Arts Faculty News

The CJRC is calling for new members. The Consortium is a successful semi-virtual network of participants united by an interest in criminal justice, drawn a range of faculties of Monash University. The CJRC operates collegially, addressing its objectives by facilitating interaction internally and externally. It supports and enhances criminal justice-related research activities across the university. Successful past events of the CJRC have included a ’speed dating’ workshop to increase knowledge of members’ research interests, and seminars on topics such as mental health law and the Victorian Charter of Human Rights. The CJRC also facilitates cross-disciplinary grant applications and co-supervision of HDR students. The CJRC is led by an Executive Committee comprised of representatives from each faculty of Monash University represented in its membership base. The Executive Committee has established an Advisory Committee, whose membership includes representatives from interested government and non-government organisations at both the state and federal level. It is chaired by the Honourable John Coldrey QC. To become a member of the CJRC, please contact Katie Barnett, Executive Officer by phone +61 3 990 34965 or email Katie.Barnett@med.monash.edu.au.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, author Professor Jenny Hocking, publisher Louise Adler, Gough & Margaret Whitlam

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched Professor Jenny Hocking’s new book, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, volume one of a two part biography of Gough Whitlam, on 6 November. Gough Whitlam, Margaret Whitlam and Justice Michael Kirby were among the guests entertained by the Prime Minister’s address in the Jubilee Room of NSW Parliament House.

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The iconic female: goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett

The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: a mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, a divine lover, a protector and/or a bloodthirsty ogress. The more we discover about her, the more teasingly complex and multivalent the Devi appears. She is both constant and changing, loved and feared, worshipped and forgotten only to be re-discovered and worshipped.

In this book, for the first time, ten Australian researchers working on many aspects of the Devi have come together and offered, in a single collection, new research on the divine female. This book is the beginning of a renewed quest for the iconic Devi who continues to emerge in her many, unpredictably powerful forms.

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Dean Professor Rae Frances at the opening of the Monash UPI Centre.

At a ceremony  on the 20th October, the Dean of Arts, Professor Rae Frances, joined the Rector of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI), Professor Sunaryo Kartadinaya and Mr Michael Bliss, Minister Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, to open the Monash-UPI Centre for Australian Studies.

Located at the Bandung campus of UPI, the Centre will provide a focus for the new Australian Studies masters program being developed with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash, and will also serve as a point of introduction and orientation to students interested in studying other areas at Monash.

Also pictured is Dr Basoeki Koesasi who played a key role in the negotiations leading up to the establishment of the Centre.