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Teaching and Learning Lunchtime Discussion for New Staff: Convening a Unit
Are you a recent appointment? Do you have questions about managing undergraduate units at Macquarie? Bring your questions and lunch to the Modern History seminar room (end of 4th floor, Modern History end) on Monday 30 April at 1pm. We will discuss topics such as working with tutors and guest lecturers, keeping tabs on assessment and managing student concerns. A second session, on returning grades, will be held at the end of May. Enquiries: Marnie Hughes-Warrington (mhughesw@humn.mq.edu.au).
Teaching and Learning Seminar on Assessment and Feedback
The Teaching and Learning Committee is planning to hold a seminar later this semester on the topics of assessment and feedback. If you have good ideas in these areas, or know of someone who does, would you like to contribute? If so, please email Marnie Hughes-Warrington at mhughesw@humn.mq.edu.au
New look and new URL for Staff Intranet
The new staff intranet is available from www.humanities.mq.edu.au/MQUONLY. You are invited to tour the site and feedback is welcome.
Please bookmark the new intranet page as your homepage. It will officially replace the current intranet page from Monday, 2 April 2007. After that date, the current page will nolonger be updated and all new information will be on the new staff intranet.
After 02/04, all information regarding seminars, conferences, awards, publications will go to division website. Information related to internal affairs, e.g. Dean’s messages, parking permit, spare furniture, will stay in staff intranet. Please check both websites regularly to ensure you have up-to-date information on what’s happening within the division.
All forms and documents can be found at www.humanities.mq.edu.au/MQUONLY/documents.html, or access through the link on right hand navigation column on Staff intranet page.
Please send notices that you would like to be on the website (either Humanities Home Page or Staff Intranet) to Carlene Kirvan carlene.kirvan@humn.mq.edu.au.
Congratulations to Peter Goodall
It is with a great sense of loss that I congratulate Peter Goodall on his appointment as professor and Dean of Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. As you all know, he is superbly qualified to take on such a role and is a very good Dean. He has very kindly agreed to act as Dean here for his last two months, in May and June, while I will be in Utrecht, pursuing the EU agenda, before he moves to Toowoomba.
Peter has been at Macquarie for many years and is uniquely broadly skilled. Indeed I do not believe that anywhere in the world could an academic beat his record of heading departments - English, Politics and International Relations and now Asian Languages. He has a deep understanding of Macquarie policy, from secondary guidelines through APC process and study patterns to disciplinary issues. He has been a crucial element in the success of the Division of Humanities, as I am sure you are all aware. And - most remarkably - he has remained a gentleman. He wears his expertise graciously.
Michael Roberts has agreed to take on the role of Deputy Dean for a year, while Marnie Hughes-Warrington will be Associate Dean Teaching and Learning.
I have already announced that Murray Goot is taking over the role of Associate Dean Research from Stephanie Lawson. Tom Hillard will continue to direct the CORE research area in Ancient History. We have a really active executive, for which I am most grateful. The year ahead is shaping up as even more demanding than last year, especially as Peter is abandoning us. We wish him well.
Christie
Time-sheets Deadline for Easter
HR advises us today that time-sheets, because of the Easter holidays, are due earlier than normal. Time-sheets therefore are now due this Friday 30/3/07 at 5 pm (instead of 5 pm Tuesday 03/04/07) at the Division.
Congratulations to Professor John Stephens
We congratulate Professor John Stephens, Department of English, who has received the 11th International Brothers Grimm Award.
This Biennial Award is made to a scholar who has produced an outstanding body of research into children's literature. Judged by an international panel of scholars, it recognizes its recipients as researchers at the very top of the field both in their home countries and internationally. John Stephens is the first Australian to be honoured in this way.
Christie
English Seminar
The ERS series continues next week with more reflections on creative writing. Poetry is the subject this time, with a talk from the highly regarded award-winning poet Jill Jones. She is the author of six poetry collections, including _Broken / Open_ (2006), _Struggle & Radiance: Ten Commentaries_ (2004) and Screens Jets Heaven (2002). Jill Jones will speak about writing poetry in terms of being situated in the world, through such determinants as topography, memory, identification and displacement.
Title: “Being Present: A Poetics in the World”
Date: Monday 26 March,
Time: 1 pm
Venue: W6A 107
All welcome.
Listen to the Harbour Bridge with Harvey Broadbent on ABC Radio National. Saturday 24th March 2 p.m.
Modern History Department's Harvey Broadbent has prepared an impressionistic radio feature for the Radio Eye program to mark this month's 75th anniversary of the Harbour Bridge. Called "Listening to the Bridge' (ABC Radio National 2 p.m. Saturday, 24th March, at 2 p.m. the program is a personal audio reaction to the great edifice and takes listeners to the top of the arch, under the sub-structure and into encounters with bridge people. [20 March 2007]
Message from the Dean, Re: Audit Office of NSW
The Audit Office of NSW is currently investigating the University’s official record keeping practices. As part of this audit, they are requesting access to official records, including: flex-timesheets, leave forms, etc, and the mechanisms that are in place to monitor such leave.
As a result, it is possible that an auditor may request to see random individuals to ensure that timesheets (e.g. Form 11.01a Variable Working Hours Program) are maintained and any flex leave taken is appropriately monitored. It will be greatly appreciated if staff members who are approached can cooperate fully.
To clarify the circumstances under which timesheets should be completed, HR confirms that:
Regarding leave forms, these must be completed by ALL STAFF (Academic and General at all levels) for all other forms of leave taken, including absence on duty. These are the forms found at: http://www.pers.mq.edu.au/forms/17/index.html and the policies that guide them are at: http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/PMH/17/index.html .
If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact either Raewyn Twynham (Xtn 7070, raewyn.twynham@mq.edu.au) or Carlene Kirvan (Xtn 8736, carlene.kirvan@mq.edu.au).
Histories on Wednesday
Department of Modern History Seminar is on
Date: 21 March 2007
Time: 12-1.15pm
Venue: W6A127
Speaker:: John Docker
Title: Genocide, and Questioning of Genocide, in the Classical Greek World: Herodotus, Thucydides, and International Law
Abstract: In this talk, in terms of Raphaël Lemkins originating definition of genocide and the development of international law in relation to colonization and empire, I wish to focus on the remarkable legacy bequeathed to modernity by the founders of Western historical writing, Herodotus and Thucydides. Both Herodotus The Histories and Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War construct episodes, stories, and dialogues which work emblematically as parables, as allegories, of world history, as relevant today as in antiquity.
In a postscript to Eichmann in Jerusalem (revised 1965 edition), Hannah Arendt argued that genocide was the order of the day in antiquity. In Herodotus and Thucydides there are many examples of genocidal destruction of a society or city state, involving the killing of all males of military age and selling into slavery of women and children, followed by colonization by the victor. It would be a mistake, however, to think that Herodotus and Thucydides endorse such a practice or see it as natural for human societies. On the contrary, they consistently reveal sympathy for the invaded not the invaders, the conquered not the conquerors, and in key episodes in their great histories they evoke episodes and dialogues where those facing conquest and invasion from the rulers of empires and powerful states answer back, decrying the injustice of the threats to their liberty, independence and lives in terms of international humanitarian law, perhaps law that is divinely sanctioned. In Herodotus there are remarkable ethical confrontations of this kind, for and against conquest and colonization, involving Persian and Athenian attempts to invade lands or islands that do not belong to them; in Thucydides there is the famous Melian Dialogue where the Melians offer a dramatic challenge to what they see as Athens empire amorality. The Melians say to the Athenians that if they, the Athenians, destroy them, they will endanger international humanitarian law that is to the general good of all men and which one day could protect the Athenians themselves, and they will be forever dishonoured among the nations. In concluding reflections to my talk, I will discuss the enduring power of such conceptions, concerning the honour of nations and importance of international humanitarian law, in Tacitus in Roman antiquity and in arguments about English justifications for colonization in Ireland and the Americas from the sixteenth century onwards.
(John Docker is an adjunct senior fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He writes on a wide range of topics in cultural theory and history, including most recently genocide in relation to both the Enlightenment and settler colonialism. His most recent books include Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History (1994), 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), and, with Ann Curthoys, Is History Fiction? (2005). He is currently working on a new book, The Origins of Violence.)
All welcome.
Printer Toner Cartridges and Booking Room 107
Alana Sharp in the Enquiry Office is now our contact for printer toner cartridges. Please see her with the full details of the cartridge your machine uses (model and number). Return your old cartridge to Alana who will arrange for it to be recycled.
Room bookings for 107 are handled by Raewyn Twynham (X7070) or Tracy Sullivan (X8870). Tracy also handles bookings for room 127.
English Research Seminar
Dr Jane Messer (Macquarie)
“A Quarter of My Life: On the Multiple Relations between the Writer and the Work”
Monday 19 March, 1 pm
W6A 107
All welcome.
Enquiries: Paul Sheehan (x8757)
Modern History Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 14 March
Time: 12pm - 1.15pm
Venue: W6A 127
Speaker: Prof. Jim Goode
Topic: 'Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941'
All welcome
Hsu-Ming Teo (X7018)
Division of Humanities Prize Giving and Graduation
All staff are warmly invited to attend the Humanities prize giving which will be held on Monday 16 April 2007 at 5.00 pm in W6A 107. Please let Raewyn know if you wish to attend. raewyn.twynham@humn.mq.edu.au X7070
The graduation ceremony for the Division of Humanities will be held the following morning Tuesday 17 April at 9.30 am.in the Courtyard E7B. Please let Carlene know if you would like to be part of the academic procession. carlene.kirvan@humn.mq.edu.au X8736
Farewell to Dave Clark-Duff
Staff are reminded that there will be a farewell function for Dave Clark-Duff on Thursday 15 March between 3.30 and 5.30 pm at the Staff Club. Cost is $20 - money will go towards a gift for Dave. Please see Jackie Anker (W6A 400) as soon as possible if you would like to attend and to sign the card.
The Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association Essay Prize
Christopher Dowling, an Honours student in Humanities, has been awarded the Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association Essay Prize for 2006 for his essay for the Ukrainian Research Option, entitled "God and Ukraine: Issues in the Quest for an Autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church".
This is the second consecutive year that Chris has been awarded the prize, which is judged anonymously by the Executive of the Association.
Research Seminar
The Centre for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and
the English Department at Macquarie University present a joint seminar
this week, in the English Research Seminar Series.
Speaker: Professor Robert Dixon (University of Sydney)
Title:: ‘Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley and Colonial Modernity’
Date:
Monday 12 March
Time: 1 pm
Venue: W6A 107
All welcome.
Enquiries: Paul Sheehan (x8757) [9 March 2007]
New Humanities Website - Please take a look!
The Division of Humanities Marketing Committee has been working closely with the Humanities web developer, Xinni Du, to update and revamp the Division's website. Thank you to everyone who assisted in this process, especially those who provided text and information for the site. The site is now active (with some pages still to be finalised) and can be viewed at: http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/. Please note that the URL of certain pages might be different from the old ones - please double-check the URL before you send out the link to students or people outside the University.
We have worked to produce a site that promotes the work we do in Humanities, and also provides information and resources for both students and staff. All feedback and advice is welcome - if you experience any technical problems, please contact Xinni (Xinni.Du@humn.mq.edu.au) and if you have any queries about the site's content, or if you have news you would like to promote on the site, please contact either Xinni or Michelle Arrow ( Michelle.Arrow@humn.mq.edu.au ). [6 March 2007]
Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance Conference
'SECESSION, STATE CREATION AND NATIONALISM'
9-10 March 2007,
Blackshield Room,
Division of Law, Building W3A
Speakers include:
Damien Kingsbury (Deakin University)
Joshua Castellino (University of Ulster, UK)
Mikulas Fabry (Smith College, USA)
Lloyd Cox (Macquarie University)
Jim Headley (University of Otago, NZ)
Judy Lattas (Macquarie University)
Edward Aspinall (ANU)
Anne Twomey (University of Sydney)
Tom Hillard (Macquarie University)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: http://www.law.mq.edu.au/html/pdf/Secession_Conf_Program_3-07.pdf
Admission free
If you are planning to attend the conference or require further information about the conference
please contact Sasha Pavkovic at apavkovi1@yahoo.com or 0415 178 559.
European Languages Seminar
Professor Ortrud Gutjahr,University of Hamburg
The intercultural Bildungsroman.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s "Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn" as an example of a new genre
WHEN Friday, 9 March, 4 pm
WHERE European Languages Resources Room
All welcome.
Wine and cheese will be provided after Professor Gutjahr’s talk.
For further details please contact: Dr Ulrike Garde 9850-7051
Our first speaker this year is Ortrud Gutjahr, who is Professor of German Literature and Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg. Professor Gutjahr has published widely on intercultural literature, film and theatre as well as on cultural theory, gender studies and psychoanalysis. Her most recent books include “Kulturtheorie” (2005), Introduction to the Bildungsroman (2007) and “Elfriede Jelinek’s Ulrike Maria Stuart” (2007). She is currently Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University working with A/Prof Martina Möllering on the MURDG-funded project: Voices from the fringe of a multicultural society: Feridun Zaimoglu’s ‘Kanak Sprak’.
In her talk, Professor Gutjahr will discuss Özdamar’s acclaimed novel against the background of the German tradition of the Bildungsroman , arguing that recent so-called migration literature is providing fresh impetus to a genre, which was originally established in the late 18 th century. Introducing the term Interkultureller Bildungsroman, Professor Gutjahr outlines the emergence of this new type of the genre, paying particular attention to those transformative and innovative elements that hint at cultural change.
Parking Permits
A reminder that 2006 parking permits are no longer valid.
If you have not already done so, could you please collect from the cashier's office, the 2007 parking permits for any University vehicles under your division/department's management.
Your vehicles are at risk of being fined unless a current 2007 permit is displayed.
Any queries, please contact either Joseph Dikha on extension 7135 or the Cashier's office on extension 7229.
Congratulations to Clare Rowan
Clare Rowan, Ancient History, has been awarded a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship for a MA by coursework at Cambridge University 2007-8!
This means both Ronika and Clare are now Commonwealth Scholars - both richly deserved and a wonderful outcome for all they have done for Telemachus. [5 March 2007]
Message from the Dean
Last weekend the Division of Humanities hosted the inaugural Macquarie-Newcastle Humanities Postgraduate Research Symposium held on campus on Saturday 24 February. The theme, designed to have broad interdisciplinary appeal, was “The Power of Perceptions.” The idea for the symposium came from Dianne Osland (Newcastle) and Marea Mitchell (Macquarie) who wanted to encourage cross-campus collaborations partly as a result of their own successful collaboration in research and publication. The intention was to generate a space for postgraduate students to work together to organize a conference run by students for students. While the presentation of papers offers opportunities for developing communication skills and intellectual exchange, the idea was also to develop related skills such as assessment of abstracts, selection of papers, co-ordination of a research event. We hoped to broaden research cultures within and across the two universities. The day was sponsored by the Division of Humanities at Macquarie, and the School of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle and MUPRA.
Following a call for papers, 40 abstracts were received, from which eighteen were chosen, following selection criteria developed and applied by the HDR student panel. Two streams of eight papers were then presented throughout the day. Sixty-four students attended. Evaluation was carried out through a questionnaire, which provided very favourable feedback. The organizing committee consisted of Steve Townsend (Macquarie: Chair), Lazar Maric (Macquarie) and Yvette Rowe (Newcastle).
The second stage is to pursue the establishment of an online journal for referred articles, and the third stage is to host the second conference at Newcastle. Organizers may also consider developing grant applications to resource the journal and future conferences. The University of Western Sydney has also expressed interest in joining Macquarie and Newcastle in this venture.
Regards
Christie [1 March 2007]
Modern History and Politics Joint Seminar
by Dept of Modern History and the Dept of Politics and International Relations
Date: Wednesday, 7th March
Time: 12pm - 1:15pm
Venue: W6A127
Speaker: Stephanie Lawson
Topic: "History, Politics and the Cultural Turn"
All welcome
"Peace Brigades International" Talk
by Jodie Martire
Title: "Human Rights in Colombia and the work of the Peace Brigades International"
Date: Monday 5 March
Time: 1 pm
Venue: W6A 127
All welcome.
Jodie Martire has just returned from Colombia, where she spent 15 months as a volunteer with Peace Brigades International (www.peacebrigades.org/colombia.html) as an international human rights observer. She provided protective accompaniment (unarmed bodyguarding) and political support to Colombian human rights defenders and members of communities of internally displaced refugees (IDPs). Prior to heading to Colombia, Jodie had worked with PBI Australia for two years as their (volunteer) representative for the Projects in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, conducting political work in Australia. Jodie is conducting a two-month speaking and media tour of Australia to talk about the organisations she accompanied in Colombia and the work of PBI, and then plans to move to Mexico later this year to work in the field of women's human rights
IUEU Seminar on Academic Publishing
'On Thursday 8 March 2007 the IUEU Centre is hosting Andrew Schuller, a former publishing executive with Oxford University Press, to speak about academic publishing opportunities. He will be available for brief personal consultations in the afternoon. All staff are welcome to take advantage of this opportunity. To do so, email xinni.du@humn.mq.edu to organise a time, including a brief background of what you would like to cover in the consultation'
English Department Research Seminars
The English Research Seminar series resumes next week on a new day (Monday), at a new time (1pm), on a weekly basis. We have the usual combination of invited guest speakers, staff members and postgraduate students, and everyone is encouraged to attend.
Our first speaker for the year is Andrew Benjamin, who is Professor of Critical Theory in Design and Architecture at UTS. Professor Benjamin has published widely on philosophy, literature, critical theory and painting. His recent books include _Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance_ (2006), _Disclosing Spaces: On Painting_ (2004), and _Philosophy’s Literature_ (2001).
The philosophical is often conceived of in terms that exclude the animal. But what would the consequences be, if philosophy were constrained to reintroduce the animal? Professor Benjamin pursues this issue through the ‘logic of disease’ that Hegel develops in his _Philosophy of Nature_ - a logic that includes the Jew. In those terms, Judaism is a disease for which there is a cure. There is no cure, however, for animality, suggesting a conception of alterity that resists any kind of general or universal incorporation.
Title: ‘What if the other were an animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease’
Date: Monday 5 March
Time: 1 pm
Venue: W6A 107
All welcome.
Conference on Russian language, literature, culture, and history
A Conference on Russian language, literature, culture, and history will be held from October 19-21, 2007 in Sydney, Australia |
The conference is being organized by Russian Studies in the Department of European Languages at Macquarie University. For further information and queries about the Conference, please contact the organizing committee:
A/ Prof.Dr. Nonna Ryan (nonna.ryan@mq.edu.au)
Dr Marika Kalyuga
(mkalyuga@hmn.mq.edu.au)
Russian Studies
Department of European Languages
Macquarie University
Balaclava Road, North Ryde,
NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 9850 7048
Fax: +61 2 9850 7054
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The conference will be held in Sydney, one of the most beautiful cities of Australia, and aims to bring together academics from around the world to share their research in the areas of Russian language, literature, culture, and history.
The Conference will cover the following main areas :
- Russian Language and Linguistics
- Russian Literature
- Russian and Comparative Cultural Studies
- Russian History and Politics
- Translation Studies in Russian
- Rusistics and Cognitive Sciences
 Papers dealing with other topics, related to any of these areas, are also welcome .
 The plenary speaker: Dr. A. V. Golubeva, St Petersburg University
Abstracts:
- Abstract submission : July 20, 2007. Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, in Word format and sent as e-mail attachments to Dr Ryan at nonna.ryan@mq.edu.au or to Dr Kalyuga at mkalyuga@hmn.mq.edu.au
- Language of abstracts: English or Russian.
- Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2007.
Duration of a paper presentation : 20 minutes
Conference fees:
- $A50, for students – $A20
The payment should be made to the Organizing Committee after the arrival to the Conference. |
Please, feel free to distribute information about the Conference to your colleagues!
[1 March 2007]
Message from the Dean
Although many of us have been in W6A through the summer, only next week does the academic year formally begin.
I want to welcome new staff: Bert Peeters and Brigitte Jandey are joining European Languages in French; and Ben Goldsmith is taking up an appointment in Politics and International Relations. Penny Griffin and Lavina Lee will also join Politics and IR over the next months. Ken Parry, Malcolm Choat and Peter Edwell, although familiar faces, are taking on new roles in Ancient History.
2007 will be a busy year. To those of you returning from research trips or leave, whether digging in Egypt or wandering cooler climes, we have had a fairly torrid period at Macquarie, and expect the pace of change to accelerate. I am sure we all look forward to the challenges. We are really delighted with the building works on Level 2 and 4 which, I am told, will be complete by Monday. The transformation is extremely impressive, as is the timeliness of the work. We all hope that the courtyard, which to our surprise is to be refitted with tables, wireless internet and power and a sail, will also soon be complete.
Twenty ARC applications were submitted by members of the Division, which is an impressive tally. As we begin to record the publications for 2006, there are some 14 monographs and edited works, dozens of refereed articles and four major international journals edited within the Division. It explains some of the activity over the summer; we have also, as for the last 20 years, had groups studying languages such as Ancient Greek and Arabic. Students have also been seeking advice over the summer: Rosemary Colmer ably coordinated the staff advisors.
At the last divisional meeting, Carlene and I promised to keep all staff abreast of what is happening in the executive. Our last executive meeting was concerned with annual reports, one of which has been sent to Senate. Another is due at the publications office on Friday – we will post it to the website as well. The new website for the Division is expected to go live for the beginning of semester. We have been occupied with our presentation for the Academic Program Committee, which took place this morning and went well, with in principle approval for all the programs we presented. Judyth Sachs indicated that the APC would be restructured and will focus in future on broad strategic issues. She has constituted a Teaching and Learning Committee on which Marnie Hughes-Warrington has agreed to serve.
We had a successful year in HDR completions in 2006, with 25 completions noted by the HDR unit. A seminar will be held on Saturday 24 February in which HDR students from Newcastle and Macquarie will present their research. In other research news, the Modern History and IUEU sponsored event on February 14 on Global Convergences was impressive. The RQF process will be very demanding this year: Macquarie is planning a trial process with Newcastle mid-year.
Finally we mention the death of Dr William Gale, who has long been associated with the Department of Ancient History, and donated the core of the coin collection of the numismatic museum. He is a great loss. We commiserate with his wife Janet, whom we hope will continue her long association with us.
Regards,
Christie [20 February 2007]
A chance to learn the rudiments of Noh. Noh Intro @ NIDA
Students and professionals of dramatic arts and Japanese language can attend a Noh movement master class at NIDA headquarters in Kensington, opposite University of NSW. Tim Cross, who teaches in Japan, but has an interest in Noh, has organised the workshop which has partial funding from the Japan Foundation. Tim hopes the workshop "will increase interest in Noh as it is traditionally understood, and that there will be some recognition of its value to other modes of contemporary performance."
Date: (March 10th & 11th 2007)
March 10th (Sat) 2007 1:30-5:00pm and March 11th (Sun) 2007 1:30-5:00pm
Place: Rehearsal Room 5 at NIDA, (215 Anzac Parade, Kensington)
The workshop is led by two Hosho Ryu teachers, Mr Ishiguro Takashi and Ms Ishiguro Mito, from Fukuoka in southern Japan. Ishiguro sensei is a senior member of the noh community and has been designated by Fukuoka Prefecture as a Holder of Intangible Cultural Assets. His daughter is a mid-career artist who holds a Masters degree from Tokyo University of Fine Arts in noh performance and music. UNESCO has designated noh as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. This workshop is offered to dance and theatre professionals who want to learn something of the basic grammar of noh movement as preparation for taking the dynamic stillness of noh back into their own practice.
Participation fees...
Dance and theatre professionals: $200
NIDA graduates: $150
NIDA students: $50/day
Observers: $50 /day
Payment can be made by cheque or direct deposit. Please pay half of your participation fee by February 8th. The balance will be received in cash on March 10th (Sat) 2007 before the beginning of the workshop. Consolidated receipts will be provided on March 10th. Please send cheques payable to “Timothy John Cross” to
Noh Intro c/o Jan Idle
Transforming Cultures
Faculty of Humanities
University of Technology, Sydney
PO BOX 123 Broadway NSW 2007
Please remember to tell Tim your foot size in centimetres and include your email address with the cheque.
Payment by direct deposit
If you would prefer to make a direct deposit, please use...
Account name: Timothy John Cross
Bank name: Commonwealth Bank
Branch: Bondi Junction
BSB number: 06 2124
Account number: 2124 1067 0116
Account type: Streamline
Please send an email to Tim at nohintro@mac.com mentioning your direct deposit, and please tell him your foot size in centimetres. Payment can be acknowledged by email.
For further information please contact Dr Ian McArthur, Japanese Studies, Ex. 7922
[15 Feb 2007]
Macquarie-Newcaslte Humanities Postgraduate Research Symposium
All staff are invited to the Macquarie-Newcastle Humanities Postgraduate Research Symposium on Saturday Feb 24th at 9am in W6A T1 and T2
The symposium has been organised by and for postgraduate students in Humanities subjects at Macquarie and Newcastle universities.
The symposium theme is The Power of Perceptions. There will be 18 papers presented in two streams. Each paper will be presented in 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Among a range of topics, topics include:
• I’m a Bluesman: The role of perception in the construction of blues music
• Talkback radio: power and perception
• Conveying the existentialist world: a Goth perspective
• Big fish/little fish: perceptions of celebrity
• Roar Britannia? - the effect of political cartoons on Britain's role in the Far East
• Coffee at Nanna’s - ethnicity and identity among Australia’s migrants.
Please go to the to the symposium's website at:
www.humanities.mq.edu.au/postgraduate/symposium.htm
to view more details and to register for a place at the symposium. [15 Feb 2007]
Articles and Radio feature by Harvey Broadbent
Harvey Broadbent has recently published an article in the National Museum of Australia's journal 'Friends' December 2006 Vol 17 No 4 about the Edo-Tokyo Museum. He will publish another article about Stalin's Dacha, Sochi, Russia in the same journal in the coming March edition.
Harvey has also just completed producing a radio feature for ABC Radio National entitled "Minstrels of War" for the 'Into the Music" series to be broadcast for Anzac Day on Saturday 21 April at 3 p.m., to be repeated on 26 April at 3 p.m. [12 Feb 2007]
Global Convergences: European Encounters and Cultural Interactions
Time: 9:30 – 5:30, Wednesday 14th February 2007
Location: Room 107, Building W6A
Conveners: Professor Angela Woollacott and Dr Adrian Carton.
This is an international one-day symposium co-hosted by the IUEU Centre and the Department of Modern History in association with the Department of History at Otago University. It is open to anyone interested in attending but seats are limited so please register your attendance with Xinni Du before Friday 9 February 2007. The symposium flyer and conference program are available at:
http://www.iueu.org.au/webpages/conferences/euencounter.html [7 Feb 2007]
Call for Proposals
The IUEU Centre draws your attention to the following call for proposals:
Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory
Lyn Leader-Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Tourism at Flinders University advised “We would welcome Macquarie involvement in the conference, and this could include things such as your staff putting together one or more session proposals, submitting individual papers, or helping with publicising the conference.” The conference executive officer is Nena Bierbaum.
Email: nena.bierbaum@flinders.edu.au
The conference website is http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html [5 February 2007]
Fraud Awareness Training
The fraud awareness training will discuss fraud and corruption, highlight examples in the University sector and how to identify it when it occurs.
The training will also highlight Macquarie University's Fraud and Corruption Prevention and Response Strategy that was issued in the second half of 2005.
Brett Warfield of Warfield & Associates will present the fraud awareness training. Brett has been consulting to the University since 2004 and
has 19 years experience in fraud and corruption prevention, detection and investigation.
The University has directed that all staff who has either a credit card, delegation authority, signs for work performed/good received, authorizes timesheets or anyone who claims expenses such as grant holders attend fraud awareness training.
Two training sessions have been scheduled for Humanities staff on Monday 5 February 2.30 - 4.00 pm and Tuesday 6 February 2.30 - 4.00 pm. Both sessions will be held in W6A 107. You only need to attend one of these sessions. As numbers may be limited, please email your preferred time slot to raewyn.twynham@humn.mq.edu.au by no later than 2 Feb.
IUEU Centre
Thank you for the feedback in response to the last IUEU Centre update, and here is the latest progress report. First, we are delighted that Professor David Throsby has accepted part-time the position of Co-Director of the IUEU Centre at Macquarie. David is Australia’s leading cultural economist. He is Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, has been a consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO, and has chaired three Prime Minister’s Working Groups on sustainable development. He is President of the Association for Cultural Economics International.
(David will be based in his office at the Division of Economic and Financial Studies and initial general enquires to the IUEU Centre should be directed to me.)
In other good news, we have been advised that the Centre’s inception report has been accepted in Brussels, and that funding for the first operational year has been approved.
The IUEU Centre Advisory Board has selected the following priority areas for 2006-2009:
- European integration
- Islam and its global impact
- European diaspora
- Aging, human rights and culture
- Cultural difference
- Environmental sustainability
- Global security
Each of the six IUEU Centre member universities will present a major conference over the next three years. The first two are scheduled for late 2007: Flinders University’s “Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory” will be held on 3-5 December 2007, and La Trobe’s “Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States” on 6-7 December 2007.
On Wednesday 14 February the IUEU Centre and the Macquarie Department of Modern History are presenting an international symposium with the Department of History, Otago University: “Global Convergences: European Encounters and Cultural Interactions”. Enquiries should be directed by email to Angela Woollacott or Adrian Carton.
The IUEU Centre has modest funds to support the domestic travel of international guests to extend their reach in Australia (with the expectation that the host university will cover accommodation and hospitality costs). For example, you may be aware of a significant international guest visiting Australia (not Sydney) and you would like to seek support to extend their visit to Macquarie University. Likewise, you may be hosting a visiting international guest and would like to seek support for their domestic travel to another IUEU Centre member university or universities. All the IRUA universities are members of the IUEU Centre.
At this stage there is no deadline but I encourage applicants to make informal enquiries as soon as possible to assist with planning. Of course, preference will be given to those relating to the Centre’s priority areas.
Last year was occupied by the set-up phase, including sorting out arrangements between the six university members. Now that budgets and contracts are bedded down, I look forward to building up a program of activities and planning for the longer-term future of the IUEU Centre. If you are would like further information about the IUEU Centre’s activities or to exchange ideas, please contact me.
Jan Zwar
Deputy Director
IUEU Centre Room 325, W6A
jzwar@hmn.mq.edu.au
Ext 7915
www.iueu.org.au [31 January 2007]
O H & S Building Inspection
The Workgroup OHS Committee for the Division of Humanities would like to conduct its 1st OHS Building Inspection for 2007. We intend to inspect all the offices/rooms located on Level 1 and Level 3 in W6A Building.
Inspection Date: - Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Time: commencing 10:30am
The OHS workgroup requests your permission for our team members to gain access to your office. Should you be unavailable during that time and you do not consent to an inspection during your absence, please contact Tina Kong (Secretary to the Workgroup OHS Committee) at Ex 7008 or email: tina.kong@mq.edu.au.[17 January 2007]
2007 Parking Permit by Payroll Deduction
Permanent and fixed-term staff in the Division of Humanities who would like to pay for their 2007 parking permit by payroll deduction can now do so at the Enquiry Office in W6A Level 1 (see Alana).
Refurbishments in W6A
If you’ve been in and around W6A over the last few weeks you will have noticed that the builders are in and some changes taking place. We are refurbishing the western ends of level 2 and level 4 along the lines of the Documentary Research Centre on level 3. The refurbished area includes a meeting room, an open plan area that may be used for casual staff to work and kitchen facilities. We apologise for any disruption but know there will be a certain amount of drilling and hammering involved with this work. It is planned to have the work completed before the beginning of Semester 1.
The courtyard area between W6A and W6B is also being upgraded. Bench seats and tables are being installed and wiring provided at the end of each table for computer access. There will be an area of paving and a shade cloth sail over part of the space. The garden around the courtyard will be replanted. This work should be completed by the end of February.
Our mailroom (including photocopiers) has been moved from the 4 th floor to the 3 rd floor in Room 300. Your key that opened the 4 th floor mailroom will open the relocated mailroom on the 3 rd floor. [16 January 2007]
Welcome to our new Grants Officer
Mr Julian Zipparo will be joining the Division of Humanities on 3 January 2007 as Grants Officer. His office will be W6A 135, telephone 9663. Please contact Julian for assistance and advice on grant applications.
Spare Furniture
We will be having a number of spare desks becoming available over the next few weeks. Please let either Raewyn (X7070) or Terry (X7687) know if you are interested. [21 December 06]
Vacation Cleaning
Cleaners will wipe exposed areas of desks and windowsills in W6A on Tuesday 19/12/06 (Levels 4 to 6) or Wednesday 20/12/06 (Levels 1 to 3). For further details contact Terry Mangan. [18 Dec 2006]
Cleaning out the fridges
The fridges in the kitchens on the 1st and 2nd floor will be cleaned out on Tuesday 19 December. Any food or drink that has passed its 'use-by' date will be thrown away. [13 December 2006]
NSW Premier's History Award for 2006
Harvey Broadbent's book "Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore" was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Award for 2006 held last month ...
but the winner is ……
Richard Broome’s “Aboriginal Victorians: a History Since 1800”
For the whole lists go to:
http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/HistoryAwards/2006HistoryAwds/2006HistAwards.htm
Message from the Dean
The Division of Humanities has had a successful year. We have all been working extremely hard as we move to help fulfil Macquarie@50 the new strategic plan for the university. I want to mention just a few of the highlights –do forgive me for my any omissions.
- As required by the VC, the Division Executive has produced new strategic plans in learning and teaching, research and HDR policy. Heads of Department have each developed strategic plans, and an even tighter budget. As soon as these are approved by the VC they will appear on the website. This sets a systematic set of aims for us all.
- We have welcomed a number of new staff this year, including Professor Stephanie Lawson, Ian Tregenza and Lloyd Cox in Politics and IR, Estela Valverde in Spanish, Paul Sheehan in English, Tracy Sullivan in the Australian History Museum and in support, Xinni Du, Carlene Kirvan, Kelli-Lee Drake and Jenny Gray. We look forward to the arrival of Bert Peeters and Brigitte Jandey in French, Mark Hearn in Modern History and a number of new ancients. We have also seen the departure of a number of long serving staff including Lance Eccles, Drew Fraser, Roda Kanawati, Guy and Helma Neumann, George Parsons, John Koenig, Valda Rigg, John Telec and Helen Yardley. We all wish them well.
- The University nominated Ancient Cultures as a Centre of Research Excellence, with funding for five new appointments. The department now has approval to offer posts to five outstanding candidates. Malcolm Choat, our first CORE appointment, is already with us.
- We have had a strong record in ARC grants in an unprecedently difficult year, including
- Dr M Hughes-Warrington; Dr I Tregenza; Prof D Boucher; Dr S Helgeby The Empire of New Idealism?: Civilisation and Australian New Idealism, 1850-1950
- Prof SN Lieu; Dr LD Eccles; Dr J Markley The impact of cultural contact between China and the Ancient Mediterranean World
- A/Prof ML Spongberg; Dr C Tuite Women Writers and the Production of British History 1763-1886
- The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature is now well underway, with an ARC Linkage grant and a formal launch of the Centre by David Malouf on December 11. I am delighted to announce that we have received $50,000 from the Myer Foundation to contribute to permissions costs.
- The IUEU centre will also be launched on 11 December, by HE Bruno Julien the EU Ambassador to Australia. The first cohort of students on the EU/DEST funded degree in Global Citizenship will be announced shortly afterwards, as will the Macquarie recipient of the IUEU centre PhD scholarship
- Humanities was successful in receiving two Macquarie University Research Fellowships. We look forward to good results in the APA and MQRES scholarships.
- The Centre for Cultural History and the Centre for Island Languages have been established.
- We have organised a range of successful conferences, including the Music, Dancing & Sexuality in Ancient Egypt – Naguib Kanawati, 19 August; African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) – Geoffrey Hawker, 21-22 September; Reign of Justinian and Theodora - Dr Ken Parry, 14-15 October; Journalism and Islam in Parliament House - Andrew Vincent) 7-8 December.
- We have had a number of outstanding visiting speakers including Robert Fisk, Anna Valentine, Prof Iain McCalman and the former Prime Minister of Poland, Marek Belka. HE Tamim Souliman, the Ambassador of Syria, HE Antonio Cosano, Ambassador of Spain and Mr Stephen Smith, the Consul General of the US in Sydney has also visited the Division.
- The Division has been particularly active in outreach, with sessions for schools and schoolteachers including the History Week 2006 (16-24 September).
- Honours - Professor John Stephens elected President of ACLAR, Professor Angela Woollacott elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, Martina Mollering, winning a University teaching award, Lisa Featherstone the Mary Bennett Prize for Women's History, and Ursula Dubosarsky the Ethel Turner Prize for her novel Theodora’s Gift. The first divisional teaching awards will be made at the Christmas Party on December 6.
- Carrick awards: Christie Slade is one of the leaders of the 2007 Discipline Based initiative on the Nature and Roles of Arts Degrees in Contemporary Society, with Prof Faith Trent ($157,000)
- Space allocation. The Division has made representations to the administration arguing that it is a mistake to micro manage space allocation, while at the same time using space charging to minimize space usage. My view is that charging will in the end produce the most sensible and flexible result.
- I have reported briefly on the YOUR SAY document for our Division. I hope to raise the question of developing more effective lines of communication within the Division briefly at our meeting on December 6. The full report is available in my meeting room, should you wish to look at the details. Our Division is, if anything, too committed and too hard working.
Christie [6 December 2006]
Christina Slade invites you to attend the Humanities Christmas Party and Divisional Teaching Awards.
Please come along and celebrate the end of the academic year and holiday season with your colleagues. A variety of foods and refreshments will be provided.
When: 1:00pm Wednesday 6 December
Where: W6A Courtyard
RSVP: Acceptances only to Dave Clark-Duff - dcd@hmn.mq.edu.au
2007 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship in Global Studies
The Department of Modern History is happy to announce that the 2007 Erasmus Mundus MA in Global Studies Scholarship has been awarded to Lindsay Ash. Lindsay will study at Leipzig University and at the University of Vienna.
Book Launch: History Goes to the Movies
A launch will be held for Marnie Hughes-Warrington's new book, History Goes to the Movies (Routledge) on Tuesday 5 December in the Coop Bookstore on campus at 5.30pm.
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP Jackie Anker on x8879
Unit Outline
The following link is the Division's guidelines for Unit Outlines.
unitoutline [1 December 2006]
