Hince, Dr Bernadette
Telephone: 02 6125 9798 / Email: bernadette.hince@anu.edu.au
Dates: 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008

Bernadette Hince is an independent researcher and writer with degrees in science and arts. Her PhD (ANU 2005) was an environmental history of subantarctic islands. She was science editor of the Australian National Dictionary (1988), co-editor of the CSIRO handbook of economic plants of Australia (1993) and author of The Antarctic dictionary (CSIRO/Museum Victoria, 2000), a historical dictionary of Antarctic English. Her interests include language, the polar regions, history, food and food plants.

She is now working on a comprehensive historical dictionary of Antarctic and Arctic English, and editing the 1953 Heard Island diaries of Australian John Bechervaise.

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Zhang, Professor Wei
Dates: 15 January 2008 to 9 April 2008
Research Project: William Henry Donald (1875-1946) and China

For many years, Wei Zhang was a journalist for Beijing Review, the most prominent English news weekly in China. He won several Chinese national awards including the Golden Shield Literature Prize for Escape from Hokkaido in 1985 and the Chinese Youth Daily Best Feature Stories for the investigative reporting Big Hotels: Rise and Fall in 1987. In early 1990s, He studied at the University of Sydney, where he obtained an MA. In 1993, He was awarded an Australian Government scholarship and studied at the University of Technology, Sydney obtaining a Ph.D in journalism in 1996. He worked as the Chief Editor for Golf Magazine (Beijing) and was appointed as professor of journalism and director of Centre for Australian Studies at Hebei University and then professor of journalism and director of Centre for International Communication Studies at Nanjing University. In 2005, he established the centre for Environmental Journalism & International Communication Studies at Shandong University at Weihai, where he has been the Centre director and professor of journalism until the present.

Professor Zhang’s research interests include cross-culture studies, international communication studies, Australia China relations and environmental journalism. His book Politics and Freedom of the Press (Sydney: Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, UTS, 1997) is suggested as the “first comprehensive and analytical work in the field of comparative journalism between Australia and China” (The Independent Daily). His book Comparative Journalism: Methodology and Case Studies (Guangzhou: Southern Daily Press, 2002) received the Nanjing University Excellence Award for Academic Works in 2004 and his book The Mass Media in Australia (Beijing: Peking University press 2003) won the Australia-China Council Book Prize 2003-04. His award wining projects include translation project of The Story of Sydney Chinese by Dr Shirley Fitzgerald (The City Council of Sydney, 1999); translation project of Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea by Eric Rolls (Australian Council for the Arts, 2000) and research project of Environmental Journalism: Australia, China and the World (The Australia China Council Competitive Project 2003-04).

Professor Zhang acted as an editor for the ACBC sponsored annual publication Australia China Business 2006 and 2007 (Chinese editions) and is the chief editor for China Environmental Journalism Studies Net (http://ejic.wh.sdu.edu.cn).

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Lindfors, Professor Bernth
Dates: 21 January 2008 to 14 April 2008
Research Project: The Life and Times of Ira Aldridge

A scholar once commented that there must be more than one Bernth O. Lindfors, given the range of roles he has played in African literature. He is literary scholar and critic, editor, bibliographer, literary traveler, and locator of obscure manuscripts and texts. But indeed, there is only one Bernth Lindfors.
Lindfors was born in a small village near the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. Two and a half years later, his family settled in Mamaroneck, New York, where his father owned and managed Lindy’s Diner. When he was in the sixth grade, his family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut and Lindfors and his brother were sent to Mount Hermon, a boys’ boarding school in Massachusetts.
The school helped Lindfors prepare for Oberlin College. While there, he enjoyed playing varsity soccer and lacrosse. His soccer team earned the nickname the “scoreless wonders” because although the team scored hardly any goals, they went undefeated due to draws. His prowess as a center halfback in soccer earned him All-American honors and he still holds two Oberlin records in lacrosse. These achievements led to his induction into the Oberlin College Athletic Hall of Fame.
Ten days after college graduation he married classmate Judith Wells. They immediately went off to Harvard University to study for a master’s degree in teaching, and the following year he worked toward his degree in English at Northwestern, while Judith taught second grade in Evanston, Illinois.
At that point they made a decision that changed the direction of their lives. A program called Teachers for East Africa recruited them both to teach in Kenya where they would teach English, history and geography at a boys’ boarding school for the next two years. The school had a very rigid screening process allowing about 240 students from an area in Western Kenya of about a million people, attracting the brightest and most dedicated students.
“Because Africa was being decolonized towards the end of the 1950s, there was a rather rapid withdrawal of British and French administrations, and African countries were becoming independent very quickly,” Lindfors said. “One consequence of that in East Africa was that as British expatriates were leaving, they were being replaced by educated Kenyans who were mainly school teachers. As a result, the schools were in some difficulty because they didn’t have enough staff members.”
The Lindfors started a family, and during school holidays they traveled throughout East Africa, visiting game parks, attending independence celebrations in Tanganyika and Uganda, and even climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Lindfors also started reading literary works written by African authors.
Excited by what he read, he started looking for a doctoral program in English flexible enough to allow him to write a dissertation on African literature. Thanks to government and Ford Foundation fellowships, he was able to do this at UCLA, which was building a large African Studies Center.
In 1969, he accepted a faculty position at The University of Texas at Austin, enticed by the opportunity to create a journal, Research in African Literatures, that would serve as a network of communication for people involved in African literature. The publication has become one of the premier journals in its field and is in its 35th year—Lindfors has served as editor for 20 of those years.
He has made regular trips to Africa to conduct his own research and to meet African writers and scholars. His work is held in high-esteem and has been supported by grants from the University Research Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Program, the American Philosophical Society, the American Library Association and the Guggenheim Foundation. He also received several NEH grants to conduct summer seminars on African literature for American college teachers; three of these were in Austin and one in South Africa, co-directed with Dr. David Attwell, professor and chair of English at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a former doctoral student of Lindfors.
“It may be surprising, but from the perspective of prospective graduate students from Africa, and of established literary scholars, Austin, Texas was a kind of Mecca of African literary scholarship throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s,” Attwell said. “It was only on arrival in Austin that one realized the extent to which the enormous institution of African literary studies at Texas depended largely on the achievements of one man.
“At the time, with South Africa isolated from the rest of the African continent, it was indeed a rare privilege to be able to share the graduate experience with young scholars from elsewhere in Africa who had made a similar journey,” he added. “In this respect, Texas and the particular chemistry of Bernth’s presence made possible a collegiality that was denied to us on our own continent.”
Lindfors has continued to make overwhelming contributions to his field. It was greatly at his urging that the English Department created the graduate specialization in Ethnic and Third World Literatures, a program ranked third in the country by U.S. News and World Report. He is also the author of 10 books, the latest of which will be published this spring.
Perhaps one of his greatest contributions was the recent donation of his personal library to the University of Natal in South Africa. It has taken Lindfors 40 years to compile a collection of 12,000 books, more than 300 journals, manuscripts, audio and videotapes and transcripts—representing the literature of almost the entire continent.
In 2000, Lindfors received the university’s Career Research Excellence Award and the African Studies Associations’ Distinguished Africanist Award. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates, one from the university of Umea in Sweden in 1989, and the other from the University of Natal in 2002.

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Stein, A/Professor Arlene
Dates: 3 February 2008 to 26 April 2008
Research Project: The 'Second Generation's' Quest for Holocaust Memory

Arlene Stein is a sociologist whose work examines the intersection of identities, culture, and social change. She is the author of three books and the editor of two collections of essays. Among them is The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights, an ethnographic study of a conservative Christian campaign to restrict sexual rights. Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation, an earlier work, examines the impact of feminism on women’s sexual identities. She is currently studying culture and trauma; specifically, how children of atrocity, born after genocide and mass death, come to understand their familial histories, and how they use this information, individually and collectively, to engage, work through, and represent the past. 

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Sorce Keller, Professor Marcello
Dates: 10 February 2008 to 5 May 2008
Research Project: Mediterranean Diaspora in Australia: Collective Biography and Memory of Immigration Groups through Music

Marcello Sorce Keller, born in Milan in 1947, is both a Swiss and Italian citizen. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory where he graduated in composition, later obtained a Laurea Degree in sociology from Milan University, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Illinois, USA.

Over the years he has been mostly interested in the areas of ethnomusicology and sociology of music and taught in several institutions, in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland. Several years ago he quit full-time teaching, in order to better pursue his interests in research and composition. Since then he has held graduate seminars at the Milan Conservatory, the Accademia della Scala/Università Bocconi (Milan, Italy), Zurich University, and was twice honorary Scholar in Residence at the School of Music of Monash University in Melbourne. This coming Fall he will be Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.

Marcello Sorce Keller is at the present time Honorary Corresponding Member of the “Unit for Mediterranean and Black Sea Studies” at the School of Music of Monash University in Melbourne, and is in charge of the organization of the 14th Seminar on the “Anthropology of Music in the Mediterranean”, hosted by the Fondazione Levi, and program committee member for the organization of the next conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, to be held in Columbus, Ohio, in October 2007.

Among other fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright, he was a recipient of a Fellowship and Travel Grant to attend the session “Musical Ideas and Musical Institutions” (Session 189) of the Salzburg Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria, in 1979.

PUBLICATIONS. Marcello Sorce Keller is the author of the following books: Note in libertà (Lugano 2005), Musica e sociologia (Ricordi 1996), and Tradizione orale e canto corale: ricerca musicologica in Trentino (Bologna 1991) and contributed entries, articles and reviews to reference works and journals: J.J. Nattiez (ed.) Enciclopedia della Musica Einaudi , The American Grove Dictionary of Music, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Ethnomusicology, The Music Review, Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Notes, Sonus, Musiktheorie, La Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, Journal of General Education, Enciclopedia Europea Garzanti, Encyclopedia della Musica Garzanti, Dizionario Enciclopedico della Musica e dei Musicisti UTET, Studi Donizettiani, Musica/Realtà, Musica Domani, ISME Yearbook, Etnie, La musica popolare, International Journal of Music Education, Italian Quarterly, Analisi. He also contributed to collective works such as, among others, T. Magrini (ed.), Universi sonori, Einaudi 2002; Barbara Haggh (ed.), Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, Paris-Tours, Minerve, 2001; S. Blum (ed.), Culture Contact Through Music, IMS, Melbourne 1994; T. Magrini (ed.), Antropologia della musica e culture mediterranee, Bologna 1993; M. de Natale, Analisi della struttura melodica, Milano 1988. In collaboration with Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) M. Sorce Keller has in preparation a collective volume, The Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean: Interpretation, Performance, Identity (Bologna, Clueb, in course of publication).
Marcello's Website: http://www.rodoni.ch/marcellosorcekeller/homepagemsk.html

His favorite hobby is to produce musical programs for the Radio of Italian Switzerland, and some of his radio talks are available in the Web site of the Radio of Italian Switzerland, and were published as a book: http://www.rtsi.ch/trasm/note/
Marcello Sorce Keller was a co-founder of the Società Italiana di Educazione Musicale, of Analisi (quarterly of the Società Italiana di Analisi Musicale), of CH-EM (Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology), and of the Swiss-Italian Chapter of the Swiss Musicological Society (and its first president).
He is presently on the editorial board of the following journals: Music and Antropology, Spectrum – Rivista di Analisi e Pedagogia Musicale, Cenobio – Rivista Trimestrale di Cultura. He writes a regular column in Verifiche – Cultura e politica dell’educazione.
A native speaker of Italian, Marcello Sorce Keller, also speaks English, French, and German.

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Britain, Dr Ian
Dates: 3 March 2008 to 21 May 2008
Research Project: The Lives of Donald Friend: Towards a Biography of an Australian Artist in an International Social Setting.

Ian Britain was born in India in 1948. He is a graduate of the Australian National University and Monash and Oxford universities. His books include Fabianism and Culture (1982) and Once An Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes (1997). He also co-edited (with Brenda Niall) The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays (1997). He had been editor of Meanjin since 2001.

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Sandell, Dr Richard
Dates: 1 to30 April 2008
Research Project: Museums and Human Rights

Richard Sandell is the Director and Head of the Department of Museum Studies at University of Leicester.

His primary research interests focus on the social agency and changing roles and purposes of museums. He recently published the findings from a major research project, carried out over six years, which explored the potential for museums to counter prejudice and promote cross-cultural understanding between communities. In Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference (Routledge 2006) he argues that museums have the potential to frame, inform and enable the conversations which visitors and society more broadly, have about difference. Building on this work, his current research is exploring the museum’s relationship with human rights.

Richard is also currently co-director, with Jocelyn Dodd, of a two year project entitled Rethinking Disability Representation. This project explores the role that museums and galleries might play in challenging prejudice on the basis of disability by informing the ways in which people think about disability and understand disabled peoples lives. The project, instigated and managed by the Department’s research centre (RCMG) and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and NESTA involves 9 museums across the UK working with a think tank of disabled activists, artists and cultural practitioners to develop new approaches to the interpretation and display of collections linked to disability. The project, which runs until the summer of 2008, builds on the findings of an earlier project, Buried in the Footnotes which was funded through the AHRB’s Innovation Awards scheme.

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Inglis, Professor Fred
Dates: 11 April 2008 to 15 May 2008
Research Project: R.G. Collinwood: the biography, with special reference to his founding a contribution to an historical science of human affairs

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, and studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Bristol.
Inglis has frequently written for The Nation, the New Statesman and The Independent and contributes regularly to BBC Radio. He is a member of the Fabian Society and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament on four occasions.

Principal publications

• Culture: key concepts in the social sciences, Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press, 198 pp.2004.
• People's Witness: the journalist in modern politics, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, 416pp.
• The Delicious History of the Holiday, London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 206pp + 23 illustrations.
• Clifford Geertz: culture, custom and ethics, Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press, 2000, 206pp.
• Raymond Williams: the life, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, xx + 332pp.
• Cultural Studies, Oxford and Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1993, 270pp.
• The Cruel Peace: everyday life and the Cold War, New York: Basic Books, 1991, xx + 402pp, London: Aurum Books, 1992.
• Media Theory, Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 214pp + tables (translated into Japanese and Portuguese 1993; into Croatian 1997; into Finnish 1998).
• Radical Earnestness: English social theory 1880-1980, Oxford and Cambridge MA: Martin Robertson with Basil Blackwell, 1982, 253pp.

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Kun, Mr Yang
Telephone: 02 6125 59873 / Email: yang.kun@anu.edu.au
Dates: 17 May 2008 to TBA
Research Project: East Asia Institute of Visual Anthropology: Media Images of Yunnan—A Reflection on the Visual Representation of Yunnan in Socio-cultural Anthropology Studies.
1985—1989 undergraduate studies in English Literature and Linguistics at the Dept. of Foreign Languages, Shandong University
1989—1999 taught English for non-English majors at Yunnan Agricultural University; finished one-year postgraduate courses of English linguistics and literature at Dalian University of Foreign Languages (1994-1995); received a two-year part-time training for the 99’Kunming International Horticultural Exposition as an English interpreter (1997-1999);
worked as the interpreter for Mr. Keith Blunt—the head coach of China’s national youth football team (1999)
1999—2002 postgraduate studies in Socio-cultural Anthropology at the Dept. of Anthropology, Yunnan University
1999—2000 one-year training on visual anthropology at East Asia Institute of Visual Anthropology (EAIVA), Yunnan University, received a certificate that contents and requirements are equivalent to those of the degree of Master of Arts course on visual anthropology at Manchester University, UK, all courses are given in English.
2001—2003 two-year advanced course in Visual Anthropology supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Keifenheim at EAIVA

Academic achievements
—one of the main translators and revisers of the Chinese version of Principles of Visual Anthropology (Paul Hockings Ed.), Yunnan University Press, 2001
—co-writer of the book Wa, based on one-month fieldwork in Cangyuan County in southwest Yunnan, Yunnan University Press, 2001
—an article on Visual Anthropology Image Representation—Who Versus Whom, submitted to “the Conference on History and Anthropology” at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, 2001
—M.A. thesis The State, Power and Culture Reviewed in the Social History of Gejiu, 1885—1949, based on a six-month fieldwork in the city of Gejiu, Yunnan, 2002
—translated and interpreted two academic papers including the Keynote Address by Prof. Dr. Barbara Keifenheim, which were dedicated to the International Conference on Visual Anthropology: Opening up to the Future 2004
—engaged as a visual expert in the Participatory Education Project in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Region, conducted by Prof. Guo Jing (YASS) and sponsored by the Ford Foundation

Documentary filmmaking
—ethnographic film First Touch With Ing, director, cameraman, sound-engineer, editor in cooperation with He Yuan, 2000/DV /23mins, this film participated in “Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival” as a student film, 2002
—participated in the documentary film Slow as cameraman, 2002/DV/54mins
—participated in the documentary film Jade Green Station as cameraman, 2003/DV/122mins
—documentary film For the Sake of Your Education, director, cameraman, sound-engineer, editor; 2004/DV /62mins

Social activities
—one of the core organizers of “Kunming Film-study Group”, which has organized film screenings and discussions at Yunnan University and other public spheres since the year 2000, and so far has compiled and printed 5 issues of “Filmnotes” (underground)accordingly
—one of the planners and hosts of “Kunming Visual Forum”, taking place each week at Yunnan University, the Yunnan Provincial Museum, Yunnan Arts Institute, Yunnan Nationalities University
—one of the three organizers of the I Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival (March 21—27, 2003), major translator and editor of Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival Brochure, Yunnan People’s Publishing House, 2003.
—one of the three organizers of the II Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival (March 21—27, 2003), translator and reviser of Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival Brochure, self-reliantly printed out, 2005.
—one of the three organizers of the III Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival (April 6—12, 2007) (website: www.yunfest.org) translator and reviser of Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival Brochure, self-reliantly printed out, 2007.

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Brien, Associate Professor Donna Lee
Dates: 19 May 2008 to 25 August 2008
Research Project: A biographical study of Australian food writers (with focus on culinary memoir)

Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien holds the position of Head, School of Arts and Creative Enterprise at Central Queensland University

She has widely published on writing and publishing, creative non-fiction; teaching creative and professional writing; biography, autobiography and memoir writing and publishing, including books, refereed articles, and professional/popular articles.

Her biography John Power 1881-1943 is the standard work on this expatriate artist and benefactor (and is in its third printing), and she is co-author of the popular self-help books Girl’s Guide to Real Estate: How to Enjoy Investing in Property and Girl’s Guide to Work and Life: How to Create the Life you Want (10,000 copies of each sold). Donna is widely published in the academic areas of writing pedagogy and praxis, and collaborative practice in the arts.

She has industry experience as a project manager for private, corporate and government bodies including the Sydney Cove Authority, Powerhouse Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art (all Sydney); and numerous contemporary artists including artist and entrepreneur Ken Done.

Founding co-editor of dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing and Assistant Editor of Imago: New Writing and Imago: Online, Donna is currently an Associate Editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (UK), and is on the Board of Readers for Writing Macao.

Donna is the President of the Australian Association of Writing Programs and in 2006 was has awarded a Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

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Fitzpatrick, Professor Sheila
Dates: 25 May 2008 to 20 July 2008
Research Project: A World-War-II Odyssey: Michael Danos en route from Riga to Germany to New York

Sheila Fitzpatrick is primarily a historian of modern Russia. Her recent work has focused on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly everyday practices and social identity. She is currently working on projects on Soviet society under Khrushchev, displaced persons in Germany after the Second World War, and the Australian Left. In 2002, she received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is a past President of the American Association for Slavic and East European Studies.

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Pennacini, Dr Cecilia
Dates: 9 June 2008 to 31 August 2008
Research Project: Images and Intercultural Communication

Cecilia Pennacini (Turin, Italy, 1961), studied cinematographic direction in Milan and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, were she achieved her Ph.D. in 1996 with a Dissertation on the Spirit Possession Cult of the Great Lakes’ Region of Africa. Having worked for several years for RAI, Radio Televisione Italiana, as Assistant Director and Director, she then became Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, Department of Anthropological, Archaeological and Historical-territorial Sciences. She teaches Ethnology and Visual Anthropology at the University of Turin and at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naple. Since 1988 she has been a member of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Equatorial Africa (supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), becoming Director of the Mission in 2004. She has been carrying out ethnological research in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda) and in South Africa. She is now responsible for a Cooperation Agreement between the University of Turin and Makerere University (Uganda); she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the African Studies Centre in Turin, and she is now its Scientific Responsible. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Intercultural Centre of the City of Turin.
She has published extensively in the field of the anthropology of Africa and on Visual Anthropology, and has directed several films, videos and TV programmes. She has been the scientific curator of exhibitions on Africa, in Italy and Uganda.

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Frost, Professor Lucy
Dates: 1 July 2008 to31 August 2008
Research Project: Scottish Convicts as Women Travellers

Professor Lucy Frost teaches in the English program at University of Tasmania, and has particular interests in how the past is ‘read’, and in how those readings are translated into what is called ‘cultural heritage’. At present she is asking how one ‘reads’ the experiences of female convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land, and how one turns those readings into the products of cultural heritage tourism. She has an ARC Discovery Grant to look at female convicts as women travellers; is a member of the Board of the Female Factory Historic Site (Cascades); co-convenor of the Female Factory Research Group; and a member of the Board of the Tasman Institute for Conservation and Convict Studies. In 2005 with the support provided by a grant from the Sustainable Tourism CRC she created the first site-specific guide to the Female Factory, Footsteps and Voices, which was launched in November at the Female Factory Muster, of which she was co-convenor.

Lucy’s research interests are currently located at the nexus where pure basic research intersects with applied research. Much of her work is inter-disciplinary, and some involves industry partners. Her most recent projects and the grants that support them are:
Female Convicts as Women Travellers, ARC Discovery Grant (2003-5). Sole chief investigator.
The Silent Buildings of Willow Court: Testing a Cultural Heritage Assessment Model, ARC Linkage Grant (2003-5). First-named chief investigator; in collaboration with historian Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and industry partners.
Within these Walls: A Guide to the Female Factory, CRC Sustainable Tourism Grant (2004). Sole chief investigator.
The Female Factory Muster, Tasmanian Bicentenary Grant (2004). First-named chief investigator; in collaboration with historian Dr Alison Alexander.

List of Professor Frost's publication can be read here.

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Smiles, Professor Sam
Dates: 11 July 2008 to 19 July 2008
Research Project: Late Work

Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth. His publications include The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (Yale, 1994); Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain 1770-1830 (Ashgate 2000); and, as editor, Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image (Blackwell, 2005). For Tate he has written J.M.W. Turner (2000) and The Turner Book (2006) and curated the exhibition Light into Colour: Turner in the South West for Tate St Ives (2006). His most recent book, J.M.W. Turner: The Making of a Modern Artist, was published by Manchester University Press in 2007. He is currently examining Turner's later work as part of a more general investigation of ‘late style’ within art history.

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Song, Dr Xianlin
Dates: 6 July 2008 to 30 August 2008
Research Project:Forging New Identities, Women's Writing and the Extension of Human Rights in China

B.A., Dip. Ed (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Ph.D. (Queensland University). Dr Song is a senior lecture at the Centre for Asian Studies, the University of Adelaide. Dr Song has a special interest in Cultural Studies and Chinese literature. She has published widely on Chinese women’s writing and cultural semiotics. She is currently working with Professor Kay Schaffer on a joint research project: Forging New Identities, Women's Writing and the Extension of Human Rights in China.

Research Interests
Chinese visions of national characteristics
Semiotic changes in contemporary China
Post-Tiananmen narratives
Governmental discourses
Gender and feminist writing in contemporary China
 
Recent Publications:
Song Xianlin (2007) with K. Schaffer, ‘Unruly Spaces: Gender, Women’s Writing and Indigenous Feminism in China,’ Journal of Gender Studies (Vol.16, No.1, March 2007), pp.17-30.

Song, X (2006) with K. Schaffer, ‘Narrative, Trauma and Memory: Chen Ran’s A Private Life, Tiananmen Square and Female Embodiment’, Asian Studies Review (Vol.30, June 2006), pp.161-173.

Song, X (2006) with K. Schaffer, ‘Writing Beyond the Wall: Translation, Cross-Cultural Exchange and Chen Ran’s A Private Life?’ Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (Vol. 3, no.2, July 2006), at http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal

Song, X (2005) ‘Signs of the Times: the Discourse of ‘Three Represents’, East Asia: an International Quarterly (Durham, UK) (Fall, Vol.22, No. 3), pp. 25-40.

Song, X. (2003) ‘Reconstructing the Confucian Ideal in 1980s China: The Culture Craze and New Confucianism’, in What Is New Confucianism? John Makeham (ed.), New York: Palgrave, pp. 81-104.

Song, X. (2002) ‘Signs of the Times: Commercial Neologisms in China’, Semiotica, Vol.141/1-4, pp.145-158.

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Cousineau-Levine, Professor Penny
Dates: 7 July 2008 to 15 August 2008
Research Project: Masquerade/Burlesque/Disguise

Penny Cousineau-Levine is an art writer and theoretician with a particular interest in photography and performance art. Her book Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination was the first in-depth examination of Canadian photography and identity. Her writing has also appeared in Afterimage, Canadian Art, Parachute and other art journals, and in numerous exhibition catalogues. She is currently working on her second book on the strategy of masquerade in contemporary art.

Penny Cousineau-Levine has taught at the University of Moncton, Concordia University and University of Ottawa. At Concordia, she has taught several studio & seminar courses in the M.F.A. in Photography Program, supervised numerous M.F.A. thesis projects and participated in end of semester M.F.A. critiques. Ms Cousineau-Levine currently heads the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Fields of interest
History and Theory of Photography
Canadian art and identity
Masquerade in photography and performance art

Recent publications (selected)
Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2003.
Alone, Gallery TPW in collaboration with Gallery 44, Toronto, 2006

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Trodd, Ms Zoe
Dates: 21 July 2008 to 22 August 2008
Research Project: Those Who Come After: Protest Autobiography and the Recovered Life of Creative Abolitionism

Zoe Trodd is on the Tutorial Board in the History and Literature department at Harvard University, where she lectures on American protest literature. Her books include Meteor of War: the John Brown Story (Blackwell, 2004), American Protest Literature (Harvard University Press, 2006), The Long Civil Rights Movement (Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2007), To Plead Our Own Cause: Narratives of Modern Slavery (Cornell University Press, 2008), and Modern Slavery (OneWorld, 2008). She has also published numerous articles on protest literature, activist history, ethnic autobiography, and visual culture.

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Hillman, A/Professor Roger
Dates: 15 July 2008 to15 September 2008
Research Project: Representing Gallipoli: from National to Transnational Myth

Dr Roger Hillman is a reader in the German Studies Program in the School of Language Studies and in the Film Studies Program in the School of Humanities, The Australian National University.
Research Interests:
European literature (especially German and French), European Cinema (especially German and Italian), music, narrative, film music.
Recent Publications:
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, Ideology (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005), 219 pp.
Reading Images, Viewing Texts: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives, coed. Louise Maurer (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), 227 pp.(with Hendrik Blumentrath, Julia Bodenburg and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf) Antipodean Visions of Transcultural Societies: Ein australisch-deutsches Forschungsprojekt zu Filmen der Gegenwart. KulturPoetik: Journal for Cultural Poetics 5/2 (2005), 203-224.
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999): A Turkish Director’s Western Showdown in Berlin. Post Script 25/2 (Winter/Spring 2006), 44-55.
Goodbye Lenin (2003): History in the Subjunctive. Rethinking History 10/2 (June 2006), 221-237.
Film and Music, or Instabilities of National Identity. In: Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations, ed. Natascha Gentz and Stefan Kramer (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006), 143-51.
In the Eye of the Story: Film, Music, Narrative. In: Reading Images, Viewing Texts (see above), 145-61.
‘Heimat 3’, in Rouge 6 (2005), http://www.rouge.com.au/6/heimat.html
Entries on ‘Lessons of Darkness’ (vol. 2, 789-90) and ‘Music’ (vol. 2, 937-38) in Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).

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Parsons, Professor Neil
Telephone: 02 612 50528 / Email: neil.parsons@anu.edu.au
Dates: 4 August 2008 to 31 October 2008

Professor of history at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, where also teaches some cinema studies. First went to Botswana as a teenage volunteer before returning to England. Took his first degree at what was to become the University of North London, and postgraduate qualifications including a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. First academic teaching job was teaching history at the University of Zambia, followed by the University College of Swaziland. Thereafter a researcher in education and freelance textbook author in Botswana and England, culminating in a visiting appointment at the University of Cape Town and taking up his present position at the University of Botswana in 1996.

First major work was co-editing The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa (Heinemann, 1977), and his last book was King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes (Chicago, 1998). His next book, Clicko the Wild Dancing Bushman (Chicago & Jacana), is with the press.

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DATUIN, Dr Flaudette
Telephone: 02 612 54159 / Email: flaudette.datuin@anu.edu.au
Dates: 8 September 2008 to 1 December 2008
Research Project: Trauma, Art and Healing: Art as Transport Station.

Flaudette May V. Datuin (www.trauma-interrupted.org/datuin) obtained her masteral and PhD degrees in Philippine Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Currently serving as Associate Professor, Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines (UP), she is also founding Chair of the House of Comfort Art Network, Inc. or ARTHOC (www.trauma-interrupted.org/arthoc), co-founder and editor of Ctrl+P, a digital journal of contemporary art (www.ctrlp-artjournal.org), and Manikako, a nonprofit organization that conducts doll-making workshops with students and less privileged children (www.manikako.com; www.barbingpinay.multiply.com). She is author of Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to the Present (University of the Philippines Press, (2002). Datuin is recipient of the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF) and Asian Public Intellectual (API) fellowships, which enabled her to conduct research on contemporary women artists of China and Korea (2002-2003) and Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan (2004-2005). These and other research works she conducted since 1997 inform her curatorial projects, including trauma, interrupted (www.trauma-interrupted.org), an international art project on trauma, art and healing, which includes ongoing forums and workshops, and an exhibit at the Cultural Center of the Philippines held June-July 2007; REMAP Asia, the Asian section of video works she curated for the 2005 EMAP annual multi-media project of Ewha Women's University in Seoul; and Women Imaging Women, a series of exhibits-conferences featuring women artists from Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand held in Manila, in 1998 and 1999. Datuin is also editor of a forthcoming book (Sorrell Publishing Co: New York) on an important Filipina artist – Alter(n)/ations on the Art of Imelda Cajipe Endaya.

Jackson, Dr Clare
Telephone: 02 612 50722 / Email: jclj1@cam.ac.uk
Dates: 1 October 2008 to 24 December 2008
Research Project: A Biography of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (c 1636 -91)

Dr. Clare Jackson is Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and editor of the Historical Journal. She is the author of Restoration Scotland. Royalist politics, religion and ideas 1660-1690 (2003) and a number of articles on aspects of the history of ideas in early modern Britain. Further details are available at http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/jackson.html. She is currently researching a biography of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (c1636-91), a former Lord Advocate and Scots jurist, and is thereby particularly interested in a range of historiographical and methodological issues associated with early modern legal biography and related forms of life-writing.

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Stanley, Dr Peter
Telephone: 02 612 58962 / Email: pstanley@nma.gov.au
Dates: 1 October 2008 to 30 November 2008
Research Project: Multiple Lives on Mont St Quentin

Dr Peter Stanley is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia. From 1980 to 2007 he worked at the Australian War Memorial, where he was Principal Historian for twenty years. Peter has published widely in the field of Australian and British military and social history. His twenty books include Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy, White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India, 1825-75, For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790-1850 and Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli. His Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942 and A Stout Pair of Boots: Discovering Australia's Battlefields, will be published in July and December 2008. His current project, Between Victory and Death: Men of Mont St Quentin, traces a 12-man platoon of Australian soldiers into battle and follows the eight survivors through the rest of their lives, a unique project for Australia. Having worked in museums for almost thirty years, Peter is particularly interested in the material dimensions of history.

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