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Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
SCMP News: Feb 2008
- Chris Lyttleton wins highly competitive grant
- Elephant House Symposium: The Transmission of Music & Dance in Indian Modernity
- Martin Nakata's presentation - Wednesday 19th March at 12 noon
- Town Hall Video - Sustainability@Macquarie
- Vale Brian Fegan - Department of Anthropology
- Pakistan's Islam: A View From the Indus
- A Special Event for Warawara and Macquarie
- "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" - 13th February - 16th February 2008
- "HUNT ANGELS" Screens on ABC. Monday 4 February at 8.30am
"HUNT ANGELS" Screens on ABC. Monday 4 February at 8.30am
HUNT ANGELS" SCREENS ON ABC. MONDAY 4 FEBRUARY at 8.30om. This feature film was written and directed by Media Department lecturer Alec Morgan. It has picked up seven awards including three AFI awards and The Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Feature Documentary.
DVD of the film plus 3 hours of extras now available at BORDERS.
Check out website for trailer and study guide:
www.huntangels.com.au
"She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" - 13th February - 16th February 2008
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not is a new theatre production that will feature as part of the New Mardi Gras Festival 08.
We hope you can come along and see the show and spread the word far and wide.13th - 16th February 2008
www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performancelist.asp?cID=19
Directed by Claudia Chidiac / Written by Linda Mirabilio Starring: Kristy Best, Jessica Jean and Barbara Gouskos
A Special Event for Warawara and Macquarie
Department of Warawara is pleased to announce that Professor Martin Nakata, author of 'Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines' is presenting a paper, 'Indigenous Studies in the Higher Education Sector' on Wednesday, 19 th March at 12 noon as part of our inaugural seminar series.
To attend, please RSVP Kristina Everett at keverett@scmp.mq.edu.au.
Pakistan's Islam: A View From the Indus
The Financial Review commissioned Dr Ian Bedford, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology of Macquarie University to write a piece on his recent research trip to Pakistan. This compelling article will be published on the 15th of February in the Financial Review.
Vale Brian Fegan
Department of Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology sadly informs the university community of the death last Friday of Dr Brian Fegan who had been a much valued colleague since his appointment in the mid 1970s. Since late 2005 Brian had been battling mesothelioma which he traced to casual employment during his student days.
Since his retirement from his senior lectureship in 2001, Brian had been an honorary associate in the department and had continued to work as a consultant sociologist undertaking frequent field trips to many countries in our region to advise on development issues such as rice farming and fisheries, drawing especially on his immense knowledge of peasant society in the Phillipines.
As a researcher and teacher Brian had an incisive “no-nonsense” analytical mind that could cut through intellectual fashion and pretence to cogently link large issues of politics and economy with the practical conditions of everyday life at the grass-roots. A forceful, highly intelligent, and articulate man, he was always an imposing, and sometimes quite daunting figure in conversation and seminar debate. But those who knew him well had high regard for his unfailing integrity, sense of humour, and warm and generous spirit. He will be very sadly missed.
Brian's funeral service will be at 2pm this Wednesday 13 Feb, at the South Chapel of Northern Suburbs Crematorium. Brian asked that no flowers be given, but suggested instead donations to the Asbestos Diseases Foundation.
Bob Norton on behalf of the Dept of Anthropology
11 Feb 2008
Town Hall Video - Sustainability@Macquarie
Iain Brew, a third year Bachelor of Media in Screen Production student at Macquarie wrote, directed and produced this fascinating look at the sustainability initiatives in place on the Macquarie campus. The video was first shown at the Vice Chancellor's Town Hall Meeting on the 12th of February this year.
Video: http://www.mq.edu.au/sustainability/wiki/townhall/Martin Nakata's presentation - Wednesday 19th March at 12 noon
Professor Martin Nakata is to present his paper 'Indigenous Studies in the Higher Education Sector' on Wednesday 19th March at 12 noon in the VC's Art Gallery for Warawara's inaugural seminar series. Please RSVP Kristina Everett at keverett@scmp.mq.edu.au
Chris Lyttleton wins highly competitive grant
Associate Professor Chris Lyttleton of Anthropology has obtained a highly competitive grant from AusAid, technically called Australian Development Research Grant. There are only around 30 of roughly 600 applications which were funded (i.e. it is more competitive than the ARC). The project is called 'Changing HIV vulnerability and AIDS treatment needs at key border zones along new economic corridors in the Upper Mekong'. It is worth $256,000 over 3 years and he will be working with teams in China, Laos and Thailand.
This is a short blurb on the research questions addressed by the project:
New transport corridors are central to development plans in the Greater Mekong Subregion that anticipate economic and social
integration and dramatically increased movement across borders. However, we do not know whether the intersection of highly mobile
populations with local communities in previously remote areas coupled with rapid changes within local livelihood economies will
further increase levels of HIV/AIDS spread. This ethnographic research will assess to what extent greater mobility increases sexual
and drug-related HIV vulnerability in newly integrated border zones of China, Lao PDR, Thailand and Burma and creates shortfalls within
existing national AIDS treatment capacities. It will identify evolving 'hot-zone' areas in the Upper Mekong and focus on dynamics of
rapid social change caused by accelerated movement and uneven economic growth that create heightened HIV risk and/or inadequate
access to AIDS treatment in specific sub-populations.