The Pacific Studies teaching program has received an ANU Teaching Enhancement Grant of nearly ten thousand dollars to support the development of Melanesian Pidgins language resources.
Sessional lecturer Dr Ruth Spriggs will work on revising and creating new material for a crucial book on PNG Tok Pisin by Dutton and Thomas (1985).
Two Faculty scholars, Dr Marcus Mietzner, and Dr Li Narangoa with Dr Robert Cribb have been awarded Australian Research Council grants in support of their research.
Dr Mietzner’s area of research is political party financing and democratic consolidation in Indonesia: as Australia’s vast neighbour to the north, Indonesia,is of critical importance to Australian national interests. Particularly [...]
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 …
On Saturday 3 October Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, was interviewed on the ABC Saturday Extra program about the handling of ‘Asia’ in the new national history curriculum:
Historian Anthony Milner has a passion for Australian stories and passing them on to the next generation of kids. But, [...]
The Southeast Asia Centre of the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, is hosting a workshop entitled ‘Intersections of Area, Cultural and Media Studies’ on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 February, 2010.
This Workshop represents a collaboration between the Southeast Asia Centre and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).
The Workshop coincides with the screening [...]
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