Past Seminars at the Institute
(in descending order)
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Date October 18th 2007 Speaker Abdul Samad Abdullah Topic The Intertextual Reading of West African Arabic Poetry -
Date October 4th 2007 Speaker Michael Ewing Topic Narrative Structure in Javanese Conversation -
Date September 20th 2007 Speaker Annika Pissin Topic The Socialization of Children in Medieval China -
Date September 6th 2007 Speaker Sayuki Machida Topic Japanese Learners' Reading Comprehension -
Date August 23rd 2007 Speaker Philippa Riley (PhD Candidate) Topic Memory, Space and Identity in Contemporary Taipei -
Date August 9th 2007 Speaker Anisa Buckley (PhD Candidate) Topic Muslim Women and Islamic Family Law: Managing the Politics of Gender and Authority In Australia -
Date July 26th 2007 Speaker Maya Costa-Pinto (MA Candidate) Topic The Construction of Ethnic Identity amongst East Timorese Women in Melbourne -
Date May 17th 2007 Speaker Caroline Norma (PhD Candidate) Topic The exclusion of the geisha system from Japan's 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law Summary The number of women registered as 'geisha' in Japan overtook the number of women in either brothel or drinking establishment prostitution in the interwar period. Nonetheless, Japan's 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law did not prohibit the geisha system. The exclusion of the geisha system from the law's provisions was not uncontroversial, however, and a newspaper editorialist in 1959 remarked that:
The first problem with the Prostitution Prevention Law is that it didn't encompass geisha. While there are some elderly geisha who sell exclusively their artistic abilities, most geisha are in debt bondage and are unable to live without being publicly prostituted.
This paper will examine the debates leading up to 1956 to ascertain the political tact taken by opponents of the abolitionists to exclude the geisha system from the law. Abolitionists had been lobbying for the prohibition of the geisha system in Japan from the 1910s. Did proponents of the geisha system use its 'high' cultural status to attempt to demonstrate its qualitative difference to prostitution?
This paper further highlights a historical example of prostitution being normalised. Feminists have discussed the normalisation of prostitution that is carried out through liberal ideology, which redefines prostitution as 'work' in order to disguise its status as an institution of male dominance. I argue that the construction of women in the geisha system as 'artists' is a comparable example of prostitution normalisation in history.
Presenter Caroline Norma is a PhD candidate with the Asia Institute and the Department of Political Science under supervisors Carolyn Stevens and Sheila Jeffreys. This paper is part of a larger project looking at Japanese men's promotion of settai fuuzoku prostitution systems in Japan and Korea in the modern period. Caroline is a member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and is active in the feminist anti-prostitution movement.
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Date May 3rd 2007 Speaker Zhou Yuxing (PhD Candidate) Topic New Media Technology and Chinese Independent Filmmaking Summary Chinese independent filmmaking emerged in the early 1990s, but it did not attract scholarly attention in the west until recently. The interplays between the filmmakers and the government provide a key to understanding the future of Chinese film industry, which constantly has to adjust itself to survive the market economy and the sweeping power of Hollywood pictures. The paper will focus particularly on the impact of new media technologies such as the digital video camera on China's independent filmmaking-including the greater accessibility for amateur filmmakers, and discuss how the new technologies will shape the future of Chinese independent filmmaking. By examining the complex influences on the production of these films - such as foreign investment, international and domestic markets, state censorship and new media technologies - the paper will also discuss the impact of these internal and external forces on the current situation and the future development of Chinese independent filmmaking in the socioeconomic context of contemporary China, where global capitalism is increasingly seen.
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Date April 19th 2007 Speaker Catherine Ingram (PhD Candidate) Topic The Kam 'big song' tradition in contemporary China -
Date April 5th 2007 Speaker Carolyn Stevens Topic Barriers Architectural and Attitudinal: Barrier Free Design in Urban Japan Summary This paper explores the uneasy juxtaposition between the user access and user reality of 'barrier free design' (bariafurii desain) in urban Japan. I argue that the growing number of accessibility features in Japanese public spaces has not necessarily resulted in a 'barrier free' society. These visible reminders raise public awareness about the difficulties physical and intellectual disabilities present to individuals, but I argue that that people with disabilities and their carers still live in physically narrowed spaces, primarily because of the reality of the urban landscape and pressure from the number of users.
This tension between ideals and reality informs our understanding of disability and how it colours the relationship between individual and society. As we will see below, accessibility is quietly seen as a moral imperative, relying on the 'kindness of strangers', rather than as an entitlement or an expression of basic human rights.
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Date - Speaker Andrea Whittaker Topic The global quest for therapy: Medical travel in Asia Summary Combine your health needs with a holiday in paradise!
(Bangkok International hospital 2006). The trade in health services for foreign patients often termed medical tourism or medical travel is a growing industry being aggressively marketed across Asia. This seminar will present an overview of the industry, marketing strategies and linkages. It will also consider some of the implications of this trade for public health in the region and for the medical travellers themselves. -
Date March 22nd 2007 Speaker Emily Dunn (PhD Candidate) Topic Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Contemporary Chinese Protestantism Summary The resurgence of religious life in the PRC over the last twenty-five years has witnessed not only the revival of earlier religious cultures, but also the development of new ones. Some of these new religious movements have emerged from rural Chinese Protestant and folk religious contexts, and have been successful in recruiting significant numbers of adherents. Such groups have been labelled as "heterodox teachings" or "evil cults" by the Chinese Communist Party, and also as "heretical" by Chinese Protestant communities. This paper examines state and church representations of these "heterodox" groups with a view to understanding the criteria by which different parties identify heterodoxy and, by association, orthodoxy. It finds that in China today, there are multiple and competing definitions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy. While all groups oppose "evil cults", the grounds and applications of their opposition vary widely. -
Date March 8th 2007 Speaker Lewis Mayo Topic Non-human Life and the Exorcism of the Past in the Medieval Chinese Central-Asian Borderlands Summary For a long time history has been focused on the pasts of human beings. The ability of humans to recall pasts that did not happen to them personally is one of the ways in which human lives are distinguished from the lives of non-humans. This is particularly so in the case of recalling the dead, those humans who are no longer alive. History in this regard seems a technology of recollection, a way in which the dead are kept somehow in the realm of the living, and kept from falling into the anonymity to which the non-human dead are assigned. At the same, the expulsion of the dead from the realm of the living is one way in which the boundary of the human is maintained. A sense of humanness relies on a distinction between humans and two kinds of non-human entites: spirits, divinities and ghosts on the one hand, and animals on the other. What kinds of histories do these two kinds of non-human beings have? Do spirits, divinities and animals have pasts of their own, even though the only access humans have to their histories is through the stories that people create about them?
This paper examines these problems in relation to the non-human history of the oasis of Dunhuang (in the Chinese/Inner Asian borderlands) in the medieval era. It looks specifically at the technologies used for dealing with animal death and for expelling unwanted spirit presences, technologies which can be seen as both making histories for non-human beings and also as making non-human beings into histories (in the sense of their being no longer present in the realm of the living). This emphasies the complex and neglected relationship of history to exorcism, the technique by which the realm of the human is protected from uninvited intrusion, intrusion from animals, spirits or divinities which have left their proper places, and trespassed where they should not venture. Control over invitation, based on deciding who may be let into which spaces at which times, is one of the key ritual procedures through which human societies manage their pasts, and distinguish themselves and their histories from those of non-humans. If history is a product of exorcistic drives, it is also the case that exorcism is a way in which unwanted pasts are kept from disrupting the present.
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Date February 22nd 2007 Speaker Soeyanto (PhD Candidate) Topic News Media and Bureaucracy: The Significance of Bureaucratic Issues for the Public Sphere in Democratising Indonesia -
Date October 20th 2006 Speaker Jeremy Breaden (PhD Candidate) Topic Pursuing dreams or evading nightmares? Competition, Accountability and the 're-invention' of higher education in Japan Summary Plummeting birthrates, deregulation, public accountability, competition on a global scale... these issues will be familiar to observers of higher education systems in most developed countries. In Japan, the particularly acute manifestations of these trends have generated a variety of nightmare scenarios (and realities) for the country's higher education sector, ranging from hyper-competition and decline in academic standards to university bankruptcy. At the same time, these new challenges, together with a broader public re-assessment of the value of education and validity of traditional educational pathways, are prompting universities to re-invent' themselves in a manner which is more closely aligned with the realities of Japanese society in the 21st century.
This presentation will introduce the variety of factors informing change in the Japanese higher education sector today. The presenter will argue that in order to predict what shape the sector may take in the future, we must look beyond the macro-trends and attempt to analyse how these factors are interpreted and new approaches negotiated within individual universities and other institutions of higher education. Parallels will be drawn with the process of university 're-invention' currently underway in our own backyard.
Presenter After completing honours degrees in Law and Arts at the University of Melbourne, Jeremy moved to Japan, working initially in local government and subsequently in the tertiary education sector. He returned to Australia in early 2006, after a total of eight years in Japan, to commence his PhD candidature in the Asia Institute. Much of his time in Japan was spent managing marketing and international student admissions at a new university campus operated by one of Japan's largest private educational trusts. In his PhD project, Jeremy is building on his experience of educational administration to conduct an ethnographic study of the dynamics of change in a Japanese university. His study focuses on the use of 'internationalism' as a paradigm for response to the crisis of structural reform and market contraction currently confronting Japanese universities. -
Date October 3rd 2006 Speaker Merlyna Lim Topic The Internet and Politics: Amplifying Contests in the Indonesian Public Sphere Summary To understand the societal construction of the Internet in Indonesia, it is necessary to place it within the context of the social, political, economic and cultural characteristics of Indonesia's New Order. In this context, Internet contrasts with earlier media and communications technologies in the country. The political landscape during the period of its development and the characteristics of the technology allowed the Internet to provide spaces for a much more democratic development. The Internet was not simply a new layer added to other technologies, but it emerged as a technology with very a different societal configuration. Using various cases from New Order and post-New Order era, this presentation will show how cyberspace has become a contested sphere where politics of multi voices has emerged. The presentation will also show that the unique societal configuration of Internet technology is embedded in the intermodality of new and 'more traditional' media networks. Presenter Merlyna Lim is an Assistant Professor of the Consortium of Science, Policy and Outcomes and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She was awarded a Ph.D. with distinction from University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, in September 2005 with a dissertation entitled "@rchipelago Online: The Internet and Political Activism in Indonesia." Her research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of technology and society, focusing particularly on social, cultural, and political dimensions of the new media and information and communication technology. Lim holds the following awards: Annenberg Networked Publics Research Fellowship (2005-2006), Henry Luce Southeast Asia fellowship (2004), NWO Wotro Fellowship (2003-2005), and ASIST International Paper Contest Winner (2002) and has given invited lectures in various places in the United States, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Malaysia and Germany. -
Date June 14th 2006 Speaker Stephanie Koorey (ANU) Topic The small arms trade in Southeast Asia Summary Small arms and light weapons (SALW), have been referred to as the "orphans"; of arms control. Efforts at controlling conventional weaponry fell victim to the Cold War, with transparency, confidence-building measures and international controls only really coming into scholarly and policy arenas in the early 1990s. Yet management of small arms continued to evade national and international scrutiny for several more years. By the mid 1990s however, the UN Secretary General was referring to 'micro-disarmament', reflecting growing concern about stories coming back from international interventions regarding the ubiquity of small arms and light weapons, particularly assault rifles from the Kalashnikov, M16, G3 and FN FAL families. By 1997, the UN had received an experts report on the excessive accumulation and transfer of SALW, placing the issue firmly on the global agenda.
This paper raises and discusses the origins of, and current issues in, the current apparent worldwide abundance of small arms and light weapons. It starts with a global perspective, narrowing down to a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, covering topics such as the particular nature of small arms, supply and demand factors, the means of proliferation and the effects of small arms misuse. Non-state actors, including Armed Groups, street and transnational criminals seem to be very well-armed. Apart from challenges to law enforcement presented by the 'diffusion' of SALW, it also reveals that the state no longer has the monopoly on the use or threat of armed force. Thus, the paper also covers attempts at control of SALW, which seek to reign in what many regard as a multi-dimensional global security crisis.
Is the response too little too late? And do the assumptions arising from the empirical evidence gathered from elsewhere, make sense when applied to the situations in the Asia-Pacific?
Presenter Stephanie Koorey is in her final year of research for her Doctorate degree in Strategic and Defence Studies at the ANU. Her thesis, on small arms and armed groups in Southeast Asia, has identified key themes in the small arms literature which are tested against four case studies in Southeast Asia. Stephanie has tutored students at the ANU for courses in 'Refugees, Conflict and Human Security' and 'Security and Strategic Studies in the Asian Region' in 2005 and 2006. She has delivered lectures and seminars to the ANU, the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies and the University of Queensland. She has been widely published and is a contributor to the Small Arms Survey yearbook 2006.
Stephanie holds a Master of Arts in Peace and Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Diploma in International Politics from the University of London. She has worked for a number of human rights and humanitarian non-government organizations including Amnesty International, AUSTCARE and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. As part of her work she has traveled to Bosnia, the Palestinian disputed territories and Sri Lanka. Stephanie has also attended two United Nations meetings on small arms control at the invitation of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Nadi, Fiji in 2004 and New York in 2005. Most recently she visited the Thai-Burma border
Stephanie was born in Canberra, spent 12 years living in the UK and traveling around Europe and North America, and is now living back in Canberra with her partner and three children.
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Date June 7th 2006 Speaker Andy Fuller (Asia Institute) Topic Aspects of postmodernism in the writings of Seno Gumira Ajidarma Summary Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a writer of central importance to contemporary Indonesian fiction. His writings span many genres and numerous styles. He has been a defiant critic of the former New Order government and continues to play a role in writing socially engaged literature. His many publications of short stories, novels and non-fiction texts have been widely read and well received by many critics and academics inside and outside of Indonesia. His works contain elements or realism and surrealism. However, his works have also engaged with many postmodern issues. The aspects of his works studied in this paper are: characterisation, authorial self-reflexivity and an engagement with popular culture. These features are part of the problems presented by postmodernism. Presenter Andy Fuller completed his MA on the fiction of Seno Gumira Ajidarma in January 2004. He was an Asialink Literature Residency in 2005. During his residency he was based at the Lontar Foundation in Jakarta, where he translated short stories and poems by contemporary Indonesian writers. He also writes about art and music. On June 26th, 2005, he spent one day in Hiroshima. -
Date 21 Oct 2005 Speaker Adam Fforde Topic Current Economic and Social Conditions in Vietnam: Reflections Summary As Vietnam prepares for another Party Congress, both her leaders and international donors present the country as an outstanding example of social and economic development, with rapid GDP growth, steep falls in recorded poverty, and intense globalisation. What are the main factors that threaten this process, and what can Vietnam's development partners do about it? Based upon his ongoing study of Vietnam's social and economic history since the emergence of a market economy in 1989-90, and engagement in range of development consultancy work, Adam Fforde will review current conditions and discuss contemporary issues.
Author of a range of articles and books on Vietnam, Adam Fforde teaches Asian Economies and Comparative Development Policy at the University of Melbourne. He has been Principal Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, since 2003 and was recently appointed as Professorial Fellow at the School of International Development, Melbourne University Private.
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Date 7 Oct 2005 Speaker Rio Otomo Topic he Stories of the Body: Media Reports of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games Summary Shunya Yoshimi and others see the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games as the culmination of Japan's modernisation project. They trace ideological continuities between the 1964 games and earlier plans for the 1940 games which were subsequently called off due to the approaching war. In this sense the effect of the war was an interruption rather than a shift of paradigm. Sharing this position, I focus on the particular discourse of the body which was produced through various media reports during the 1964 games. The narratives of individual athletes were told in such a way that they would draw forth in the viewers a sense of national unity and of pride in an autonomous nation. These narratives accompanied spectacles of athletes' bodies which were not only the embodiment of one's will power -; self-discipline and self-control - but also that of the systematic operation of power on the private body. The moment the whole nation became glued to their newly acquired TV screens, a so-called "spectator society" was born. On the one hand, the masses turned into spectators whose bodies were passive, and yet, also inadvertently performed the role of the consumer in the new social order. On the other, the games created much needed folk heroes whose private bodies were displaced and used in the process. I examine three cases; the women's volleyball team that won gold; the leader of the male gymnastic team who performed in spite of injury; a marathon bronze medallist who killed himself, leaving a letter of apology behind.
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Date 16 Sept 2005 Speaker Rucina Ballinger Topic Shadows of Terror: How Wayang Kulit was used as a Tool for Post-Bomb Depression -
Date 16 Sept 2005 Speaker Rucina Ballinger Topic Balinese Dance, Drama and Music: A Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali Summary Wayang Dasa Nama Kerta (Ten Names of Peace) is an innovative puppet show created a month after the Bali bomb to assist with PTSD counseling. The six dalang (puppeteers) ride on skateboards while powerpoint images are projected onto the screen. The story tells of the God Siwa who transforms himself into a demon and wreaks havoc on earth, only to transform back into a God at the end of the story. The inner message is about taming our inner demons and tolerating differences in others.
This puppet show was taken into over 30 schools and communities in Bali after the Bali bombing with a psychiatrist. The doctor discussed issues of stress with students, teachers and parents and then debriefed the puppet show with them. This show was also aired on TVRI and Bali TV. Follow up counseling sessions were given for free at the IMC center in Denpasar.
Presented by the Indonesia Forum and Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies
Presenter Rucina Ballinger has lived in Bali for over twenty years and been involved in the performing arts of Asia since l972. She has co-authored a book BALINESE DANCE, DRAMA AND MUSIC with Dr Wayan Dibia (Singapore: Periplus Editions, 2005) and currently is the CEO of YKIP, a foundation in Bali that works in the fields of health and education. -
Date 9 Sept 2005 Speaker Alex English (Geography) Topic Greening the Chinese State: Reforms, Bureaucracy and Environmental Management in Rural China Summary Alex English looks at the relationship between the post-Mao reforms, the bureaucracy and local environmental management in rural China. The past two decades of economic reform have accelerated the intensity and spread of environmental degradation. One of the state's responses has been a policy of rapidly establishing nature reserves throughout the countryside. While over 15 percent of China's land mass is already covered by nature reserves, many of these reserves exist only 'on paper'. Despite a well-intentioned policy of preserving China's natural resources within nature reserves, significant gaps in their management remain, largely due to the processes involved in their initial protection. A key factor behind this policy outcome has been the bureaucratic framework of tiaotiao kuaikuai relations or matrix of vertical and horizontal lines of authority. These relations are analysed through the management experience of three nature reserves: Xilingol (Inner Mongolia), Jiuzhaigou (Sichuan) and Changbaishan (Jilin). The talk concludes that the economic, administrative and environmental reforms have brought both opportunities and constraints for China's nature reserves, which operate within a bureaucratic framework characterised by fragmentation and conflict, rather than coordination. Presenter Alex English is a PhD candidate in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. -
Date 1 September 2005 Speaker Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University) Topic Uses of the Korean Wave: Taking its "political" implications seriously Summary A Korean Wave is sweeping East Asia. Since the phenomenal popularity of the TV drama series Winter Sonata, the wave has also landed on the Japanese archipelago. This presentation will analyse the recent popularity of Korean TV dramas and films in Japan. My main concern will be how we can usefully consider, and develop, the wave's political implications by disentangling the discourse on the Korean Wave from what I call "brand nationalism," uncritical craving to maximise national interests. I will examine how Korean TV dramas are received by (mostly middle-aged) women and act on them to prompt active post-text encounters with Korea. I will also discuss the impact of the Korean Wave on the social (self-) recognition of resident Koreans in Japan and consider the way in which the transnational intersects with the multicultural and the postcolonial. -
Date 25 August 2005 Speaker Eka Srimulyani (University of Technology, Sydney) Topic Negotiating Space: Women and Pesantren in Jombang East Java Summary Pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) are a particular sub-culture within Indonesian Muslim communities. The history of pesantren began in the nineteenth century as a male-dominated educational institution. It was only in the 1930s that pesantren began to set up classes for female attendants. Studies on the pesantren, however, while shedding light on the male central figure of a kiyai, as one of the elements of pesantren itself (Dhofier 1982), rarely record the presence of female figures. In reality there are female figures who are involved in the educational leadership of the pesantren, especially in the pesantren putrid—some of them are even involved in more distinguished public roles and activities. "Women in pesantren," however "remain a topic about which many observers of pesantren tend to overlook" (Muhammad 2002).
This seminar will look at several female figures from the pesantren background (the wives or the daughters of the kiyais) who perform public roles and activities. I will discuss how they can have access to public space, how they negotiate their public space with male counterparts, what kind ofbargaining power enables them to attain positions in the educational leadership of the pesantren, and their other public roles and activities of a socio-religious or political nature within society. The seminar will also examine female students of the pesantren: their life within the pesantren, their expectations and future careers.
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Date 15 August 2005 Speaker Andreas Ufen (Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg) Topic Cleavages in the Political Party Systems of Indonesia and Malaysia Summary Dr Andreas Ufen looks at contemporary developments in the political party systems of Indonesia and Malaysia. Islam is much more politicized in Malaysia than in Indonesia; at least when it comes to political parties, their programs and their campaigning - one reason why democratization in Malaysia is blocked whereas post-Suharto Indonesia has witnessed sweeping reforms. While struggles between secularists and followers of political Islam, and reformers and conservatives are losing significance in Indonesia, social cleavages transferred to the political party system are conspicuous in Malaysia. The causes for this are complex, and have to do with electoral systems and the way social cleavages are transformed into conflicts between political parties. Presenter Dr Ufen is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg, Germany -
Date 27 May 2005 Speaker Ji Zhang (MIALS/Philosophy) Topic One and Many: A Comparative study between the Greek philosophy of Plato and Chinese Daoism represented by Ge Hong -
Date 29 April 2005 Speaker Professor Michael Leigh (MIALS) Topic Aceh, Indonesia: post-Tsunami -
Date 29 April 2005 Speaker Prof Satoshi Miyazaki (Waseda University) Topic A Close Look at Japanese Language Acquisition: Why do Foreign Sumo Wrestlers (gaikokujin rikishi) Speak Fluent Japanese? -
Date 24 March 2005 Speaker Lewis Mayo (MIALS / Leiden University) Topic Illness, threat and systems of authority in Dunhuang -
Date 18 March 2005 Speaker Dr Chusnul Mari'yah, Director of IT, Member of the Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) Topic Dynamics of Democratisation in Indonesia -
Date 18 March 2005 Speaker Yuji Suzuki (Professor of Language and Linguistics, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University) Topic e-Language in Action - Language, Communication and next Generation Media: Theory and its Application to Language Education -
Date 11 March 2005 Speaker Jin Yi (MIALS) Topic The Development of Chinese New Opera -
Date 8 November 2004 Speaker Ms. Felicidade Guterres, (Board Member, Uma Fukun Cultural Centre, East Timor; Senior Program Officer, Access to Justice Program, Asia Foundation; former Program Officer, World Bank; one of only two women in the NCC governing council) Topic Articulating Women's Voices in East Timorese Culture and the Arts -
Date 8 November 2004 Speaker Ms. Maria Gabriela Carrascalao, (Head of Radio and Television, Head of Public Information Office (UNTAET and UNMISET), and Executive Producer, Portuguese Section, SBS) Topic Women's Roles in the Media in East Timor -
Date 29 October 2004 Speaker Dr. Ariel Heryanto (MIALS) Topic Ethnic Diasporas as Cosmopolitans? Indonesian Chineseness, Citizenship, and Pop Cultures -
Date 22 October 2004 Speaker Dr Muhammad Kamal, (MIALS) Topic Mulla Sudra and the doctrine of trans-substantial change -
Date 8 October 2004 Speaker Dr Carolyn Stevens, (MIALS) Topic Marketing a Pop Music Canon in Contemporary Japan -
Date 10 September 2004 Speaker Associate Professor Tetsuhito Shizuka, Kansai University Topic Why writing four options per item does not seem worth it: comparison of psychometric properties of three- and four-option versions of an EFL examination. -
Date 13 August 2004 Speaker Mr Anthony Garnaut, (ANU) Topic Tomb networks, one pillar of Islamic community in Northwest China during the Republican period (1911-1949) -
Date 30 July 2004 Speaker Mr Mark Crosbie, (MIALS) Topic Buddhist biography in Imperial China: Paradise postponed for the welfare of others? -
Date 28 May 2004 Speaker Mr Abdurrahman Asroglu, (MIALS) Topic Reshaping identities: religion, ethnicity and culture among second generation Turkish-Australians -
Date 14 May 2004 Speaker Professor J. Bruce Jacobs, Monash University Topic Democratisation in Taiwan -
Date 30 April 2004 Speaker Dr. Adam Fforde, (MIALS) Topic Towards a South East Asian Notion of Development policy? -
Date 29 April 2004 Speaker Dr. Tim Oakes (University of Colorado at Boulder) Topic Mimesis, Authenticity, & Chinese Tourist Theme Parks -
Date 18 March 2004 Speakers Dr. Anne McLaren (MIALS) & Professor William Coaldrake (MIALS) Topic Academic supervision from a supervisor and postgraduate perspective