Arts Faculty News

Dr Anna Eriksson from Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, has been awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology New Scholar Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded each year for the best publication in criminology or a related area.

The article for which the prize was awarded, ‘Challenging Cultures of Violence through Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland’, was published in Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, 2008.

Dr Eriksson will next be exploring the latest developments around restorative justice and policing in Northern Ireland through a Travelling Fellowship with Kings College London. This research builds on her book Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, published in June this year.

During her time with Kings College Dr Eriksson will also be working on a major project titled Penal excess and penal exceptionalism: contrasts in imprisonment between Anglophone (England, New Zealand and New South Wales representing Australia) and Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden and Finland) societies. This is a collaborative project with Professor John Pratt from Victoria University Wellington. The project explores why prison rates and prison conditions, although very similar in the immediate post 1945 period, now differ so much between these two clusters of societies.

As well as collaborating with the International Centre for Prison Studies at King’s College London and other relevant research centres at the Law School, she has also been invited as a guest researcher at Gothenburg University where she will spend August before beginning her Travelling Fellowship in September.

Further information on the Criminology program.

Further information on Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, Willan Publishing.

Dean's Teaching Awards 2009

On Thursday 4 June a ceremony was held at the Monash Staff Club to recognise excellence in teaching within the Arts Faculty. These awards were determined by student feedback in unit evaluations and nominations from schools within the faculty.

The recipients of the Dean’s Teaching Awards in the Faculty of Arts for 2009 are:

• Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics—Classical Studies)
• Robert Peacock and Jaco Barkhuizen (Arts South Africa—Criminology and Criminal Justice)

The following were highly commended in the Dean’s Teaching Awards for 2009:

• Keith Wilson (School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences)
• Mark Davis (School of Political and Social Inquiry—Sociology)
• David Garrioch (Historical Studies)
• Paul Thomas (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics—Indonesian Studies)
• Michael Coe (ECPS—Drama and Theatre Studies)
• Tony Gould (School of Music — Conservatorium)
• Jonathan Brown (Geography and Environmental Science)
• Bruce Missingham (Geography and Environmental Science)
• Ashley Gunter (Arts South Africa—Geography and Environmental Science)
• Robert Sparrow (School of Philosophy & Bioethics)

The recipients of the Dean’s Sessional Teaching Awards for Semester 1, 2009 are:

• Robert Kelly (School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences—National Centre for Australian Studies)
• Kate Seear (School of Political and Social Inquiry—Sociology)
• Sasha Rodricks (Geography and Environmental Science)
• Loris Synan (School of Music — Conservatorium)
• Meighen Katz (History Studies—International Studies)
• Caroline Trousseau (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics—French Studies)
• Nicholas Eliopoulos (School of Philosophy & Bioethics).

The recipients of the Dean’s Sessional Teaching Awards for Semester 2, 2008 are:

• Kim Edwards (School of English, Communications & Performance Studies)
• Rina Lahav (School of Historical Studies)
• Michele Lobo (School of Geography & Environmental Science)
• Stephen Magnusson (School of Music — Conservatorium)
• Michael McGann (School of Philosophy & Bioethics)
• Aja Smith (Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies)
• Cathy Trembath (School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences)
• Edward Yates (School of Political & Social Inquiry)
• Naoto Yokomizo (School of Languages Cultures & Linguistics)

Award Winner Photos

Monash Arts has been awarded three new ARC Linkage Grants in the latest funding round for the following projects:

Staging Sappho: investigating new methodologies in Classical Performance Reception

Researchers

• Dr Jane Griffith, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
• Professor Andrew Benjamin, Centre for Comparative Literature
• and Cultural Studies
• Professor Simon Goldhill, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
• Mr Stephen  Armstrong, Malthouse Theatre
• Michael Kantor, Malthouse Theatre
• Ms Maryanne Lynch, Malthouse Theatre
• Ms Christina Potts, Bell Shakespeare Company
• Prof Edith Hall, Royal Holloway University of London
• Dr Margaret Reynolds, Queen Mary University of London
• Prof Lorna Hardwick, Open University

Partner organisation

• Malthouse Theatre

Project summary

This project will integrate theories of Classical reception and textual transmission with performance theory and practice. As such, it will further the knowledge base of the discipline of Classical Reception Studies by introducing a new methodology to the field, and will also benefit the community in terms of cultural engagement.

Gough Whitlam: A Living Democracy

Researcher

• Professor Jenny Hocking, National Centre for Australian Studies

Partner organisations

• National Library of Australia
• National Archives of Australia

Project summary

This project will contribute to knowledge of a significant public figure, the former Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, his government and his life after politics. This second volume of the Whitlam biography will complete the definitive, contemporary, biographical study of him. It will create an original store of knowledge through its extensive interviews with key individuals including Gough Whitlam that will augment the Oral History collection held by the National Library of Australia. The project will also generate a unique multimedia platform for researchers to access digitized research materials repurposed through the Whitlam section of the Prime Ministers website with the National Archives of Australia.

Radicalisation, Counter Radicalisation, and De Radicalisation: Developing a New Understanding of Terrorism in the Australian Context

Researchers

• Associate Professor David Wright-Neville, School of Political and Social Inquiry
• Dr Peter Lentini, School of Political and Social Inquiry
• Dr Simon Moss, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
• Dr Gaetano Ilardi, Victoria Police

Partner organisations

• Department of Premier & Cabinet
• Victoria Police
• Australian Federal Police
• Department of Justice

Project summary

Concentrating on the unique drivers of extremism within Victoria (and Australia), the study will enhance counter terrorism stakeholders’ understanding of domestic radicalisation.

This will assist in designing policies appropriate for Australian circumstances that can:

• pre-empt, prevent and detect radicalisation without jeopardising social cohesion
• reduce Australia’s reliance on overseas counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation models, where practitioners confront different community dynamics.

Working towards understanding what causes radicalization in Australia, the project offers to enhance national security and by addressing local circumstances carries the prospect of creating more cost-efficient counter terrorism practices.

Marjorie Barnard

Associate Professor Maryanne Dever (Women’s Studies) is a recipient of a 2009 Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia Fellowship. The Fellowships, now in their third year, enable scholars to stay in home of the celebrated historian while conducting research in Canberra.

Manning Clark House, designed by Robin Boyd in 1952, is the house where Manning and Dymphna Clark lived and worked from 1953 until their deaths in 1991 and 2000 respectively. Manning Clark’s roof top study, where the six volumes of A History of Australia and his other works were written, remains much as it was when the Clarks lived in the house.

While in Canberra, Associate Professor Dever is working on an edition of letters from the writer, Marjorie Barnard, to the influential critic Nettie Palmer. Barnard is perhaps best known for her collaborative novels written with Flora Eldershaw and her collection of short stories, The Persimmon Tree (1943). The letters, held in the National Library, date from the 1930s to the 1960s and provide unparalleled insights into Barnard’s developing career, her successes as a fiction writer and her later disappointments in the face of an increasingly indifferent reading public and a hostile Cold War political culture. Barnard’s letters are also valuable for the insights they offer into the negotiations and compromises that single, university-educated women of that day were required to make in pursuit of their professional ambitions.

More information about Manning Clark House Fellowships is available from the Manning Clarke House website.

Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research

East and West together: Twenty years after the fall of communism in Europe—Young Researchers’ Conference is to be held in Melbourne, Wednesday 23 September 2009.

A conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers with research focus on contemporary Europe.

Call for papers deadline: 31 July 2009

Topics may include:

• Political, economic, social and cultural transition of Central and Eastern European states.
• Common challenges (for both Western and Eastern states): gas, energy, migration, tackling climate change, terrorism, corruption, etc.
• Relations between East and West, perceptions of the East in the West and the West in the East.
• European relations with third countries.

Presenters should allow 20 minutes for their papers and 10 minutes for questions.

Abstracts of up to 250 words, affiliation and contact details should be submitted via email to: Eva.Polonska@general.monash.edu.au.

Organised by the Monash European and EU Centre.

Floriana Badalotti’s translation of the play Yanagai! Yanagai! (Currency Press, 2003), by Aboriginal playwright Andrea James, has recently been published in Italy.

Yanagai is the Yorta Yorta word that confronted the uninvited intrusion of the first white people seeking passage through Yorta Yorta territory in the early nineteenth century. It empathically means ‘go away’, but its underlying meaning, in accordance with traditional law, is that before you enter you first need to seek permission under the appropriate cultural protocols.” (Dr. Wayne Atkinson, Yorta Yorta elder, from Elder’s Introduction). James wrote the play in response to a 1998 Australian court decision that denied recognition of the native Yorta Yorta people and their claim to their ancestral land.

Floriana, who is currently studying towards a PhD in Translation Studies at Monash, translated Yanagai! Yanagai! as final project in the Master of Translation Studies which she completed in 2007. She submitted the translation to the 2008 Paths of Culture Translation Prize, it was judged the winning entry and has now been published by IPOC Press (Milan).

More about Translation and Interpreting Studies

The recordings of first and second year students from the School of Music – Conservatorium Jazz Studies program are now available on a new CD, ‘Sound Series 2008′.

In 2008, the students performed concerts at many venues including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and Paris Cat Jazz Club. The culmination of these performances was the recording and releasing of the CD. The production of the CD was an important part of the learning process, industry experience and the documentation of the student’s development.

Copies of the ‘Sound Series 2008′ CD are available from Jazzhead.

5th Symposium on Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis and Cultural Diversity: Conversations in the Melting Pot
20 November 2009
Monash University
Clayton Campus

Call for papers deadline: 11 September 2009

We would like to invite abstracts and proposals of no more than 250 words. We expect to provide notification of acceptance by the first week of October 2009.

Abstracts should include: Title, Author’s Full Name/Names, Affiliations and Addresses, Email Address, Fax, and Telephone.

The abstract or proposal may be submitted via post, fax or email to the Symposium Convenor:

Dr Marisa Cordella

School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
Monash University, Clayton VIC, 3800

Telephone: +61 3 9905 5449
Email: Marisa.Cordella@arts.monash.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9905 5437

Venue

Australian Catholic University, Melbourne City Campus
Room 5.29
115 Victoria Parade
Fitzroy

10:00am–3:30pm Friday 12 June
An Adoption Research Seminar and Roundtable

Perspectives on local and inter-country adoption: Canada, US and Australia.

Speakers include:

• Dr Karen Balcom, McMaster University in Canada
• Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University
• Denise Cuthbert, Monash University

10:30am–4:00pm Saturday 13 June
Travelling Transcultural Adoptee Films (TTAF) Tour

Short films on adoption screening as part of the TTAF tour, plus a reading of a new play, Umbilical, by Dominic Hong Duc Golding.

This event is proudly brought to you by Monash Arts, in collaboration with the Australian Catholic University and the Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network.

Note: Seats at this event are strictly limited. Please contact Amy at amy.pollard@arts.monash.edu.au to reserve your place.

Monash Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel AM is calling on his fellow Monash alumni to participate in the University’s first online alumni philanthropy campaign. The Monash+ alumni philanthropy campaign is focused on student support.

“I believe it is vital we give back to the University that was the foundation of our careers,” said Dr Finkel.

“Monash students have amazing potential. The young people who are currently studying at Monash will shape the future of Australia and the world. Your financial support will help them to achieve their potential.”

With his wife, alumna Dr Elizabeth Finkel, Alan Finkel has philanthropically supported Monash research into global health, sustainability, and child abuse prevention, as well as scholarships for engineering PhD students.

In the alumni philanthropy campaign, each faculty has chosen one priority initiative that will help students lead, achieve and succeed.  The Faculty of Arts priority is the Faculty of Arts Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes Program.

The Faculty of Arts Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes Program will give scholarships to high achieving undergraduate and postgraduate students, bursaries for disadvantaged students, and prizes for top students in particular subjects and courses.

To participate, visit the alumni philanthropy website.