News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Kate Burridge
Keeping pace with the chaos of a living language has become a life-long passion for Monash linguist Professor Kate Burridge.
More new words are being created today than in any other period in the rich history of the English language.
Congratulations to Monash students Kristian Rodd and James Kett, who have both received scholarships to study in China for their performance at the recent final of the Chinese Bridge competition held in China. 110 competitors from 55 countries participated in a demanding final round, which required students to complete a range of tasks in Chinese language including written examinations, interviews, artistic performances, speeches, role-playing and debates.
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.
Marc Orlando
Congratulations to Marc Orlando, recipient of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators award for “Excellence in Translating”. The award recognises outstanding performance in translating and is open to all practitioners in the government and private sectors across Australia.
Marc received the award for his translation into French of “War Zone — A Reporter’s Story”, an 11,000 word magazine feature article on the war in Iraq by New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson. The original article, which needed to be translated into French in order to compete in an international journalism prize, won the prestigious Bayeux International Prize for War Correspondents in 2006.
Marc has recently joined the School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics in the areas of French and Translation Studies.
Monash European and EU Centre
The Monash European and EU Centre held the first in a series of EU Presidency Lectures on 9 October with a public address by the Ambassador of Portugal, His Excellency Mr Antonio Mendes, entitled “Portugal, the European Union and Australia”.
Prof Marko Pavlyshyn, Mr Peter Mainwaring, Prof Rae Frances, Dr Heather Bowe, Mr John Linskins and Dr Keith Allan
Edith Lahr was a mature-age student when she signed up to take the Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics through Open Learning in 1996.
Dr. Dimitris Vardoulakis
Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis — who teaches philosophy and literature in Monash University’s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics — has been awarded an Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship to conduct Research in Germany next year.
The 2005 recipients of the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision were Dr Heather Bowe from the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and Professor Graham Oppy from the Philosophy section of the School of Philosophy and Bioethics. Both Dr Bowe’s and Professor Oppy’s nominations came with glowing reports from their students, past and present.
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