Hince, Dr Bernadette
Telephone: 02 6125 9798 / Email: bernadette.hince@anu.edu.au
Dates: 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009

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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EDMUNDS, Dr Mary
Dates: 1 January 2009 to 31 March 2009
Research Project: Encounter between modernity and human rights

Mary Edmunds is a social anthropologist who has worked in Thailand, Spain, and Aboriginal Australia. Her key focus has been on social change, the impact of modernisation on traditional groups, and the role of human rights in these arenas. Her work engages the often contested nexus between theory and practice, with the objective of achieving practical results and the practical application of research findings. She was Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (1995-1998), a member of the National Native Title Tribunal (1995-2003) and of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (2001-2004). During her time at the Research School of Humanities (from 2006), she has been preparing a manuscript based on her fieldwork over twenty-five years, on the encounter between modernity and human rights. She is currently working as the lead negotiator for Rio Tinto Iron Ore to reach agreement with Pilbara native title groups and is an Acting Commissioner for the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.

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KUN, Mr Yang
Email: yang.kun@anu.edu.au
Dates: 1 January 2009 to 11 May 2009
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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LOWISH, Dr Susan
Dates: 8 January 2009 to 1 April 2009
Research Project: An art history for Aboriginal Art: From Oenpelli to Ernabella

Dr Susan Lowish is an early career researcher and was recent appointed as Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. She has been teaching and developing new subjects in the area of Australian art for the past 3 years, including an 18-day winter intensive focusing on Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory. Susan has published several articles, book chapters, and catalogue essays on issues surrounding the intersection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian art histories, including Recognising Indigenous Aesthetics for the inaugural Western Australian Premier’s Indigenous Art Awards 2008. Currently Susan is working on a book about the history of early writing on Indigenous art based on her PhD research. Whilst in Canberra, she hopes to further her knowledge of exhibitions and publications relating to Australian Indigenous art, and to enquire into the effective use of electronic databases in recording Indigenous art history.

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JOLLY, Professor Rosemary
Dates: 15 March 2009 to 20 April 2009
Research Project: Humans at the Limit: HIV/AIDS and the En-gendering of Genocide in sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Jolly is principal investigator of a project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, on gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, located in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; and co-investigator of a SSHRCC project comparing syphilis and related STIs prior to penicillin and contemporary HIV/AIDS in the rural South African context.  These projects are situated in the nexus of public health, cultural and human rights discourses (see “For Northern Displacements: Understanding the Meaning of Madness in Global Constructions of AIDS,” The Global South 1.1 (Winter 2007):55-65).  She is completing an ms. for Chicago and Liverpool University |Presses on the role of South African narratives in conceptualizations of human rights, and the violation of those rights, in post-apartheid culture (see “’Going to the Dogs’: Humanity in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, The Lives of Animals and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” in Poyner, ed. J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual (Ohio UP, 2006): 148-171.

Dr. Jolly is a recipient of the Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence.

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GILES, Professor Paul
Dates: 1 February 2009 to 24 April 2009
Research Project: Empires Upside Down: Britain, Australasia, and the Constitution of American Literature

Paul Giles is Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.  Among his books are Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (OUP, 2006); Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2002); Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 (Pennsylvania, 2001); American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (CUP, 1992); Hart Crane: The Contexts of The Bridge (CUP, 1986).  He served as Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford between 2003 and 2008, and as President of the International American Studies Association between 2005 and 2007.

His current research involves completing a book for Princeton University Press, The Global Remapping of American Literature, and a project tentatively entitled Empires Upside Down: Britain, Australasia, and the Constitution of American Literature. An early piece from this project, Antipodean American Literature: Franklin, Twain, and the Sphere of Subalternity, was published in American Literary History, 20, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008). 

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WHITLOCK, Professor Gillian
Dates: 3-21 February 2009 and then 12 March to 17 April 2009
Research Project: Posthuman Autobiography: the precarious subjects of contemporary life narrative

Gillian Whitlock is a Professor of English in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland and a graduate of Queen's University in Canada.  Her most recent book, "Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit", is a sstudy of life narrative and the "war on terror" published by Chicago UP in 2007.  Her earlier monograph, "The Intimate Empire", is a postcolonial study of women's autobiography, published by Continuum in 2000. She is editor and coeditor of 6 books in the fields of Australian Studies, autobiography and postcolonialism, and in 2007 coedited special issues of the journals Biography, Life Writing and Journal of Studies in Australian Literature.  Her current research interest is testimony, human rights and the limits of the human, and at the HRC she will be working with Dr Rosanne Kennedy (ANU) and Professor Rosemary Jolley (Queen's) on testimony and trauma, co-convening a special HRC conference in April 2008.  She was elected to the Academy of the Humanities in 2007.

RUBENSTEIN, Professor Kim
Dates: 9 February 2009 to 31 May 2009
Research Project: A biography of Joan Montgomery AM OBE

Kim Rubenstein is Professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) in the ANU College of Law, Australian National University. Kim’s current research projects are at the cutting edge of the intersection between public and international law. Her public law work spans constitutional and administrative law, and also includes her expertise in citizenship law. Over the past 11 years she has analysed the legal status of citizen, and considered the differences between that formal notion and the broader normative understanding of citizenship as membership of a community. Her book, Australian Citizenship Law in Context (Lawbook, 2002) represents much of that core work, looking at the disjuncture between the exclusive legal notion and the more inclusive normative understanding of citizenship. In 2002-2003 she was based at Georgetown University Law Center, having won the prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar award to study the status of nationality in an international law context. Recently Kim initiated an international research network on feminism and constitutional law and, in 2004, ran a workshop looking at issues of feminism and federalism with participants from the US, Canada and Australia. Her international law research continues with the work she was developing at Georgetown and she has been invited to various international workshops and conferences to present her work. Kim is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. Her graduate work at Harvard was supported by the Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship to Harvard, a Fulbright postgraduate award, and a Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust award. She spent 12 years at the University of Melbourne developing her academic career. Kim’s interests also encompass teaching (where she has co-authored a book on Feedback) and the broader field of education, particularly women’s education. She is currently completing a biography of Joan Montgomery OBE, former Principal of Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne, and an influential educator. In addition to her scholarly work, Kim has made a significant contribution to the greater community. She has done so through media work and public community education. In the practical legal sphere, Kim has made significant contributions to the jurisprudence in citizenship. She has now appeared three times in the High Court of Australia on citizenship matters and her work was cited in the judgment of Singh v Commonwealth (2004).

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VINCENT, Professor Andrew
Dates: 9 February 2009 to 5 May 2009
Research Project: Human Rights and Rich Cosmopolitanism

Andrew Vincent is Professor of Political Theory at Sheffield University and Director of the Sheffield Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies. He has taught at the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff and was a visiting Professor of Political Theory in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004-5). He has been Visiting Fellow on several occasions at the Australian National University. He is widely respected as a political theorist with a broad range of specialisms in political and moral philosophy, contemporary political ideologies, nationalism, state theory, nineteenth and twentieth century moral and political thought and philosophical idealism He is author of Philosophy Politics and Citizenship (with R. Plant) (1984), Theories of the State (1987), Modern Political Ideologies (1992 and 2nd edition 1995), A Radical Hegelian: The Social and Political Philosophy of Henry Jones (with David Boucher) (1993), British Idealism and Political Theory (with David Boucher) (2001), Nationalism and Particularity (2002) and The Nature of Political Theory (2004), a 3rd edition of Modern Political Ideologies (2009). He is also co-editor of G.W.F. Hegel's, Philosophical Propaeduetic (1986), editor of The Philosophy of T.H. Green (1986), and Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity (1997). He currently working on human rights and cosmopolitanism.

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RAGAZZI, Dr Rossella (VCs travel grant fellow)
Dates: 10 February 2009 to 20 May 2009

Dr. Ragazzi is one of the world's leading visual anthropologists, whose visit is of particular relevance to the work of the Research School of Humanities, its graduate students, and its Centre for Research and Information Outreach (CRIO). Her research on the education and human rights of migrant children will interest scholars throughout the university concerned with migration, displacement, and diaspora and will contribute to the human rights activities of the Freilich Foundation. During her stay, Dr. Ragazzi will be preparing a book for publication based on child migration to France and Ireland. She will give a public lecture on the social agency of migrant children and present a film series entitled "Documentary Representations of Childhood". A further lecture will deal with digital research methods. She will conduct seminars and master classes with PhD students in the RSH graduate program and students in the Visual Culture Research MA program.

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CLARK, Professor Katerina
Dates: 23 February 2009 to 15 May 2009
Research Project:Europe without borders?: Cultural Interactions between Soviet and European Intellectuals, 1917-1933

PRESENT POSITION:
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University.  Member, Senior Committee for Film Studies Program (Yale)

EDUCATION:
B.A. (Honors), Melbourne University, Australia, 1963.
M.A. (Honors), Australian National University, 1967.
M. Phil., Ph.D., Russian Literature, Yale University, 1967, 1971.

BOOKS:
The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).  Paperback edition with a new Afterword, University of Chicago Press, 1985.  Third edition with new and updated Afterword, Indiana University Press, 2000.
Mikhail Bakhtin (with Michael Holquist) (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press [Harvard University Press], 1984, 1985; paperback 1986).  Translations have appeared in Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese.
Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995). Paperback edition 1998.
(With Evgeny Dobrenko) Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953 (documents with extensive commentary) (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2007).

WORK IN PROGRESS:
Europe without Borders?  Avant-Garde Interactions, 1920-1933.
Moscow, the Fourth Rome (a cultural history spanning the years 1930-1941).

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Russian culture of the twentieth century (literature, theater, film, art, architecture, opera, linguistics and scientific thought) with emphasis on the 1920s, the 1930s and the recent period.

Cultural interactions in Europe with special emphasis on the avant-garde.

CARTER, Professor David
Dates: 16 March 2009 to 30 May 2009
Research Project: Trans-Pacific Traffic: Australian-American Cultural Traffic

David Carter is Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland, where he was previously Director of the Australian Studies Centre. His most recent publications are The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia’s Intellectual Life (MUP 2004), Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (Pearson 2006), and Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (UQP 2007, ed. With Anne Galligan). He is currently researching a history of middlebrow book culture in Australia and American publishers of Australian books.

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VARADHARAJAN, A/Professor Asha
Telephone: 612 53742
Dates: 20 April 2009 to 15 July 2009
Research Project: From Babel to Cosmopolis: Rethinking Political Allegiance and Global Obligation

Asha Varadharajan is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University in Canada.  She is the author of Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak (Minnesota 1995). She is currently at work on two books, Violence and Civility in the New World Order and Enchantment and Deracination: The Lure of Foreignness in Contemporary Cinema.  Her writing and research encompass the biopolitics of citizenship, the globalization of culture, the conjunction of religion and violence, and the politics of representation in media and visual cultures.

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COLEMAN, Professor Deirdre
Dates: 9-24 April 2009 and 30 June t0 12 July 2009
Research Project: Henry Smeathman: Natural Historian, Collector, Inventor

Deirdre Coleman holds the Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne. Her research centres on eighteenth-century literature and cultural history, focussing in particular on racial ideology, colonialism, natural history, and the anti-slavery movement. She is also the chief investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage project, ‘Minds, Bodies, Machines’, with the software developer Constraint Technologies International. She has published in ELH, Eighteenth-Century Life and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is the author of Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is currently writing a biography of the flycatcher Henry Smeathman.

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FOX, Mr William (Bill)
Dates: 1 June to 31 July 2009
Telephone: 612 53036
Research Project: Art of the Anthropocene

William L. Fox, who is variously called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer, has published ten books on cognition and landscape, numerous essays in art monographs, magazines and journals, and fifteen collections of poetry. He has also an artist who has exhibited in group and solo shows in seven countries. Fox is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, and has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Clark Art Institute, and the National Museum of Australia. He is currently the lead strategist for the Nevada Museum of Art's initiatives in Art + Environment.

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AGNEW, A/Professor Vanessa
Dates: 8 June 2009 to 3 August 2009
Telephone: 612 58004
Research Project: Historical Reenactment and the German Present

Vanessa Agnew is an Associate Professor in the German Department at the University of Michigan, where she researches and teaches on the cultural history of music, travel, reenactment, and the eighteenth century. She is the author of Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2008) and a series editor for Palgrave, where Natives, Settlers, Creoles, and Historical Reenactment, co-edited with Jonathan Lamb, and Affective History and Historical Reenactment, co-edited with Jonathan Lamb and Iain McCalman, will appear in 2009. She has held research fellowships at the Australian National University, the Universität Paderborn, the National Maritime Museum, Humboldt Universität, and the Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung. She is currently working on a monograph on German historical reenactment. More information is available at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/german/faculty

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KONUK, Dr Kader
Dates: 8 June 2009 to 3 August 2009
Telephone: 612 50722
Research Project: East West Mimesis: German-Jewish Exile and Secular Humanism in Turkey

Kader Konuk is an Assistant professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is working on a book manuscript entitled East West Mimesis: German-Jewish Exile and Secular Humanism in Turkey. The manuscript follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. This transnational project asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. The project challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey’s humanist reform movement.

Kader Konuk is the author of Identitäten im Prozeß: Literatur von Autorinnen aus und in der Türkei in deutscher, englischer und türkischer Sprache (Blaue Eule 2001), a comparative investigation into novels by Sevgi Özdamar, Güneli Gün, and Latife Tekin. She is also the co-editor of AufBrüche: Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen in Deutschland, ed. with Cathy Gelbin and Peggy Piesche (Ulrike Helmer 1999). Kader Konuk was awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2007. Other fellowships were granted by the Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Studies Berlin, the Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with Monash University in Melbourne, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, and the German Research Council in cooperation with the Universität Paderborn.
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/faculty

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ANAND, Dr Dibyesh
Dates: 8 June 2009 to 18 August 2009
Telephone: 612 50528
Research Project: Rethinking cosmopolitanism in the face of muslimphobic commonsense: Bigotry

Dr Dibyesh Anand is a Reader in international relations at Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, UK. His publications are in the areas of Global Politics, Tibet, China, Hindu nationalism, and Security. He is the author of Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics (Routledge, 2008), and Hindu Nationalism in India and the and Politics of Fear (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is currently working on his book China’s Tibet (Under Contract), a research project on Sino-Indian border regions, and majority-minority relations in India and China. More details can be read at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2602

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KAUL, Dr Nitasha
Dates: 8 June 2009 to 18 August 2009
Telephone: 612 50528
Research Project:Challenges of Democratisation in the Himalayan Region: Democracy and Identity in Bhutan

Dr Nitasha Kaul is a widely-travelled writer, poet, and an academic at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, UK. Her latest book is titled ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference’ (2007). Her next book is ‘Snapshots of a Changing Kingdom: Democracy and Identity in Bhutan’. She has visited Bhutan several times and was there during the entire general election campaign in 2008. Her comments and articles on Bhutan have been published in the Guardian, Times of India, Kulturaustausch, CSD Bulletin, Edinburgh Journal, Economic and Political Weekly. She has lectured on Bhutan at Stanford University, Harvard University, and University of California Berkeley, Bhutan Society of the UK, United Nations Association, Royal University of Bhutan, and London School of Economics and Political Science. A Bhutan expert, she has been interviewed about the country on film, Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) TV, radio, and in print. Details of her publications and expertise in other research areas (critical political economy, philosophy, feminism, diaspora, postcolonial theory) can be found online or at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-3011

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McCARTHY, Dr Conal
Dates: 29 June 2009 to 21 September 2009
Research Project: Nga kakano e rua: Biculturalism at work in New Zealand museums

Dr Conal McCarthy is Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Conal has worked as a teacher, museum educator and interpretater, curator and lecturer. His research interests include museum history and theory, visitor research, Māori art, and contemporary heritage issues. His first book, a study of colonial architecture in North Otago, was published in 2002, and his second book Exhibiting Māori was published in 2007. Conal is currently conducting research for his next book which will deal with museums and biculturalism. He has presented papers at several international conferences and written articles for a number of journals including: Art New Zealand, Sites, The Journal of Australian Art Education, New Zealand Sociology, The Journal of New Zealand Literature, Museum and Society and Museum Management and Curatorship

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RUSSELL, A/Professor Penny
Dates: 27 July 2009 to 4 September 2009
Research Project: Behaving Badly: Australian Settlers and the Idea of Virtue

Penny Russell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, where she teaches Australian and gender history. Her research includes the study of gender and gentility, manners and power in colonial Australia, and a biographical study of Jane Franklin and the romance of Arctic exploration in mid-nineteenth century Britain. She has published in Gender and History, Victorian Studies and Women’s History Review, and is the author of A Wish of Distinction (1994) and This Errant Lady (2002).  She is co-editor, with Richard White, of History Australia, the journal of the Australian Historical Association. Her new research project turns attention to the idea of ‘virtue’ in colonial Australia.

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WIERZBICKA, Professor Anna
Dates: 27 July 2009 to 19 October 2009
Research Project: What makes a good life? A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective

Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has lectured extensively at universities in Europe, America and Asia.

She is the author of numerous books, including Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter 1991, 2nd edition 2003), Semantics: Primes and Universals (Oxford University Press 1996), Understanding Cultures Through Their Keywords (Oxford University Press, 1997), Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals (Cambridge University Press 1999), What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts (Oxford University Press 2001), and English: Meaning and culture (Oxford University Press, 2006). Her most recent book (in English) is Translating Lives: Living with two languages and cultures, co-edited with Mary Besemeres (University of Queensland Press, 2007).
Professor Wierzbicka’s work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, literary studies, philosophy and religious studies as well as her home discipline of linguistics, and has been published in many journals across all these disciplines.

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BOER, Professor Roland
Dates: 25 August 2009 to 17 November 2009
Research Project: The Criticism of Heaven and Earth

Apart from journeys by ship and cycling as far and as often as he can, Roland Boer is a writer and critic based at the University of Newcastle. Among numerous publications, the most recent books are Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes (Duke 2009), Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin (Westminster John Knox 2009), and Criticism of Religion (Brill 2009). During his fellowship at the RSH he is writing the last volume of a five-volume work called The Criticism of Heaven and Earth.

Dr Roland Boer's CV can be found here.

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MOORE, Dr Nicole
Dates: 1 September 2009 - 24 November 2009
Research Project: Secrets of the Censors: Australia's Censorship Records

Nicole Moore is a senior lecturer in English at Macquarie University and a contributing editor to the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. Banned in Australia, her bibliography of books prohibited in the twentieth century is hosted by Austlit Gateway and a new history of Australian literary censorship, The Censor's Library, will be published by Miegunyah Press in 2009. She is also review editor of Australian Feminist Studies.

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MEE, Professor Jon
Dates: 10 October 2009 to 19 December 2009
Research Project: The Conversation of Culture, 1780-1822

Jon Mee is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick. he was previously a Senior Lecturer at ANU and then Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, and Professor of the Literature of the Romantic Period at Oxford University. His publications include Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992) and Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation (2003). He holds a Philip J. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2006-2009. The project is concerned with relations between literature, conversation, and contention in the Romantic Period. He intends to complete a book on the project while at the ANU.

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GARRIOCH, Professor David
Dates: 16-30 October 2009
Research Project: Cosmopolitanism in eighteenth-century Europe and America

I studied French and History at the University of Melbourne and did my doctorate at Oxford University. I have written on the history of eighteenth-century Paris and Milan and on early modern European urban history. Since 1984 I have been teaching history at Monash University, where I have served as Associate Dean (Teaching) in the Arts Faculty and as Head of the School of Historical Studies. In 2003 and again in 2008 I was Visiting Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in June 2005 was Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyons. In 2003 my book The Making of Revolutionary Paris won the NSW Premier's Prize for History (General Section) and in 2004 I was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. I have served on the Executive of the Australian Historical Association, the Editorial Boards of H-France, French Historical Studies, and the Australian Journal of French Studies. I have twice co-organized the George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilization, a major international conference.

Current Research

Protestants and religious toleration in eighteenth-century Paris; religious confraternities in eighteenth-century Paris; eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism. I am also part of an interdisciplinary team working on a history of friendship in the Western world.

Major Publications

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HILL, Professor David
Dates: 7-21 November 2009
Research Project: Indonesia in Exile: Then Indonesian Left abroad during the late Cold War

David T. Hill is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is the author of several books on Indonesian media, politics, literature, and culture, including The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy and Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia (both co-authored with Krishna Sen), The Press in New Order Indonesia, and Beyond the Horizon: Short Stories from Contemporary Indonesia. He is also the Consortium Director and Founder of the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), a non-profit network of 21 universities, which places foreign students into Indonesian universities for credit towards their home university degree. During his time at ANU he will be continuing research on Indonesian political exiles abroad following the rise of Major-General Suharto’s “New Order” in 1965.

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