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We have
masters and PhD scholarships on offer. For more information, please contact :
Ms
Vasantha Mathaven.
vasantha@sass.monash.edu.my
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School of Arts
and Social Sciences
The School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) is a dynamic school
with staff committed to being on the cutting edge of their research
fields. At the same time, we are committed to providing both our undergraduate and
postgraduate students the best education in the arts and social
sciences in the country.
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Interreligious Studies Collaboration
Two Day Internal Workshop
8 & 9 June 2009
‘Monash initiates new partnerships in Interreligious Studies’ ;
by Sharon A Bong
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[Front (seated from left to right): Greg
Barton, Sharon Bong, Michael Fagenblat and Anna Halafoff;
Back (standing from left to right):
Yeoh Seng Guan, Tony
See, Salih Yucel, Melanie Landau, Marika Vicziany, Raju
Zakir, Siby K George, Sony Jalarajan]
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Teaching and research collaboration in interreligious studies was forged in an innovative two-day workshop that
brought together researchers from Monash Sunway, Monash Australia and the India Institute of Technology (IITB),
Mumbai. Hosted by the School of Arts and Social Sciences (Sunway), the workshop was funded by the International
Strategic Initiative grant, team-led by Michael Fagenblat of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (Caulfield).
Explorations include: jointly writing new units in religion and gender, religion and media; introducing units in
interreligious studies in Masters (taught) programmes; developing a new PhD programme with areas of specialization
such as multi-faith movements in Asia, nationalism, conflict management, human rights, sports and youth in
Interreligious Studies; identifying a Monash network of scholars with research expertise in interreligious studies and
identifying research grants that recognizes the merits of interreligious studies.
Research presentations were offered by: Sharon A. Bong, “The Sexual Other in Religion”; Melanie Landau, “When the
'other' is your 'lover': the legal acquisition of women in traditional Jewish marriage”; Salih Yucel, “Institutionalizing of
Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Nostra Aetate and Fethullah Gülen’s Vision”; Michael Fagenblat “The Good Samaritan from
the perspective of rabbinic Judaism”; Anna Halafoff, “Multifaith Movements in Ultramodernity” and Marika Vicziany, “The
'other' 380 million Indians: Muslims, untouchables and tribal 'minorities' and Hindutva (Hindu fundamentalism)”.
Other dialogue partners included Greg Barton (Caulfied), Siby George (IITB), Yeoh Seng Guan, Zakir Hossain Raju,
Tony See and Sony Jalarajan (Sunway).
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SASS Seminar (No
5/2009)
"An
Introduction to Cybercrime"
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Dr Jonathan Clough, Ass Prof
Faculty of Law, Monash University Australia |
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18th June 2009
(Thursday) |
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11.00am to 12.00noon |
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Communication Lab 9508,
Level 5, Building 9,
Monash University, Sunway Campus |
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More details on seminar....
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COM 4010(H) Seminar
Monday, 18 May, 2009
4.00-6.00 pm
Communication Lab (room 9508)
Ms Katherine Tan, “Postcolonial
Identity: Expressions of the Other
and Othering in Disney full-length animated films”
Ms Melanie Alyssa Chalil,
“Masochism in contemporary vampire literature:
Reconfiguring the notion of victimhood”
Ms Siti Nur Farhanah S. Hussin
Bagharib, “Visual Pleasure and the female spectacle in Middle
Eastern cinema: A look into Iranian and Lebanese Films
(featuring women)”
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Nasi Bungkus Cinema
(13
May 2009 - Wednesday)
 
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BOOK LAUNCH
Prof. Shail Mayaram,
editor of The Other Global City, was in the campus on
27
March to launch the book recently published by Routledge
Taylor and Francis.
She gave an overview of the key
project themes that framed the various contributions
to
the book - cosmopolitanism and the experience of
negotiating with ethnic and
religious differences in the
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Dr Yeoh Seng Guan also
gave a short summary of his chapter on the street
dynamics of “Little India” in Kuala Lumpur. Professor
Shail Mayaram is based at
the Center for the Study of
Developing Societies in Delhi, India. Her previous
publications has been on subaltern perspectives on state
and sovereignty as well
as on myth, history, memory and
resistance.
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RESEARCH WORKSHOP BETWEEN MONASH SUNWAY AND
MONASH SOUTH AFRICA
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Congratulations to Anna Filippova,
Grace Ng and Maxine Lim for winning SASS's Best Student Awards for
2008. Click here or
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Recent
Staff Publications Dr Yeoh Seng Guan
- 2009 Editor. Mediating Malaysia: Media,
culture & society in a Developmentalist State, London
& New York: Routledge.
   
- 2009 Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution & Neil
Khor (eds.) Penang and its region: The story of an Asian
Entrepot, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
- 2009 “The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: Cityscape, ‘Race’ and
Civil Disobedience”. In Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj
Velayutham eds. Dissent and cultural resistance in Asia’s
cities, London & New York: Routledge.
- 2009 “Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife Little India,
Kuala Lumpur”. In Shail Mayaram ed. The other global city,
London & New York: Routledge.
- 2009 “For/against hybridity: Religious entrepreneurships in a
Roman Catholic pilgrimage shrine in Malaysia”, Asian Journal
of Social Science, Vol. 37, No. 1: 7-28.
- 2009 “Hungry ghost festival”. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of
Modern China, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire.
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Bong, Sharon A and
Joseph, Pushpa (eds.) (2008) Re-imagining Marriage
and Family in Asia: Asian Christian Women’s Perspectives.
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic information and
Research Development Centre (SIRD).
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Dr Tony
See, Community without Identity: The Ontology and
Politics of Heidegger (Paperback) Wolfgang
Schirmacher (Editor)
(Atropos Press, 2009)
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Dr Zakir Hossain Raju: ‘Filmic Imaginations of the Malaysian
Chinese: Mahua Cinema as a Transnational Chinese Cinema’ in
Special Issue on Transnational Chinese Cinemas Journal of
Chinese Cinemas, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008 pp. 67-79. |
| Dr Zakir Hossain Raju: 'Bollywood in Bangladesh: Transcultural
Consumption in Globalizing South Asia’ in Media Consumption
and Everyday Culture in Asia, ed. Youna Kim, New York:
Routledge (pp. 155-166). |
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Prof
James Chin: Contemporary Chinese Community in Papua-New Guinea:
Old Money versus New Migrants,
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Vo2, 2008 (南方华裔研究杂志) |
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NASI BUNGKUS
CINEMA
SCREENING
DATES
(Communication Lab (Room 9508); 12-1pm)
1st
semester
Tuesday, 24
March
Tuesday, 7
April
Tuesday, 5 May
2nd
semester
Tuesday,
11 August
Tuesday, 8
September
Tuesday, 6
October
Special
Screenings
Plenary
Theatre; 5-6.30 pm
1st
semester
Wednesday, 22
April
Wednesday, 13
May
2nd
semester
Wednesday, 12
August
Wednesday, 16
September
Wednesday, 14
October
Curators:
Mr Benjamin
McKay, Dr. Sony Jalarajan
Dr Yeoh
Seng Guan
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