News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Academy’s first performance for the year
An Honours graduate ensemble from Monash University’s Academy of Performing Arts has plunged into the richness of the literary classics for their first show for 2008.
Emma Nicholls receives the Sir John Monash Medal
The Sir John Monash Medal for Outstanding Achievement was awarded to Emma Nicholls, a Historical Studies student this week. This was the first time any faculty has awarded this medal. Five Arts students also received Certificates of Commendation at the presentation.
Dr Carlo Salzani
Dr Carlo Salzani has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
Dr Salzani completed a PhD in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies on ‘Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality’ in 2007.
The fellowships are offered world-wide on a competitive basis. The most important criteria for selection are the applicant’s publications and the quality and feasibility of their research proposal. This is the second Humboldt Fellowship to have been awarded to a Centre graduate in the last three years.
Lianne Gordon
Monash’s Lianne Gordon immersed herself in the local culture and experienced first hand how Monash’s host universities operate on a recent visit to China.
Music conservatorium students.
Twenty-six jazz and popular music students from the Monash University School of Music Conservatorium had the time of their lives on a recent trip to the Monash Prato Centre in Italy.
Dean Rae Frances and Kate Burridge
This week the Dean of Arts Professor Rae Frances awarded six academic staff with media engagement commendations. The commendation recipients were: Waleed Aly, Colleen Lewis, Craig De Wilde, Nick Economou, Paul Strangio and Dave Wright-Neville. Kate Burridge (pictured here with Professor Francis) received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Media Engagement, in part, for her role on the ABCTV’s show ‘Can We Help?’
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