The Radio Australia program In the Loop reports:
Pacific spirit comes alive Canberra
30 October 2008
It’s been a big year for Oceania specialists at the Australian National University where Pacific studies debuted as a self contained discipline.
To celebrate Pacific connections in Australia, the ANU this week organised Pasifika Fun Day, which began with festivities and ended with [...]
What makes Hindi, Hindi and Urdu, Urdu?
How does Hinglish work?
Why does Hindi vary across space and time, and between speakers?
Why is language so important in the creation of Bollywood characters?
Explore spoken Hindi creatively through Bollywood film and try your hand at writing a Filmi Hindi dialogue.
Filmi Hindi is an intensive [...]
Health, culture and religion in South Asia
Interdisciplinary and cross-national social science perspectives
A workshop supported by the Australian Research Council, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, CAPSTRANS & The University of Newcastle.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in the interplay of health, culture and religion in South Asia in order [...]
In 2008 His Majesty the Emperor of Japan conferred The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, on Dr Royall Tyler, Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies, acknowledging his exceptional contribution in introducing non Japanese audiences to the Noh theatre through his highly acclaimed translations and publications of numerous Noh [...]
Yanyan Wang, Lecturer in the Faculty’s China and Korea Centre, has become a radio star.
Since February she has had a weekly morning radio slot on ABC Central West called Learning Mandarin with Yanyan.
Yanyan’s show has become so successful it has been extended to be a year-round feature.
See: http://www.abc.net.au/centralwest/tag/?topic=asian
Tune in live to ABC radio for [...]
PASIFIKA AUSTRALIA COMMUNITY FORUM
DATE: Thursday 30 October 2008
TIME: 5.30 pm- 8 pm
LOCATION: Sparke Helmore Law Theatre 1, ANU
This forum aims to showcase achievement in Pacific Islander communities in Australia, while at the same time facilitating discussion about issues such as racism. A panel of prominent Pacific Islanders will speak about their own experiences as Pacific [...]
On 18 October the Korea Centre in association with the ACT Korean School and Narrabundah College hosted the second ACT Korean Speech Contest.
After warm and encouraging introductions from the Minister of the Korean Embassy, Mr. Bom-yon Lee, and our Director, Professor Kent Anderson, the first of the 21 rather nervous contestants took the microphone.
The speeches [...]
Dr Bina d’Costa, of the Faculty’s Centre for Asian Societies and Histories writes in the Bangladesh Daily Star:
IS the global media completely oblivious to the gendered semantics of the recent Bangladeshi political events? News article after news article, from one country’s press to the other, is repeating titles such as “battling begums,” “feuding begums,” and [...]
Faculty of Asian Studies Research Seminar Series
Thursday 16 October, 1-2pm
Room 1.07 Baldessin Precinct Building
Religion, Crime and a Southern Thai Policeman, 1930s-1960s
Craig Reynolds, Faculty of Asian Studies
The talk will tease out the character and historical significance of a Thai policeman, Khun Phantharakratchadet, born in the southern town of Nakorn Sithammarat (Ligor) in 1898, deceased [...]
The Javanese-language weekly Panjebar Semangat (Sowing the Spirit) first appeared in Surabaya in 1933. Still published in the Javanese language, today it is Indonesia’s oldest continuously published magazine.
Last month Panjebar Semangat celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting Head of the Southeast Asia Centre Dr George Quinn to contribute an article to a special edition.
Dr Quinn wrote [...]
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