A fourth-centrury poem by India’s greated classical writer Kalidasa has been brought to life in a new website by ANU 4th year student, Tomomi Sato.
The poem, Meghaduta, or ‘The cloud-messenger’ possibly India’s most famous love poem, is rich in geographic and environmental imagery.
In this highly innovative project, Ms Sato focussed on the twenty or so [...]
Mr Shun Ikeda, Head of the Faculty’s Japan Centre, has been awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation to acknowledge his contribution to the promotion of mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and Australia:
Mr Ikeda has made a significant contribution to deepening understanding between the people of Japan and Australia through his work at the [...]
Dr Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer in the Korea Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies, talking on a Korean website about the Faculty and its Korean program …
Mr Shun Ikeda, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty’s Japan Centre has been awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for his contribution to the deepening the understanding between the peoples of Japan and Australia.
The Japan Foreign Minister’s commendations are given in recognition of distinguished services in the promotion of friendly relations with other countries and the [...]
A Faculty of Asian Studies PhD student has recently returned from Japan where she participated in an 11 day programme for future business leaders. Ms Siaan Ansori, a PhD candidate researching comparative Asian public policy, was selected from a list of over 200 applications for the Japan Future Business Counterparts from Australia Programme. The competitive [...]
The Faculty of Asian Studies is pleased to announce that eleven students have been awarded Chinese government scholarships to study in China on ANU’s 2009-2010 Year-in-China program.
The successful students were:
Niki Allworth 北京外国语大学 Sept 2009- July 2010
Liam KcAuliffe 中国人民大学 Feb 2010-July 2010
Yvonne Yung 北京语言大学 March 2010-Jan 2011
Alexander Storrie 北京科技大学 March 2010-Jan 2011
Andrea Goldberg 北京交通大学 March [...]
Elizabeth Mullan, one of the Faculty’s 2008 Honours students, has been awarded both the University Medal and the Tillyard Prize.
The Tillyard Prize is awarded to a student whose personal qualities and contributions to University life have been outstanding and who has completed a degree of bachelor with honours. The prize serves as a memorial to [...]
The flimsy shacks of the Afghan capital’s Juishir book bazaar seem an unpromising place to unearth historical treasure.
Its draughty, corrugated-iron shops seem incapable of protecting their precarious piles of books from the extreme Afghan seasons for long.
But each week, Royce Wiles [awarded a PhD in 2003 in the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories in [...]
Dr Duck-Young Lee, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty’s Japan Centre, will take up an appointment as Visiting Fellow, funded by the Heiwa Nakajima Foundation Fellowship, at Yokohama National University in Japan from September 2009.
Dr Lee specialises in Japanese teaching methodology and linguistics.
During his visit he will be conducting research on spoken discourse in [...]
On Friday 5 December upwards of a hundred colleagues, friends, and admirers of Dr Ian Proudfoot gathered at the Asia Bookroom in Canberra to launch Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World in his honour.
How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the [...]
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