News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
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.
Travel in Atomic Sunshine
Robin Gerster’s book Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan has won the prestigious New South Wales Premier’s Australian History Prize for 2009. The prize was awarded by the NSW Premier the Hon Nathan Rees at a dinner in Sydney on 27 October.
Travels in Atomic Sunshine is published by Scribe Publications, 2008.
Anzac Beach, Gallipoli 1915 (from Australian War Memorial Collection)
Interested in studying abroad as part of your Monash degree?
Want to visit Anzac Cove and walk in the footsteps of legends?
In 2010, the National Centre for Australian Studies is offering three $3,500 scholarships to take you to Gallipoli and then on to our historic campus in Prato, Italy. You can earn 12 points towards your degree and also be eligible for further Monash subsidies.
To be eligible for the scholarships you need to complete (or have completed) any of the Australian Studies units offered on our Clayton Campus. If you complete AUS1060 Australian Idol or AUS2001/3001: Broken Earth: Journeys through the Australian Landscape in Semester 1, 2010, you are also eligible for the Monash Gallipoli Travelling Scholarship.
For further information on how to apply view NCAS Monash-Gallipoli Prize 2010.
Travel in Atomic Sunshine
Robin Gerster’s book, Travels in Atomic Sunshine: The Australian Occupation of Japan has been shortlisted, in a group of three, for the 2009 NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize.
Travels in Atomic Sunshine was also shortlisted earlier this year for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.
Travels in Atomic Sunshine is published by Scribe Publications, 2008.
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, who recently completed her PhD in History in the School of Historical Studies, is a joint winner of the Australian Historical Association-Copyright Agency Limited Postgraduate Essay Prize for 2009. Lisa’s essay, ‘Beating Around (In) the Bush: Corporal Punishment and Moral Reform at Hermannsburg Mission in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia’, will be published in History Australia.
The citation for Lisa’s essay reads, “This article provides a subtle, astute analysis of the relationship between corporal punishment and the practices of Lutheran missionaries in Australia, most particularly those of Carl and Freida Strehlow’s Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia. Conceptually rich and making careful, probing use of archival sources, the author traces the interdependence between Lutheran proselytisation, an ostensibly benevolent patriarchal mode of missionary authority, and the mutually reinforcing tendency of this ‘protectionist agenda’ and practices of ‘indigenous male violence’ among the Aranda and Loritja people. In insisting that ‘the image of the missionary and his whip deserves a closer look’, and mining mission records for the gendered impact and legitimacy accorded to abuse within cultures fostered by the missions, the author has brought a powerful new dimension to themes in Australian Indigenous history, and a offered a perspective with considerable resonances in contemporary debates.”
Chloe Brien
The Monash poetry prize for undergraduate students has been awarded to Chloe Brien for her quirky and sensuous love poem Salivary.
More News about Gary Bouma
Press Release
The Australasian Theological Forum (ATF) Ltd awards an annual prize for outstanding theological books published in the area of Christian theology in the past year. Recently it announced the recipients of the 2007 prize for books published in 2006.
Rev Dr Paul Babie, Associate Dean of Law (Research) at the University of Adelaide Law School, Priest of the Eparchy for Ukrainian Catholics of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, and Chair of the Board of Directors of ATF Ltd, announced the winners at the ATF Office in Adelaide on 2 May 2008.
Rev Dr Babie said that ‘the criteria used by the panel of judges require that a book be well-written, of international standard, and that it be challenging and constitute an original contribution to its field of theology.’
‘In awarding its prize the ATF aims to recognise and encourage theological work of real quality in Australia and New Zealand’, Rev Dr Babie said.
Professor Emeritus Gary D Bouma has been awarded the first prize for 2008 for his book Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century, published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Bouma is an Anglican Priest and Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University and the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations, Asia Pacific.
In awarding the prize, Rev Dr Babie said that ‘Professor Bouma’s research has primarily focussed on the interaction between religion and society in Western societies including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. His current work includes a major study of religious plurality in multicultural Australia making strategic comparisons with other societies and an attempt to delineate Australia’s religious institutions and continuing work on Post-Modernity as a context for interfaith dialogue and theological reflection. In Australian Soul, Professor Bouma challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline, arguing instead that far from petering out, religion and spirituality are thriving. This makes a very important contribution to contemporary political and social dialogue.’
Rev Dr Babie also announced the second prize, highly commending Aloysius Rego, OCD, of the Discalced Carmelite Friars in Victoria, for Suffering and Salvation: The salvific meaning of suffering in the later theology of Edward Schillebeeckx, published by Peeters Press and WB Eerdmans. Rev Dr Babie said that ‘Fr Rego’s book is a challenging and significant work exploring the deeper questions of God’s role in suffering and salvation through the lens of Edward Schillebeeckx’s later theology. The project ultimately builds a contemporary soteriology.’
Further information:
Mr Hilary Regan
ATF Press
0411 876 099
The joint winners of the 2004 Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Publication Prize for best publication are:
Dr Adrian Schober for the book “Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film”, published by Palgrave MacMillan. The book arose out of Adrian’s PhD thesis “Contrary states: possessed child narratives in literature and film” for which Adrian was awarded his PhD degree on 20th of March 2003. Adrian was nominated for the prize by his supervisor, Dr Heather Scutter; and
Mr Simon Burgess for his publication “The Newcomb Problem: an unqualified resolution”, published in ‘Synthese’ vol. 128. The article arose out of Simon’s research for his PhD thesis, “An evaluation of the consequentiality account of rightness”. Simon was nominated for the prize by his supervisor Dr Dirk Baltzly.
Both winners will receive a cheque for $1,000!
Rights for Aborigines
Associate Professor Bain Attwood won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize for his book ‘Rights for Aborigines’ . His research has been described as breaking new ground in documenting the close relationship that developed between Indigenous political leaders, white activists and humanitarians on both sides in the struggle against racial discrimination. Read the rest of this entry »
Car Wars
Professor Graeme Davison from School of Historical Studies won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for his book ‘Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities’. He has been described as Australia’s most imaginative social historian. Read the rest of this entry »
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