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The recent release of the 2013 QS World University Rankings has placed the Monash University Faculty of Arts in the top 50 worldwide. Professor Rae Frances, Dean of the Faculty, said it was a “brilliant” result and affirmed that Monash Arts was one of the top Arts faculties in the Asia-Pacific region. “This is very exciting ... Read more
Monash University experts comment on the 2013 Federal Budget, handed down by Treasurer Wayne Swan last night. Budget deficit: Professor Jakob Madsen, Xiaokai Yang Professor of Business and Economics, Department of Economics Australia’s budget deficit has been heading in the wrong direction over the past ten years and from measures announced in last night’s budget, it is likely ... Read more
The Monash Rudewych Year 12 Ukrainian Language Scholarships received significant new funding for 2014 when Victor and Maria Rudewych boosted their funding for the Scholarships from $20,000 in 2013 to $32,000 in 2014. The Scholarships were first offered in 2008, when Victor and Maria Rudewych, who also sponsor many other educational and youth initiatives, resolved to ... Read more
A Monash University student recently returned from the United States where he took part in a prestigious internship program which gave him rare access to the US political system. James Brooks, a fifth-year Arts/Law student at Monash University’s Clayton campus, was one of only 12 university students, and the first from Monash, selected from almost 100 ... Read more
Nearly a century has passed since the events that gave rise to the Anzac legend, but changing social attitudes and the effects of passing time continue to transform our understanding of it. In a new edition of his 1994 book Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, Monash University historian Professor Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend ... Read more
Workers in the cultural, media and creative industries are often required to inhabit or even ‘become’ their jobs, to immerse themselves, without question according to a visiting UK sociologist. In its more positive versions, there is a recurrent idea that captures that special moment of perfect creative synthesis between worker and the work– the moment of ‘being in ... Read more
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- Sudan – 10 years after Date: Thursday, 30 May 2013Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pmVenue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, MelbourneRSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327Full details: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2013/sudan.html Public Forum – All Welcome 2013 is the ten year anniversary of the conflict in Darfur and sadly there is no end in sight for conflict, violence and human rights abuses and ongoing displacement of ... Read more
EU-Australia co-operation in education and training is underpinned by policy dialogue at government level and bilateral projects among institutions. Policy Dialogue The Joint Declaration on Cooperation in Education and Training between the EU and Australia, signed in 2007, led to the inclusion of these areas in the EU-Australia Partnership Framework . An inaugural policy dialogue meeting between the European Commission and Australia was ... Read more
Diego Marani was born in Ferrara in 1959. He has worked as a translator and policy officer for the European Union and has written several novels, collections of essays, and short stories. Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper about current affairs in Europanto, a language he invented. On this occasion the author ... Read more
The European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong (EUAP) is now inviting applications for: Visiting Scholarships at the postdoc level for research/teaching sojourns of four months duration (one semester) at EUAP institutions in Hong Kong (fall/winter term 2013, 2014, 2015). International Research Scholarships (PhD Scholarships) The call of application is now open until the position has been filled. Details available via the EUAP ... Read more
The Japanese Studies Centre Director, Prof. Carolyn Stevens, represented Monash and the JSAA at the Terasaki Center Annual Forum at UCLA, where directors of Japanese Studies Centers and Japanese Studies Associations from the US, the UK, France, Mexico, Brazil, and Korea exchanged views on the current state of teaching and research in Japanese Studies across these ... Read more
The Border Crossing Observatory recently submitted a short article to feature in the Border Criminologies blog, on the Australian Government’s new legislation excising the Australian mainland from the migration zone. This new law means that any asylum seekers or irregular migrants arriving by boat to Australia will be processed offshore on Manus Island or Nauru. The Government’s ... Read more- Seminar The Festival of Ideas will be the first time that NEXUS members will be coming together to present on a topic of their interest. The presentations are mainly on work that is in progress, or work that has been completed. There will be presentations on work conducted within Australia and Internationally. Topics include Influenza and risk, ... Read more
Students take note of this opportunity for an internship working on current sustainability issues with a progressive not-for-profit organization, the Moreland Energy Foundation. The internship is named in honour of the late Frank Fisher, a former colleague and pioneering environmentalist here at the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Are you an advanced year-level student or recent graduate ... Read more
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