Arts Faculty News

Guibin Zhang joined Monash University as a PhD scholarship student in April 2003 having previously completed a Masters degree at the SWUFE University in Chengdu, Sichuan province, western China.

Mass Deception! declared Yvonne Ridley, an acclaimed British journalist, regarding America ’s War on Terror. The freelance journalist delivered a lecture on media & the war on terror in Berwick campus recently as part of lectures given in Melbourne . Read the rest of this entry »

PhD candidate from the Monash Asia Institute, Marlia Puteh, is working on a thesis about “Malaysian Universities and implementing e-learning strategies”. Two papers based on this work have been presented at Australian and international conferences recently. Read the rest of this entry »

Monash PhD Music candidate, Anthony Pateras has had two of his composition selected for the International Guadeamus Music Week 2004 in Amsterdam. Read the rest of this entry »

Stephen Lay, who recently completed his PhD in History, has won the Romanzi Award for a 30,000-word essay on the interpretation of the Magna Charta Universitatum. The presentation was made in Bologna by the President of the European University Association, in the presence of scholars from around Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Anthony Pateras gets honourable mention at Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam.

With the death of Herb Feith in an accident on November 15, 2001 Australia lost one of its great humanitarians and its most distinguished student of modern Indonesia.

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A UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Inter-religious Relations for the Asia Pacific region is being established within the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash.

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Faculty of Arts research has found that lack of recognition is a key contributor to Australias falling birthrate.

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Associate Professor Bain Attwood won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize for his book ‘Rights for Aborigines’ . His research has been described as breaking new ground in documenting the close relationship that developed between Indigenous political leaders, white activists and humanitarians on both sides in the struggle against racial discrimination. Read the rest of this entry »

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