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Language and CultureLanguage and Culture is the quarterly electronic magazine of the School of Languages and Cultures in the Faculty of Arts at Sydney University. It explores current issues in the field of languages and cultures and provides updates on the activities of the School.

issue 28 March 2014

This issue

• From the Head of School

• Don’t Abandon the Indirect Road: Conference

• Sydney Summer School: Fudan University!

• Selected Publications & Book Launches

• School and Department News

head of school

March 2014

I would like to welcome all our readers at the beginning of a new academic year that promises some positive developments for the School.

Professor Jeffrey Riegel is on study leave until July, and I have been asked to be Acting Head until then. It is a somewhat daunting prospect, but I have been very much encouraged by the goodwill and helpfulness of all colleagues, both academic and administrative, in the run-up to the beginning of the university year.

First of all, I should like to congratulate Dr Giorgia Alù from Italian Studies and Dr Wei Wang from Chinese Studies for their promotion to Senior Lecturer, and Professor Michele Ford from Indonesian Studies on her recent promotion to Professor of Southeast Asian Studies.

I should also like to welcome, on behalf of the School, Professor Martine Antle in French Studies; Professor Sahar Amer in Arabic and Islamic Studies; Dr Thushara Dibley, Deputy Director, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre; and Dr Tim Kragh, Lecturer in Asian and Buddhist Studies, who have all recently taken up their appointments.

Associate Professor Yixu Lu

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March 2014

The Federal Government has allocated 520 Commonwealth Supported Places for language studies over 4 years starting 2014. Our School has received 130 of these places. We’ll use these to strength our offering in the Diploma of Language Studies by introducing an accelerated mode for the Diploma. In the first stage this will involve Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. All units in the accelerated mode will be offered during the summer and winter breaks in an intensive format, which will make our Diploma more accessible to students who do not have space in their degree course for language study, but nonetheless wish to acquire language competency to enhance their qualifications. This innovation will also be attractive for postgraduate students and professionals. In the accelerated mode, students can complete their Diploma within 14 months. Colleagues in the four departments will be working intensively over the year under the leadership of their Chairs to design and develop units of study for the accelerated mode, in which blended learning and online instruction will play a central role. The accelerated mode will be first offered in January 2015.

This year, we also look forward to a new cross-institutional teaching arrangement with the University of New South Wales. Under this agreement, students enrolled at UNSW in a minor in Indonesian, and from 2015 in Modern Greek and

Italian, can study at our School. We welcome this opportunity that will see more students across Sydney taking up language studies.

The School is committed to maintaining the wide and varied language offering that is important to Australia’s future. I am pleased to see that our School is again ranked among the first 50 universities for modern language studies in the recent QS Worldwide University Rankings. Reflecting on this, I was struck by the role language learning has played in my own life. Growing up in provincial China speaking a dialect, I had not imagined how far I would travel later in my life when I began to learn German at Peking University in the capital city. My continuing enthusiasm then brought me to Germany where I spent seven years of post-graduate study, and this, in turn, resulted in my having a career in Australia. In this way I can cite myself as an example of where an enthusiasm for other languages and cultures can lead. May many of our students enjoy a similar positive development, taking advantage of the opportunities the School can offer to learn a further language and study overseas!

Don’t abandon the indirect road: Divergent approaches to Cambodian Visual CulturesDr Martin Polkinghorne, Asian Studies Program

On the heels of the annual UNESCO International Coordinating Committee meeting that manages the World Heritage Angkor Archaeological Park came the 4th Annual International Siem Reap Conference on Special Topics in Khmer Studies. Following previous conferences on Epigraphy & Databases (2009-10), Archaeo-metallurgy (2011) and the History of Religions (2012), the theme in 2013 was dedicated to Art History and Visual Cultures. This was a collaborative event co-organised and co-funded by The University of Sydney, The Center for Khmer Studies, l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, Friends of Khmer Culture Incorporated and the APSARA National Authority.

By referencing a well-known Khmer proverb: Plov veach kom borss borng, Plov trong kom joulus (Don’t abandon the indirect road; also take the straight road), the conference sought to promote art historical scholarship usually positioned outside the traditional research agendas. Issues of style and chronology are fundamental to comprehending Khmer art, but they were not

the intended focus of this meeting. Another objective was to engender dialogue between contemporary scholars and practitioners with those who research the past. The conference welcomed over 30 speakers and 150 participants from Australia, France, India, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Cambodia, with the majority of attendees being Cambodian students and scholars. The conference organisers offered simultaneous translation in Khmer and English.

Dr Ashley Thompson of the University of Leeds delivered the keynote paper. Known for her cross-disciplinary explorations of pre-modern Cambodian art and culture and forays into contemporary Cambodian art, Dr Thompson was a natural choice to lead the conference. Dr Thompson has a long association with reconstruction efforts in post-conflict Cambodia and her deep understanding of Khmer culture cannot be understated. Titled “From the Ground Up: Art, Identity, History in ‘Cambodia’” analogy was made between the Lingam/

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The well-known Khmer proverb ផ"#វ%វ&ចកu*+,-បង0 ផ"#វ1តង0កu*+3ល encourages us not to forget the indirect road in lieu of the straight route. Accordingly, ផ"#វ%វ&ចកu*+,-បង0: Divergent approaches to Cambodian Visual Cultures, the theme of the 4th Siem Reap Conference on Special Topics in Khmer Studies seeks to promote scholarship which tends to be positioned outside the traditional conventions of Khmer Art History.

Participants in this international dialogue will explore theories, methodologies, eras and subject matter that have escaped the gaze of traditional Khmer art historical studies. There are many paths to appraising the Cambodian past, and by

recognizing such indirect routes this conference will cultivate an exuberant and nuanced perspective that corresponds with the diversity of Cambodian visual cultures. The conference venue will be the Khemara Hotel between December 6th and 8th followed by an exhibition and performances at the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) centre on the 8th.The conference and event program can be found online at:www.siemreapconference.org

Jointly organized by APSARA, The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Friends of Khmer Culture Incorporated, The Center for Khmer Studies and The University of Sydney.

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The well-known Khmer proverb ផ"#វ%វ&ចកu*+,-បង0 ផ"#វ1តង0កu*+3ល encourages us not to forget the indirect road in lieu of the straight route. Accordingly, ផ"#វ%វ&ចកu*+,-បង0: Divergent approaches to Cambodian Visual Cultures, the theme of the 4th Siem Reap Conference on Special Topics in Khmer Studies seeks to promote scholarship which tends to be positioned outside the traditional conventions of Khmer Art History.

Participants in this international dialogue will explore theories, methodologies, eras and subject matter that have escaped the gaze of traditional Khmer art historical studies. There are many paths to appraising the Cambodian past, and by

recognizing such indirect routes this conference will cultivate an exuberant and nuanced perspective that corresponds with the diversity of Cambodian visual cultures. The conference venue will be the Khemara Hotel between December 6th and 8th followed by an exhibition and performances at the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) centre on the 8th.The conference and event program can be found online at:www.siemreapconference.org

Jointly organized by APSARA, The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Friends of Khmer Culture Incorporated, The Center for Khmer Studies and The University of Sydney.

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Yoni pairing and the Buddhist ritual practice of ‘turning the popil’. In doing so, Dr Thompson skilfully instigated a dialogue between the contemporary and the past. By elaborating the etymology of the popil Dr Thompson demonstrated the persistence and transformation of the Khmer conception of sexual difference and procreation as expressed in ritual and material artistic culture. Critical to the papers that followed, Thompson reminded us that all culture, including those attached to Khmer identity are by nature colonial, an ongoing interaction between the vernacular and cosmopolitan.

The conference was structured into four loosely joined categories that encompassed diverse areas of Cambodia’s art history: ‘Colonial, Modern and Ethnographic’, ‘Angkor’, ‘Post-Angkor and Middle Period’ and ‘Contemporary’.

Dr Elizabeth Guthrie (University of Otago) led the standard papers with an update of her research on Cambodian modernity demonstrated in pagoda murals. Presenting examples from pagodas across Cambodia, Dr Guthrie revealed the competing sources for Khmer iconography in the 20th century including classic period temples, material produced by the Buddhist Institute under Suzanne Karpelès, printed Buddhist texts, and perhaps most significantly, postcards from India, Thailand and Sri Lanka. In an echo of Guthrie’s work on Karpelès, Gabrielle Abbe (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) presented a critical analysis of George Groslier’s attempt to preserve the perceived traditional Cambodian arts and crafts through establishment of the “Service des Arts cambodgiens”. Professor Michael Mascuch (University of California, Berkeley) and Joanna Wolfarth (University of Leeds) traversed similar ground with papers on the imagery of Norodom Sihanouk. Mascuch spoke to the visual propaganda and publicity of independent Cambodia between 1953 and 1979 to demonstrate the Sihanouk construction of image. Wolfarth provided analysis of a very recent event: the death of Norodom Sihanouk and the reproduction and manipulation of his photographic image in the aftermath.

Karen McLeod Adair (Monash University) discussed the work of political cartoonist and Khmer Rouge survivor Bun Heang Ung who came to Australia as a refugee with his family in 1980. Professor Maurice Eisenbruch (Monash University), in his continuing research on Cambodian traditional medicine and its practices, revealed aspects of the little known and complex world of medicinal yantra. These commonly used magic diagrams draw on Brahmanic and Buddhist sources to protect the

owners from illness and social conflict. In a similar way, the sculptures of planes and helicopters produced by the Jorai community of north-eastern Cambodia function as guardians or vessels of power in response to the trauma of conflict. In her presentation of material culture from this ethnic minority in Ratanakiri province, Dr Krisna Uk, Director of the Center for Khmer Studies, reminded the conference participants that the act of production is often as significant as the objects themselves. Rounding out the first day were two presentations regarding heritage management of Cambodian art and visual cultures. Dr Charlotte Craw (Monash University) provoked discussion about renovation and re-use of heritage sites in the Cambodian context, and Dr Tom Chandler (Monash University) discussed his preliminary work to convert Angkorian material and visual heritage into digital heritage by combining virtual animations and 3D scanned real objects.

Keynote speaker, Dr Ashley Thompson (University of Leeds) Opening Remarks by Dr Krisna Uk, Director, Center for Khmer Studies

No dialogue about Cambodian visual cultures would be complete without appropriate acknowledgement of the Angkorian period, and to begin these papers Dr Eric Bourdonneau of EFEO presented comparative analysis of rock carvings at three sites: Phnom Kulen, Wat Phu, and Koh Ker. Bourdonneau argues that the rendering of images from natural outcrops was a transformative act to make order from chaos. His allusions to human sacrifice through intermediary representations of hunchbacks were also mirrored in Dr Soumya James (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore) analysis of Durga iconography at Banteay Srei and prompted a spirited discussion about the possibility of these rituals in the Angkorian period. Dr Kuo-wei Liu (National Palace Museum Taiwan) questioned connections between the Kāraṇḍavyūha sūtra and images of Avalokiteśvara produced during the Jayavarman VII period. In reference to previous work on this subject Lui was cautious about the identification of the six-syllable mantra with images of Avalokiteśvara or attributing the varada mūdra with Pretasantarpita Avalokiteśvara. Integral to the iconography of this period were also images of Prajñāpāramitā and Assistant Professor Jinah Kim (Harvard University) recalled that the mother of all Buddhas was of unique importance

at Angkor. Continuing discussion on the iconography of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, by combining construction chronology with iconography on decorative lintels at the Preah Khan temple (Angkor), Dr Kubo Makiko (Sophia University) made a correlation between representations of Lokeśvara with Jayavarman VII and Daranīndravarman II, and the Buddha in Dhyānamudrā with high officials, local lords and ancestors. Finally, Mr Chhay Rachna, ceramics expert of the APSARA National Authority provided conference attendees with a background in Angkorian ceramics that must have proliferated in much of the visual landscape. Special attention was given to zoomorphic and anthropogenic ceramics. In a productive segue to the present time Mr Ouk Socheathy introduced the methods and products of the ceramics workshop of the Department of Plastic Arts in the Secondary School of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. As well as reproducing Angkorian period favourites, the workshop provides contemporary ceramicists with an outlet for creative expression. Im Sokrithy (APSARA) revealed the creative processes behind a workshop dedicated to producing new replicas and fakes of Angkorian sculptures.

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Contemporary Art Panel Discussion, left to right: Erin Gleeson (SaSaBassac), Tith Kanitha (Artist), Dr Ashley Thompson (University of Leeds), Svay Sareth (Artist), Amy Lee Sanford (Artist), Dana Langlois (Java Arts)

University of Sydney PhD candidate Gabrielle Ewington presents her research.

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So goes the formula that in order to understand the present, one must understand the past, but rarely is contemporary practice employed to inform historical knowledge. Participants who delivered papers and presentations on contemporary art simultaneously demonstrated conceptual lessons of a dialogue between past and present, and the risks of privileging one over another. Pamela Corey (Cornell University) provided new insights into contemporary Cambodian photography by employing a scalar approach typically used by human geographers. Referring to the work of three documentary photographers each image can be considered in relative gradations, including individual, state, and region. Roger Nelson (The University of Melbourne) brought the interaction between the contemporary and the historical into sharp focus with an exploration the work of Chan Davy who maintains, challenges, and amplifies the traditional system of Khmer ornamentation, kbach. In a polemic presentation Phally Chroy (Ohio University) questioned the role of “Non-Cambodians” on contemporary Cambodian art. Chroy’s paper contradicted earlier papers that viewed Cambodian culture as a simultaneous integration, repulsion, and deconstruction of mixed cultural influences, and subsequently provoked a healthy rebuttal from the assembled audience of Cambodian artists. Chath pier Sath presented his experience as a volunteer and artist in the employment of artistic process to deal with trauma among Cambodians in Cambodia and those in the

diaspora. Artist Albert Samreth’s presentation supplanted the typically dry academic delivery with artistic performance. Still questioning the interplay between local and international, Samreth theorised about the kind of art produced in the Cambodian absence of museum, curatorial and exhibition structures that appear to influence so much international contemporary art.

The period after Angkor has attracted a few highly accomplished scholars, Dr Thompson among them, yet the period remains only partially researched and there are still many art historical opportunities for future study. Yuni Sato presented the ongoing work of the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties on the monument of Western Prasat Top and her subsequent research on the standing Buddha hand on chest in abhayamudra images. By correlating the carbon dates from the archaeological stratigraphy linked to modifications of the monument Sato believes that this iconography appeared at Angkor sometime in the 14th century. Different to other regional urban centres like Ayutthaya, Batavia and Aceh, artistic depictions and maps of Middle Period Cambodia and its capitals are rare. Nevertheless, Gabrielle Ewington (The University of Sydney) presented a series of images largely produced by the Dutch and argued that they reflect an imagined Cambodia rather than eyewitness representations. To conclude this panel Dr Martin Polkinghorne (The

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Dr Martin Polkinghorne

University of Sydney) elaborated his research on the identification of early Ayutthayan Buddha images and architectural remains that likely relate to the early Ayutthayan incursion at Angkor in the early 15th century.

Contemporary art was given special attention with the discussion session, “Art: coming out of Cambodia today”, chaired by Dr Thompson. Among Cambodian contemporary art’s leading curators and artists, the panel consisted of Erin Gleeson (Curator, SaSa Bassac), Dana Langlois (Curator, Java Arts), Amy Lee Sanford (Artist), Svay Sareth (Artist), and Tith Kanitha (Artist). Resonate with the academic papers which emphasised the act of process, the focus of the panel was performance art. Dr Thompson introduced each participant and projected footage of his or her performances where each artist used allegorical praxis to interrogate post-conflict and contemporary Cambodia. In Mon Boulet Svay Sareth dragged the weight of his and Cambodia’s past in the form of a two-metre diametre 80-kilogram metal sphere from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh in a gruelling six-day journey. Tree Island, Break Pot Sketch shows Amy Lee Sanford smash an earthenware pot from Kompong Chhnang and cathartically reconstruct the fragments piece-by-piece. Tith Kanitha’s trance-like response to compulsory government land acquisition is recorded in her performance Heavy Sand. Prompted by Thompson, each participant meditated on their practice and curatorial experience, touching on the use, iteration and deconstruction of recognised narratives in Cambodian and international contemporary art. Enthusiastic questions and comments from the floor declared a considerable engagement from the audience and provided a fitting end for the academic content of the conference.

Divergent approaches concluded on an upbeat note with an event at the Siem Reap centre of l’École française d’Extrême-Orient. The evening combined a dance performance by the Tlai Tno Association, the opening of a photographic exhibition Avec les danseuses royales du Cambodge printed from George Groslier’s 1927 glass plate negatives, and a live painting by Phnom Penh graffiti stars Lisa Mam and Peap Tarr. The event, like the conference attested to the diverse paths of Cambodian visual cultures and facilitated successful dialogue towards promoting Art History as a discipline to study the Cambodian past.

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There   are   many   paths   to   appraising   the  Cambodian   past,   and   by   recognizing   such  indirect   routes   this   Conference   will   cultivate  an   exuberant   and   nuanced   perspective   that  corresponds   with   the   diversity   of   Cambodian  visual  cultures.By   linking   an   exhibition   on   the   20s’   Royal  Ballet   dancers,   to   a   contemporary   classical  dance   troupe,   and   to   a   live   street   art  performance,   this   conference   intends   to   be   an  unforgettable  event  that  will  open  our  approach  to  visual  cultures.The   conference   will   take   place   at   the  Khemara  Angkor   Hotel   from   December   6th   to   8th   2013.  The   exhibition  opening,   dance   performance   and  live   painting   will   occur  at   the   EFEO   centre   on  8th   December,   with   the   exhibition   continuing  until  31st  December.siemreapconference.org

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6-8 DECEMBER 2013Visual ArtsNow and Then

There   are   many   paths   to   appraising   the  Cambodian   past,   and   by   recognizing   such  indirect   routes   this   Conference   will   cultivate  an   exuberant   and   nuanced   perspective   that  corresponds   with   the   diversity   of   Cambodian  visual  cultures.By   linking   an   exhibition   on   the   20s’   Royal  Ballet   dancers,   to   a   contemporary   classical  dance   troupe,   and   to   a   live   street   art  performance,   this   conference   intends   to   be   an  unforgettable  event  that  will  open  our  approach  to  visual  cultures.The   conference   will   take   place   at   the  Khemara  Angkor   Hotel   from   December   6th   to   8th   2013.  The   exhibition  opening,   dance   performance   and  live   painting   will   occur  at   the   EFEO   centre   on  8th   December,   with   the   exhibition   continuing  until  31st  December.siemreapconference.org

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6-8 DECEMBER 2013Visual ArtsNow and Then

There   are   many   paths   to   appraising   the  Cambodian   past,   and   by   recognizing   such  indirect   routes   this   Conference   will   cultivate  an   exuberant   and   nuanced   perspective   that  corresponds   with   the   diversity   of   Cambodian  visual  cultures.By   linking   an   exhibition   on   the   20s’   Royal  Ballet   dancers,   to   a   contemporary   classical  dance   troupe,   and   to   a   live   street   art  performance,   this   conference   intends   to   be   an  unforgettable  event  that  will  open  our  approach  to  visual  cultures.The   conference   will   take   place   at   the  Khemara  Angkor   Hotel   from   December   6th   to   8th   2013.  The   exhibition  opening,   dance   performance   and  live   painting   will   occur  at   the   EFEO   centre   on  8th   December,   with   the   exhibition   continuing  until  31st  December.siemreapconference.org

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6-8 DECEMBER 2013Visual ArtsNow and Then

There   are   many   paths   to   appraising   the  Cambodian   past,   and   by   recognizing   such  indirect   routes   this   Conference   will   cultivate  an   exuberant   and   nuanced   perspective   that  corresponds   with   the   diversity   of   Cambodian  visual  cultures.By   linking   an   exhibition   on   the   20s’   Royal  Ballet   dancers,   to   a   contemporary   classical  dance   troupe,   and   to   a   live   street   art  performance,   this   conference   intends   to   be   an  unforgettable  event  that  will  open  our  approach  to  visual  cultures.The   conference   will   take   place   at   the  Khemara  Angkor   Hotel   from   December   6th   to   8th   2013.  The   exhibition  opening,   dance   performance   and  live   painting   will   occur  at   the   EFEO   centre   on  8th   December,   with   the   exhibition   continuing  until  31st  December.siemreapconference.org

Poster announcing the conference and associated dance performance and exhibition.

Success for the Inaugural University of Sydney Chinese In-country Study at Fudan University Xiaowei Zhang, Chinese Studies

Following the success of two terms of Sydney In-Country Programs at Peking University (PKU) in 2012 and 2013, the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) has successfully formed a partnership with another of China’s prestigious universities: Fudan University in Shanghai, in order to establish, develop and deliver Chinese in-country study programs for undergraduate students of The University of Sydney.

Thirty-eight students studying Chinese with the Department of Chinese Studies joined the inaugural in-country study program at Fudan University from 25 November to 20 December, 2013. Many of them had participated in the previous in-country study at PKU. Xiaowei Zhang, the International Coordinator of the Department, accompanied the students and coordinated the program on-site to ensure standards for teaching were maintained.

The program was designed and managed by the Department of Chinese Studies and was taught by teachers from the Department of Chinese Language

and Literature at Fudan University (DCLL), one of the most respected Chinese departments in Chinese universities. Students were placed at different levels, studying a wide range of subjects, including Chinese Reading and Writing, Chinese Speaking and Listening, Advanced Chinese for Postgraduate Students, Classical Chinese Poetry, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Culture, and so forth. Advanced students also had opportunities to study courses generally only offered to local Chinese students.

Cultural immersion was another important component of the program. During the four weeks of intensive study, students participated in a series of cultural activities with highlights being Tai Chi lessons instructed by a national martial arts champion, Chinese painting and calligraphy lessons by a famous painter in China and viewing the ERA Show performed by the worldly famous Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe.

With the Sydney Chinese In-country Study at Fudan University being officially endorsed by both the Faculty

Undergraduate Studies Committee and the University Academic Board, there is no doubt that more students will benefit from this program in the future by studying Chinese language and culture at a first-rate university in China.

The Department of Chinese Studies proudly presents the China Exchange Blog which recounts students’ experiences and studies in China. To catch up on their posts, please visit: http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/china-exchange.

PUBLICATIONSAlba, A A 2014, Set in Stone? The Intergenerational and Institutional Transmission of Holocaust Memory, Remembering Genocide, Routledge, London, 1, 92-111

Allon, M W 2013, A Gāndhārī Version of the Story of the Merchants Tapussa and Bhallika, Bulletin of the Asian Institute, 23, 9-20

Ansart, O 2014, Une modernité indigne: Ruptures et innovations dans les théories politiques japonaises du XVIIIe siècle, Les Belles Lettres, Paris

Antle, M 2014, The New Voices of the Egyptian Avant-Garde Today. A catalog dedicated to Nadine Hammam. ArtsTalk, Cairo

Antle, M 2014, « Le Théâtre du constat » Mélusine XXXIV, Les Cahiers du surréalisme. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Antle, M 2014,« Est/Ouest: RegardsCroisés à l’époque de Nerval. » In « Architectures/Architextures. » University of Catania Press.

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Dracopoulos, A 2013, C. P. Cavafy: The Open Work, Topos, Athens

Hearman, VCE 2014, ‘MISSING VICTIMS’ OF THE 196566 VIOLENCE IN INDONESIA: Representing Impunity On-screen in The Act of Killing, Critical Asian Studies, 46(1), 171-175

Hwang, S.K. 2014, South Korea, the United States and Emergency Powers During the Korean Conflict, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 12(5)

Karalis, V 2013, The Poetics of Ellipsis in Antigone Kefala’s Poetry, Antigone Kefala: A Writer’s Journey, Owl Publishing, Melbourne, 1, 254-271

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Skilling, P 2013, Did the Buddhists Believe Their Narratives? Desultory Remarks on the Very Idea of Buddhist Mythology, Studies on Buddhist Myths: Texts, Pictures, Traditions and History, Zhongxi Press, Shanghai, 1, 45-76

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Sorbera, L, 2014, “An Invisible and Enduring Presence. Women in Egyptian Politics”, in Anceschi L., Teti, A., Gervasio, G. (eds.), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies, Routledge, London, pp. 159-174. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624367/

Sorbera, L, 2014, “Femminismo e rivoluzioni in Egitto. Un secolo di Storia”, in Paggi L. (ed.), Le rivolte arabe e le repliche della storia. Le economie di rendita, i soggetti politici, i condizionamenti internazionali, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 84-110. http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=376&tipo=novita

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PUBLICATIONSBerkshire Dictionary of Chinese BiographyRecently published is the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the work of more than one hundred internationally recognised experts, including two members of the School of Languages and Cultures, Professor Jeffrey Riegel (Head of School) and Dr Esther Klein (Department of Chinese Studies and China Studies Centre). The work is designed to satisfy the growing thirst of students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for knowledge about China. It aims to make the entire span of Chinese history manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years.

Professor Riegel’s entry is on Yuan Mei, a noted poet, scholar and artist of the Qing Dynasty. Dr Esther Klein’s entry is on Li Guang, a general of the Han Dynasty. The editor is Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

The publisher’s website: http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/product.aspx?projid=88

Book Launch and ExhibitionProxy Brides: Experiences and Testimonies of Greek Women in Australia (1950-1975) Dr Panayota Nazou, Department of Modern Greek Studies

This book is the outcome of a research project on matchmaking in the first post-war Greek immigrant generation in Australia. It approaches the topic from perspectives of oral History and Gender and Cultural Studies, giving a voice to everyday Greek women, rarely heard in other publications. Their testimonies are presented as a record for future generations and an important primary source. Diverse cultural, psychological and sociopolitical aspects of the immirgrant experience are highlighted in their accounts, which are often dramatic and occasionally tinged with comedy.

The exhibition presents photographic material reflecting unique moments of migrant women’s experiences.

Book Launch: Wednesday 23 April, 7.00pm Exhibition: 24-27 April 11am-4pm Rockdale Town Hall. Free Entry More info: greekfestival@goc.com.au

Book LaunchC. P. Cavafy: The Open WorkDr Anthony Dracopoulos

Launched by Professor Peter Morgan and Dr Alfred Vincent

Dr Dracopoulos’ new book, C.P. Cavafy: The Open Work, aims to enhance our understanding of the function of polysemy in modernist poetics by exploring the game of hide and seek that Cavafy plays with the reader and by examining the rhetorical devices and modes of representation with which Cavafy keeps his poetry open to diverse interpretations.

The author is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he teaches Modern Greek and Comparative Literature. He has also published G. Seferis and Criticism: The Reception of Seferis’ Work (1931-1971).

Date : Wednesday 19 March Time : 7:00pm Venue: Greek Orthodox Community Club, 206-210 Lakemba Street, Lakemba Further information: phone 97500440 or email greekfestival@goc.com.au

newsFrancis Stuart PrizeCongratulations to Jason Frocht, who recently completed joint Honours in Japanese Studies and Art History, and who was awarded the Francis Stuart Prize for the best thesis on Asian Art. Jason’s thesis was entitled “Wood, Concrete, and Clay: Tradition and Modernity in Post-World War II Japanese Architecture and Ceramics.”

ConferencesRebecca Suter presented a paper on Japanese language and culture education in Australia, focussing particularly on the School of Languages and Cultures and and the BA (Languages), at Rikkyo University’s International Symposium on “Japanese Language and Culture Education in the World”. A report (Japanese text) is availabe at https://cjle.rikkyo.ac.jp/symposium/default.aspx.

School NewsPromotionsCongratulations to Michele Ford on her promotion to Professor of Southeast Asian Studies. This is well-deserved recognition of Michele’s many contributions to our School and to Southeast Asian Studies across the Faculty and the University.

Congratulations also to Dr Wei Wang (Chinese Studies) and Dr Giorgia Alù (Italian Studies) for their promotion to Senior Lecturer (Level C).

La lingua più bella del mondo In the past couple of months our Italian Government Lecturer, Dott. Antonella Beconi, has been busy organising a radio program titled ‘La lingua più bella del mondo’ (The most beautiful language in the world), broadcast by SBS Radio Italia, which involved some of our students.

The students were interviewed and talked about their motivation to study Italian, their experiences and impressions of Italy, its language and its culture, and how they imagine the country (those who had not yet been there). Each interview lasts about seven minutes. All in Italian, of course!

The broadcast was very successfully and SBS radio is happy to continue with it. The Italian Department consider this a great motivator for students to improve their knowledge of the Italian language.

Here are links to the interviews:

Max e Talia: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/italian/highlight/page/id/308982/t/The-world-s-most-beautiful-language

Bridget: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/italian/highlight/page/id/307480/t/The-best-language-in-the-world

Congratulations − Dr Giorgia Alù, who was promoted to Senior Lecturer; − Marco Santello, who completed his doctoral thesis: ‘Response to language choice in advertising targeting Italian bilinguals: The role of language dominance and language attitudes’. Marco has secured a post-doctoral position at the University of Warwick, UK.

EventsDr Antonia Rubino was invited to (i) take part in a round-table on the documentary ‘Terramatta’, based on the novel by Sicilian writer Vincenzo Rabito, organised by the Italian Institute of Culture in Sydney (9 December 2013); (ii) talk on ‘The benefits of bilingualism’ as part of the ‘Festival of Italian Language’ organised by the Italian Bilingual School in Sydney (22 February 2014).

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newsArabic & Islamic Studies

WelcomeThe School welcomes to the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies their new Chair, Professor Sahar Amer. Professor Amer is a specialist of comparative, cross-cultural relations between Arab and Muslim societies and Western cultures (Europe and France especially, and the United States). She has published extensively on gender and sexuality in Arabic and French literature, on Franco-Arab and Arab-American postcolonial identities, and on Muslim women veiling practices.

Professor Amer’s academic profile can be viewed at http://sydney.edu.au/arts/arabic_islamic/staff/profiles/sahar.amer.php

Grant SuccessDr Lucia Sorbera was successful in receiving a grant from the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR).

The project, A Continuing Spring: Arab and Australian views on social justice, equitable economic development and cultures of freedom, aims to develop Arab and Australian perspectives on the 2011 Arab revolutions across a range of domains for both specialist and general audiences. Participating Arab scholars, activists and community leaders will provide updated analysis on the evolving situation in the Arab world via a series of seminars, public lectures and screenings, some of which will be covered in the Australian media. This will further raise public and corporate awareness of the importance of the Australian-Arab relationship and extend its parameters beyond current trade-stimulation models of cultural exchange into the realm of social justice and sustainable development.

Dr Lucia Sorbera leads the project with the participation of

− A/Prof Bronwyn Winter, French Studies; − A/Prof Lily Rahim, Government & International Relations;

− Prof Michael Humphrey, Sociology & Social Policy; − Dr Sarah Phillips, Centre for International Security Studies;

− Ms Sandra Margon, Dr Omid Tofighian, Dr Ifdal El Saket, Ms Estella Carpi, Ms Rosie Hancock, M. Zainab Abdulnabi, and Mr Amro Ali.

Conferences and public talksOn 30 January 2014 Dr Ali Yunis Aldahesh gave a public lecture entitled Major Formal and Stylistic Aspects of Disagreement among Translators of the Qur’an at the College of Education-Ibn Rushd, Baghdad University. In his lecture, Dr Aldahesh indicated that many translators from a variety of religious, dogmatic, linguistic, cultural, ideological, political and sectarian backgrounds have translated the Qur’an. Translators deviated, to a great degree, in the ways by which they approach the scripture, and the manner in which they deal with it. Such a deviation manifested across a number of aspects, most important of which are the dogmatic, methodological, formal, and stylistic aspects. The lecture focused on the last two aspects, i.e., the formal and stylistic aspects. It adopted the comparative descriptive approach, aiming to trace the major formal and stylistic aspects of disagreement among translators of the Qur’an. It also aimed at highlighting the major characteristics of those aspects, and the factors that motivated the translators to adopt them. The lecture was made up of two sections.

The first section dealt with the formal aspects of disagreement among the translators of the Qur’an. It included seven subsections: on translating the title of the scripture and its adjectives; on ordering the Qur’anic Ayas (verses) and Surahs (chapters); on numbering the Qur’anic Ayas; on employing the punctuation marks and paragraphing system utilised in English; on presenting the original Arabic text next to the English translation of the Qur’an; on applying italics; and on the ways by which the translators introduced their translations.

The second section dealt with the stylistic aspects of disagreement among the translators of the Qur’an. It included three subsections: on using archaic English;

on using poetic and/or prose language; and on the issue of consistency in employing the vocabulary. The lecture covered the twenty most important translations of the Qur’an available in English and known to academics. The lecture was well recieved by the audience of academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Dr Aldahesh receiving a commemorative plaque and a letter of thanks from Baghdad University

newsArabic & Islamic Studies cont’dDr Lucia Sorbera was invited to participate in the conference Arab Modernity and the Culture of the Novel. The conference, organised by Dr Maria Elena Paniconi, took place 11-13 December 2013 at Macerata University, was very well attended and showcased emerging trends in Italian scholarship in Arabic literature and history. Dr Sorbera presented a paper on the autobiography of Nabawiyya Musa, pioneer of women’s education in Egypt. Papers covered a wide range of topics, spanning “Utopia” in Arabic modern thought (Dr Marco Lauri), politics and literature (Stefania dell’Anna), cosmopolitanism in XIX century Egypt (Elena Chiti), the complex relationship between medieval and modern Arabic literature (Francesca Bellino), blog-novels and new defintions of subjectivity (Teresa Pepe), Adab and comparative literatures (Elisabetta Benigni), diachronic and interdisciplinary perspectives, including psychoanalysis (Paolo La Spisa), feminist studies (Lucia Sorbera and Mariangiola Li Vigni), and comparative literatures. Three research seminars led by Dr Tatiana Petrovich Nkegosh on Modernity and Racism further contributed to develop a lively theoretical discussion on the relationship between modernity and the novel.

An outcome of the conference is the establishment of a research network which is currently at work on a special issue of a journal on the conference topics, and is organising a panel for the next conference of the Italian Society for Middle East Studies (SeSaMO), hosted by Venice University 16 -18 January 2015

Book Launch

The book Modernità Arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano (Mesogea, Messina, 2012), by Lorenzo Casini, Maria Elena Paniconi and Lucia Sorbera was launched during the conference Arab Modernity and the Culture of the Novel, at Macerata University. Other events marking the book’s publication also took place at Venice University Ca’ Foscari (Dr Sorbera’s alma mater), the University of Padua, and at the Regional Council of Florence.

Public talk/Book launch19 March 2013, 6pm. Italian Institute of Culture, Level 4, 125 York Street Sydney NSW 2000

Femminismi nel Mediterraneo/Feminisms in the Mediterranean, with Glenda Sluga, Stefania Bernini and Lucia SorberaGenesis is the Journal of The Italian Society of Women Historians; it was founded in 2002, and is currently directed by Prof. Giulia Calvi. This issue, edited by Leila el-Houssi and Lucia Sorbera, focuses on Feminisms in the Mediterranean and, through its collection of five essays and three interviews, takes the reader on a journey “From the Gulf to the Ocean”, analysing the history of the feminist movements in Iraq (Zahra Ali), Turkey (Lea Nocera), Egypt (Lucia Sorbera), Tunisia (Leila El Houssi), Morocco (Sara Borrillo), and the transnational space of Islamic feminism (Renata Pepicelli). Femminismi nel Mediterraneo/Feminisms in the Mediterranean is a contribution both to the historical discussion on global feminism, and to the political history of the Mediterranean Region. The turning points in the history of the countries under discussion, from the decolonization process, to the 1967 war, to the 2011 uprisings, are analysed through historical lenses, shedding light on continuities and changes, at once illuminating the complex dialectic between universalism and cultural specificities in feminist discourses.

Glenda Sluga, professor of international history at the University of Sydney, will discuss the themes of the volume with Stefania Bernini (University of New South Wales and editorial board of Genesis), and with Lucia Sorbera (The University of Sydney).

Limited seats. Booking essential.

RSVP: iicsydney@esteri.it or 02 9271 1780.

Event website: www.iicsydney.esteri.it/IIC_Sydney

Maria Elena Paniconi, Lucia Sorbera nd Lorenzo Casini, authors of Modernità Arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano

newsChinese Studies

Acclaim for the Quality of Chinese Language Teaching at the University of SydneyThe high quality of Chinese language teaching at the University of Sydney has once again recognised through a recently released peer review report on CHNS3604 Chinese 4B. The review was conducted in 2013 according to the Group of Eight (Go8) Quality Verification System (QVS). The review process is rigorous and involves a thorough evaluation of teaching materials across the key areas of learning objectives and outcomes, assessment tasks and procedures, and teacher feedback to students on assessment items. In this round of review, CHNS3604, a unit of study coordinated and taught by Ms Xiaowei Zhang, received the highest rating in all of the above core areas. The Department is gratified to have Xiaowei’s contributions to Chinese language teaching recognised in this fashion.

Selected quotes from the report:

− After careful viewing of all the materials provided to me I’m pleased to report that in my assessment the overall quality of this particular unit is very high. I believe it is fitting of the high standards set by the G08 universities.

− The Study Outline and assessment items provided to me for review all reflect a very high pedagogical standard. The learning outcomes are very clear and accessible. Students should be very certain as to the expectations and the objectives of this unit.

− If the quality of the teaching and assessment in this unit are an indication of the quality of Chinese language teaching in other units at The University of Sydney then the teachers and coordinators deserve commendation. I hope that The University of Sydney can continue to deliver such a high standard and provide sufficient resources over the coming decade to ensure the foundations already created are continued.

Student successAn outstanding Chinese Studies Department Honours student has just been accepted by Harvard University into its History and East Asian Languages PhD program. In his thank-you email to Linda Tsung and Derek Herforth, Mr Joel Wing-Lun, a winner of the University of Sydney medal, revealed the good news to the Department. It is with great pleasure that we extend warm congratulations to Joel and wish him all the best with his PhD study in Harvard.

The Huayu Enrichment ScholarshipThe University of Sydney has been selected as a “seed institution” for the 2014 MOE (Taipei) Huayu (Mandarin Chinese) Enrichment scholarship (HES).

The scholarship supports overseas students studying Chinese to study in Taiwan, in order to promote the study of Chinese and to aid in the establishment of long-term future relationships between Taiwan and other countries.

For more information on the scholarships, go to https://taiwanscholarship.moe.gov.tw/web/engindex.html

newsThe summer research period was a busy and productive one for members of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. Individual staff members undertook both conference and research trips. In December 2013 Dr Ari Lobel participated in the Annual Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, the single largest gathering of Jewish studies scholars globally. Professor Suzanne Rutland continued her work on a collaborative research project on Jewish Education in Australasia with A/Professor Zehavit Gross of Bar Ilan University, with research taking place in Israel, New Zealand, China as well as various locations within Australia. Professor Konrad Kwiet undertook a joint expedition with Yad Vashem researchers to identify and catalogue previously unknown mass graves in the Białowieska forests, Poland and Dr Avril Alba travelled to Amsterdam and London to undertake research on pre-war Jewish museums and exhibitions as part of the FASS Research Incubator project. In addition, she participated a one-day research workshop at the Weiner Library in London as part of an ongoing research project between the Universities of Southampton, Cape Town and Sydney The Holocaust and Legacies of Race in the Post Colonial World.

Department Chair Associate Professor Ian Young has returned to duties after his SSP in Semester II, 2013. Ian describes this SSP as being his most productive and

significant. He completed his contribution to a monograph co-authored with Robert Rezetko titled Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew, which is expected to be published in the Society of Biblical Literature’s Ancient Near Eastern Monographs series. He then moved on to a new research project on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, focused on the book of Daniel, and wrote a draft of a monograph currently titled Ian Young, Texts Without an Original: The Old Greek and the Masoretic Text in Daniel 5. After having worked on Hebrew language as his research area for so long, he enjoyed working with Aramaic and Greek texts for a change.

Professor Rutland, Dr Lobel, Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod (AAJS President) and Dr Alba all gave papers at the 26th Annual Australian Association for Jewish Studies

conference held at the University of Adelaide from 9-11 February. The theme of the conference was ‘Jews, Judaism and Hybridity’ and drew a diverse group of researchers from across the globe. The keynote speaker for the conference was Professor Bernard Wasserstein from the University of Chicago whose wide-ranging paper ‘The Smile of the

Cheshire Cat: Reflections on Jewish Cultural Crossings in the 58th century’ set the tone for the engaging series of papers that followed. Papers included a fascinating historical overview of Egyptian Jewish migration to Adelaide by HBJS graduate Dr Racheline Barda. The major sponsor for the conference as well as Professor Wasserstein’s trip to Australia was the Pratt Foundation.

The year ahead is also set to be a busy and productive one for HBJS with the planned launch of a mini exhibition curated by Professor Rutland honoring the Department’s founders and major sponsors, an international Holocaust Studies conference planned by Professor Kwiet to mark his final year as Pratt Foundation Professor and an expansion of the department’s teaching program with Dr Alba’s participation in the University’s new Masters of Museum and Heritage program. To view a detailed report of the activities of the Department in 2013 please follow the link to view the NBJS Annual Report:

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/hebrew_biblical_jewish_studies/about/news/index.shtml?id=2409

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Professor Bernard Wasserstein addressing the conference

newsModern Greek Studies

32nd Greek Festival of SydneyThe Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies is heavilly involved in this year’s Greek Festival of Sydney, taking place from 22 February to 27 April 2014.

Full details of these and other events in the Festival are available at www.greekfestivalofsydney.com.au

− Dionysios Solomos Awards 6 February 2014 This event, hosted by the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney’s MacLaurin Hall, recognised the highest-ranking Greek language students in NSW. Awards were presented to the top five NSW Higher School Certificate stduents and other high-achieving students of Modern and Classical Greek.

− El Greco’s Crete 7 March Co-ordinated by Dr Alfred Vincent, Honorary Associate

− Melina Mercouri: International Star, Cultural and Political Symbol A talk by Dr Panayota Nazou in Celebration of International Women’s Day 9 March, 4pm. Greek Orthodox Community Club, Lakemba

− Kyparissomilo by Yota krili Book Launch presented by Dr Panayota Nazou, Ms Sophia Sakelli and Dr Alfred Vincent 30 March

− The Events of December 1944 A talk by Professor Vrasidas Karalis 6 April

Book Launchessee Publications page 11 for full details

− Proxy Brides, Experiences and Testimonies of Greek Women in Australia (1950-1975) Dr Panayota Nazou 23 April, 7pm, Rockdale Town Hall

− C.P. Cavafy: The Open Work Dr Anthony Dracopoulos Launched by Professor Peter Morgan & Dr Alfred Vincent. 19 March, 7pm, Greek Orthodox Community Club

WelcomeThe School is delighted to welcome new staff member Professor Martine Antle to the Department of French Studies. Professor Antle is a specialist in twentieth-century French theatre, contemporary writing, photography and painting, Martine Antle has published extensively on race and gender in 20th and 21st-century French and Francophone literature. Her scholarship spans the political, social, and cultural revolutions that shaped modernity from the turn of the twentieth century to the present.

Professor Antle’s academic profile can be viewed at sydney.edu.au/arts/french/staff/profiles/martine.antle.php

Recent Conferences. − Martine Antle presented “The Art of Veiling and Unveiling in Contemporary Franco/Arab Art.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, in January 2014.

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