamlike journey in search of identity …
\nAdults $10\, Concession $5
\nTickets available at the [...]
Japanese Studies Centre Auditorium\, Building 54
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nHow can we identify and define Japanese neologisms which are not yet in dictionaries?
\nPresented by Jim Breen
\nAbstract
\nLexicographers are always looking for new words entering a language\, and have the challenge of working out the meaning\, usage\, currency\, etc. The arrival of large corpora of online texts has [...]
Room W614\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nFrom Warehouse to Your House: Reinventing Melbourne’s Inner City Circa 1970 to Now
\nPresented by Seamus O’Hanlon
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
Monash Conference Centre
\nLevel 7\, 30 Collins Street
\nMelbourne
\nDiscounted parking available at 30 Flinders Lane (Wilsons Parking)
\nSurviving the Global Economic Downturn: The View From Indonesia
\nSpeaker: Mr Arifin Panigoro\, Founding Director of MedcoEnergi\, Indonesia
\nMr Panigoro will speak about how his business has survived amid global economic downturn. He [...]
Room S704\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nA Reality in Exile: On the Cinephile Pedagogy of Hartmut Bitomsky
\nPresented by André Dias
\nWhy teach film? Unlike the work of other filmmakers who also engage in a pedagogic activity\, most of the films of German documentarist Hartmut Bitomsky are actually a reflection on that condition\, and constitute a powerful [...]
PSI Library\, Room 1010\, Menzies Building
\nLecture Theatre H3\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nImmanent Critique and Islam: Some Anthropological Reflections
\nPresented by Irfan Ahmad\, Lecturer in Politics\, School of Political and Social Inquiry\, Monash University
\nAbstract
\nThis paper offers a preliminary outline of immanent critique in modern Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – [...]
Violin and Piano Music
\nAn invitation to the fascinating world of Czech and Romanian music. The long established partnership of eminent Monash musicians Tamara Smolyar (piano) and Ivana Tomaskova (violin) brings an unforgettable flavour in a programme of chamber works by Petr Eben\, Bohuslav Martinu\, Tiberiu Olah and Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea.
\nAdmission $4
\nDownload the complete Lunchtime Concert Series [...]
US-Indonesian Relations in the Age of Obama: The Case for Optimism
\nPresented by Chris Friese\, PhD Candidate\, School of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Melbourne
\nThroughout the world\, Barack Obama’s 2008 election was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. This was particularly true in Indonesia\, due to the presumed break with the Bush Administration’s unpopular foreign policy as [...]
Red Rotunda Room
\nState Library of Victoria
\n328 Swanston Street
\nMelbourne\, Victoria
\nCambridge University Press and the National Centre for Australian Studies\, Monash University invite you to the launch of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature\, edited by Peter Pierce.
\nTo be launched by Bruce Scates\, Professor of History and Australian Studies\, National Centre for Australian Studies.
\nRSVP: jsymons@cambridge.edu.au
\nFurther information about [...]
Seminar: Literature and Globalization—Some Thoughts on Translation and the Transnational
\nPresented by David Roberts
\nDavid Roberts is Emeritus Professor in German Studies and a former Director of the Centre. His many publications include Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno (1990)\, Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer\, Habermas\, Luhmann (1995)\, Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society [...]
Lessons from the Hebrew Revival in the PROMISED LAND to the Resuscitation Attempts of No-Longer Spoken Aboriginal Languages in the LUCKY COUNTRY
\nPresented by Ghil‘ad Zuckermann\, The University of Queensland
\nGhil’ad Zuckermann is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in linguistics at The University of Queensland
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Egypt and the Levant in the Early Bronze Age. New Research and Perspectives
\nPresented by Christian Knoblauch
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
Featuring Performing Arts students.
\nAn early career Professor lectures on her beloved art-form and yet secretly yearns for more…
\nA playwright\, a lyricist and a composer collaborate on their dream of writing a musical…
\nA Musical longs for the courage to be brave…
\nMusical Theatre 101: A Revue-sical is an exploration of a form — part lecture\, part revue\, [...]
Lecture Theatre H3\, Menzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\n2009 Language and Society Centre Annual Lecture: Early Australian English and Beyond
\nPresented by Kate Burridge\, Monash University
\nIn this lecture Professor Kate Burridge explores the characteristics of early Australian English based on evidence from 19th century police reports. Australian English is a ‘melting pot’ of linguistic inputs\, from the [...]
How is history being made and contested online\, and how are historians responding to online histories?
\nUsing a sample of websites and discussion forums\, Megan Blair (a lecturer in International Studies at Monash University) will explore the example of the current state of American Civil War history online\, and discuss how professional and popular historians [...]
Monash World Music Orchestra
\nMusical Director\, Sam Evans
\nThis orchestra embraces a cross-section of musical influences and languages from various cultures\, in the true spirit of contemporary Australian society. Part of its uniqueness lies in its use of a wide variety of instruments\, both old and modern\, and arrangements which marry the diverse makeup of the ensemble [...]
Thursday\, 8 October 2009\, 11am-12.30pm\,
\nRoom SGO2\, Manton Rooms
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nThailand’s Strange Southern War: Insurgency\, Disorder and the Fragile State
\nPresented by Marc Askew\, Anthropology Program\, University of Melbourne
\nWith the violence in its sixth year\, opinion in Thailand is divided about the prospects of substantial reduction in current levels of violence\, the driving force of which [...]
An Arts Faculty Forum for research students and academic researchers
\nKirsten McLean\, School of Political and Social Inquiry\, is a long-term member of the University Ethics Committee. In this forum she will outline the key points that researchers need to be aware of in relation to the criteria and processes for obtaining ethics approval for their [...]
Sexton/Dante. Queste voci vo comparando. Appunti per una poetica della traduzione orale.
\nPresented by Rosaria Lo Russo (in Italian)
\nLa traduzione della poesia: Sexton/Dante. Queste voci vo comparando. Appunti per una poetica della traduzione orale
\nDurante la lezione verrà ripercorso analiticamente il processo di traduzione (dall’inglese americano all’italiano) della poesia 11 dicembre del poemetto di Anne Sexton Diciotto [...]
Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching\, C3.22\, Building C
\nCaulfield Campus
\n900 Dandenong Road
\nMonash University\, Victoria
\nThe National Centre for Australian Studies invites you to attend a seminar by Dr Maya Ranganathan to discuss her recent work.
\nHer paper will focus on the reception of political websites by members of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Australia.
\nDr [...]
Happiness\, Justice and Law: Notes on Walter Benjamin’s Theologico-Political Fragment
\nPresented by Andrew Benjamin\, Monash University
\nWalter Benjamin’s Theologico-Political Fragment is one of his most enigmatic and demanding texts. The Messiah and the possibility of the Messianic become the figures through which forms of upheaval and renewal are understood. As such\, what it brings to the fore [...]
Elizabeth Burchill Room\, Building 68
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University\, Victoria
\n‘Little Boys and Fat Men: Humanising “the Bomb” in Atomic Museums in the US and Japan’
\nPresented by Associate Professor Robin Gerster
\nAbstract
\nThe dropping of the atomic bombs ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 occasioned a crisis in representation. How to describe the [...]
Time\, Transcendence\, Performance brings together the expertise and experiences of scholars and artists in a format that permits the thinking and doing of time with an aim towards mutual elucidation. Drawing together papers\, panels\, diverse performance practices\, exhibitions\, installations\, screenings and workshops\, this transdisciplinary conference and inter-media event initiates a global discussion\, investigation and critique [...]
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\nFirst Floor\,Vice-Chancellors Annex (Building 3A)
\nClayton Campus
\nWellington Road
\nMonash University
\nKeynote Speakers
Professor Bob Birrell
\nSenior Research Fellow Ernest Healy
Population — The Neglected Factor in Australian Greenhouse Gas Abatement Policy
\nThe talk will examine the role population growth has played in the growth of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia\, and our modeling of its role to 2050 under the population [...]
School of Historical Studies
\nMenzies Building
\nClayton Campus
\nMonash University
\nVictoria
\nAustralian Early Medieval Association Sixth Annual Conference
\nGathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World
\nPlenary Speakers
\nDr Carol Williams\, Monash University
\nGathering the Threads from Pythagoras to Guido: A Taxonomy
\nDr Felicity Harley-McGowan\, University of Melbourne
\nHanging by a Thread: Judas’ Suicide in early Medieval Art
\nConference Convenor: Natasha Amendola
\nEmail: Natasha.Amendola@arts.monash.edu.au
\nFurther information: Australian Early Medieval [...]
Second year Performing Arts students present
\nSmashed
\nWritten by Lally Katz
\nDirected by Suzanne Chaundy
\nSmashed is about friendship\, time travel and death. Writing for The Age\, Helen Thomson calls the play “a remarkable evocation of childhood on the brink of adulthood\,” that “recreates the rituals of adolescence\, seemingly so trivial\, with a sense of their precious value.” [...]
The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation in association with the Research Unit in Film and Cultural Theory at Monash University invites you to a wide-ranging discussion on Tarantino’s subversive and divisive film.
\nPanellists include:
Mark Baker\, director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
\nAdrian Martin\, co-director of the Research Unit in Film and Cultural Theory
\nJan Epstein\, film [...]
The ‘first peoples’ of Mexico City: history\, identity\, and neighbourhood cemeteries in the barrios of Culhuacán
\nPresented by Paul Crossley
\nMonash Anthropology Seminar Series\, Semester 2\, 2009
\nFor further information please email Penny Graham\, penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
(Japan\, Nobuhiro Suwa\, 1999)
\nMother or Other? Between the cinemas of Ozu-Naruse and Resnais-Rivette\, Suwa has forged a remarkably experimental\, unpredictable career.
\n‘Under Construction’ Extra Special Screenings: Extremely rare contemporary films never before seen in Australia!
\nAll films in the ‘Under Construction’ Special Screenings are selected and introduced by PhD student\, curator and critic André Dias\, visitor to [...]
Thomas Reiner: Composer-of-Honour
\nEach year the School of Music-Conservatorium connects with an Australian composer in an interview and performance of their works. This year the composer-of-honour is Thomas Reiner\, who recently accepted the position of Head of the School of Music-Conservatorium at Monash University. Prior to the recital\, the composer will be interviewed by Joel Crotty\, [...]
Emerging Infectious Disease/Emerging Forms of Biological Sovereignty
\nPresented by Niamh Stephenson\, University of New South Wales
\nAbstract
\nPublic health responses to Emerging Infectious Disease rarely try to interrupt the mobility of goods and information. Rather\, designed under the rubric of ‘public health security’\, they extend the rationale of free circulation through efforts to intensify movement and communication between [...]
A Kind in Communist China: The exile of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in China 1970-1975
\nPresented by Julio A Jeldres\, Honorary Ambassador of Cambodia\, Former senior private secretary to King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and the King’s official biographer
\nAmbassador Jeldres became interested in Cambodia and Sihanouk back in 1967 when he read an article about [...]
The External Relations of the European Union: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
\nGiven the changing architecture of global economic and political power\, the role of the EU in the world is increasingly the focus of a vigorous debate. As a powerful trade negotiator and a leading player in global issues such as the environment\, development aid\, social [...]
The Czech Presidency of the EU: Challenges and Opportunities
\nPresented by His Excellency Dr Juraj Chmiel\, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Australia
\nFree event. Refreshments will be served from 4:30pm.
\nRSVP: Telephone 9903 4639 or Eva.Polonska@general.monash.edu.au
\nProduced by Monash European and EU Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra
Presented by Robert Savage
\nRobert Savage is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre. His publications include Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia (2006)\, Moderne Begreifen: Zur Paradoxie eines sozioästhetischen Deutungsmusters (2007) and Hölderlin after the Catastrophe: Heidegger – Adorno – Brecht (2009).
\nAbstract
\nIn his first book\, Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960)\, [...]
Selected students from the chamber music program perform a diverse recital.
\nFor further information visit the School of Music – Conservatorium site
Further information: Dr Matthew Piscioneri\, Matthew.Piscioneri@arts.monash.edu.au
\nProduced the Arts Academic Language and Learning Unit
Young Researchers’ Conference
\nFor postgraduate students and early career researchers with research focus on contemporary Europe.
\nThe keynote address\, “The Czech Presidency of the EU”\, will be delivered by His Excellency Dr Juraj Chmiel\, Ambassador of the Czech Republic.
\nOrganised by the Monash European and EU Centre.
The score the composer and the performer: “Multiphonics and multiple choice” and “Indeterminate identity”
\nPresented by Katrina Dowling (MA student in musicology Monash University) and Russell Goodwin (PhD student in composition Monash University)
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
\nView the full seminar program
Bring your friends and enjoy a relaxed afternoon\, sample from orchestra\, jazz\, chamber music and new music. Music in the Round at Monash presents an outstanding line-up in a range of genres with dynamic and eclectic performers.
\nJoining the 2009 bill is ARIA award winner Katie Noonan\, critically and internationally acclaimed guitarists Slava & Leonard Grigoryan [...]
First year Bachelor of Performing Arts students present:
\nLove Play
\nWritten by Moira Buffini
\nDirected by Trent Baker.
\nSexy. Witty. Powerful. Love Play follows a trail of seductions and encounters that take place in the same location in London across 2000 years. Romping through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day\, in blunt comic [...]
The Arts-Humanities Postgraduate Careers Forum will introduce Arts postgraduate students (both research and coursework) to industry experts in an informal setting. Speakers at this forum value the knowledge and skills gained in arts and humanities disciplines and will:
\nprovide tips on preparing yourself for employment
\nmeet with you over wine and cheese.
Speakers include experts from the following [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/09/17/forum-careers-forum-for-arts-postgraduates/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090917T031000Z DTEND:20090917T031000Z DTSTAMP:20090917T031000Z SUMMARY:"Concert: Italian Jazz Saxophonist" DESCRIPTION:"Italian jazz saxophonist and composer Mirko Guerrini has performed with leading Italian musicians including Stefano Bollani\, Stefano Battaglia and Fabio Morgera. Mirko will be Artist-in-Residence for the week\, teaching workshops and ensembles. Residing just outside Prato\, Mirko has lectured and performed at Monash Prato in 2007. Mirko will be performing with students for this concert.
\nAdmission [...]
Language for Education in Timor Leste: Policy and Practice
\nPresented by Marie Quinn\, PhD candidate\, University of Melbourne
\nTimor-Leste\, newly independent in 1999\, identified through its constitution two official languages\, two working languages and recognized the place of the approximately 24 first languages of the country. The first 10 years has seen a shift in language use [...]
The Devil’s Due: Analyzing the Musical Representation of the Devil in Selected Hollywood Film Scores From 1941 to the Present
\nPresented by Runa Fanany
\nPhD candidate\, School of Music\, Monash University
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
\nView the full seminar program
From Flaubert to the Fantastique—Science Fiction and the Literary Field
\nPresented by Andrew Milner.
\nAndrew Milner is Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre. His publications include John Milton and the English Revolution (1981)\, Cultural Materialism (1993)\, Class (1999)\, Re-Imagining Cultural Studies (2002)\, Contemporary Cultural Theory (2002) and Literature\, Culture and Society (2005). [...]
Further information: Dr Matthew Piscioneri\, Matthew.Piscioneri@arts.monash.edu.au
\nProduced the Arts Academic Language and Learning Unit
Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology: the transmission of ritual from Judaism to contemporary politics
\nPresented by Danielle Celermajer\, University of Sydney
\nUntil recently\, it was virtually unheard of for political leaders to apologise on behalf of the nation for past wrongs. Yet from around 1980\, the collective political apology became a standard strategy [...]
Hiroshima & Here: Mapping Australian Atomic Culture
\nAssociate Professor Robin Gerster
\nHiroshima is arguably a more compelling foreign site in Australian history than Gallipoli. Australia’s relationship with nuclearism is long\, intimate and somewhat paradoxical. Its scientists worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945; that September\, the Australian journalist Wilfred [...]
Visceral Literacy – Body Language\, Mind Reading\, and Surveillance in a Savvy Era
\nPresented by Mark Andrejevic
\nAbstract
\nThis presentation explores examples of various forms of monitoring\, from lie detection and voice-stress analysis to neuro-monitoring as techniques for bypassing conscious strategies of manipulation or deception. It does so within the context of a broader interest in the social [...]
Presented by Professor Jan Zielonka\, University of Oxford
\nEuro-bashing used to be the business of Euro-sceptics\, but today the EU is being questioned even by friends of European integration. Enlargement to the East\, failure of the Constitutional Treaty and disagreements over foreign policy have left many Euro-enthusiasts disappointed. Is the EU unravelling? The paper will argue [...]
First year Bachelor of Performing Arts students present
\nTerrorism
\nWritten by the Presnyakov Brothers.
\nDirected by James Wardlaw.
\nRussia. Now. The airport is closed — there are mysterious bags on the runway. Bastardisation\, some sex\, some murder and a dead end job. Welcome to the world of Terrorism where every day each person is moving closer [...]
Embodied Subjectivity in the Literature of Kim Ha Gyong\, a Korean Writer in Japan
\nPresented by Elise Foxworth.
\nEnquiries to Alison Tokita\, Alison.Tokita@arts.monash.edu.au
Eric Santner’s recent book On Creaturely Life. Rilke. Benjamin. Sebald. (University of Chicago Press\, 2006) is situated at the end of the dominance of the question of human being and animality by a pervasive anthropocentrism. As such it opens up a new terrain of thought. His book which combines philosophical acuity with an investigation of [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/09/11/workshop-creaturely-life/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090911T015900Z DTEND:20090911T015900Z DTSTAMP:20090911T015900Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Lyndal Roper" DESCRIPTION:"Presented by Lyndal Roper
\nProfessor of Early Modern History\, Balliol College\, University of Oxford
\nTitle to be announced
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
Presented by Lejla Voloder
\nMonash Anthropology Seminar Series\, Semester 2\, 2009
\nFor further information please email Penny Graham\, penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
(Cambodia/France\, Rithy Panh\, 2005)
\nIMDb has only two words to describe this film: ‘documentary’ and ‘war’! Panh is among the key political filmmakers of our time.
\n‘Under Construction’ Extra Special Screenings: Extremely rare contemporary films never before seen in Australia!
\nAll films in the ‘Under Construction’ Special Screenings are selected and introduced by PhD student\, curator and critic [...]
The choirs Viva Voce and Philomel will sing choral miniatures from the Baroque\, songs by Mozart and Mendelssohn\, and recent music of Whitacre and Bernstein. In addition\, spirituals and Australian works by Grainger and Maclean will add colour to the concert. Viva Voce welcomes by audition staff and students\, with rehearsals on Mondays from 2 [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/09/10/lunchtime-concert-monash-choirs-spring-concert/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090910T010000Z DTEND:20090910T010000Z DTSTAMP:20090910T010000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Civility\, ‘Double life’ and Interethnic Relations" DESCRIPTION:"Civility\, ‘Double life’ and Interethnic Relations: Orang Asli (Malaysian Aborigines) and Malays in Malaysia
\nPresented by Alberto Gomes\, Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology Program\, Latrobe University
\nDrawing from ethnographic work on the Orang Asli (Malaysian Aborigines)\, this paper addresses the question: what sort of strategies do people employ to sustain peaceful\, harmonious\, and civil social relations with [...]
Mozart in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Blaze de Bury
\nPresented by Professor Mark Everist
\nUniversity of Southampton
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
\nView the full seminar program
Compelling Fictions—Spinoza and George Eliot on Belief and Faith
\nPresented by Moira Gatens
\nMoira Gatens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He publications include Feminism and Philosophy (1992)\, Imaginary Bodies: Ethics\, Power and Corporeality (1996)\, Collective Imaginings: Spinoza\, Past and Present (1999) and Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza [...]
Jazz tunes by students of the School of Music–Conservatorium
\nFor further information visit the School of Music – Conservatorium site
Presented by Professor David Wood\, Vanderbilt University
\nProfessor Wood’s talk will revolve around the following questions:
Might we not be ‘living in denial’ (about Climate Change)? The continuing relevance of the distinction between Truth and Falsity\, Appearance and Reality. How should we be thinking about Truth Today?
\n Might we not [...]
Peasants on the move. Rural Communities in Renaissance Tuscany
\nPresented by Cecilia Hewlett
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
Monash’s School of Music-Conservatorium provides a dynamic and stimulating environment for emerging musical talent. This Lunchtime Concert features performances by undergraduate students who achieved outstanding results in their examinations last year. Join us in this celebration of youth music at its best.
\nAdmission $4
\nDownload the complete Lunchtime Concert Series brochure [320kb PDF]
Smail’s ‘Autonomous History’ Revisited: Reflections on Southeast Asian Contributions to Coping with the ‘Problem of Development’
\nPresented by Adam Fforde\, Asia Instiute\, Melbourne University
\nA key assumption in development literature is that development is a predictable process with knowable solutions. As a result\, the literature is characterized by a combination of great uncertainty and great difference of [...]
Presented by Phoebe Smith\, Monash University
\nAll welcome.
\nThe Italian and Spanish Seminar Series is produced by the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics
The Australian Jewish Community Survey 2008-09\, methodological considerations and key findings
\nPresented by Andrew Markus\, Monash University
\nAndrew Markus is Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation\, Monash University
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
In the Name of the Father: Understanding Monotheism and Fundamentalism
\nPresented by Russell Grigg\, Deakin University
\nWhy have the reports of the death of God turned out to be greatly exaggerated? Why has the appeal of religion proved so tenacious? I will discuss some of the deep psychological reasons for the continuing hold that religion\, especially monotheism\, [...]
Prostitutes\, religious sisters and the women of Eureka – the stories of many females previously omitted from the pages of history are increasingly coming to light.
\nChaired by Radio National’s Michelle Rayner with Jill Barnard\, Rae Frances\, Nikki Henningham and Clare Wright.
\nFurther information: Melbourne Writers Festival
Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation Building for Australian Progressives by Tim Soutphommasane
\nTo be launched by Waleed Aly\, School of Political and Social Inquiry.
\nUnique and timely\, Tim Soutphommasane’s bold debate\, Reclaiming Patriotism challenges Australian progressives to speak a new language of nation building politics.
\nIt has implications for contemporary debates about national history\, Aboriginal reconciliation\, multiculturalism\, climate change and [...]
Reading Essayistically: Toward an Ethics of Reading and an Open-ended Philosophy
\nPresented by Michelle Boulous Walker\, University of Queensland
\nAn exploration of what an open-ended philosophy might be from the perspective of how we read. If reading is a performance that can be judged in ethical terms\, then reading essayistically (or in the mode of the essay) [...]
The Labour Relations and the Personnel Management Practices in Japan and the USA — a historical comparison
\nAll the presentations above will be conducted in English.
\n1-2 pm
\nProfessor Hiroshi Ichihara\, Surugadai University (JSC visiting researcher)
\nThe Human Resource Development and Occupation/Status linked Personnel Management Practices and Engineers in Japanese Corporations Before the Second World
\n2-3 pm
\nProfessor Jong-Won Woo\, Saitama [...]
Presented by Ann Genovese
\nLecturer\, Melbourne Law School\, University of Melbourne
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
Presented by Hitoshi Suzuki
\nWhy are interest groups\, such as trade unions\, interested in lobbying the European Commission of the European Union? How do they lobby\, for what purpose and what impact did such lobbying have on the development of the EC/EU? This lecture reviews the history of how and why trade unions have supported European [...]
Remembering life before genocidal violence: memory and history of Cambodia 1945-1975
\nPresented by Ed Yates
\nMonash Anthropology Seminar Series\, Semester 2\, 2009
\nFor further information please email Penny Graham\, penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
(Iran\, Abbas Kiarostami\, 2008)
\nMelbourne premiere of a film scandalously omitted from MIFF! This is the latest masterpiece by the great Iranian director – a film like no other\, about the act of watching films.
\n‘Under Construction’ Extra Special Screenings: Extremely rare contemporary films never before seen in Australia!
\nAll films in the ‘Under Construction’ Special Screenings are [...]
Master class by Peter Bush
\nTranslating Cuba: From Strawberry and Chocolate to Havana Black
\nPeter Bush is an award‐winning literary translator who was born in Spalding\, Lincolnshire\, UK\, and now lives in Barcelona. He studied French and Spanish at Cambridge and researched Spanish Aiction and history at Oxford. After teaching in London schools he became Professor of [...]
Convivio is Australia’s only chamber group specialising in the rich repertoire for two bass viols. Miriam Morris and Laura Vaughan have performed regularly since the formation of their partnership in 2003\, presenting Renaissance\, Baroque and early Classical music. They both pursue active solo careers\, performing throughout Australia as well as internationally.
\nAdmission $4
\nDownload the complete Lunchtime [...]
Assuming Biological Citizenship: Injecting Drug Users and Hepatitis C
\nPresented by Suzanne Fraser\, Monash University
\nRSVP: mark.davis@arts.monash.edu.au
\nFor further information 2009 Sociology Research Seminars
\nProduced by Sociology\, School of Political and Social Inquiry
Dancing to ‘Unity in Diversity’ in Perth
\nPresented by Monika Winarnita\, Adjunct Research Associate\, Monash Asia Institute and PhD Candidate Anthropology\, RSPAS\, ANU
\nIn Perth\, members of an Indonesian women’s dance group created a patriotic dance called “Unity in Diversity”. It was intended to provide a new sense of patriotism and Indonesian identity in migration. However\, its [...]
Presented by Dr Jeanice Brooks
\nProfessor of Music\, University of Southampton
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
\nView the full seminar program
Seminar: The Writer as Genealogist—The Realist Poetics of Dostoevsky and Flaubert
\nPresented by Millicent Vladiv-Glover.
\nMillicent Vladiv-Glover is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. Her publications include Narrative Principles in Dostoevsky’s Devils: A Structural Analysis\, (1979)\, Lirska drama slovenskog modernizma (1997)\, Russian Postmodernism (1999) and Romani Dostojesvkog kao [...]
Conductor Faye Dumont
\nSchool of Music Conservatorium students will present a concert of choral music drawn from composers from all around the world.
\nFor further information visit the School of Music – Conservatorium site
Presented by Mr Aydin Nurhan\, Consult General of Turkey
\nConsul General Nurhan was born in Turkey in 1949\, and he is a graduate of the Law School of Ankara University. Prior to joining foreign service\, Mr Nurhan worked as a lawyer. In his diplomatic career\, he served in Saudi Arabia\, Holland\, Germany\, United States\, Azerbaijan [...]
Ready to Lead? Rethinking the Role of America in Dealing with Islamic Extremism
\nPresented by Dr Robin Niblett\, Director of Chatham House
\nThis lecture draws on Dr Robin Niblett’s recent Chatham House Report\, Ready to Lead? Rethinking America’s Role in a Changed World (February 2009) and upon his April 2006 statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: [...]
Presented by Dr Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg\, world renowned Bible scholar who has written several books including Genesis: The Beginning of Desire; The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus; and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious.
\nEntry: $10\, concession $5
\nEnquiries: acjc@arts.monash.edu.au or telephone 03 9902 9933.
\nProduced by Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Presented by Neil Levy. University of Melbourne and Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
\nArticles in popular science frequently claim that scientists have shown that there is no such thing as free will. The findings upon which these claims are based are often interesting\, as I will show\, but they don’t threaten the existence of free will in [...]
Irfan Yusuf discusses his memoir with Waleed Aly\, Once Were Radicals and the cultural confusion he felt growing up Muslim in Australia.
\nFuther information: Melbourne Writers Festival
Jewell Parker Rhodes the author of five novels including Voodoo Dreams\, Magic City and Voodoo Season\, and a memoir\, Porch Stories has focused on the lives of African-American women\, inspired by her grandmother\, Ernestine Thornton.
\nShe tells Monash University academic Chandani Lokuge that it was Thornton’s moral guidance\, delivered in stories told on her porch that [...]
Presented by John Armstrong\, University of Melbourne
\nWhat is civilisation\, really? It can mean a lot of different things: technlology\, art\, medicine\, education\, cooking\, economic or political progress; and sometimes it has been a fig leaf for imperialism. I want to get beneath the surface: What are the more personal issues at stake here? Why should [...]
Title: How Autonomy Depends on Recognition: Psychological Vulnerability\, Normative Corrigibility\, and the Intersubjective Conditions of Full Human Agency
\nSpeaker: Dr Joel Anderson\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Utrecht
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by School of Philosophy and Bioethics
\nConvenor: Karen Green\, email Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEnquiries: Ms Eleanor Horsburgh\, email Eleanor.Horsburgh@arts.monash.edu.au\, telephone 990 53209
Presented by Dr Graeme Pearman AM
\nClimate change has been described by Professor Ross Garnaut as a “diabolical” issue. Climate change is uncertain in its format and extent\, insidious rather than (as yet) confrontational\, long-term rather than immediate\, international as well as national and\, in the absence of effective mitigation\, there is a risk of dangerous [...]
Presented by Dr Simon Sellars\, School of English\, Communication and Performance Studies
\nThe writing of J.G. Ballard displays a highly developed visual — indeed filmic — sensibility\, and has been the subject of numerous attempts to adapt it into cinematic form. Almost all of his 18 novels have been optioned at one stage or another\, and [...]
Yitzhak Yedid’s solo piano performances are film-like narratives of pictures\, textures and colours from the Middle East to Jerusalem via the villages of Eastern Europe. In an intimate concert\, combining classical genres with improvisation of Eastern and Jewish music styles\, Yitzhak will open your imagination with beautiful\, haunting solo piano.
\nAdmission $4
\nDownload the complete Lunchtime Concert [...]
The State in Indonesian Villages: Authority\, Autonomy and Apparatus
\nPresented by Nicholas Herriman
\nStudies of Indonesia have characterised the state as all-powerful and overbearing\, and as dominating society. This paper offers a critique of the idea that local representatives are simply agents of their state superiors by viewing interactions between the state and the local community from [...]
Presented by Dr Raymond Holden
\nSir John Barbirolli Senior Research Fellow\, Royal Academy of Music London
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
Israel and the Nations: Universal or unique?
\nPresented by Yedidia Stern\, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor\, Monash University; Professor of Law\, Bar Ilan University; and Vice President for Research on the Jewish State at the Israel Democracy Institute.
\nThis is one in a series of four weekly lectures\, Israel among the nations: Leon Liberman Lecture Series
\nin [...]
On the Limits of Virtue and Duty—Kant and the Question of Friendship
\nPresented by Blair McDonald.
\nBlair McDonald is a PhD student in the Centre\, currently researching a thesis entitled Irreconciliations: Friendship and the Political.
\nAbstract
\nThis paper traces the points of overlap and separation whereby through the paradigm of friendship the morals [...]
Douglass’ Women: History and the Creative Imagination
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by Centre for Postcolonial Writing and Literature\, School of English\, Communications and Performance Studies
\nProfessor Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of the novels: Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau\, Magic City\, Douglass’ Women\, Voodoo Season and Yellow Moon.
\nShe is also the Piper Endowed Chair and the [...]
Presented by Yedidia Stern\, Bar-Ilan University
\nYedidia Stern is Professor at Bar-Ilan University Law School and a member of the Israel Democracy Institute.
\nProduced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? Military-Media Relations\, National Mythography and the Reporting of Australia’s War
\nPresented by Kevin Foster
\nAbstract
\nThis paper will examine the origins\, practices and effects of Australian military-media relations in Afghanistan. It will compare and contrast the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) news management strategy with those of its coalition allies\, the US\, British\, [...]
Who am I in my inner life? Mysticism across religions
\nA presentation of Hindu\, Buddhist and contemporary teachings on inner life with Jewish\, Christian and Muslim responses.
\nA free public conversation with Constant Mews\, Padmasiri de Silva\, Ken and Elizabeth Mellor\, Isobel Crombie\, Nathan Wolski\, Claire Renkin\, and Salih Yucel.
\nThis presentation is part of a series of [...]
Speaker: John Skorupski (St Andrews)
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by School of Philosophy and Bioethics
\nConvenor: Karen Green\, email Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEnquiries: Ms Eleanor Horsburgh\, email Eleanor.Horsburgh@arts.monash.edu.au\, telephone 990 53209
An Interdisciplinary Symposium produced by the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
\n1.30-2.00 pm
\nPatricia Juliana Smith — Everything to Dread from the Dispossessed: Changing Scenes and the End of the Modernist Heroine in Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout
\n2.00-2.30 pm
\nLorraine Sim — Dorothea Lange: On Documenting Displacement and Photographing the Familiar
\n2.30-3.00 pm
\nMelissa [...]
The School of Historical Studies & Monash University ePress invite you to:
\nDrawing The Line: Using Cartoons As Historical Evidence
\nEdited by Richard Scully and Marian Quartly
\nA special Monash launch by Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington\, Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching)
\nDrawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence brings together essays from international [...]
(Greece\, Alexander Voulgaris\, 2006)
\nFrom the home of civilization and philosophy comes the ultimate ‘BAD CINEMA’ teen trash movie! Do not skip out before the ending.
\n‘Under Construction’ Extra Special Screenings: Extremely rare contemporary films never before seen in Australia!
\nAll films in the ‘Under Construction’ Special Screenings are selected and introduced by PhD student\, curator and critic [...]
Flute and Piano music
\nThe flute and piano duo of Sylvie Leprohon and Sarah Denholm has given many successful concerts in Melbourne since 2006. Their program will take you on a journey from Baroque Europe to 20th Century America. From J. S. Bach’s cheerful Sonata in E Major to the gentle lyricism of Faure\, spiky humour [...]
A Day at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Notes of an Expert Witness
\nPresented by Professor David Chandler\, Monash Asia Institute
\nProfessor David Chandler will testify as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh. On trial at present is Kang Khek Ieu (Duch)\, the former head of the infamous Khmer Rouge prison known by [...]
Sound recordings as a Chronicle of Performance Style: Trend and Individual Artistic Signatures in Playing Solo Bach on the Violin
\nPresented by Dr Dorottya Fabian
\nAssociate Professor of Music\, School of English\, Media and Performing Arts\, The University of New South Wales
\nProduced by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nEnquiries: Dr Graeme Smith\, graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
\nView the full seminar program
Israel and the New Middle East: What next?
\nPresented by Itamar Rabinovich\, Professor of Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University; Distinguished Global Professor at New York University; Israel’s Ambassador to Washington (1993-96) and chief negotiator with Syria.
\nThis is one in a series of four weekly lectures\, Israel among the nations: Leon Liberman Lecture Series
\nin Modern [...]
Insiders\, Outsiders\, and Mileuristas: New Crime Fiction in Madrid
\nPresented by Professor David Knutson\, Xavier University\, USA
\nAll welcome.
\nThe Italian and Spanish Seminar Series is produced by the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics
For further information visit the School of Music – Conservatorium site
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/08/12/concert-piano/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090812T030000Z DTEND:20090812T030000Z DTSTAMP:20090812T030000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Rosa Revisited" DESCRIPTION:"Rosa Revisited: Different Shades of Pink
\nPresented by Federica Balducci\, Victoria University of Wellington\, New Zealand
\nAll welcome.
\nThe Italian and Spanish Seminar Series is produced by the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics
Change in Interaction of Participants in a Classroom: From the Viewpoint of Speech Style
\nPresenter: Ryuko Yokosuka\, Kokushikan University
\nIn this paper\, I will examine how a teacher and students interact in a Japanese language learning class. This study reports on an empirical analysis of participants’ usage of speech styles in order to evaluate the change of [...]
The Monash University School of Music Conservatorium presents “A Songathon”. This is a Community Awareness programme presented by all the students of Classical Voice at Clayton Campus. Settings of Shakespeare’s text by varied composers will be performed. Please help us raise funds for the Creative Connections programme at Bethlehem hospital to continue. This supports grieving [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/08/09/%e2%80%9ca-songathon%e2%80%9d-fundraiser-concert-for-the-creative-connections-programme-at-bethlehem-hospital/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090807T041500Z DTEND:20090807T041500Z DTSTAMP:20090807T041500Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Intimate Philosophy" DESCRIPTION:"Speaker: John Armstrong (University of Melbourne)
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by School of Philosophy and Bioethics
\nConvenor: Karen Green\, email Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEnquiries: Ms Eleanor Horsburgh\, email Eleanor.Horsburgh@arts.monash.edu.au\, telephone 990 53209
Not “Sisters in Suits”? The Political Practice of the Australian National Council of Women during the Menzies Era\, 1949–1965
\nPresented by Marian Quartly and Judith Smart
\nProduced by the School of Historical Studies
An academic colloquium for academics\, postgraduate students\, researchers
\nIran is emerging as a country of increasing importance to Asian\, Middle Eastern and global security. But little is understood about what is happening in Iran today at the level of civil society. This colloquium brings together scholars in Melbourne who are working on Iran and neighbouring countries [...]
Speaker: Edouardo Zamuner\, Latrobe University
\nAll welcome.
\nProduced by School of Philosophy and Bioethics
\nConvenor: Karen Green\, email Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEnquiries: Ms Eleanor Horsburgh\, email Eleanor.Horsburgh@arts.monash.edu.au\, telephone 990 53209
This concert will feature cutting edge computer music techniques: virtual instruments\, computer generated sound and advanced signal processing that transforms sound into new kinds of sonic textures. Included in the programme is Sub#1\, a newly composed work by Peter Mcilwain\, which explores ways of submerging an audience in sound. Layers of synthetic sounds are placed [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/08/06/lunchtime-concert-sonic-submersion/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090806T030000Z DTEND: 20090806T060000Z DTSTAMP:20090806T030000Z SUMMARY:"Expo: Summer Vacation\, Internships and International Careers Fair" DESCRIPTION:"This event is for students who have completed 2 or more years of a Monash degree.
\nA broad range of international as well as Australian organisations with national and international reach are invited in order to:
promote their course-related summer employment and industry experience opportunities
\npromote their internship\, cooperative year and exchange programs
\nto showcase their overseas work/travel [...]
Israel: The Constitutional Challenge of a Nation State and the Human Rights Challenge of an Occupier
\nAn academic colloquium for academics\, postgraduate students\, researchers
\nTwo of Israel’s major current challenges belong in the realm of law and human rights. Israel has no written constitution\, and it has occupied the West Bank (and until recently Gaza) for over [...]
Presented by David Menashri\, Director of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University where he holds the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies; author of numerous books on Iran.
\nThis is one in a series of four weekly lectures\, Israel among the nations: Leon Liberman Lecture Series
\nin Modern Israel Studies\, by [...]
The Return Journey—Rasa and the Aesthetics of Desire in Michael Ondaatje’s Poetry and Fiction
\nPresented by Chandani Lokuge.
\nChandani Lokuge is Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing at Monash. Her publications include two novels\, If the Moon Smiled (2000) and Turtle Nest (2003)\, and a collection of short stories\, Moth and Other [...]
‘Bisa Dewek’ & ‘Lelakone Menur’: Two ethnographic films
\nPresented by Professor Yunita Winarto\, University of Indonesia\, Anthropology
\nProfessor Winarto will introduce and present her ethnographic films (in Indonesian and Javanese with English subtitles):
Bisa Dewek (2007)\, the story of rice farmers’ seed groups in Indramayu
\nLelakone Menur (2009)\, the story of a women farmers’ group in Gunungkidul.
The films are [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/08/05/films-bisa-dewek-lelakone-menur/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090805T015900Z DTEND:20090805T015900Z DTSTAMP:20090805T015900Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Whiteness\, Eugenics and “Miscegenation” in New Zealand and Australia" DESCRIPTION:"Whiteness\, Eugenics and “Miscegenation” in New Zealand and Australia: Some Preliminary Observations
\nPresented by Dr Jane Carey\, Research Fellow
\nIn this paper I want to consider some of the ways ‘inter-racial mixing’ was constructed and understood from the late-nineteenth to the early twentieth century\, contrasting the contingency of racial attitudes on the one hand\, and evolving understandings [...]
View the School of Music-Conservatorium’s site for the full Sound Series 09 program
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/07/31/concert-sound-series-09-concerto/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090731T015900Z DTEND:20090731T015900Z DTSTAMP:20090731T015900Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Religious Identities and the Meaning of Things in Eighteenth-Century Paris" DESCRIPTION:"Presented by David Garrioch
\nAbstract
\nRecent work on material culture has looked at the meanings of objects in a variety of social contexts\, though primarily in relation to rank and class\, gender\, and urban/rural distinctions. Less attention has been paid to religious differences\, and particularly for the eighteenth century which is widely regarded [...]
Ensemble Liaison & Friends “Crossroads”
\nDavid Griffiths – Clarinet
\nSvetlana Bogosavljevic – Cello
\nTimothy Young – Piano
Featuring special guests Dr Tony Gould and Peter Neville.
\nWorks by Piazzolla\, Gould\, Mendelssohn\, Bach\, Shostakovich and Golijov.
\nComplimentary Hanging Rock wines from 6:30pm.
\nVisit Ensemble Liaison’s site
Experience the unique blend of folk\, pop and classical music which has enchanted audiences of all ages Australia wide. Having just returned from their whirlwind national tour\, young Melbourne trio Me and the Grownups showcase a selection of compositions from their tirelessly original repertoire – featuring the astoundingly beautiful lyrics composed by singer\, songwriter and [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/07/30/lunchtime-concert-me-and-the-grownups/ ORGANIZER:nejones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090730T013000Z DTEND:20090730T013000Z DTSTAMP:20090730T013000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Effects of Civil Conflict and the Tsunami on the Musical Arts" DESCRIPTION:"Effects of the Civil Conflict\, the Tsunami\, and the Peace Accord on the Musical Arts in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam\, 2003–2009
\nPresented by Professor Margaret Kartomi\, School of Music – Conservatorium\, Monash University
\nIndividuals and governments\, the former resistance force\, and non-government organisations have used particular genres of traditional and popular music\, dance\, storytelling and theatre as remedies [...]
Cultivating history: looking for memory and identity amongst ‘coolie’ labourers in a Sumatran tea estate
\nPresented by Nicole Lamb
\nBA Hons (Anthropology) and PhD candidate in History\, Monash University
\nMonash Anthropology Seminar Series\, Semester 2\, 2009
\nFor further information please email Penny Graham\, penny.graham@arts.monash.edu.au
Sanctions of the European Union: When and Why Do They Work?
\nPresented by Dr Clara Portela\, Assistant Professor\, Political Science at Singapore Management University
\nDr Clara Portela is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. She holds an MA from the Free University of Berlin and a doctorate in Political Science from the European [...]
A careers expo for Monash students and graduates.
\nRepresentatives from a diverse range of organisations will be attending to inform you of undergraduate and graduate career opportunities in the Gippsland region and beyond.
\nSo come along to:
discover work while you learn opportunities
\nincrease awareness of graduate employment opportunities in your field of study
\nseek advice on graduate recruitment processes [...]
Presented by Fania Oz-Salzberger\, Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies\, Monash University; Professor\, Faculty of Law\, Haifa University.
\nThis is one in a series of four weekly lectures\, Israel among the nations: Leon Liberman Lecture Series
\nin Modern Israel Studies\, by leading scholars exploring the place of Israel in the world today.
\nFree of charge.
\nFor further information [...]
The Monash Chinese Incountry Program (CIP) is a highly intensive short term Chinese language program taught at our partner universities in Shanghai and Beijing. It allows students to complete the equivalent of one or two semesters of Chinese language study in 3 or 6 weeks in a totally Chinese language and cultural environment.
\nThe Monash Chinese [...]
What are the approaches and issues in making migrant community histories?
\nOver the past ten years\, the Community Gallery at Victoria’s Immigration Museum has worked with over 54 groups to record\, create and display their community’s migration history\, whether they came to Victoria 5 years or 150 years ago. Padmini Sebastian (Manager\, Immigration [...]
The Monash Chinese Incountry Program (CIP) is a highly intensive short term Chinese language program taught at our partner universities in Shanghai and Beijing. It allows students to complete the equivalent of one or two semesters of Chinese language study in 3 or 6 weeks in a totally Chinese language and cultural environment.
\nThe Monash Chinese [...]
The Lunchtime Concert Series opens with a wonderfully evocative programme of music performed by international prize winning pianist William Fong\, currently Head of Keyboard at the Purcell School and Professor in piano at the Royal Academy of Music\, London. The programme includes works by Chopin\, Mozart\, and the electrifying Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel.
\nAdmission [...]
Gain a head-start on your career by attending the Berwick Careers Expo!
\nA careers expo for Monash students and graduates.
\nThis will be a great opportunity to:
find out about career prospects in your field of interest
\ninteract with employers from a range of different sectors
\nreceive information directly from employers of criteria and standards set by the current workforce
\ngain [...]
Presented by Professor Kevin Hart.
\nAbstract
\nThe paper responds to Derrida’s Avouer – L’Impossible\, one of Derrida’s last texts\, and seeks to understand several crucial words in him (including ‘life’ and ‘faith’). A critique is offered of Derrida’s theory of ethics.
\nProfessor Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia and a [...]
100 years of zainichi experience in Osaka
\nCho Bak is an Osaka-based musician\, actor and social activist. A second-generation Zainichi Korean\, in his song-writing\, performances and publications he has advocated the rights of resident Koreans and other minorities such as Ainu\, burakumin and the disabled. He will talk about the Korean community in Osaka’s Ikuno Ward [...]
Islamophobia: The Experience in Worlds Old and New Lessons from Europe and Australia
\nThis conference seeks to set a national platform to explore how to work towards a socially cohesive society in the context of contemporary realities and challenges. The issues of Islamophobia within the current and
\nfuture framework of Australian Multiculturalism will be examine.
\nProudly presented by [...]
Guest speaker: Malalai Joya\, Suspended Member of Parliament\, Government of Afghanistan
\nMalalai Joya was four days old when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Following a childhood spent in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan\, she returned to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s\, where she worked for underground organisations promoting the cause [...]
Presented by Associate Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann
\nThe language spoken in today’s Israel is a multifaceted and fascinating hybrid\, based not only on Hebrew\, but also on mother tongues such as Yiddish\, the Israeli linguist at the University of Brisbane argues in his controversial bestselling book Israeli\, A Beautiful Language.
\nFurther inquiries: acjc@arts.monash.edu.au or telephone 03 9902 [...]
Welcome to the 3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)\, which will be hosted by the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University Caulfield Campus\, Melbourne\, Australia\, from 8th to 10th July\, 2009.
\nThe Conference theme is Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a [...]
Monash Criminology is proud to be hosting the 3rd annual Australia & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference.
\nThe conference includes plenary papers from Professor Jude McCulloch\, Monash and Professor Chris Cunneen\, NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology\, Faculty of Law\, UNSW.
\nFour books are being launched over the duration of the conference\, with a special cocktail event on [...]
In this special event\, held as part of the 3rd International Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)\, local writers Elizabeth Honey\, Alice Pung and Tara June Winch take part in a discussion on Australian literature and translation. Writers will read excerpts from their works\, reflect on their experiences with writing\, [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/07/07/literary-panel-australian-writers-in-the-world/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090702T100000Z DTEND: 20090702T100000Z DTSTAMP:20090702T100000Z SUMMARY:"Lecture: Paul the Jew—Continuities and Contradictions" DESCRIPTION:"Amy-Jill Levine presents her only Melbourne lecture\, “Paul the Jew—Continuities and Contradictions”.
\nAmy-Jill Levine is Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.
\nSaul of Tarsus was a Jew who became St. Paul\, the church’s foremost missionary. Today he is [...]
The Centre for the Book\, Monash University\, and Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria present the Ninth Australian Library History Conference.
\nFull information\, including registration\, program\, contributors and abstracts\, can be found on the Centre for the Book website.
\nEnquiries should be directed to Donald Barker at donald.barker@arts.monash.edu.au.
Monash Lecturer debates Arts Policy in London
\nThe National Center for Australian Studies is partnering with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and the Centre for Cultural\, Media and Creative Industries Research\, King’s College London in a high powered seminar on Australian cultural policy to launch a new book of essays “Making Meaning\, Making Money: Directions [...]
Bain Attwood’s new book Possession: Batman’s Treaties and the Matter of History tells the fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia. It contemplates why whites forged these agreements\, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms\, why the government repudiated them\, and how whites claimed [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/06/22/conversation-bain-attwood-with-arnold-zable/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090613T003000Z DTEND:20090613T003000Z DTSTAMP:20090613T003000Z SUMMARY:"Film Screening: Travelling Transcultural Adoptee Films Tour" DESCRIPTION:"Short films on adoption screening as part of the TTAF tour\, plus a reading of a new play\, Umbilical\, by Dominic Hong Duc Golding.
\nThis event is proudly brought to you by Monash Arts\, in collaboration with the Australian Catholic University and the Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network.
\nNote: Seats at this event are strictly limited. [...]
Perspectives on local and inter-country adoption: Canada\, US and Australia.
\nSpeakers include:
Dr Karen Balcom\, McMaster University in Canada
\nShurlee Swain\, Australian Catholic University
\nDenise Cuthbert\, Monash University
This event is proudly brought to you by Monash Arts\, in collaboration with the Australian Catholic University and the Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network.
\nNote: Seats at this event are strictly limited. Please [...]
Presented by Professor Peter Singer.
\nLight refreshments will be provided.
\nRecent work in animal studies\, psychology and the neurosciences has greatly enhanced our understanding of the nature of ethics. But what does this mean for our own decisions about how we ought to live? Does it undermine traditional ideas about the objectivity of ethics? Is there still [...]
Director\, David Griffiths
\nDirected by the energetic and exciting David Griffiths\, the Monash Wind Symphony is a large wind and percussion ensemble comprising students from the Monash University School of Music – Conservatorium and the wider Monash community. They will present a colourful concert of music from around the world that will be sure to get [...]
Since the invasion by NATO and American troops\, life in Afghanistan has become intolerable\, particularly for women. The rhetoric given at the time to explain the invasion was the ‘liberation of women’ and ‘the establishment of a democratic\, socially improved Afghanistan’. But seven years down the track\, lack of security\, poverty\, [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/06/03/public-lecture-womens-lives-in-contemporary-afghanistan/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090601T060000Z DTEND: 20090601T080000Z DTSTAMP:20090601T060000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Film & TV Series: Phillippa Hawker" DESCRIPTION:"Text and Image: Sylvia Plath and Cinema
\nThis presentation will offer an account of ongoing work concerning the multiple\, complex relationships between the life and work of Sylvia Plath\, and various forms of cinema: biographical\, narrative\, experimental. Some rare films and videos will be screened.
\nPhillippa Hawker is a film critic for The Age
\nView full details and [...]
To be delivered by Professor Diane Bell.
\nDiane Bell is Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, George Washington University\, USA; Writer in Residence\, Flinders and Visiting Professor\, School of Social Sciences\, Adelaide University. She has held senior posts in Higher Education in Australia and the USA; is the award-winning author and editor of some 11 books; has [...]
Director\, Sam Evans
\nThis orchestra embraces a cross section of music influences and languages from various cultures in the true spirit of contemporary Australian society. Part of its uniqueness lies in its use of a wide variety of instruments\, both old and modern\, and arrangements which marry beautifully the diverse makeup of the ensemble and the [...]
Director\, Ian Whitehurst
\nA decade in existence\, this band of eighteen musicians plays a repertoire that gives the students a strong historical understanding of the large jazz ensembles as well as performing new works from Australian and overseas composers. We hope you enjoy this powerful and dynamic performance.
\n$4 charge.
Professor Serhii Plokhy\, the Monash Dnister Visiting Fellow in Ukrainian Studies\, will deliver this year’s lecture ‘Ukraine’s Quest for Europe: A Historian’s Perspective’.
\nProfessor Plokhy holds the Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi Chair in Ukrainian History at Harvard University. His many publications include The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia\, Ukraine\, and Belarus [...]
Presented by Matthew Ryan.
\nAbstract
\nReferences to art and artists recur in John Banville’s writing. In structure too his novels are metafictional in that they draw attention to their own artistic texture. While Banville’s self-conscious aestheticisation of the world in the novel points to the captured evocative moment\, it also plays out the failure of the ideal; [...]
Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nGideon Reuveni is Lecturer in Jewish History\, University of Melbourne.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
Featuring John Taylor\, Piano – United Kingdom with Monash University Jazz Ensembles.
\nTicket Prices
\nMonash Student $15
\nMonash Staff $25
\nConcession $25
\nAdult $30
\nTo book tickets\, phone 9905 1111
\nFor information on other events visit the School of Music Concert Series.
Distinguished panellists will reflect on German-Jewish relations — past\, present and future.
\nThe panellists will be:
Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger — Leon Liberman Chair in Israel Studies\, author of Israelis in Berlin
\nNavah Semel — award-winning Israeli author of 16 books including And the Rat Laughed
\nDr Ari Ofengenden — Leon Liberman Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel Studies
\n Dr Gideon Reuveni [...]
The Global Terrorism Research Centre invites you to attend a public lecture by Professor Rohan Gunaratna.
\nTerrorist rehabilitation is the answer to two grave challenges the world is faced with today. First\, Al Qaeda and its family of groups specifically target the Muslim population. The contemporary wave of violence and counter violence produces terrorist recruits and [...]
Presented by Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger\, Leon Liberman Chair of Modern Israel Studies\, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization\, Monash University.
\nThe relationship between Israel and the European Union\, Israel and many European Countries\, and Israel and ‘Europe’\, is fraught with historical sensitivities\, pain and distrust both within and beyond living memory. Political\, societal and cultural dialogues have [...]
How effective have U.S. and international efforts to combat terrorist financing been against al-Qaeda\, Hamas\, and Hizballah\, and what more can be done by the Obama administration?
\nFormer deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury\, now Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute [...]
As with previous years\, Monash Jazz studies will be presenting an international jazz artist that will be an artist in residence at the School of Music (currently in final negotiations). This is a wonderful opportunity to hear one of the international greats of jazz here at Monash University.
\n$4 charge.
Subjectivity and Emotion in Documentary Film
\nIn the past documentary has been popularly perceived in ways that align it with education\, science\, history and other ‘discourses of sobriety’. This frame has never been adequate for conceptualising the stylistic and thematic breadth of documentary culture. In part\, documentary is compelling because it frames subjectivity in distinct ways. [...]
The annual Wallenberg Oration at Monash University explores important themes in Holocaust and genocide scholarship. It is named in memory of Raoul Wallenberg\, who risked his life to save Jews during the Holocaust.
\nThis inaugural lecture\, entitled The Holocaust and Genocide: Remembering the Twentieth Century\, is being presented by Professor Omer Bartov\, John P Birkelund Distinguished [...]
Concert no.1 of the 2009 Ensemble Liaison and Friends series from the BMW Edge at Federation Square.
\nDavid Griffiths – Clarinet
\nSvetlana Bogosavljevic – Cello
\nTimothy Young – Piano
Featuring special guest artists\, MSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith\, MSO Associate Concertmaster\, Roy Theaker\, and Simon Oswell\, Viola.
\nProgram:
Mendelssohn – Concert Piece no.1
\nDebussy – Sonata for Cello and Piano
\nMozart – Clarinet Quintet
\nLutoslawski [...]
Director\, Faye Dumont
\nThese premier vocal ensembles from the School of Music–Conservatorium will present a concert of choral music including Handel\, Bach\, Vivaldi\, Victoria and Australian Composers. Viva Vocé choir is open by audition to all Monash students and staff with rehearsals on Mondays 2–4 pm.
\n$4 charge.
Future Narrative: Interactivity\, Computer Games and the Authorship of Fantasy
\nPresented by Chris Worth.
\nThe success and proliferation of computer games has stimulated considerable interest among narratologists because some games appear to offer player-centred direction of stories\, significant narrative interactivity and multiple alternative resolutions. Fantasy RPG games in particular promise opportunities for the construction of personalised narratives [...]
Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nOmer Bartov is John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of German Studies\, Brown University.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
Literary festivals and the publishing industry: friends or foe?
\nRosemary Cameron has been director of the Melbourne Writers Festival since November 2005. Before Melbourne\, Rosemary directed the Brisbane Writers Festival for 3 years. For 2 years she was a judge of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Fiction and\, when in Brisbane\, she was a judge [...]
Monash String Sinfonia
\nDirector\, Elizabeth Sellars
\nMonash Sinfonia is an unconducted string ensemble that is fast building its reputation as a dynamic and committed interpreter ofstring repertoire. This concert combines the incomparable mastery of the great Handel with Shostakovitch’s memorial to victims of fascism and war and the luminous beauty of English pastoralist Finzi.
\n$4 charge.
How are Indigenous arts recognised and protected in Australia?
\nWhat happens when someone takes an Indigenous artwork or cultural site and uses it for their own profit?
\nThese and related issues will be debated in a lively ‘hypothetical’ format between the faculties of Law\, Arts and Art & Design. Judges\, lawyers\, artists\, archaeologists and others will address [...]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
\nThis presentation will discuss Thai director Apichatpong’s ability to make the ordinary extraordinary in his highly personal films. It will focus on (and include a screening of) his new short online film Phantoms of Nabua (2009)\, which coincides with the Primitive installation. In Phantoms of Nabua\, the filmmaker plays homage [...]
Students performing works from Haydn until present day.
\nTickets available at the door from 7pm.
\nAdult $10\, Concession $6
\nFor information on other events visit the School of Music Concert Series.
Music from ancient Persia\, the Pãyvar Ensemble\, led by Qmars Piraglu\, will play solo and ensemble works by the famous Iranian composers Pãyvar\, Meshkãtiãn and Alizãdeh. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear music with a history that goes back thousands of years.
\n$4 charge.
Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nMelanie Landau is Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation\, Monash University.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
Copland’s extraordinarily engaging Emily Dickinson songs are combined here with readings of poetry and the world premiere of Australian Composer\, Peter Campbell’s song cycle\, An Avian Miscellany. Join Louisa Hunter-Bradley (soprano)\, Cameron Menzies (actor) and Dean Sky-Lucas (piano) on a discovery of these special tonal images.
\n$4 charge.
Presented by Gloria Davies.
\nThis paper deals with the language of Chinese intellectual discourse and explores its dynamism as a discourse that is radically cosmopolitan while retaining an ancient and destiny-inspired rhetoric cum rationale. In this paper\, I argue in favor of translating the Chinese term for intellectual discourse (sixiang) as “critical inquiry”\, as opposed to [...]
The first presentation under the “Portraits of Self and Other” rubric will be delivered by Teresa Tufano on Italian filmmaker Alina Marazzi\, whose remarkable collage/archive/essay films imaginatively explore the traces of the feminist generation of the director’s mother. Do not miss this opportunity to be introduced to an extremely important and too-little-known contemporary filmmaker’s work!
\nAll [...]
Dr Eduardo de la Fuente\, John Budarick and Michael Walsh
\nWe propose in this paper that the study of communication and the growing social science field of ‘mobility studies’ can profitably benefit from a deep theoretical (and empirical!) engagement with each other. We take inspiration from John Urry’s influential book\, Mobilities\, which recommends inserting ‘communications into [...]
RSVP: 13 April 2009
\nJoin Professor Rae Frances\, Dean of Arts\, at the fifth Monash Arts Public lecture with Professor Julian Savulescu: ‘Should we use technology to change our genetic destiny?’
\nCriminality\, self-control\, intelligence\, and even success in relationships have all been found to have some biological basis.
\nRecent developments in human enhancement technologies have meant that we [...]
Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference
\nAcross the Easter break\, Film and Television Studies (Clayton campus) is hosting “B for BAD cinema: aesthetics\, politics and cultural value\,” an international conference that will bring together film scholars\, critics and filmmakers to present their thoughts on “badfilm\,” with a particular focus on the following themes: cultural [...]
Tony Gould and Rob Burke have performed together for three decades. They will be performing original compositions as well as some standard jazz repertoire that is to be featured on a new CD release in 2009 through the Jazzhead record label.
\n$4 charge.
‘Come Forth Into The Light Of Things’: Material Spirit And Negative Ecopoetics
\nPresented by Kate Rigby.
\nIn a poem from 1937 addressed to future generations\, Bertold Brecht famously declared that to engage in a conversation about trees was almost a crime since it meant keeping silent about the grievous socio-political ills of the day (above all\, the [...]
The School of Historical Studies and the Faculty of Arts\, Monash University together with the Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, presents:
\nAtrocities: Anglo-American Violence in Modern War – Professor Joanna Bourke
\nWith an introduction by Professor Rae Frances\, Dean of Arts\, Monash University
\nAtrocity has become the defining event of our time. It has always been a [...]
A unique recital program featuring commissioned chamber music works for the Low Flutes. Peter Sheridan heads this group with instruments including the Alto\, Bass\, Contrabass\, and gigantic Sub-Contrabass flutes. Come hear the lyrical\, colourful\, percussive and surprising tonal qualities of these most fascinating instruments. Compositions by Schocker\, Hiscocks\, Neher and others.
\n$4 charge.
Shaun Tan\, author and illustrator of Tales From Outer Suburbia\, The Arrival\, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree among other works\, will be visiting Monash University to speak at the Japanese Studies Centre. Tan’s visit is sponsored by the School of English\, Communications and Performance Studies. You can visit Shaun Tan’s website here.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/31/seminar-authorillustrator-shaun-tan-visits-monash/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090330T050000Z DTEND:20090330T050000Z DTSTAMP:20090330T050000Z SUMMARY:"Film & TV Seminar: So Just What is Bad Cinema\, Anyway?" DESCRIPTION:"All organisers of the ‘B For Bad Cinema’ Conference will convene a panel to discuss the burning topic: “So Just What is Bad Cinema\, Anyway?” – complete with well-chosen and extremely BAD film clips!
\nAll inquires about Under Construction to: Dr. Adrian Martin\, Adrian.martin@arts.monash.edu.au
Centre for Archaeology & Ancient History and The Egyptology Society of Victoria present an illustrated public lecture by Dr Gillian Bowen & Professor Colin A Hope.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/26/public-lecture-monash-excavations-in-dakhleh-2009/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090326T050000Z DTEND:20090326T050000Z DTSTAMP:20090326T050000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Applying Social Research Methods to the Infrastructure Planning Process" DESCRIPTION:"Please RSVP: mark.davis@arts.monash.edu.au
\nPresented by Owen Boushel (Master of Applied Social Research) & Michael Willis (Master of Applied Social Research)
\nInfrastructure underpins our quality of life; road networks determine how fast we travel\, sewerage systems reduce disease and power grids enable us to watch TV and light our homes.
\nWhile economists can tell you what these improvements mean [...]
The Monash Anthropology Seminar Series continues with:
\nNicholas Herriman
\nLecturer\, Anthropology\, School of Political and Social Inquiry\, Monash University
Enjoy listening to the outstanding musicianship of the highest-achieving students from 2008. Students from the jazz\, voice\, woodwind\, string and piano programs present a wonderful array of music from all eras.
\n$4 charge.
In this special seminar Dr Peter Gerrand\, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow (School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics\, Monash University) explores the potential development of a Monash Ranking system for accurate estimation of Internet language diversity. The seminar is organised by the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics and the Monash e-Research Centre.
\nAll welcome.
\nFull Seminar summary [...]
Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nLeah Garrett is the Loti Smorgon Research Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture\, Monash University.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
The Struggle for the Body\, Mind and Soul of AFL Footballers is being launched by Geelong Football Club assistant coach Brendan McCartney.
\nIn a sports entertainment environment\, where AFL players are sports celebrities\, there is no place to hide—on or off the field. All areas of a player’s performance and behaviour are constantly scrutinised by coaches\, [...]
The Ontology of Dramaturgy/Dramaturgy as Ontology
\nPlay texts are a form of representation. Yet they are also objects in the world. When actively engaged by the theatre-making process they take on complex crypto-agency via those who interpret and/or create them. They are a form of being.
\nDrawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou in reviving discussions [...]
Lunchtime Concert Series presented by the School of Music – Conservatorium
\nInternational visiting artists John Baily and Veronica Doubleday come to Monash from London. They will present a program of traditional songs\, instrumental dance pieces and classical music for the rhubarb learned from local musicians in Afghanistan. They will be joined by well-known tabla player Sam [...]
Professor Steven Katz is a prominent American philosopher who has published numerous books on Jewish thought\, mystical traditions and the Holocaust.
\nIn this public lecture Professor Katz will critically examine the main Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust\, including such thinkers as Emil Fackenheim\, Richard Rubenstein\, Yitz Greenberg\, Eliezer Berkovits\, Ignaz Maybaum\, Menachem Schneerson\, and Arthur [...]
Recording Everyday Life and ‘Writing for History’: Mass Observation in Britain and Australia
\nHow have pioneering approaches to recording everyday lives generated innovative and influential public histories? Dorothy Sheridan (Mass Observation Archive Development Director & Honorary Professor at Sussex University) will discuss the British Mass Observation project (http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm) and consider issues it raises in the digital [...]
With a program consisting of four classic chamber works for the jiuta shamisen\, Philip Flavin will perform along with a classic form of chamber dance. Witness storytelling at its finest.
\n$4 charge.
A special lecture by Professor Claudia Maria Riehl (University of Cologne\, Germany)\, sponsored by The Language and Society Centre of the School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics\, Monash University.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/18/why-bilingualism-makes-a-difference/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090318T040000Z DTEND:20090318T040000Z DTSTAMP:20090318T040000Z SUMMARY:"Seminar: Eternal Feasting in the Halls of Immortality" DESCRIPTION:"Eternal Feasting in the Halls of Immortality: Western Light and Ecocide
\nPresented by Geoff Berry.
\nContemporary consumerism deploys all the conceits of traditional mythology except one: it fails to prescribe sacralization of the world. Western logocentrism organises the universe according to the three banners under which world view has always been culturally constructed – origin\, kinship or [...]
Stephen Crittenden\, religious affairs journalist\, ABC and Waleed Aly\, School of Political and Social Inquiry\, Monash University in conversation.
\nCo-Sponsored by the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology\, Monash University and the State Library of Victoria.
\nFree public conversation series leading up to the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
\nThis series of ten monthly conversations will create [...]
Under Construction – the illustrious Film And Television Studies Seminar Series!
\nDr. Con Verevis and Alexia Kannas will present a mystery ‘B For Bad’ film.
\nAll inquires about Under Construction to: Dr. Adrian Martin\, Adrian.martin@arts.monash.edu.au
Presented by Dr Simone Murray
\nAbstract
\nThe publishing buzzword of recent times has undoubtedly been ‘open access’. But typically this has referred to scientific journal publishing\, only recently expanding to include humanities research. This paper goes further in asking what might an open-access “literary” culture look like? Developments around online publishing\, electronic-books\, print-on-demand and digital libraries see [...]
This public seminar\, offered in collaboration with the Monash Asia Institute\, will involve a presentation by Ven. Naotune Vijitha Thero\, Chief Incumbent of the Dhammasarana Temple in Keysborough. He is a scholar well versed in Pali and Buddhist studies. It will be followed by a panel discussion with: the Ven. Sucinta\, trained as a psychologist [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/15/mindfullness-counselling-buddhist-traditions-and-mental-health/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090312T021000Z DTEND: 20090312T025000Z DTSTAMP:20090312T021000Z SUMMARY:"Concert: Brigid Burke & David McNicol in Performance" DESCRIPTION:"Clarinetist Brigid Burke and accompanist David McNicol will perform repertoire ranging from mainstream European 20th-century composers to contemporary Australian music\, including a series of Brigid’s own works created for clarinet and piano over recent years. They represent an exciting new dimension in Australian original performance today.
\n$4 charge.
Don’t miss a fantastic opportunity to meet employers from all over Australia and get a headstart in securing your dream graduate job! The Monash Graduate Careers Fair 2009 will be held on Thursday 12 March (Monash Sport (Bldg 1)\, Clayton Campus). Final year undergraduate and postgraduate students from stated disciplines\, all campuses\, are encouraged to [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/12/graduate-careers-fair-2009/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090311T005900Z DTEND:20090311T005900Z DTSTAMP:20090311T005900Z SUMMARY:"Research Seminar: Social Justice and the Right of the People: The Seventeenth Century Reads the Hebrew Bible" DESCRIPTION:"Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nFania Oz-Salzberger is the Leon Liberman Research Chair in Modern Israel Studies\, Monash University.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
Rethinking Polish-Jewish Dialogue
\nThe Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation\, together with the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs\, the Federation of Polish Jews and the Jewish Holocaust Centre\, presents a public lecture on Polish-Jewish relations in Contemporary Poland by Zbigniew Nosowski .
\nZbigniew Nosowski is a prominent Polish sociologist from Warsaw\, editor-in-chief of the influential monthly Wiez\, Co-Chairman [...]
Research Seminars in Jewish Studies
\nDalia Ofer is Max and Rita Haber Professor of Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry & the Melton School for Jewish Education\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
\nBring your lunch; nibbles and drinks provided.
Monash University School of Music – Conservatorium\, Lunchtime Concert Series Presents “Traditional Folk and Classical Music from Afghanistan”
\nInternational visiting artists John Baily and Veronica Doubleday come to Monash from London. They will present a program of traditional songs\, instrumental dance pieces and classical music for the rubab learned from local musicians in Afghanistan. They will [...]
Presented by Andrew Milner
\nThis paper aims to test the adequacy of various theoretical approaches to utopian studies and science fiction studies – especially those drawn from the work of Darko Suvin\, Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson – to an understandinng of the history of Australian science-fictional dystopias. It argues that science fiction cannot readily be [...]
The Contemporary Europe Research Centre\, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Melbourne\, with the Innovative Universities European Union Centre and the Monash European and EU Centre\, invite you to a Jean Monnet and University of Melbourne Arts Faculty Public lecture entitled “Meeting the Challenges for Education in Europe”. by Mme Odile Quintin\, [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/02/public-lecture-by-mme-odile-quintin/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090301T220000Z DTEND:20090301T220000Z DTSTAMP:20090301T220000Z SUMMARY:"Semester 1\, 2009" DESCRIPTION:"On the 2nd of March\, 2009\, Semester 1 begins.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2009/03/02/semester-1-2009/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090218T220000Z DTEND:20090218T220000Z DTSTAMP:20090218T220000Z SUMMARY:"Conference: Multilingualism in Urban and Suburban Settings" DESCRIPTION:"The Inaugural LASC Annual Roundtable
\nFebruary 19 & 20\, 2009
\nThe Language and Society Centre invites your participation in the Inaugural LASC Annual Roundtable.
\nMore of the world’s population now live in urban settings than outside of them (and Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world)\, and more than half of [...]
Intellectual property law was initially developed on the basis of a simple binary between ‘creative’ art and ‘copies’. Folk art and indigenous art became part of the ‘public domain’. Hybrid art forms such as world music\, advertising\, tourism and new age religions have all made use of traditional cultural expression for financial gain\, without recognising [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/12/15/symposium-on-traditional-cultural-expression-and-international-law/ ORGANIZER:xml-rpc-user END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081208T100000Z DTEND:20081208T100000Z DTSTAMP:20081208T100000Z SUMMARY:"A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps: Jewish Music in Exile" DESCRIPTION:"Concert and Public Lecture Professor Philip Bohlman\, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago (narrator) and Christine Wilkie Bohlman (pianist) will perform the last work that was composed in Hitler’s concentration camps.
\nComposed at Terezin\, the work is entitled: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des [...]
This event has been cancelled\, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause
\nDoctoral Subjects: Producing research\, researchers\, knowledge and innovation in Australian humanities\, arts and social science doctorates
\nA symposium to mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of doctoral education in Australia and celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Monash University
\nConvened jointly by:
\nDenise Cuthbert and Alan [...]
Professor Rae Frances\, Dean of Arts\, will host the fourth Arts public lecture presented by Professor Amanda Lynch FTSE. Professor Lynch is an internationally recognised climate expert who focuses on bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences to better address the challenges of climate change. Titled Democracy and Climate Change: Finding the Common [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/12/04/arts-public-lecture-series-democracy-and-climate-change-finding-the-common-interest/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081202T030000Z DTEND:20081202T030000Z DTSTAMP:20081202T030000Z SUMMARY:"Visualising the Past: a symposium" DESCRIPTION:"Looking at both Australian and British material\, this symposium will explore new insights into the past that can be gained by the careful reading of historical paintings and urban streetscapes. It will also show the impact of particular ideas about the nature and meaning of history on some 18th and 19th century paintings of significant [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/12/02/visualising-the-past-a-symposium/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081127T020000Z DTEND: 20081127T020000Z DTSTAMP:20081127T020000Z SUMMARY:"Securing Sustainable Energy Supplies in Europe and Australia" DESCRIPTION:"The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for academics\, policy-makers\, business representatives and environmental groups to explore\, debate and compare the different approaches and experiences in securing energy supplies in Europe and Australia\, with a view to facilitating the development of sustainable government and business strategy. In particular\, the conference will [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/11/27/securing-sustainable-energy-supplies-in-europe-and-australia/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081125T220000Z DTEND:20081125T220000Z DTSTAMP:20081125T220000Z SUMMARY:"31st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific" DESCRIPTION:"On behalf of Monash University and the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific\, we invite you to attend the 31st Annual African Studies conference. This conference will engage academics from around Australia\, the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa\, members of the business communities across both continents\, leaders of African communities in Australia\, politicians in [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/11/26/31st-annual-conference-of-the-african-studies-association-of-australasia-and-the-pacific/ ORGANIZER:jessicaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081121T223000Z DTEND:20081121T223000Z DTSTAMP:20081121T223000Z SUMMARY:"Military Media Relations and the War in Afghanistan: The Australian Experience" DESCRIPTION:"This one day symposium brings together journalists who have reported from the front lines in Afghanistan\, defence PR personnel\, academics and media commentators who will explore how\, by whom\, and with what effects the Australian military’s current deployment in Afghanistan has been reported. It will provide a timely opportunity to examine the ADF’s use of [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/11/22/military-media-relations-and-the-war-in-afghanistan-the-australian-experience/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081120T073000Z DTEND:20081120T073000Z DTSTAMP:20081120T073000Z SUMMARY:"Exhibiting Melbourne: The city in the Museum" DESCRIPTION:"Making Public Histories Seminar Series ‘Exhibiting Melbourne: The city in the museum’ Visitors to Melbourne can now approach the city’s history through an impressive range of galleries and exhibitions\, including The City Museum\, The Australian Gallery of Sport\, The State Library’s ‘Faces of Victoria’\, the Immigration Museum and Museum Victoria’s recently opened ‘Melbourne Story’. Deakin [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/11/20/exhibiting-melbourne-the-city-in-the-museum/ ORGANIZER:jrose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081120T070000Z DTEND:20081120T070000Z DTSTAMP:20081120T070000Z SUMMARY:"Sir John Monash Medal – Call for Nominations" DESCRIPTION:"Nominations are now open for the 2008 Sir John Monash Medal for Outstanding Achievement for students in the Arts Faculty. The Sir John Monash Medal is awarded to final year undergraduate/Honours students with excellent academic records who have also achieved excellence in another arena (e.g. sports\, community service\, performance etc). Nominations can be made by [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/11/20/sir-john-monash-medal-call-for-nominations/ ORGANIZER:jrose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081118T080000Z DTEND:20081118T080000Z DTSTAMP:20081118T080000Z SUMMARY:"Mark Peel’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture" DESCRIPTION:"The School of Historical Studies Invites you to Mark Peel’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Precarious Superiority: Some Explorations in Class\, Gender and Social History.
\nDrawing examples from both teaching and writing\, this lecture reflects my interest in history from and about ‘the margins’. With discussions of role-playing and historical re-enactment\, a staged encounter from the 1930s\, [...]
Ensemble Liaison and Friends final 2008 performance.
\nProgram: Beethoven – Sonata for Piano and Cello no4 Francaix – Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Piano Golijov – Lullaby and Doina Schubert – The Trout Quintet Featuring special guests Wilma Smith – Violin\, Simon Oswell- Viola\, Alex Henery – Double Bass\, Katie Chilmaid – Violin\, Mardi McSullea [...]
Tickets available at the door from 7pm Adult $10\, Concession $6
\nEnquiries: Emily Banjac\, Phone: +61 3 990 53231; Email: Emily.Banjac@arts.monash.edu.au
Making Public Histories Seminar Series
\nAmanda Bacon (manager of the strategic projects units in Heritage Victoria) will outline the origins and aims of a project which is developing a framework of historical themes for assessment\, management\, promotion and interpretation of Victoria’s heritage places and objects.
\nSandy Blair from Melbourne based consultancy firm Context will outline the challenges [...]
Monash World Music Orchestra
\nMusical Director\, Sam Evans
\nThis orchestra embraces a cross section of music influences and languages from various cultures\, in the true spirit of contemporary Australian society. Part of its uniqueness lies in its use of a wide variety of instruments\, both old and modern\, and arrangements which marry beautifully the diverse makeup of [...]
Speak directly with staff and learn all you need to know about Higher Degrees Research\, entry requirements\, application procedures and scholarships.
\nEvent Inquiries: Alastair De Rozario\, Phone: +61 3 990 52198; Email: Alastair.DeRozario@arts.monash.edu.au
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/10/14/higher-degrees-research-event/ ORGANIZER:jrose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081009T093058Z DTEND:20081009T093058Z DTSTAMP:20081009T093058Z SUMMARY:"Piano Twililght Concert" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood\, Phone: +61 3 990 53230; Email: jodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nMonash University’s School of Music – Conservatorium is pleased to announce an evening with the students from the piano program. Tickets available at the door from 7pm Pre-sales at Music General Office Adult $10\, Concession $6
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/10/09/piano-twililght-concert/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081009T030000Z DTEND: 20081009T040000Z DTSTAMP:20081009T030000Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – Brass & Trumpet Ensembles" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nDirected by award winning staff member Anthony Pope\, the Monash University Brass and Trumpet ensembles feature the brass students from the School of Music – Conservatorium. They will perform an exciting array of music\, dating from the baroque period (J.Clarke Trumpet Voluntary)\, to the 21st [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/10/09/lunchtime-concert-series-brass-trumpet-ensembles/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080929T110000Z DTEND: 20080929T120000Z DTSTAMP:20080929T110000Z SUMMARY:"George Garzone (Tenor Saxophone – USA)" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Emily Banjac\, Phone: +61 3 990 53231; Email: Emily.Banjac@arts.monash.edu.au
\nSchool of Music Conservatorium Jazz and Popular Music presents George Garzone (Tenor Saxophone – USA). With Niko Schauble (Drums) and Nick Haywood (Bass). Cost: Adult $25\, Student $20\, Monash Student $15 Bookings: 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/29/george-garzone-tenor-saxophone-usa/ ORGANIZER:jrose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080926T093056Z DTEND:20080926T093056Z DTSTAMP:20080926T093056Z SUMMARY:"Honours Twilight Concert" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood\, Phone: +61 3 990 53230; Email: jodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nCome and support the Bachelor of Music (Honours) students as they give selected previews from their upcoming end-of-year recitals. Featuring: Sandy Ung (Viola) Sam Curkpatrick (Clarinet) Tony Toppi (Piano) Kim Ho (Violin) Sara Calia (Clarinet) Chantelle Casey (Piano) Surekha Curkpatrick (Flute) Mandy Brook (Voice) [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/26/honours-twilight-concert/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080925T030000Z DTEND: 20080925T040000Z DTSTAMP:20080925T030000Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – Alma Brasileira (Brazilian soul)" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nChoro (‘shoro’) is the soul of Brazilian popular music. This concert will feature guitarist Mauricio Carrilho from Rio de Janeiro\, and Doug de Vries from The School of Music – Conservatorium. The duo will feature new works and all original pieces from their recent CD [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/25/lunchtime-concert-series-alma-brasileira-brazilian-soul/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080920T080000Z DTEND: 20080920T100000Z DTSTAMP:20080920T080000Z SUMMARY:"2008 Trendall Lecture" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jane Griffiths\, Phone: +61 3 990 53251; Email: Jane.Griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au
\nProfessor Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek\, University of Cambridge) will deliver the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2008 Trendall Lecture as the guest of the Monash Classical Studies Program (School of Languages\, Cultures and Linguistics). Professor Goldhill is internationally renowned as one of the most [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/20/2008-trendall-lecture/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080918T063000Z DTEND: 20080918T093000Z DTSTAMP:20080918T063000Z SUMMARY:"Postgraduate Information Evening" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Alastair De Rozario\, Phone: +61 3 990 55436; Email: Alastair.DeRozario@arts.monash.edu.au
\nSpeak directly with staff and learn all you need to know about Higher Degrees Research\, entry requirements\, application procedures and scholarships.
\nPostgraduate Information Evening\, 4:30-7:30pm\, Monash City Offices.
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nVisiting international artist Debasis Chakroborty is one of India’s foremost Indian classical guitar players. His virtuosity is embued through impeccable clarity and delicate sweetness. He will be accompanied by the superb Australian tabla player\, Sam Evans\, in an entertaining concert.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/18/lunchtime-concert-series-north-indian-classical-music/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080911T030000Z DTEND: 20080911T040000Z DTSTAMP:20080911T030000Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – Cosmo Cosmolino" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nThis aria nominated 5-piece ensemble\, features strings\, accordion and voice\, “creates a soulful\, seeping sense of drama that’s at once ancient and modern. A hot-blooded collision of classicism\, gypsy romance and tango.” – Jonathan Alley.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/11/lunchtime-concert-series-cosmo-cosmolino/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080910T010000Z DTEND: 20080910T050000Z DTSTAMP:20080910T010000Z SUMMARY:"International Jobseeker Expo" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Employment and Career Development\, Phone: +61 3 9905 4170; Email: info@careers.monash.edu.au
\nHundreds of opportunities for returning-home international students and Australian domestic students seeking a global career start!
\nMore Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/10/international-jobseeker-expo/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080904T030000Z DTEND: 20080904T040000Z DTSTAMP:20080904T030000Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – A Singing of Sayings" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nMasters Graduates Tanya Bail – soprano\, and Josephine Agostinelli – piano\, return to Monash to present ‘A Journey in song from Baroque Europe to Twentieth Century Australia.’ Features the premiere new work by Australian composer Anthony Briggs and works by Purcell\, Donizetti\, Handel\, Quilter and [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/09/04/lunchtime-concert-series-a-singing-of-sayings/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080901T030000Z DTEND: 20080901T050000Z DTSTAMP:20080901T030000Z SUMMARY:"Presentation: European Union and Economic Growth" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Amanda Crichton\, Phone: +61 3 990 34639; Email: Amanda.Crichton@general.monash.edu.au
\nRSVP Essential: Thursday 28 August to susan.freeman@buseco.monash.edu.au ph 03 990 32674
What mechanisms related to the functioning of the EU are conducive to long-term economic growth of its members and which ones can obstruct this growth?
\nIn September 1989 Leszek Balcerowicz became Deputy Prime Minister [...]
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood\, Phone: +61 3 990 53230; Email: jodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nGeorge is one of the most highly regarded jazz saxophoneist in the world having toured and performed with Jamaaladeen Tacuma\, Danilo Perez\, Joe Lovano\, Jack DeJohnette\, Rachel Z\, John Patitucci and Elvin Jones.
\nGarzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator\, teaching at the [...]
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nRenowned jazz saxophonist/educator George Garzone will be artist in residence at Monash University from the USA. George has performed with and taught some of the greats of jazz including Joe Lovano\, Joshua Redman and Brandford Marsalis. George will be performing with students and staff from [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/28/lunchtime-concert-series-saxophone-supremo/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080822T100000Z DTEND: 20080822T100000Z DTSTAMP:20080822T100000Z SUMMARY:"Twilight Concert Series – Winds of Spring" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood\, Phone: +61 3 990 53230; Email: jodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nThe School of Music – Conservatorium presents Winds of Spring. The Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band joins Monash University’s Wind Symphony. In a program of works by Holst\, Ticheli\, Hultgren\, Arutunian\, Weber\, Shostakovich\, Whitacre and Hazo.
\nTickets available at the door from 7pm. Pre-sales at Music [...]
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nThis lunchtime recital features some of the School of Music-Conservatorium’s talented student musicians presenting a tantalising blend of musical sonorities.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/21/lunchtime-concert-series-student-showcase/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080814T030000Z DTEND: 20080814T040000Z DTSTAMP:20080814T030000Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – Beethoven & Poulenc" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nViolinist Rohana Brown and pianist Louisa Breen present Beethoven’s vibrant and youthful Sonata Op. 12 No.2 in A major and Sonata for violin and piano Op. 119 by Francis Poulenc.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/14/lunchtime-concert-series-beethoven-poulenc/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080813T073000Z DTEND: 20080813T073000Z DTSTAMP:20080813T073000Z SUMMARY:"Comfort Women – Memories of Survivors" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Joanne Witheridge\, Phone: +61 3 990 52253; Email: Joanne.Witheridge@arts.monash.edu.au
\nMemory and justice testimonials by survivors Gil Won Ok and Jan Ruff O’Herne.
\nPapers by Cho Shi Hyun (GonGuk University) Michiko Nakahara (Waseda University) and others.
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood\, Phone: +61 3 990 53230; Email: jodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nMonash University Proudly presents ‘Offenbach : Orpheus In The Underworld’
\nConductor: Benjamin Northey
\nDirector: Linda Thompson
\nDesigner: Jeffrey Paul
\nGasworks Theatre
\nGasworks Arts Park
\nCorner Graham and Pickles St
\nAlbert Park Melways Ref H7 2J
\nTickets: Adult $35 / Concession $26 / Monash Music Students $23
\nBookings: 03 9699 3253 or http://www.gasworks.org.au/
Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEach year the School of Music – Conservatorium connects with an Australian composer in an interview and performance of their works. This year the composer-of-honour is George Dreyfus AM. Prior to the recital\, the composer is interviewed by Dr Joel Crotty\, allowing the audience the [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/07/lunchtime-concert-series-monash-australian-composer-series-xvi-george-dreyfus-am-composer-of-honour/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080807T030000Z DTEND: 20080807T060000Z DTSTAMP:20080807T030000Z SUMMARY:"2008 Monash University Summer Vacation Employment Fair" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Phone: +61 3 990 54170; Email: info@careers.monash.edu.au
\nMonash University Employment and Career Development is inviting a broad range of organisations to promote their course-related summer employment and industry experience opportunities\, including internships\, co-operative year\, exchange\, voluntary and overseas work/travel programs at our Vacation Employment Fair.
\nMore Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/07/2008-monash-university-summer-vacation-employment-fair/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080805T070000Z DTEND: 20080805T070000Z DTSTAMP:20080805T070000Z SUMMARY:"Lecture: An Asia-Pacific Union?" DESCRIPTION:"Lecture: An Asia-Pacific Union? Geopolitics\, Geoeconomics\, and the model of the European Union
\nAlberta Sbragia is Research Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence\, European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh\, in the USA. Her area of expertise is comparative politics\, Western Europe\, comparative [...]
Monash University Open Day 2008
\n02/08 – Berwick\, Gippsland\, Parkville and Peninsula campuses.
\n03/08 – Caulfield and Clayton campuses.
More Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/08/02/monash-university-open-day-2008/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080731T030057Z DTEND:20080731T030057Z DTSTAMP:20080731T030057Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – Keys Alive" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nBeriln-based pianist Mark Kruger returns to Australia to play a program featuring music of Lutoslawski and Liszt’s Norma Fantasy\, which he will record for Naxos Records in 2009.
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/07/31/lunchtime-concert-series-keys-alive/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080717T030028Z DTEND:20080717T030028Z DTSTAMP:20080717T030028Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert Series – “Concerto!”" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Jodie Wood; Phone: +61 3 9905 3230; Email: Jodie.Wood@arts.monash.edu.au
\nDuring the first two lunchtime concerts for semester two\, witness the final of the School of Music – Conservatorium’s 2008 Concerto Competition. The winners chosen from the Keyboard\, Strings\, Voice and Woodwind heats vie for the opportunity to perform their concerto with orchestra at this [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/07/17/lunchtime-concert-series-concerto/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080716T050046Z DTEND:20080716T050046Z DTSTAMP:20080716T050046Z SUMMARY:"A Future Humanities: An International Colloquium" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Gail Ward\, Phone: +61 3 990 52208; Email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA Colloquium organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Monash University.
\nChaired by Andrew Benjamin (Monash University). Speakers: Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College)\, Catherine Malabou (Universite Paris)\, Graeme Turner (University of Queensland)\, Pauline Nestor (Monash University)\, Martin McQuillan (University of Leeds). The Colloquium will [...]
Event Inquiries: Gail Ward\, Phone: +61 3 990 52208; Email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA seminar organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Monash University.
\nChaired by: Andrew Benjamin (Monash University).
\nSpeakers: Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University)\, Howard Caygill (Goldsmith’s College)\, Elina Staikou (Goldsmith’s College)\, Tara Forrest (UTS).
\nWalter Benjamin was one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th [...]
Event Inquiries: David Griffiths\, Phone: +61 3 990 53232; Email: David.Griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au
\nConcert no. 2 in the 2008 Series Featuring guest musicians: Elizabeth Sellars – Violin Monica Curro – Violin Fiona Sargeaent – Viola along with Ensemble Liaison\, David Griffiths – Clarinet\, Sveltana Bogosavljevic -
\nCello and Timothy Young – Piano. Program: Mozart – Kegelstatt Trio k.498 [...]
Event Inquiries: Irene Thavarajah; Phone: +61 3 9905 1344; Email: irene.thavarajah@adm.monash.edu.au
\nPoetry and the Trace: An International Conference considers the theme of the trace in relation to poetry of any kind from classical antiquity to the contemporary. The conference broadly investigates the relationship between poetry\, trace and memory\, and whether collective and private pasts and subjectivities [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/07/13/poetry-and-the-trace-an-international-poetry-conference/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080704T020102Z DTEND:20080704T020102Z DTSTAMP:20080704T020102Z SUMMARY:"The popular in Spain\, Portugal and Latin America" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Marisa Cordella\, Phone: 9905 5449; Email: AILASA2008@arts.monash.edu.au.
\nOriginal 20-minute papers are sought for the VIII biennial conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia on any aspect exploring notions of the “popular” in Spain\, Portugal\, Lusophone Africa\, and Latin America.
More Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/07/04/the-popular-in-spain-portugal-and-latin-america/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080703T020005Z DTEND:20080703T020005Z DTSTAMP:20080703T020005Z SUMMARY:"Adoption in Australia: Contemporary Cultural\, Theoretical and Political Perspectives (Call for Papers)" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Ceridwen Spark\, Phone: +61 3 990 58779; Email: Ceridwen.Spark@arts.monash.edu.au
\n2 Day Symposium
\nSymposium jointly supported by the School of Political and Social Inquiry and the School of Historical Studies\, Monash University
\nConvenors: Dr Ceridwen Spark (Anthropology)\, Professor Denise Cuthbert (Sociology) and Professor Marian Quartly (History)
More Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/07/03/adoption-in-australia-contemporary-cultural-theoretical-and-political-perspectives-call-for-papers/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080616T040008Z DTEND:20080616T040008Z DTSTAMP:20080616T040008Z SUMMARY:"Dichotomies of the Visual Brain" DESCRIPTION:"Event Inquiries: Dr Jakob Hohwy\, Phone: +61 3 990 53208; Email: Jakob.Hohwy@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA Workshop on Neuroscience and Philosophy
\nPerception – what we see – is a core philosophical area of debate. It is also the focus of intense neuroscientific research. To extract the philosophical lessons of recent perceptual neuroscience\, the School of Philosophy and Bioethics [...]
For tickets call the box office on 990 51111 or visit http://www.monash.edu.au/monart
\nMedia Contact: Jodie Wood\, Administration and Events Manager
\nJodie.wood@arts.monash.edu.au 990 53230\, 0418 135 496
The Monash University School of Music – Conservatorium presents Australian Legends Jazz on 31 May\, 2008 at 8pm in the Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton Campus.
\n2008 celebrates a lifetime contribution to [...]
Sally-Anne Russell – mezzo soprano
\nDarryl Coote – piano
\nIn demand for concert work and opera both here and abroad\, mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell has had for many years an equally respected partnership in the oeuvre of art-song/Lieder with pianist Darryl Coote\, member of piano staff at Monash and partner of the Team of Pianists. Their performance [...]
Bringing digital technology to the creation of music has inspired a
\ngeneration of artists. It allows new scope and new ideas in music
\nmaking. From the beginning of surround sound and moving sound through space
\nto playing with new sounds (beautiful\, sublime\, and sometimes challenging)\,
\ntexture\, timbre\, complexity and relatedness. Staff and Students from the
\nschool improvise using the electronic [...]
Conductor\, Allison Harrigan
\nThe two premier vocal ensembles from the School of Music Conservatorium will present a concert of choral music drawn from composers from all around the world\, finishing with some home grown talent with music from Australia.
\nAdmission: $3
Event Inquiries: Gail Ward\, Phone: +61 3 990 52208; Email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA seminar organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Monash University.
\nChaired by: Andrew Benjamin (Monash University).
\nSpeakers: Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University)\, Howard Caygill (Goldsmith’s College)\, Elina Staikou (Goldsmith’s College)\, Tara Forrest (UTS).
\nWalter Benjamin was one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th [...]
Musical Director\, David Griffiths
\nThe Monash Wind Symphony is a large wind and percussion ensemble made up from students from the Monash University School of Music – Conservatorium and the wider Monash community. The MWS will present a concert of music from around the world and will feature special guest soloist\, Principal Clarinettist of the [...]
Event Inquiries: David Griffiths\, Phone: 9905 3232; Email: David.Griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au
\nConcert 1 of the 2008 Ensemble Liaison and Friends series from the BMW Edge.
\nThis program seethes with stormy passion and temperament\, opening with Rachmaninov’s dark and moody Trio Elegiaque and concluding with the Australian Premiere of Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prizewinning Tempest Fantasy.
Event Inquiries: Ron Gallagher\, Phone: +61 3 990 52146; Email: Ron.Gallagher@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA Symposium organized by Communications and Media Studies\, Monash University
\n‘I am not what I am’: Paradox and Indirect Communication\, or the Case of the Comic God and the Dramaturgical Self by Peter Murphy (Monash University)
\nAnd Who Shaves God? Inviting Paradoxes and Creativity into [...]
Sinfonia Director\, Elizabeth Sellars
\nMonash Sinfonia presents works composed in sun inspired cultures. Enjoy melody and joie de vivre from Italy\, Argentina and Australia in a program featuring “Two Tangos” by Piazzolla\, Rossini’s “String Sonata No. 1″ and Meale’s ” Cantilena Pacifica”.
\nAdmission: $3
Event Inquiries: Lillian Kline\, Phone: 9020769; Email: Lillian.Kline@arts.monash.edu.au
\nA panel marking the extraordinary coincidence that this year\, the commemoration of three significant tragic historic events\, fall within the same week – the Shoah\, the Armenian Genocide and ANZAC day.
\nPanelists are:
Professor Peter Balaikan\, guest of the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee
\nProfessor Leah Garrett \,Loti [...]
Musical Director\, Sam Evans
\nPerforming modern multicultural Australian music\, as well as traditional music from around the world\, this 24-piece ensemble has created its own style by mixing a variety of musical traditions with modern instrumentation.
\nAdmission: $3
Fresh from their recent tour of Japan\, Tristram Williams and Michael Fowler present a recital of vivid colour\, intriguing contrast\, and astonishing skill. Program to include such works as Bach’s G minor Flute sonata\, and Berio’s Sequenza X.
\nAdmission: $3
In 2007\, the Monash-School of Music Conservatorium continued to provide a
\ndynamic and stimulating environment for emerging musical talent. This
\nLunchtime concert features performances by undergraduate students who were
\namongst the highest achievers for their exams at the end of last year.
\nJoin us in this celebration of musical talent.
\nAdmission: $3
Inquiries: Email: reception@shrine.org.au Phone: 9654 8415
\nRefreshments provided\, admission is free.
Join Australia’s leading scholars of war and memory for the launch of a new edition of Ken Inglis’ multi-award winning work.
\nExplore the meaning of Australia’s war memorials with:
Bill Gammage: author of The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
\nHank Nelson: author of Chased by the [...]
Mark Mogelivski – Violin
\nElena Mogelivski – Piano
\nThe prize winning Mogilevski duo present Schnittke’s “Suite in the Old Style”\, and the Two Preludes and the Violin and Piano Sonata by
\nShostakovitch. A rare insight into these Russian masterpieces by twooutstanding Russian performers.
\nAdmission: $3
Praised for the beauty of her tone and the depth of her interpretations\,
\nUkranian-Australian pianist Sonya Lifschitz explores the spiritual depths
\nof Johannes Brahms and eclectic and volatile soundscape of Elena
\nKats-Chernin’s. The concert will also feature guest artists Tamara Smolyar
\nand Mikhail Solovei in Arutiunian/Babadjanian’s exotic “Armenian Rhapsody”.
\nAdmission: $3
02 / 05 / 2008
\n09 : 00 am
\nThe Koorie Heritage Trust
\nEvent Inquiries: Jane Lydon\, Phone: +61 3 990 51658; Email: Jane.Lydon@arts.monash.edu.au
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for this conference at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cais/ A growing body of postcolonial research has established the importance of visual imagery in creating and popularizing ideas about race [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/03/20/visual-cultures-and-colonialism-indigeneity-in-local-and-transnational-imagery-5/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080320T002548Z DTEND:20080320T002548Z DTSTAMP:20080320T002548Z SUMMARY:"Visual Cultures and Colonialism: Indigeneity in Local and Transnational Imagery" DESCRIPTION:"01 / 05 / 2008 to 03 / 05 / 2008
\nThe Koorie Heritage Trust 295 King Street\, Melbourne.
\nInquiries: Email cais@arts.monash.edu.au Phone: 9905 4200
A growing body of postcolonial research has established the importance of visual imagery in creating and popularizing ideas about race and cultural difference. Visual representation of Indigenous peoples circulated from local to transnational [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/03/20/visual-cultures-and-colonialism-indigeneity-in-local-and-transnational-imagery-2/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080316T000056Z DTEND:20080316T000056Z DTSTAMP:20080316T000056Z SUMMARY:"Darfur Now: A Symposium on the Genocide in Darfur" DESCRIPTION:"Monash University Caulfield Campus Building H Exhibition Space
\n Event Inquiries: Lillian Kline\, Phone: N/A ; Email: Lillian.Kline@arts.monash.edu.au
A symposium on the genocide in Darfur. Professor Yehuda Bauer\, an internationally renowned scholar in genocide studies and adviser to the United Nations on genocide prevention will lead the synposium. The program in Holocaust and Genocide [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/03/16/darfur-now-a-symposium-on-the-genocide-in-darfur/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080313T030035Z DTEND:20080313T030035Z DTSTAMP:20080313T030035Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert – Singapore Polytechnic" DESCRIPTION:"The Singapore Polytechnic Electro Acoustic Ensemble specialises in
\ncombining traditional folk music and free improvisation with experimental
\nelectronic performance techniques. The ensemble combines traditional Chinese
\nand western instruments\, such as flute\, saxophone\, di zi\, and gu zheng\,
\nwith home made electronic\, electro acoustic and software instruments.
\nTime: Lunchtime – 1.10pm sharp (Doors open at 1pm\, no admission after 1.10pm)
\nWhere: Music [...]
12 / 03 / 2008
\n 11 : 00 am
\n Room K/K321\, Caulfield campus
\n Event Inquiries: Usha Manchanda Rodrigues\, Phone: +61 3 990 34052 ; Email: Usha.Rodrigues@arts.monash.edu.au
Award winning war correspondent\, Jon Stephenson\, who is a guest the Translation and Interpreting Studies Program at Monash University\, will speak to International Journalism students [...]
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/03/12/status-of-foreign-affairs-reporting/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080306T030042Z DTEND:20080306T030042Z DTSTAMP:20080306T030042Z SUMMARY:"Lunchtime Concert – Sounds for guitar and drums" DESCRIPTION:"Stephen Magnusson is regarded as one of the most accomplished\, distinctive
\nand versatile guitarists in Australia\, with incredible technique and
\nastoundingly beautiful tone. MAG duo features two highly regarded
\nAustralian Improvising musicians: Stephen Magnusson – Guitar\, Dave Beck -
\nDrums. These two-gifted instrumentalists will perform a series of
\nimprovised pieces based on themes by Magnusson.
\nTime: Lunchtime – 1.10pm sharp [...]
The 2008 Lunchtime Concert Series begins with a celebration of French
\ncomposer Olivier Messiaen’s centenary of birth. Acclaimed Monash staff\,
\nElizabeth Sellars (violin)\, David Griffiths (clarinet)\, Molly
\nKadarauch(cello)\, Kenji Fujimura(piano) perform the monumental Quartet for
\nthe End of Time.
\nTime: Lunchtime – 1.10pm sharp (Doors open at 1pm\, no admission after 1.10pm)
\nWhere: Music Auditorium\, School of Music – Conservatorium\, Building [...]
Sinfonia Director\, Elizabeth Sellars
\nMonash Sinfonia presents works composed in sun inspired cultures. Enjoy
\nmelody and joie de vivre from Italy\, Argentina and Australia in
\na program featuring “Two Tangos” by Piazzolla\, Rossini’s “String Sonata
\nNo. 1″ and Meale’s ” Cantilena Pacifica”.
\nTime: Lunchtime – 1.10pm sharp (Doors open at 1pm\, no admission after 1.10pm)
\nWhere: Music Auditorium\, School of [...]
Sinfonia Director\, Elizabeth Sellars
\nMonash Sinfonia presents works composed in sun inspired cultures. Enjoy
\nmelody and joie de vivre from Italy\, Argentina and Australia in
\na program featuring “Two Tangos” by Piazzolla\, Rossini’s “String Sonata
\nNo. 1″ and Meale’s ” Cantilena Pacifica”.
\nTime: Lunchtime – 1.10pm sharp (Doors open at 1pm\, no admission after 1.10pm)
\nWhere: Music Auditorium\, School of [...]
14 / 02 / 2008
\n04 : 00 pm
\nJapanese Studies Centre\, Building 54
\nEvent Inquiries: Alison Tokita\, Phone: +61 3 990 52275; Email: Alison.Tokita@arts.monash.edu.au
Dear Colleagues and Friends
\nYou are cordially invited to an Asian New Year celebration to mark
\nthe beginning of the Year of the Rat. This will take place on Thursday
\nFebruary 14th\, from 4:00-5:30 pm at [...]
1888 Building\, University of Melbourne
\nEvent Inquiries: Eras Journal\, Phone: N/A ; Email: Eras@arts.monash.edu.au
\nEras Journal and the Melbourne Historical Journal are jointly organising an inter-disciplinary symposium to mark the 40th anniversary of the dramatic events of 1968. The symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in the historical\, political and social analyses [...]
Closing date for tour payment is 14th September 2007
\nEvent Inquiries: Alison Tokita\, Phone: 03 990 52275; Email: Alison.Tokita@arts.monash.edu.au
An eclectic Japanese cultural tour encompassing the modern\, the kitsch & the traditional.
\nMore Info
\n" URL;VALUE=URI:http://arts.monash.edu.au/blogs/events/2008/01/08/touring-japanese-culture-january-2008-2/ ORGANIZER:admin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20050207T050800Z DTEND:20050207T050800Z DTSTAMP:20050207T050800Z SUMMARY:"PhD Scholarship" DESCRIPTION:"United Nations and Muslim Grievances
\nA PhD scholarship is made available as part of a large project funded by the Australian Research Council. The chief investigator and supervisor of the PhD project is Dr Shahram Akbarzadeh at the School of Political and Social Inquiry\, Monash University (Clayton).
\nThe PhD project will investigate principals and [...]