News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Professor Graham Oppy and Associate Professor Karen Green, from the School of Philosophy and Bioethics were elected to the Australian Academy of Humanities at the recent annual general meeting held in Canberra on 21 November.
The Modern Language Association’s 2010 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature has been awarded to three Monash academics:
The prize was received for their work on The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan.
The German Studies Program is delighted to announce the successful completion of the 2009 DAAD scholarship round. The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) has announced that Monash German Studies students have been awarded a total of fourteen scholarships in the two categories open to undergraduate students.
Further information can be found on the German Studies site.
Professor Margaret Kartomi, from the School of Music – Conservatorium, has been awarded an Australia Research Council grant for a 3-year project entitled ‘Female body percussion music as a contribution to cultural identity in western Aceh before and after the conflict and tsunami’.
This is the pioneering project on an unstudied but widely practised mode of music and dance in the world: female body percussion. The fieldwork locale is western Aceh, which recently experienced prolonged war and the tragic tsunami. The project aims to analyse the techniques and social functions of the body percussion genres, examine change caused by the conflict and tsunami, and develop the first theory of the functions of female body percussion. Research outcomes include archival deposits of audio-visual recordings, three refereed articles, an edited book on cross-cultural comparative body percussion, two book chapters, and a PhD thesis.
View Monash Magazine article ‘Taking Notes‘ for further information on Professor Kartomi’s research.
Joseph Gelfer recently featured on the ABC Radio National show The Spirit of Things. The show was the latest in a series about the Seven Deadly Sins and was focused on Envy. A podcast of the show can be downloaded from the ABC’s The Spirit of Things site.
Joseph Gelfer is an Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.
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