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 Engaging Scholars and Policy MakersThe vibrancy and rigor of the work done at Monash University is ensured in a number of ways, including engaging with scholars and with those who make and influence public policy. This enables the fertile cross-pollination of ideas through discussion and debate, as well as the building of bridges between institutions which enriches the fabric of academic society. Below are just a few engagements that Monash University Arts staff have had with other intellectual and policy institutions. 2008 & Ongoing Prof James Chin presented the following papers:
Dr Andrew Ng – participated in the first Global Gothic Symposium held on 11 – 12th July 2008 at the University of Stirling Scotland. This Symposium brought together 25 international scholars on Gothic literature in the bid to interrogate, and debate over, the possibility of redefining Gothic studies to include texts and cultures outside the Euro-American paradigm. This is the first of an ongoing series of Symposium which will, hopefully, redirect and broaden Gothic studies. As an associate member of this platform, Dr Ng’s position paper looks at the efficacy of “multiculturalizing” the aesthetics of the Gothic to function as a useful critical apparatus to read works without being disassociated from their socio-cultural underpinnings. For more details, please go to this website: http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/
Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - participated in the 2008 Sentosa Dialogue held in Singapore from 17-18 January 2008. Organised by the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and funded by the Sasakawa Foundation of Japan, the annual Sentosa Dialogues bring together analysts, scholars and policy practitioners to debate new ideas and approaches to the management of peace and security in Asia. The 2008 Sentosa Dialogue focused on the role of regional institutions such as ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Three, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum in forging deeper regional cooperation and community building.
Prof James
Chin &
Dr Julian C.H. Lee & Mr Benjamin McKay - participated in the conference, Social Science Education and the Management of Diversity in Multicultural Societies: Malaysia and Australia Compared, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Together with other social science scholars in the region as well as from abroad, they discussed the socio-political role of the social sciences in Malaysia and Australia in the future. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - presented a paper at the First Cordillera Studies International Conference in Baguio City, The Philippines held in early February, 2008. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - participated in the Regional Committee Meeting of the Nippon Foundation for Asian Public Intellectuals held in Kyoto, Japan in April, 2008. 2007 Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - took part in a regional consultative meeting that brought together scholars and policymakers to debate a new global initiative to reform the multilateral security system that will be forwarded to the United Nations and the incoming US President. This new initiative on “Managing Global Insecurity” was jointly developed by the Brookings Institution, the Center for International Cooperation at New York University and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. The regional meeting, which was held on 9-10 December 2007 in Singapore, provided a platform for regional experts to comment on and provide feedback on this new global reform initiative. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - participated in a workshop in Singapore from 3-4 December, 2007 on “New Modes of Governance in the Asia-Pacific: Transparency and Accountability”. Jointly organized by the Asia Research Centre of Murdoch University, Australia and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, the workshop explored how diverse publics in the Asia-Pacific reagion are initiating and participating in a variety of networks to build systems of accountability and transparency in the region that either correct for deficiencies in public accountability/transparency arrangements or that supplant them. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - participated in an international conference on “Pathways to Legitimacy? The Future of Global and Regional Governance”, organised by the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick, UK. Held at the University of Warwick from 17-19 September 2007, Dr Nesadurai presented a paper on the politics of regional governance in ASEAN, focusing on the ways through which elites attempt to build legitimacy for the ASEAN Community project and the challenges to that process posed by civil society and labour groups articulating alternative conceptions of regional governance. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - participated in the final project workshop on “Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Managing Trade and Security Relations in a Post-9/11 World”. This workshop capped a year-long collaborative project on Asia’s New Institutional Architecture led by Professor Vinod Aggarwal of the University of California, Berkeley. Hosted by the East-West Center in Honolulu from 14-15 December 2006, the final project workshop brought together members of the project team to fine-tune their chapter contributions and discuss the theoretical and policy implications of their research findings. The project resulted in the publication of an edited book in 2007 (published by Springer-Verlag), which includes Dr Nesadurai’s chapter on Southeast Asia’s New Institutional Architecture for Cooperation in Economics and Finance. Dr Julian C.H. Lee - participated in the Roundtable Forum: Is Malaysia Becoming More Democratic?, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia. Together with other Malaysian social scientists and analysts of Malaysia's politics, discussed the condition and direction of Malaysia's democracy. Dr Julian C.H. Lee - spoke at the International Comparative Research workshop on Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies. Istanbul, Turkey. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - was a panel discussant at the Sixth Workshop of the Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship held in Davao, The Philippines. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - delivered a paper at the conference, Living Capital: Diversity in Southeast Asian Cities, Phnom Pehn, Cambodia. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - delivered a paper at the conference, Religious Syncretism, popular religion & everyday religiosity, National University of Singapore. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - gave a paper at the International Convention of Asian Scholars 5, Kuala Lumpur.
Dr Yeoh
Seng Guan - was a panel discussant at the
Fourth International
Conference on Federalism, New Delhi, India. Dr Sharon A Bong - spoke at the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur. Dr Sharon A Bong - spoke at the Ecclesia of Women in Asia (EWA), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr Sharon A Bong - gave a paper at the Fourth International Qualitative Research Convention, Kuala Lumpur.
2006 Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - spoke at the workshop on ”Developing Country Finance Networks”, organised by Global Economic Governance Program, University College Oxford and Oxford University, UK. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - spoke at the workshop on “Political Transitions and Political Change in Southeast Asia”, organised by the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Konrad Adenaeur Foundation of Germany. This took place in Singapore. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - delivered a paper at the EADN Workshop on “Political Transition and Economic Development”, organised by the East Asian Development Network (EADN) and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia. Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai - delivered a paper at the conference on “Asia’s New Institutional Architecture”, organised by the Berkeley APEC Study Centre, University of California at Berkeley. Honolulu, USA. Dr Andrew Ng - gave a paper at the conference, Globalisation and Postcolonial Writing: An Australia-India Exchange’, Calcutta, India. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - chaired a panel at the Third Annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Kuala Lumpur. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - gave a paper at the Fifth Asian Public Intellectual International Workshop, Phuket, Thailand. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - convened panels and gave a paper at the Fifth International Malaysian Studies Conference organised by Malaysian Social Science Association, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mr Benjamin McKay - delivered a paper at the Media and Identity Conference organised by Asia Media Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Mr Benjamin McKay - delivered two papers at the Fifth International Malaysian Studies Conference organised by Malaysian Social Science Association, Kuala Lumpur. Mr Benjamin McKay - spoke at the Third Annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference organised by ASEACC, Kuala Lumpur. Ms Sheila Murugasu - delivered a paper at the International Conference on Asian-American Studies, NY, USA. Dr Julian C.H. Lee - gave a paper at the Fifth International Malaysian Studies Conference organised by Malaysian Social Science Association, Kuala Lumpur. Dr Julian C.H. Lee - delivered a seminar paper for the Anthropology Seminar Series of The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr Julian C.H. Lee - delivered a paper for the Seminar Series for the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
2005 Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - spoke at the regional workshop on “Peace-building in Multi-religious and multi-ethnic Southeast Asia”. Organized by School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Ford Foundation, Jakarta.Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - presented a paper at the international workshop on “Communities in Interaction: Discourses of Coexistence, Conflict and Conversion”. Organised by Centre for the Study of Developing Studies, Delhi. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - attended the International Workshop on “Casting Religion: The construction of religion in East and Southeast Asia”. Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - was a panel discussant at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium, Organsied by Department of Sociology, National University of Sinagpore. Dr Yeoh Seng Guan - participated in the National Unity Forum. Organised by the Department of National Unity and Integration (Prime Minister’s Dept) and Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI), Malaysia. Dr Sharon A Bong - was a National Expert on CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (MWFCD) on the Third Report of the government of Malaysia on the status of women in Malaysia Dr Sharon A Bong - participated in the workshop on feminist hermeneutics of the Bible: Conversations with Elisabeth S Fiorenza, Kuala Lumpur. Dr Sharon A Bong - delivered a paper at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (panel on ‘Imagining Feminist Political Spaces in Religious Perspectives), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ms Sheila Murugasu - Spoke at the UNCHR Roundtable on Migration, Kuala Lumpur |
