News
- Australia Day honours 2012
- ARC successes
- Hawke helps
- Bob Hawke Postgraduate Scholarship
- CSAA Annual Conference 2011
- New PhD graduates
- Awards and recognition for Hawke researchers
Australia Day honours 2012
Congratulations to Prof Rhonda Sharp, affiliate member of the Hawke, who has been awarded an AM 'for service to education as an academic and researcher, to the study of economics, and to women'. Congratulations also to Emeritus Professor Alan Reid, another of our affiliate members, for his AM for 'service to education as an academic and researcher, particularly through contributions to the development of state and national curriculum policy, and to professional associations'.
ARC successes
Congratulations to these Hawke researchers who have won ARC grants, announced in November 2011.
- Prof Elspeth Probyn (with Dr Brenda Croft) 'Still in my mind: Gurindji experience, location and visuality', ARC Discovery Indigenous grant
- Assoc Prof Rob Hattam and Prof Barbara Comber (with Assoc Prof Debra Hayes), 'Educational leadership and turnaround literacy pedagogy', ARC Linkage grant, partner organisation: SA Department of Education and Children's Services
- Professor Ed Carson (and others, administered by Deakin University), 'A model of sex offender registration, monitoring and risk management', ARC Discovery grant.
These ARC Linkage grants were announced in May 2011:
- Professor Barbara Pocock, 'A study of flexibilities that enable workforce participation and skill development and use, and their implications for work-life outcomes in Australia'. Linkage grant 2011–2015. Partner organisations: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration, SafeWork SA.
- Dr Barbara Spears (and others, grant administered by Queensland University of Technology), 'A legally informed intervention for schools to prevent and intervene in cases of cyberbullying'. Partner organisations: Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association Queensland Chapter, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Emil Ford and Co, Macrossans Lawyers, Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association, Queensland Independent Education Union of Employees, Queensland Teachers Union of Employees.
Hawke helps
The Hawke Research Institute is providing placements for PhD students to help them finish their thesis and for PhD graduates wanting to publish from their thesis, and funds for early career researchers interested in hosting seminars or attending a writing retreat, and for teaching release fellowships.
See our Hawke helps page.
Bob Hawke Postgraduate Scholarship
The Bob Hawke Postgraduate Scholarship, funded by donations to the Hawke Centre, honours Prime Minister Bob Hawke's legacy by supporting excellent PhD research that draws upon the extensive collections of the centre's Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, and other national collections of relevance. The Bob Hawke Scholarship supports postgraduate research into international and domestic policy development and governance during the Hawke era, and their impact upon Australia's future directions. The scholarship includes a living allowance for three years at the equivalent rate to an APA scholarship.
CSAA Annual Conference 2011: Cultural ReOrientations and Comparative Colonialities
22–24 November, City West Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide
The International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding (the MnM Centre) is proud to host the CSAA Annual Conference on 22–24 November with the theme 'Cultural ReOrientations and Comparative Colonialities'. A pre-conference postgraduate and early career research day will be held on 21 November for all postgraduate or ECR delegates.
Theme: 'Cultural ReOrientations and Comparative Colonialities'
Over the last three decades Australasian cultural studies has established a vibrant, intellectual community committed to exposing the political threads that bind everyday culture. Yet despite several critiques of the Euro-American hegemony over cultural studies, Australian and New Zealand cultural studies continues to turn towards the West as the primary source of inspiration thus reinforcing the East–West, North–South global divide. This provocation is not to deny the efforts to incorporate Indigenous knowledges in Australian and, arguably more successfully, in New Zealand cultural studies, but it does ask us to consider posing these endeavours in new frameworks of transnational engagement. 'Cultural ReOrientations and Comparative Colonialities' is a call to reorient cultural studies beyond the confines of America and Western Europe. It is a call to consider what it means for cultural studies to be oriented, disoriented and reoriented in order to see what other theoretical inspirations and political alliances are available to us at a moment when racism and racist violence resurfaces in our multicultural, globalised modernities.
- Cultural ReOrientations: How do we research non-western cultures without objectifying and petrifying them? How might non-western cultures shift from being simply objects of analysis to intellectual sources for re-Orienting cultural studies? How do we account for the rise of racism in everyday culture (particularly in the current context against Muslims globally)? How is 'culture' oriented in and by multiculturalism and what does this mean politically?
- ReOrienting Epistemologies: How do Orientalism and/or colonialism continue to structure cultural studies through its epistemological framings and methodologies? What might a post-Orientalist cultural studies look like? Given the current international political order, what would happen if we turned towards the South for new theories (South America, South Africa)?
- ReOrienting Colonialities: how are the transnational flows of bodies, commodities, ideas and media different from the expansionist project of European colonialism? Does the national framework of Australian and New Zealand cultural studies mimic the nationalism it critiques? Is New Zealand cultural studies more successful in incorporating Indigenous knowledges and what lessons might be drawn from this for Australian cultural studies? How might cultural research on Australian coloniality, postcoloniality and ethnic communities benefit from a wider comparative framework with Latin America, Africa or Asia?
- ReOrientating Cultural Studies: How is culture being re-oriented to respond to recent financial, security, environmental crises? How might the work of cultural studies be characterised by disorientation (spatial, temporal, political, intellectual)? How are new political and media technologies reorienting everyday epistemologies, ontologies and cultural practices? What does it mean to be sexually oriented and can desire disorient sexual subjects? What happens when Raymond Williams' conception of 'culture' is re-contextualised in the anthropological project from which it came? How is new media orienting new socio-political movements?
Call for papers
The MnM Centre invites paper abstracts and panel proposals that address the theme for the 2011 CSAA annual conference. We also welcome panel proposals and abstract proposals on any other cultural studies topic. Please send abstracts and proposals to MnM-Centre@unisa.edu.au by 31 August 2011.
About the MnM Centre
The International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding
(the MnM Centre) at the University of South Australia is devoted to
developing a body of critical intellectual work around the 'Muslim
question' that plagues the West. In order to ground this project in
wider debates, the MnM Centre has begun a series of symposia and
workshops around the theme of 'ReOrienting the World'. In line with
this commitment, the MnM Centre is proud to host the CSAA Annual
Conference 2011.
New PhD graduates
Congratulations to the following graduates who have been conferred a PhD by University Council in 2011:
- Pearl Panicker (principal supervisor Prof Rhonda Sharp and associate supervisors Jo Caust and Assoc Prof Suzanne Franzway)
- Sutida Ngonkum (principal supervisors Dr Jenny Barnett and Dr Zheng Lin)
- Ruth Hadlow (supervisor Prof Kay Lawrence)
- Jennifer Harvey (principal supervisor Prof Ed Carson)
- Tejaswini Patil Viswanath (principal supervisor Assoc Prof Adrian Vicary)
- Jacinta Marie Poskey (principal supervisor was Dr Tom Stehlik, and Assoc Prof Judy Gill supervised the early stages)
- Christopher Calvin Boulter (joint principal supervisors were Dr Sue Nichols and Prof Bruce Johnson).
- Lloydetta Ursula Quaicoe (principal supervisor Dr Jenny Barnett and associate supervisor Assoc Prof Judith Gill)
- Kirsty Darlaston (principal supervisor Prof Kay Lawrence and associate supervisor Dr Jean Duruz)
- Snjezana Bilic (co-supervisors Prof Elisabeth Porter and Assoc Prof Suzanne Franzway)
- Glenna Catherine Lear (co-supervisors Dr Tom Stehlik and Dr Peter Willis)
- Brenton Dean Fopp (principal supervisor Prof Bruce Johnson and associate supervisor Assoc Prof Michele Simons)
- Stephen Matthew Parker (co-supervisors Dr Rodney Fopp and Prof Elisabeth Porter)
- Elizabeth Mary Trickett (principal supervisor Dr Rodney Fopp and associate supervisor Dr Sarah Mott)
- Trevor Lovett (co-supervisors Dr Elspeth McInnes, Elaine
Butler and Margaret Freund)
And these graduates who have been conferred a Doctor of Education:
- Roma Aloisi (principal supervisor Assoc Prof Suzanne Franzway and associate supervisor Elaine Butler)
- Tawatchi Chaisiri (principal supervisor Dr Jenny Barnett and associate supervisor Greg Restall)
- Sushita Gokool-Ramdoo (principal supervisor Assoc Prof
Dianne Bills and associate supervisor Dr Ruth Geer)
Awards and recognition for Hawke researchers
Associate Professor Irene Watson (DUCIER) has joined the third Indigenous Higher Education Council, as a casual member. The council provides policy advice to the Australian government on improving participation, retention, study and employment outcomes in higher education for Indigenous students and staff.
Dr Angelique Edmonds joined the SA Australian Institute of Architects (SA AIA) Council, and will also chair the Sustainable Built Environment Committee of the SA AIA chapter. She has also been appointed as standing panellist for the National Visiting Panels by the AIA National Education Committee.
Assoc Prof Michele Simons has been elected to the Board of the Council for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.
Assoc Prof Leah Bromfield (ACCP), was appointed as a member of the Department of Communities Queensland, Child Safety Officer and Child Safety Support Officer 'Vocational Education Pilot Review Panel'.
Prof Marianne Berry (ACCP) was appointed to the Advisory Board of the National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
Prof Steffen Lehmann has been appointed a member of the Advisory Board for the Festival of Ideas, Adelaide. The festival is an international, bi-annual event. He has also been appointed by the Government of Singapore as the Chief Curator for 'Hub-to-Hub', an interdisciplinary exhibition and research project in the centre of Singapore (value $300,000), starting in May. The exhibition will run from October to November 2011, and a public symposium on 'Emerging types of public spaces' will be held on 16 October at the National Library in Singapore.
Margaret Brown, Adjunct Research Fellow in the HRI, has been
appointed as a member of the new South Australian Health Practitioners
Tribunal.