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The Faculty offers its congratulations to Associate Professor Renata Kokanovic as the recipient of the 2013 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Innovation and External Collaboration. Associate Professor Kokanovic has developed and leads a number of exciting collaborative projects with both industry and external academic partners. She is currently leading two Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects. ... Read more
by Ben Rich As the civil war in Syria continues, several states are now decrying the potential deployment of the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. Described as a move to cool “hothead” pro-interventionists in the Western camp, Moscow’s gambit is aimed at deterring outside military action against the Assad regime. But will the deployment be a “game-changer” ... Read more
The topic of killer robots was drawn back into the public sphere last week with the widely publicised call for a moratorium on the development and use of “lethal autonomous robotics” by a top UN human rights expert; and inevitably, this conjured up some familiar concerns. The opening scenes of James Cameron’s 1984 film The Terminator portray people ... Read more
The Zelman Cowen School of Music has a bold vision to create a cultural, artistic, research and musical hub with a dynamic atmosphere at the Monash Clayton campus. The centrepiece of this vision is the creation of a new, iconic, state-of-the-art building for the school. The new building for the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music ... Read more
Monash University student Diana Sher recently became the first Australian fencer to win gold at an Asian Zone Fencing Championship at any level. Diana, who is currently in the second year of her Bachelor of Arts (majoring in politics and communications), at Monash University’s Clayton campus, took the gold medal win at the Asian Junior Zone ... 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
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Dr Virginie Andre has been awarded the Faculty of Arts 2012 Postgraduate Publication Prize for her journal article “Neojihadism” and YouTube: Patani Militant Propaganda Dissemination and Radicalization’ in the journal Asian Security. Congratulations also to her supervisors Associate Professor Pete Lentini and Professor Greg Barton. Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Criminology 2012, now working at Deakin University) was commended for her ... Read more
Writing in European Voice, James Panichi, a journalist on extended leave from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and based in Brussels, asks why the EU struggles to get good press in Australia. Panichi quotes Dr Eva Polonska Kimunguyi in his report drawing on the joint MEEUC/LCL/JAIS symposium Communicating Europe to Australia in late 2012. The consensus at a recent conference in ... Read more
Earlier this month, Border Crossings Observatory researcher Dr Claudia Tazreiter from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), commented to SBS News on the human rights and financial costs of the federal government’s plan to build a permanent immigration detention centre on Manus Island. In commenting on these plans, Dr Tazreiter said that a permanent centre on Manus ... Read more
International workshop Monash Asia Institute in conjunction with the School of Political & Social Inquiry Monash University 21-22 Nov 2013 Monash Asia Institute together with the School of Political and Social Inquiry will host an international workshop of ‘Multiculturalism and “Asia”’ at Monash University, Caulfield campus in Melbourne on 21 and 22 November 2013. The workshop has two key purposes. ... Read more
The latest from the delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand in Canberra is here Read more
Douglas Alexander, Shadow Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom 4.00-5.00pm Wednesday 26 June 2013 Mr Douglas Alexander will be visiting Australia as a guest of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) under its Special Visits Program. Mr Alexander’s only public address during this official visit will be delivered at the ANU on 26th June. The topic of his address ... Read more
Presented by RISM (Research in Italian Studies Melbourne) and the Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne A talk by Dr Andrea Rizzi (Melbourne University) on literary translation during Renaissance times. (…) In the Italian Renaissance translation was an aggressive rewriting of classical and medieval texts (…) and its practice compels us to rethink how we understand and practice translation today. IN ENGLISH Free event Light ... Read more- Edgar Thielmann – ANU Centre for European Studies Thursday 27 June 2013 4.00pm – 5.30pm The European Union is building up its own global positioning and timing system called Galileo, which is the only Global Positioning System under civil control. So far approximately 6 Billion Euros have been spent for the research, development and deployment of Galileo. ... Read more
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