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MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN 8/2007

2 August 2007

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In this bulletin

1. Public lecture by The Hon. Alexander Downer, MP

2. CSEAS Seminar: European landscape painting in colonial Indonesia

3. Seminar: Wellbeing & work among rickshaw pullers in New Delhi

4. Seminar: Community health in rural India

5. CSEAS Seminar: Islam and Indonesia

6. Japanese Language Education Symposium

7. MAI Reports from Asia: Reporting China

8. Seminar: Elderly women in a Japanese city

9. Seminar: Japanese working holiday makers in Australia

10. Seminar: Contextualizing Islamists

11. Seminar: Affirmative action policy in India

12. Conference: Migration and social protection in China

13. CSEAS Seminar by Assoc Prof Roland Fletcher

14. International Metropolis Conference

15. Indonesian art exhibition

16. West Papua conference

17. Seminar by the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC

18. Forum on women in Afghanistan

19. Australia-Malaysia Fellowships

20. Website of the month: Discover Islamic art

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Monash Asia Institute and Monash University News and Events

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Item 1. MAI Public policy forums

The Monash Asia Institute is initiating a series of public policy forums in the lead up to the Australian federal election. The first speaker is this series is the Hon. Alexander Downer, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

22 August 2007, 3.00pm ñ 4.00pm

R4 Lecture Theatre, Building 8 (Rotunda)

Monash University Clayton campus

"Where does Australian foreign policy re: Asia currently stand and where is it going?"

Speaker: The Hon. Alexander Downer, MP

RSVP (ESSENTIAL for this event) with subject heading "Australian foreign policy on Asia" to Dr Tony Donaldson, [email protected]

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Item 2. Seminar

Centre of Southeast Asian Studies (Monash Asia Institute)

Thursday 2 August 2007, 11.00 am

SG02 (Manton Rooms), Menzies Building (11)


"European landscape painting in late colonial Indonesia: A cultural topography"

Dr Susie Protschky, Faculty of Arts, Monash University

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dutch and other European colonists in the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) produced an enormous number of landscape paintings. Many of these are referred to pejoratively as ëmooi IndiÎí (beautiful Indies) paintings. Most of the scholarly work on these paintings has been concerned with constructing biographies of painters and sorting out attributions. Very little analysis of the content of these paintings, their relation to Dutch colonial culture, and their role in the formation of colonial identities has been undertaken thus far. This paper represents an outline of my recent efforts to redress this gap in the literature on the art, landscape and culture in the Netherlands Indies.

ALL WELCOME

Enquiries: Dr Trudy Jacobsen, [email protected]

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Item 3. PhD Confirmation Seminar

Friday 3 August 2007, 2:00pm

Room F5.21, F Building, Monash University Caulfield campus

ìWellbeing and work among rickshaw pullers in New Delhiî

Mr Ajay Singh

PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

All Welcome

Enquiries: Rachael Unwin, [email protected]

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Item 4. MAI Reports from Asia

Wednesday 8 August 2007, 1:00pm

Room S822, Level 8 South, Building 11 (Menzies), Monash University Clayton campus

"Promoting community health through women in rural India"

Dr Seema Nikalje

Matsyodari Shikshan Sanstha's College of Engineering & Technology, Jalna, India

Dr Seema will speak on her current research in developing a curriculum on women's health for social science students in rural India. This program sets out to generate health awareness with both students and the general community, especially attitudes towards community health issues.

Dr Seema is currently an Honorary Visiting Lecturer at the Monash Unit of Rural & Indigenous Health.

About MSS College: http://www.msscetjalna.org/

RSVP with subject heading "Women's health in rural India" to Dr Tony Donaldson, [email protected]

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Item 5. Seminar


Thursday 9 August 2007, 11.00 am

SG02 (Manton Rooms), Menzies Building (11)


"Islam and Indonesia: threat or therapy"

Dr Robert Pringle

Dr Robert Pringle has a PhD from Cornell, written in the early 1960s on the Ibans of Sarawak under the rule of the three Brooke rajahs, later published (Cornell U

P. 1970) under the title Rajahs and Rebels. He then served in the State Department for thirty years, with stints in Jakarta, Manila, Port Moresby and several West African countries and South Africa, including as Ambassador in Mali.

He is currently writing a book on Islam in Indonesia, a subject he has been following closely for over thirty years. His aim is to provide an account for general readers rather than just scholarly specialists, although grounded in the scholarly studies. His fine book on Bali several years ago, A Short History of Bali (which was far more than just a history and threw a lot of light on recent social developments there) showed just how well he can achieve that balance.

ALL WELCOME


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Item 6. Symposium

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University

Friday 10 August 9:30 am ñ 4:00 pm

Japanese Studies Centre

Building 54, Monash University Clayton campus

Japanese Language Education Symposium

Keynote Speakers

Professor Yuko Miyazoe-Wong, Obirin University, Japan

Language Socialization in the Virtual Classroom

Professor Ikuo Kawakami, Waseda University, Japan

ëChildren Crossing Bordersí in Japan and their implications for Japanese society.

Registration is free; see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/japanese-language-education/index.php

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Item 7. MAI Reports from Asia

Monash Asia Institute

Chinese Studies Program

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Tuesday 14 August 2007, 1.00pm

Room S822, Level 8 South, Building 11 (Menzies)


"Reporting China: Knowledge and history-writing in 'China Week' on the BBC"

Dr Mark Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Democracy

Using numerous recorded examples from the BBCís 2005 China Week as well as more recent television reportage, the paper will examine the way television news produces China as a form of knowledge, with specific epistemological mechanisms and powerful structuring principles around history and subjectivity. The paper argues that the television news media are preoccupied by notions of objectivity that obscure their role as knowledge producers.

Dr Harrisonís work deals with culture, media and politics in Taiwan and China. His current work includes two research projects entitled "Visions of the Future in the Chinese-speaking World" and "Reporting China". He also writes widely in newspapers and magazines in Australia on China and Taiwan, and Australian foreign policy towards them.

RSVP with subject heading "Reporting China seminar" to Dr Tony Donaldson, [email protected]

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Item 8. Research Seminar

Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University

Friday 17 August 2007, 2.00pm

Auditorium, Japanese Studies Centre, Building 54, Monash University Clayton campus

"Personal networks of elderly women in a small city in Japan"

Professor Masao Nobe, Visiting Researcher, Japanese Studies Centre

Takahashi City in Okayama Prefecture in Japan, which has a population of approximately 25000, consists of urban areas and highlands. Due to a decrease in population, facilities in the highlands such as shops, hospitals, and public transport have become very poor. Nearly half of residents are now over 65 in some parts of the city. This study considers why so many elderly people remain in the highlands when the community facilities are so poor.

Enquiries, [email protected]

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Item 9. Japanese Studies Centre Research Seminar

Friday 24 August 2007, 2.00pm

Auditorium, Japanese Studies Centre, Building 54, Monash University Clayton campus

"Japanese working holiday-makers in Australia"

Mr. Nobuaki Fujioka, Visiting Researcher, Japanese Studies Centre

This study reflects on the experiences of Japanese working holiday-makers (WHMs) in Australia, focusing on the relationships between their profiles, motivations and activities. It aims to find some clues to understand and theorize Japanese WHMs from the perspectives of social class and global migration. In this seminar, the qualitative data obtained from ongoing research in Melbourne will be analysed, and so the seminar is an interim report on some of the initial fieldwork.

Enquiries, [email protected]

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Item 10. MAI seminar

Hosted by Monash Asia Institute, the Centre for Muslim Minorities & Islam Policy Studies, and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology

Wednesday 29 August 2007, 1.00pm


"Contextualizing Islamists"

Dr Siddiqui will evaluate the factors in shaping five types of Islamists: the ideologues, the proselytizers, the parallel governance providers, the states that representing their societyís religious aspirations and the newest set of Islamists, represented largely by the Taliban, the Jammah Islamiya and the al-Qaeda network, who have great influence on the strategic dynamics of any country. Her analysis of these types of Islamists will be discussed in the context of change, state-society interface and violence.

Rushda Siddiqui is an Associate Fellow with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis. Her research is on State-Society interfaces in Israel, Iran and Pakistan. Her area of specialization is religion-based movements in West Asia and North Africa, particularly the Islamist movements of the states of Pakistan and Iran, and the non-state movements of the Ikhwan, Hezbollah and the Taliban.

RSVP with subject heading "Contextualizing Islamists seminar" to Dr Tony Donaldson, [email protected]

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Item 11. Seminar

Monday 3 September 2007, 1:00 pm


"The grounds for, and limits of, affirmative action policy in India"

Dr Ashok Acharya

Reader in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

This paper interrogates the language of equality that is central to discussions of affirmative action policy. Recent debates on affirmative action in India have brought to sharper focus conceptions of group equality and group-based preferential rights. Since Mandal, academic debate has largely questioned the fairness of caste-based preferential policies with some favoring an extended scheme of job reservations, and others arguing against reservations of any sort. A third line of inquiry disputes Mandal's criteria for determining caste backwardness. This paper will, instead, chart out an alternative approach and in so doing will normatively engage the implications of the different conceptions of equality articulated, but untested, in the Mandal report. This will be an important exercise to lay down the proper grounds for, and limits of, affirmative action. More specifically, the paper while defending group disadvantage as the proper basis for affirmative action in the Indian context will argue why an enhanced quota conflicts with the ideal of equal opportunity, so central to the thinking of the founders of the constitution but 'unhinged' by the Mandal report.

Dr Ashok Acharya is a visiting scholar to Australia under the auspices of the Australia-India Exchange Program jointly operated by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. In August/September 2007, Dr Acharya will be visiting the Australian National University, Monash University and the University of Sydney.

RSVP with subject heading "Affirmative action policy in India seminar" to Dr Tony Donaldson, [email protected]

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Item 12. Conference

"Migration and Social Protection in China"

Hosted by

Asian Business and Economics Research Unit (Monash University)

Institute of Population and Labor Economics (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Renmin-Monash Advanced Centre for Economic Studies

25ñ26 September 2007, Beijing

The conference will focus on the key issues involved in establishing a social protection regime for migrant workers including a critical examination of the deficiencies in existing arrangements and a study of the proposals that have been offered by the Chinese government and international lending agencies for extending social security coverage. The conference has attracted the worldís leading scholars on Chinese migration and social security issues including academics from Harvard, LSE, Michigan and UCLA as well as representatives from the Ford Foundation, UNDP and World Bank.

Conference website: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/Conference2007/index.php

Enquiries: Ingrid Nielsen, [email protected], Tel: 9905 2401

Russell Smyth, [email protected], Tel: 9903 2134

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Item 13. Seminar


6 September 2007, 11.00 am

SG02 (Manton Rooms), Menzies Building (11) Monash University Clayton campus

Associate Professor Roland Fletcher

Co-Director, Greater Angkor Project, University of Sydney

Topic to be announced

ALL WELCOME


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Item 14. 12th International Metropolis Conference

8 - 12 October 2007

Melbourne, Australia

The International Metropolis Conference is an internationally significant research-based conference that focuses on immigration and settlement issues. This year, the theme of the week-long event will be Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion. Australian and global leaders and officials, renowned academics and key stakeholders will gather to examine the important themes of settlement and immigration. Of special interest will be the launch of a major set of studies on social cohesion, and newly released research that compares policies by different countries to encourage migrant settlement in regional areas.

The 12th International Metropolis Conference 2007 is being organised by the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, in collaboration with the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments, the City of Melbourne and the private sector.

Conference website: http://www.metropolis2007.org

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Other News and Events

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Item 15. Exhibition by Indonesian artist Teguh Ostenrik

Teguh Ostenrik, Painter, Sculptor, Print-maker

Exhibition dates: August - September 2007

East & West Art, 665 High Street, East Kew, Vic 3102

Gallery open

Monday - Friday 11 - 5pm, Sat 10 - 3pm

The exhibition will be opened by Mr. Budigrman Bahar, Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia on Thursday 2 August 2007 at 6.30pm, and you are invited to come along to welcome the artist.

For more details please ring 9859 6277

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Item 16. West Papua conference

Thursday 9 - Friday 10 August, 2007, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm

The Wool Room, International House, University of Sydney, 96 City Road, Chippendale

"Paths to justice and prosperity"

The struggle for justice has become a key inspiration among Papuans. The rich natural resources in the province of Papua have attracted multi-national exploitation; meanwhile the living standard of Papuans is below the poverty line at less than US$1 per day. In addition the Indonesian security forces in Papua have become a political instrument to protect the economic interests of the multi-national corporations. This situation has resulted in gross human rights abuses for many years.

This two day conference in Sydney will address these fundamental problems which the people of Papua are currently facing.

Entry by donation

Enquiries, Dr John Rawson (02) 9217 3874 or Professor Peter King (02) 9351 6945 [email protected]

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Item 17. Seminar

Human Rights Law Resource Centre presents

"The responsibility to protect: the evolution of a new international norm"

Speaker: The Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, President of the International Crisis Group

Monday 13 August 2007, 6.00pm ñ 7.45pm

Allens Arthur Robinson, Level 34, 530 Collins St, Melbourne

In this seminar, Gareth Evans will discuss the emerging responsibility on the part of states and the global community to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The lecture will be followed by a public discussion with Justice Chris Maxwell. Justice Maxwell is President of the Victorian Court of Appeal and a former adviser to Gareth Evans

Cost: $20 / $10 concession

To register:

http://www.hrlrc.org.au/files/Q0GKQS1B4T/Evans%20Seminar%20Flyer%20-%20revised.pdf

Enquiries to [email protected]

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Item 18. Forum on Women in Afghanistan

The Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University and the City of Darebin

"Afghanistan 2007: Women liberated or a continued struggle for elusive human rights?"

Guest Speaker Sohaila

Tuesday 14 August 2007, 6.30 pm

Darebin Town Hall, 350 High Street, Preston

We hear little of Afghanistan in our media and we are led to believe all is well there. The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 with the promise to support democracy and women, but some six years later life has changed little. Afghans are suffering, and Sohaila will provide current information about life in

Afghanistan under occupation and the ongoing plight of Afghan women that the media fails to report.

RSVP to [email protected] or Phone 03 5227 2113

Entry by donation

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Item 19. Australia-Malaysia Fellowships

14 September 2007 ñ deadline for submitting applications

The Australia-Malaysia Institute announces the 2007-08 round of Fellowships for academics, postgraduate students and other researchers, in three categories:

- Australian Studies Fellowships for Malaysian academics

- Malaysian Studies Fellowships for Australian researchers

- Research Excellence Fellowships (Malaysian researchers to collaborate with Australian colleagues)

Several fellowships will be offered in 2007-2008 across the three categories, on a competitive basis. The fellowships are tenable for periods of 6-12 weeks, subject to specific timelines. The sum awarded is intended to cover a return economy airfare, approved internal travel and an accommodation and living allowance. The maximum amount for a single fellowship is AUD $10,000.

Details of each fellowship category and application forms are available at:

http://www.dfat.gov.au/ami/programs_ami.html#amf

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Item 20. Website of the month: Discover Islamic art

http://www.discoverislamicart.org

Discover Islamic art is the theme of the worldís largest virtual museum, in which 18 on-line exhibitions are dedicated to Islamic art in the Mediterranean region. There is a permanent collection offering 1,235 artefacts, monuments and sites from 14 countries. Zooming in on any of the images makes it possible to discover details that often cannot be seen otherwise. The exhibition pools the resources of 40 museums from 14 countries of North Africa, the Middle East and the European Union.

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