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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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Congratulations to Anna Filippova, Grace Ng and Maxine Lim for winning SASS's Best Student Awards for 2008. Click here or the picture for more!

Programme Day 1 - 19 November 2008

 10:35 – 11:00am        

Keynote address

His Royal Highness Raja Dr Nazrin Shah

Crown Prince of Perak Darul Ridzuan

12:00 – 1:00pm           Session 1 - General Perspectives and Overview

Professor Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide

Professor Kee Pookong , Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

2:00 – 3:30pm             Session 2 - Social Cohesion and Inclusion

                     Engaging with Faith, Identity and Integration

Dr Howard Duncan , Metropolis Project

Rev Dr Hermen Shastri , Council of Churches of Malaysia

Dr Kris Rampersad, Communications and Literary Consultant, Trinidad and Tabago

Jerald Joseph, Commonwealth Foundation, Malaysia


4:00 – 5:30pm            
Breakout sessions

Session 1 Chair Sam Rajappa, The Statesman

Session 2 Chair Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project

 

Day 2 - 20 November 2008

 9.00am – 10:30am      Session 3 - Education Diasporas

Sam Rajappa, Journalist, The Statesman

Professor Richard Bedford , University of Waikato

Professor Stephanie Fahey, Monash University

 

11:00 – 12:30pm         Session 4 - Realising People’s Potential

                               Inclusion, opportunity and social capital ital

Professor Sanjukta Dasgupta , Calcutta University

Bala Thakrar,    Asian Foundation for Philanthropy

Dr Lim Teck Ghee, University College Sedaya International, Malaysia

 

 1.30 – 3:00pm             Breakout Sessions

Session 3 Chair Stephanie Fahey, Monash University

Session 4 Chair Bala Thakrar, Asian Foundation for Philanthropy

 

3.30 – 5:00pm             Session 5 - Diasporas – Where to next?

Ravindra Kumar, The Statesman

Sione Leolahi , Niue Association of Non-Governmental Organisations

Andrew Firmin. Commonwealth Foundation

Professor Kee Pookong , Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

 

5:00pm                  Conference Close

              Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM

              Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movementement

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Recent Staff Publications

Dr Yeoh Seng Guan: 'Sidewalk Capitalism: Notes on a Critical Visual Ethnography of Street Vending in Baguio City, The Philippines', in 'Are We Up to the Challenge?', Tokyo: The Nippon Foundation, 2008
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).
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)

SASS is proud to be hosting the 5th Diversity Matters Conference in November 2008.

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