The final installment in the November series of workshops for FAS HDR students was held on Thursday the 27th of November.
Dr Lorraine Elliott and Helen Levy spoke about the rules and guidelines for graduate students.
A wide range of important topics were covered, including preparing and applying to do a PhD, “milestones” during one’s candidature, and [...]
Pacific Islander high school students from across the ACT and Greater NSW were inspired to get ‘enthusiastic about tertiary study and the field of Pacific Studies’ at the inaugural Pacific Studies Weekend Workshop, which took place at ANU last weekend.
Twenty-five secondary students of Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Maori descent [...]
Dr Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer in Korean in the Faculty of Asian Studies, is one of nine academics from the social sciences and humanities whose applications for research grants were vetoed in 2004 and 2005 by, they believe, the then federal education minister Brendan Nelson.
Dr Barraclough’s 2005 research project dealing with the East Asian sex trade [...]
The third installment of the Postgraduate Professional Development Series was held on Thursday the 20th of November.
Dr Tomoko Akami spoke about archival research, and Dr Greg Fealy discussed fieldwork.
Both speakers had excellent suggestions for students, on the levels of both theory and practice.
After the presentations, there was a discussion about some of the issues raised.
This [...]
Rugby Heaven reports:
The racial transformation of both rugby codes has happened before our eyes over the past 10 to 15 years.
From Australian representative teams with a solitary Islander back-rower (Willie “O”, Illie “the Human Skewer” Tabua, Toutai Kefu), tonight almost a quarter of the Wallabies squad to face England is of Islander background. Among them [...]
Faculty of Asian Studies scholars have contributed to a leading article in The Wall Street Journal about the language of the Shan, a southeast Asian ethnic group of about six million people, which forms a significant minority of the population of Burma (Myanmar).
The Shan language and script are supressed in Burma, but in Thailand, where [...]
Students named their top 12 educators at ANU during the inaugural Festival of Teaching last month.
Prizes were presented to outstanding teachers from each of the Colleges at the festival dinner, with selections coordinated by the ANU Students Association.
Among the 12 outstanding teachers were Professor Kent Anderson, Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies, and Dr [...]
The second seminar in the Postgraduate Professional Development Series was held on 13 November.
Professor Anthony Milner spoke about a task central to the work of all graduate research students: establishing an argument for a thesis.
Professor Milner took questions from participants, and we had an excellent discussion over coffee, tea, and pastries.
Students also had the [...]
This November, postgraduate students from the Faculty of Asian Studies will participate in a series of early morning seminars.
The series aims to develop a range of skills related to thesis writing and academic life.
Topics include Publishing in Asian Studies, Developing an Argument, Fieldwork, and Rules and Guidelines for CAP HDR Students.
The first seminar of the [...]
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