No 3 / 2014

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Institute DirectorCraig Taylor

Support OfficerJoy Tennant

Viewpoints EditorCraig Taylor

DesignJoy Tennant

Copy EditorMelinda Graefe

ContributorsTully Barnett Elizabeth BoaseSteve BrownLuciana d’ArcangeliGillian DooleyKate DouglasSteve Evans Jenny FewsterAndrew GleesonDiana GlennMaggie IvanovaJeri KrollEmma MaguireJulian MeyrickChristine NichollsRobert PhiddianClaire SmithAntonella StrambiMelanie SwalwellMichael TsianikasAndrew Wilkinson

ImagesImages by Ashton Claridgeunless otherwise credited

FIRtH Advisory GroupTully BarnettSteve BrownGillian DooleyKate DouglasLina ErikssonJeffrey GilSteve HemmingAnne ThompsonMichael TsianikasWendy Van Duivenvoorde

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Cover Image Molly Tasman Napurrurla, Warlpiri, 2003, Marrkirdi Jukurrpa, (‘Wild Bush Plum Dreaming’), on Magnani Pescia paper, image size 490 x 320 mm; image courtesy of the artist and Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu Northern Territory, and Aboriginal Art Prints Network, Oxford Street, Sydney.

Image adjacent Domencio de Clario, yellow ectoplasm (store room) 2013. Performance / installation in Flinders University Art Museum collection store, Bedford Park, South Australia. Photography Lisa Harms.

From the Director

From the Dean

New Literary Journal Sparked by Social Networking

Journal Publications Arising from FIRtH Sponsored Events

Conferences Held in 2013

Report from the ACHRC

ARC Future Fellowship

Update: Office of Graduate Research

Calabashes, Wild Ox, U2, Virgins, and Trauma

Major Publications for 2013

Postgraduate Student Achievements

Creative Arts Research

AusStage Phase 5 Developments

2014 Research Fellowships

Exporting the Love

Workshops and Seminars 2013

Upcoming Conferences 2014

Awards and Grants 2013

PhD and MA Completions 2013

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Welcome to the third edition of Viewpoints, and my first as Director. To begin, let me thank my predecessor Karen Vered for all the good work she has done over the previous three years – including instituting this publication! From 2014 I am pleased to announce two exciting new initiatives at Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH). First, the establishment of annual fellowships, and I congratulate Andrew Gleeson and Kate Douglas who will be our inaugural fellows. Readers can learn more about the research of this year’s fellows within. Secondly, the Institute will sponsor a yearly research theme chosen from proposals submitted by members of FIRtH. The purpose of the theme is to facilitate a focused program of research by a group of members in an area of strength or potential strength relevant to the Institute. Again, I congratulate Christine Nicholls and her team who will lead this year’s research theme on Humour Studies.

In 2013 Institute members had significant success in obtaining ARC funding, and I congratulate those involved in these applications. Further, 2013 saw a number of successful FIRtH sponsored international conferences all of which promise significant research outcomes. But last year also saw a number of smaller FIRtH conferences and workshops, including what has become an annual event for Research Higher Degree students, the ‘Work (Honestly) in Progress Conference’. Supporting the development of Research Higher Degree students is

a key objective of the Institute and the growing success of this conference is something to celebrate. Looking forward to this year, FIRtH is pleased to support the ‘Global Events Conference VI.’ Details of all these events are outlined within.

The Institute has also been proud to be associated closely with the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) through its Director, Robert Phiddian. Last year I attended the ACHRC’s annual meeting and was surprised at both the number and diversity of humanities research centres. Such meetings are invaluable for sharing new ideas and models for humanities research and for developing networks for research into the future. What this meeting also underlined was the significant challenges to research in humanities and creative arts.

Taking up the above point, unlike much research in what is termed the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) research in the humanities and creative arts is often conducted successfully without external research funding. But as the research environment within the sector is set with an eye to the STEM disciplines, there is an indirect pressure on researchers in humanities and creative arts to apply for competitive research grants. To be clear, sometimes such funding can play a crucial role in specific research projects. Nevertheless, increasing institutional pressures on researchers to apply for such funding has the potential both to distort our research practice and to sideline much excellent research produced in the area. For example, a high quality research monograph with a respected international

academic publisher or a substantial creative work produced over a number of years without the support of any external research funding is always going to be a more significant research outcome than any research grant obtained to produce such works – or indeed almost anything else. Yet often it seems that it is the grant rather than the work the grant generates that is valued most highly within the sector.

We are all aware of the pressures on institutions to obtain competitive grant income, and I am not suggesting that we can ignore the existing policy framework for assessing research in this country. But we need to keep some perspective – in two respects: To recognise, firstly, that in the longer term such policy frameworks come and go; and secondly, that what counts as excellence in research in the humanities and creative arts is determined on a wider international stage where the peculiar exigencies of the Australian context fall away. What remains, relative to both these observations, are the research monographs, journal articles and creative works that we manage to produce, and it is ultimately in terms of these things that our research will be judged. Part of my role as Director of FIRtH, as I see it, is to help to articulate and defend and promote a conception of research in the humanities and creative arts that is squarely focused on the work itself rather than on its means of production. With that end in view, I am extremely proud of the research achievements of FIRtH’s members in 2013, a small selection of which is showcased here.

Message from the Director

Dr Craig Taylor

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Looking back on our School’s vibrant activity and research achievements in 2013, we welcomed Dr Craig Taylor in a dual role as Associate Dean (Research) and Director of FIRtH. Craig enjoys an international reputation as an outstanding scholar in Moral Philosophy and, during his tenure as FIRtH Director, he has introduced a number of excellent initiatives to enhance the School’s research profile and culture. Among the new developments is the establishment of FIRtH Fellowships, and the introduction of an annual research theme to provide focused research activity within the FIRtH membership. The School looks forward to the contributions of the inaugural FIRtH Research Fellows and the continuing engagement of the FIRtH membership under Dr Taylor’s dedicated leadership.

I also wish to acknowledge the accomplishments of Associate Professor Karen Vered, former FIRtH Director and Associate Dean (Research), who worked tirelessly to increase the visibility and quality of our scholarship and research practices. A notable innovation during Karen’s tenure was the creation of Viewpoints which has afforded much valuable information and networking capability within and beyond our School perimeter. In carrying out their portfolio of activity in FIRtH, both Karen and Craig have been ably and steadfastly supported by Ms Joy Tennant; Ms Nena Bierbaum; the members of the FIRtH Advisory Board; and Mr Narmon Tulsi, Research Development Officer for FIRtH and the Flinders Educational Futures Research Institute.

Message from the Dean of Humanities and Creative Arts

During 2012-2013, our School witnessed very pleasing success rates in ERA/DEST-recognised publications, growing co-authorships, increased external funding applications, growth in RHD candidatures and the staging of high calibre conference programs and symposia. In 2013 the latter included the 10th International Conference on Greek Research and the 2nd International Conference on Ageing in a Foreign Land; the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Conference; the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres 2013 Annual Meeting – Spaces and Networks for the Humanities: Building Research Environments (held at the University of WA); the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies Re-imagining Italian Studies Conference; and the symposium for the Flinders Cultural Value Research Project entitled ‘The Real Worth of the Arts in Adelaide’. Significantly, 2013 was a brilliant year in terms of ARC funding success and recognition of our high-performing researchers. The School congratulates Associate Professor Melanie Swalwell who was awarded a Future Fellowship; Professor Julian Meyrick and his team who secured a Linkage grant for AusStage Phase 5; and Associate Professor Heather Burke and Dr Mick Morrison who form part of a collaborative team that has secured a LIEF grant.

In 2014 our School has embarked on its busy and productive agenda of activity bearing a new identity as the School of Humanities and Creative Arts. While the reconfiguring of the School’s identity will serve to strengthen our profile and visibility, it is also testimony to the long-standing and vital role occupied by the Creative Arts

in the life of the School. Not only do our award-winning staff in the Creative Arts continue to make their mark but recently we have been delighted by the success stories generated by former students such as Hannah Kent, whose debut novel Burial Rites is an international best-seller, and Sophie Hyde, who has recently won a best directing award at the Sundance Film Festival for her film 52 Tuesdays. This year Flinders staff and graduates will be performing in State Theatre Company of South Australia productions, and our School will be welcoming renowned director Gale Edwards as a member of the professorial staff during the 2014 academic year.

My sincerest congratulations to FIRtH and its dynamic membership, with every good wish for continuing success in 2014.

Professor Diana Glenn

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New Literary Journal Sparked by Social Networking

A Facebook conversation in February 2013 between Honorary Senior Research Fellow Gillian Dooley and UK friend and colleague Dr Nick Turner has led them to found a new open-access e-journal, published by FIRtH jointly with the University of Central Lancashire.

Nick was having difficulty finding a publisher for some interviews he had conducted with prominent writers among traditional scholarly journals. Gillian’s response: ‘If there’s no logical outlet for interviews, let’s found one. Create a new journal with a focus on giving literary figures (maybe not just creative writers but literary scholars as well) a voice’. And with the publication of the first issue of Writers in Conversation in February this year, they have done exactly that.Gillian is the general editor of another open-access e-journal published by FIRtH, Transnational Literature, an international literary journal which publishes creative writing and book reviews as well as peer-reviewed articles. Transnational Literature has been published every six months since November 2008, and the 12th issue will appear in May 2014. A usage survey done in mid-2013 showed that the 600-odd full-text articles in the 10 issues of the journal to date had been downloaded on average an astonishing 407 times each. With the range and depth of the interviews in the first issue Writers in Conversation, there is reason to expect that it will attract a similar amount of notice. The editors called for in-depth, well-researched interviews at least 2000 words long. Not wanting to place constraints on interviewers and force them to edit out interesting material, and liberated from concerns about space by

the online format, the editors decided not to specify an upper limit. This approach has been amply justified: some of the interviews run to more than 10,000 words.The February 2014 issue includes 16 interviews with writers of all kinds from Australia, India, North America, and the UK. Included are novelists Marion Halligan, Kathleen Winter, Hannah Kent, Claire Corbett, Qaisra Shahraz, Marlon L. Fick, Susanna Moore, Zoë Fairbairns and Dame Margaret Drabble, and poets Sudeep Sen and Rob Harle. Two historians, Bill Gammage and Peter Stansky, are also interviewed, as well as the dramatist Jane Montgomery Griffiths. Some of the most fascinating interviews were conducted in other languages and have been translated into English. Gayathri Prabhu from Manipal University, India, interviewed A. Revathi, a hijra (male to female transsexual) from Tamil Nadu, about her memoir The Truth about Me. Another interview from India is with Shyamala Gogu, a Dalit activist, and was conducted in Malayalam.There is also no specific restriction on genre: interviews with writers of literary or popular fiction are equally welcome, as well as historians, literary critics, even science writers – anyone who takes the craft of writing seriously.

Images: Dr Nick Turner & Honorary Senior Research Fellow Gillian Dooley, novelist Kathleen Winter, historian Bill Gammage and poet Sudeep Sen.

The journal is available online: fhrc.flinders.edu.au/writers_in_conversation/

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The high quality of contributions to recent FIRtH sponsored events has been recognised by several special editions of respected peer reviewed journals arising out of the original events. Under the banner of their prestigious journal Television and New Media, the Online First service from Sage has published six essays arising from the 2011 Console-ing Passions Conference. The international conference on feminism and media was co-hosted in Adelaide by the three SA universities with leadership from Jackie Cook (UNISA), Sal Humphreys (Adelaide) and Karen Orr Vered (Flinders). The Television and New Media issue presents a collection of exceptional essays on topics of gender and digital media including games, online and mobile applications and practices. The international line-up of authors includes Larissa Hjorth, Kylie Jarrett, Maureen Ryan, Carole Stabile, and Hanna Wirman.

The Console-ing Passions Conference generated such a wealth of quality papers that a second journal issue was negotiated with the Taylor & Francis journal Continuum to present a selection of papers on gender and television. The Continuum issue is currently in press and will include an essay by Flinders Screen & Media scholar, Julia Erhart on the role of YouTube in the international reception of Australian Chris Lilley’s gender bending humour. Following their successful collaboration to convene the conference, Karen Vered and Sal Humphreys have continued their working partnership to edit both journal special issues and co-author essays for each publication.

In 2012, the English and Creative Writing Department, School of Humanities and Creative Arts invited a small group of life narrative scholars with a particular interest in childhood studies to a mini-symposium at Flinders University. In the presentations

and workshopping that followed, clear synergies began to emerge: many were interested in new and marginal narrative forms (the graphic, the ‘non-book,’ and the performance), were inspired to explore controversial subjects (sexual abuse, trauma, racism, and sexuality), and were attentive to the diverse and significant ways in which narrative about and of childhood, garner attention in the twenty-first century literary marketplaces.

Emerging from this symposium is a special issue of Prose Studies (2013), entitled ‘Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth’. The issue, edited by Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas (Flinders), responds to the growing significance of young people in both the production and consumption of autobiographical narrative. Prose Studies is an interdisciplinary forum with a particular interest in non-fictional literary forms. Alongside Cardell and Douglas, three other Flinders’ scholars feature in this special issue: Tully Barnett and Ph.D. candidates Pamela Graham and Emma Maguire. ‘Telling Tales’ also showcases new scholarship by leading academics working in life narrative studies: Rocío G. Davis (City U of Hong Kong), Leigh Gilmore (Northeastern, USA) and Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser, Canada), Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Tartu, Estonia), Claire Lynch (Brunel, UK) and Anna Poletti (Monash).

The Console-ing Passions Conference

generated such a wealth of quality

papers that a second journal issue was

negotiated with the Taylor & Francis journal

Continuum...

Journal Publications Arising from FIRtH Sponsored Events

Television & New Media journal with special section

on Digital Media, Race, Gender, Affect and Labor.

tvn.sagepub.com

Continuum journal with a selection of papers on gender and television.

tandfonline.com

Special Issue: Telling Tales: Autobiographies of

Childhood and Youth.tandfonline.com

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Re-imagining the future of Italian Studies: Experts and community share strategies to raise the profile of Italian during the 7th ACIS Conference, Adelaide

The 7th Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) conference, on the theme of ‘Re-imagining Italian Studies’, was recently organised and hosted by Flinders University and the University of South Australia. Professor David Moss, President of ACIS, complimented the organisers for an interesting, insightful, and smooth-running event: over 90 participants, around 70 papers presented, and a breadth of topics which ranged from crime and legality to literature, theatre and cinema, migration, language and linguistics, translation, cultural studies, and teaching all of the above. The list of keynote speakers included: Fiat-Serena Professor Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford), Professor David Forgacs (New York University), Professor Gabriele Pallotti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), and Professor and filmmaker Vito Zagarrio (University of Rome – Roma Tre). Professor Joe Lo Bianco, from the University of Melbourne, also participated in the final roundtable.The 7th ACIS conference was co-convened by Dr Luciana d’Arcangeli and Dr Isobel Grave. The organising committee comprised Italian Staff from Flinders University (Professor Diana Glenn, Dr Daniela Rose, Dr Antonella Strambi) and UniSA (Associate Professor Angela Scarino, Dr Giancarlo Chiro, Dr Enza Tudini).Financial support was received from

ADSA Conference: Staging Changes: Translation as Innovation and Intervention

In July 2013, the Drama Department at Flinders University with the financial support of FIRtH hosted the annual conference of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA). Organised around the theme ‘Staging Changes: Translation as Innovation and Intervention’, the program featured keynote presentations by Haresh Sharma, Resident Playwright at The Necessary Stage and Co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival; James Ashcroft, Tumuaki/Artistic Director of New Zealand’s Taki Rua Productions; and Dr Christine Evans, playwright and Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, USA. More than 80 scholars and practitioners participated with presentations that sought to promote and enhance a dialogue between creative practice and critical reflection, focusing on the opportunities translation and adaptation present for creating and disrupting collective identities, and for diversifying mainstream audiences and performance practices.Having organised the inaugural ADSA conference back in 1977, the Drama Department demonstrated its unwavering commitment by showcasing the creative and research achievements of its staff and

ACIS, Flinders University (Faculty of EHL, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, and FIRTH), UniSA (Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences and Research Centre for Languages and Cultures), the Dante Alighieri Society, Intext publishing and Serafino Wines.

Conferences Held in 2013

students. With the further financial support of a Helpmann Academy grant, Rosalba Clemente, Head of Acting, and Dr Maggie Ivanova, Drama Lecturer, collaborated with third-year Drama Centre students and Dr Christine Evans on a production of her Trojan Barbie, an adaptation of Euripides’ play Trojan Women.

Haresh Sharma, Resident Playwright at The Necessary Stage and Co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.

Keynote Presenters; Dr Christine Evans, Playwright, Georgetown University and James Ashcroft, Artistic Director of Taki Rua Productions, The National Màori Theatre Company.

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10th International Conference on Greek Research and 2nd International Conference on Ageing in a Foreign Land

The conferences held in June 2013 attracted presenters from state, national and international universities and organisations, who came together to share their knowledge, discuss their research and experiences and network with other delegates.

Aims of the conference included promoting current issues in the areas of teaching, education, communities and ageing. In total there were over 100 presentations over the four days on Greek and ageing themes including a symposium on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Greek Food and Culture, Migration and Education, Ageing in Australia from CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) perspectives: health, families, culture and language, ageing actively and positively, age-friendly cities and communities and nutrition.

Over 400 people attended the conference and it was supported by numerous sponsors, including the Government of South Australia, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and many others from the business sector and community organisations.

Postgraduate students were encouraged to participate and to further support them the conference registration fee was waived. A professional development

workshop for teachers was also organised regarding language and literacy, intercultural awareness and language online.

The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing sent a pre-recorded video message to open the conference and welcome all the delegates.

During the conference the publication of Greek Research in Australia Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies was launched. This is a refereed publication of 45 papers, presented during the previous conference (June 2011). This biennial conference is one of the most prestigious international Greek conferences and has been held at Flinders for the last 20 years. During these conferences more than 1000 papers have been presented and more than 500 refereed papers been published. All papers are available online and have been accessed many thousands of times. In fact this is one of the most popular Flinders online sites for an international audience. Over the last twenty years the conference has received financial support in excess of a million dollars.

This biennial conference is one of the most

prestigious international Greek conferences and

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20 years.

Images above taken at the 10th International Conference on Greek Research and 2nd International Conference on Ageing in a Foreign Land.

Image top left page: Front: Professor Diana Glenn (Flinders University), Professor Richard Maltby (Flinders University), Professor Joe Lo Bianco (University of Melbourne), Professor David Moss (President of ACIS), Dr Luciana d’Arcangeli (Flinders University). Back: Professor David Forgacs (New York University), Professor Martin McLaughlin (Oxford University) and Professor Gabriele Pallotti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia).

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The ACHRC, the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Centres, continued its growth through 2013. We now have 32 member centres and a strong program of activities and links with national and international organisations. This report will focus on the Consortium’s main event for the year and an example of the networking capacity operating well.

ACHRC Annual Meeting in PerthIn July, members and friends of the ACHRC met at the University of Western Australia’s Institute of Advanced Studies to discuss the practical issues involved with centre-based Humanities research. The theme of the meeting, ‘Spaces and Networks for the Humanities: Building Research Environments’, provided a thematic umbrella for discussing a wide variety of concerns. Our keynote speaker, Alan Liu, delivered a fine address titled ‘Values, Strategies, and Technologies for Humanities Advocacy in the Digital Age’. Liu’s work on the 4Humanities project is particularly relevant to the struggles the Humanities face in Australia. On Sunday 7 July, we hosted two concurrent pre-meetings. The first involved Early Career Researchers and postgraduate students in the Humanities and was designed to provide important ‘survival skills’ information and resources. Topics for discussion included interviewing, researching with impact, publishing, and alternative careers. The second pre-meeting focused on centre directors, especially new directors, associate directors, and centre managers. Here the business of centres and their success was discussed, with topics including: the

lifecycle of a centre from idea to resourced centre, networking and collaboration opportunities for centres, assessment and benchmarking for centres and how this might differ from other bodies within the institution, and surviving the review. The panels at the meeting covered conversations about the Australian Federal Government’s Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, the Digital Humanities, communicating research and the public humanities, collaborating with collecting institutions and ways of interacting with research centres in the regions. Panellists included Professor Masashi Haneda from the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo, Marion Simms from the ARC, Alan Liu from University of California, Santa Barbara, Andrew Jaspan, editor of The Conversation, and Richard Neville of the State Library of New South Wales.

The National Visit of Professor Geoffrey HarphamIn mid-November Geoffrey Harpham, Director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina came to Australia for the first time. Paul Arthur, now at University of Western Sydney (UWS), let us know about this, and the ACHRC co-ordinated a trip for Professor Harpham that took him to UWS, University of Western Australia, Flinders, Australian National University, and Melbourne University. Participating centres split the costs and the ACHRC co-ordinated the itinerary between Sydney and Melbourne.At the Flinders event we gathered people from all three public universities in South Australia around a table, and talked freely and constructively about the humanities.

Report from the ACHRC

We learned a lot about how things are done in the US (with their much more advanced philanthropic culture and less obsessive compliance burden) as well as challenges and opportunities for the humanities in Australia.

It was a rare and valuable pleasure, and something the ACHRC wants to help happen more often, by extending the trips of interesting visitors to the country by linking consenting centres.

At the Flinders event we gathered people from all three public universities in South Australia around a

table, and talked freely and constructively

about the humanities.

Associate Professor Robert Phiddian

Dr Tully Barnett presenting at the ACHRC Annual Meeting.

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handcrafts, glass manufacture, and experiments in early networking. As well as 1980s art and design, I’ll be researching the early creative content industry, and continue my research into what everyday users and hobbyists did with computers. Several new positions will be created at doctoral and postdoctoral levels to undertake related research into early

ARC Future Fellowship

In 2013, Melanie Swalwell was the recipient of a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship. She tells us about some of the research she will be undertaking as part of her research program, ‘Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976-1992’.

The 1980s was the decade when ‘micro’ computers came within reach of non-computing professionals. Early 8 bit domestic computers provided an introduction to the digital age for many. Experimentation was encouraged – and in the early days, almost a requirement – as there was often little software available for these machines. Despite its significance as the beginning of the digital age for most people, the period has largely been overlooked. Even Michel de Certeau – perhaps the key theorist of user productivity in Cultural and Media Studies – makes no mention of computer users, despite the fact that Commodore, Tandy and Atari (to name but a few brands) all had micros on the market for some years when his L’invention du quotidian was published, in French, in 1980. Computing is now everyday and thinking of contemporary digital media audiences as productive has become commonplace. Yet despite the importance of user-generated content today and the high degree of interest and scholarship in the area, the line of thinking about productive audiences is largely traced through Fan and Television Studies rather than computing itself, because scant work has been done on computer user histories. This project will address this gap and re-position de Certeau’s important work.

The dates bookending my study were

chosen to complement existing research. Others have written on the involvement of artists with earlier computing technology, whilst the 1990s – a moment when many now-familiar discourses of cyberculture gained influence – are reasonably well documented. Preliminary research points to great activity in Australia during the period 1976-92. The Australian Network for Art and Technology (a Host for this Fellowship) was set up and in 1989 ran its first Summer School on Computer Aided Design and Manufacture for Artists, Craftworkers and Designers. And Artlink’s 1987 special ‘Art and Technology’ issue is full of examples of innovation utilising computers – in

Computing is now everyday and thinking of

contemporary digital media audiences

as productive has become

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educational software, game publishing, and the demoscene. Holding these normally-discrete domains alongside each other is appropriate as there was significant exchange and collaboration between different spheres in the era, which would be missed by too singular an emphasis.

As well as researching and documenting the early uses of microcomputers, and placing these histories into an international context, the project aims to bring contemporary practices into dialogue with the past. Extending upon my recent research into early users’ tinkering with soft- and hardware – what I’ve termed the ‘will to mod’ – I will be conducting a series of ethnographic studies with contemporary communities of practice (such as Fablabs and mobile phone root communities) to study user ‘hacking’ practices. This will enable detailed historical comparisons and answers to the question regarding what has become of the will to mod at a moment when many technologies are ‘black boxed’.

This research will make it possible for local histories of innovation from the era to be known and remembered, an important outcome as we are fast losing touch with the moment of transition from analogue to digital ways of living. As well as enhancing knowledge about early microcomputing, I hope the project might lead to the collection and preservation of some of this material, as the lifespan of the ‘born digital’ is finite. To this end, the project sits within the wider context of work already being undertaken on a range of issues by those in the Flinders Digital Heritage research group.

Associate Professor Melanie Swalwell

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Update: Office of Graduate Research

Since its establishment in 2011, the Office of Graduate Research (OGR) has grown to respond to the needs of increasing numbers of research higher degree candidates. This cohort has changed dramatically over the past ten years. A large proportion now comes from non-traditional or international backgrounds. The OGR’s mission is to help Flinders University to provide high-quality postgraduate education and ensure consistent research training for this diverse group.

In 2014 the OGR will continue to improve the Research Higher Degree Professional Development Program, which it began to coordinate in 2013. It increased the frequency of the most popular workshops and seminars (such as Literature Review, Research Proposal and Endnote) in order to expand training opportunities for candidates in key areas. It also introduced new courses that focus on the valuable skills RHD candidates require to complete their degrees and begin successful careers. One of the highlights of 2013 was appointing an advisor for External RHD candidates. Aside from being available for consultations via phone, email, Skype or in person, Dr Dani Milos developed a dedicated website that all candidates can access through Flinders Learning Online (FLO) and began uploading course material. In particular, she designed the first fully online Induction that external and part-time candidates can complete. This support expanded in 2014, with the OGR running its first three-day intensive series of workshops in February for external and part-time candidates. The program had over 45 attendees and will be repeated in December.

Another new initiative in 2013 was the approval of a topic to address the communication skills needs of candidates. Communication Skills for RHD students (COMS9001) is a semester-long topic that will help commencing RHD candidates to prepare their Literature Review and Research Proposal, as well as to develop a publishing plan. It started in March

and will run again in semester two.The OGR continues to manage all-university events aimed at developing RHD candidates’ presentation skills and experience, and recruiting future trainee researchers. For the fourth time it will organise the 3 Minute Thesis Competition,

a Trans-Tasman event that showcases the range of research talent at Flinders. Contestants have three minutes to present their research in a concise and compelling manner using only one static PowerPoint slide. The overall Flinders winner receives an expenses-paid trip to the final. Honours Awareness Week each September is another event that promotes the benefits of the Honours year and the possibilities it offers for further RHD study.

In 2013, the Register of RHD Supervisors went live. Managed by the OGR, it contains information about the qualifications and professional development of all RHD supervisors, helping the university to ensure best-practice supervision. The Find

a Supervisor search facility on the OGR website helps prospective RHD candidates to identify potential supervisors by using a key word search to match areas of supervisory interest. Both developments allow the university to demonstrate its research versatility and excellence.

In March 2014, a Postgraduate Research Pathways and International Project Officer will join the OGR team. The appointee will manage OGR events and act as the contact liaison for international RHD candidates, in particular the increasing number undertaking Cotutelle doctorates. These candidates graduate with two parchments, one from Flinders and one from an overseas institution.

The expansion of the Office of Graduate Research’s portfolio has seen it outgrow its current home in the Union Basement and the Dean of Graduate Research, Professor Jeri Kroll, and her team will relocate to new offices on the ground floor of the Registry Building.

The OGR team: (left to right) Back: Karen Jacobs, Sam Franzway, Professor Jeri Kroll, Front: Nena Bierbaum, Emily Davis and Dr Dani Milos.

The OGR continues to manage all-university events aimed at developing RHD candidates’

presentation skills and experience...

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These words don’t usually occur together, and make little sense when grouped. But as an overview of research within the Department of Theology in 2013, they are a great indication of the breadth of our focus and interests.

Rosemary Dewerse’s book Breaking Calabashes: Becoming an Intercultural Community draws on her PhD research, including insights from interviews, the Bible, and personal experience. Aimed at a wide readership, the book considers four assumptions that operate within communities that create barriers to genuine intercultural engagement, and offers pathways for reflection and action towards change.

At the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference held in Baltimore in November, Where the Wild Ox Roams: Biblical Essays in Honour of Norman C. Habel was launched. Professor Norman

Habel has a long standing relationship with Flinders University, and at the age of 81 continues to be an active writer in diverse fields in the academy and church, as much at home writing commentaries as he is poetry and children’s books. The volume was edited by Alan Cadwallader Australian Catholic University (ACU) and Peter Trudinger (Flinders). The essays, two of which are from members of the theology faculty (Vicky Balabanski and Marie Turner) reflect Norm’s passion for ecological hermeneutics and the intersection between the bible and justice, spirituality, intercultural dialogue and education.

SBL attracting several thousand participants, also saw the launch of a new three year consultation entitled Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma, co-chaired by Liz Boase (Flinders) and Christopher Frechette (Boston College). Drawing together over thirty presenters

from across the globe, this consultation explores methods for studying biblical texts through the application of various definitions of trauma. This hermeneutical approach recognises that much of the impetus for both the formation and reception of many biblical texts emerged from situations of crisis and suffering, crises which raise profound questions arising from a loss of meaning associated with the collapse of previously held assumptions about the world. An edited volume from the first two years of the consultation is planned.

Calabashes, Wild Ox, U2, Virgins, and Trauma

Steve Taylor has presented and published a number of ground breaking papers on the theology of U2. Last year he presented a paper at the U2:TRANS- conference in Cleveland, Ohio, and his recent articles include: ‘Baptist Worship and Contemporary Culture: A New Zealand Case Study’ in David Bebbington and Martin Sutherland (eds), Interfaces, Baptists, and Others (2013); with E.C. Boase, ‘Public Lament’ in Miriam Bier and Tim Bulkeley (eds), Spiritual Complaint: The Theology and Practice of Lament (2013); ‘U2’ in Robert K. Johnson, Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor (eds), Don’t Stop Believin’: Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies (2012); and ‘“Bullet the Blue Sky” as an Evolving Performance’ in Scott Calhoun (ed), Exploring U2: Is This Rock ’n’ Roll? (2011).

And finally Virgins? Vicky Balabanski was invited to contribute to the Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture. The invitation arose out of her previously published article ‘Opening the closed door: a feminist rereading of the “wise and foolish virgins” (Mt. 25.1-13)’. Vicky offers a radical rereading of this parable from the

Research in Theology is diverse and wide ranging, and what is

included here is the tip of the iceberg.

Gospel of Matthew. Alongside her article in the Festscrift for Norm Habel, Vicky also contributed to an essay entitled ‘The Prayer of Jesus as an inspiration and call to ecumenical unity: looking for “Jesuanic resonance” in John 17:20-21’, in a Festscrift for Gerd Theissen, from Heidelberg, Germany, entitled Jesus – Gestalt und Gestaltungen. Rezeption des Galiläers in Wissenschaft, Kirche und Gesellschaft.

Research in Theology is diverse and wide ranging, and what is included here is the tip of the iceberg. Include four book chapters on the area of ecology and theology by Denis Edwards, Jo Laffin’s participation as the only Australian representative in the ‘Lived History of Vatican II’ project run by the Cushwa Centre at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and three PhD graduates and the picture keeps growing.

Reverend Dr Steve Taylor.

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Major Publications for 2013

Explaining Norms

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work. Norms, they argue, should be understood in non-reductive terms as clusters of normative attitudes that serve the function of making us accountable to one another—with the different kinds of norms (legal, moral, and social norms) differing in virtue of being constituted by different kinds of normative attitudes that serve to make us accountable in different ways.

Breaking Calabashes

In this simple, easy to read book Rosemary succeeds in taking us into critical inter-cultural space with profound care but unavoidable clarity. Rosemary’s style is one I have been richly blessed by among Pacific Island communities - talano - what I would call story-listening, the respectful offering, listening, and reflecting on one another’s stories. It is respectful, inviting, and affirming! Drawing on a true story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai, legendary across Maori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Rosemary frames the book around exploring four particular ‘calabashes’, or assumptions and filters, that many of our church communities have become locked into; definite ideas on what is acceptable, and who is acceptable.

Un Nuovo Cinema Politico Italiano?

This book is the first to examine contemporary Italian cinema from a socio-political perspective, drawing on the expertise of film scholars, political activists, and directors, including the Oscar-winning film-maker Giuseppe Tornatore. This innovative volume examines the nature of filmic representations of social, economic and political issues in Italian cinema over the past fifteen years.

Thirsting for Lemonade

In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures – the neither here nor there, the neither in nor out. It is indeed a world where ‘Home is a relative term’.

Thirsting for Lemonade is an affirmation of the migrant’s acceptance of never-quite-belonging, and still it is her attempt to forge new paths in foreign, and remembered, territory, where past is always present.

Research Methods in Creating Writing

A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.

Workshopping the Heart New and selected poems

This witty, moving and accessible collection gathers poems from six previous books, beginning with Death as Mr Right, which won second prize in the 1982 Anne Elder Award for best first poetry book in Australia. With irony and frankness, Jeri Kroll workshops the complex relationships that individuals establish over the course of a lifetime with friends and family, as well as with the physical and social environments that shape them. In particular, she tackles the significance of parenthood, gender and ageing.

Legato con amore in un volume: Essays in Honour of John A. Scott

A collection of contributions from the major Dante scholars in the world, containing state of the art studies on three themes: Dante and the Italian Cultural Tradition; The Commedia; and Dante and the Anglophone World. The volume honours a lifetime of Dante scholarship by John A. Scott, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The volume opens with an essay by Robert Hollander honouring Professor Scott.

Edited by John J Kinder and *Diana Glenn, Olschki

Edited by Graeme Harper and *Jeri Kroll, Palgrave Macmillan

Jeri Kroll, Wakefield Press

Heather Taylor Johnson, IP

Geoffrey Brennan, *Lina Eriksson, Robert E Goodin and Nicholas Southwood, Oxford University Press

Rosemary Dewerse, MediaCom Education Inc

*Luciana D’arcangeli, William Hope and Silvana Serra, Troubador

* Flinders Author

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An important part of FIRtH’s mission is to support our postgraduate students, and we are pleased to celebrate a selection of their achievements from 2013.

Many readers will no doubt already be aware of the extraordinary success of Flinders Creative Writing PhD

student Hannah Kent with her first book Burial Rites. Last year Hannah found herself at the centre of a publisher ‘bidding war’, and has since reportedly signed a global two book contract with Picador for over one million dollars. Burial Rites has already sold over 70,000 copies just in Australia and producer Allison Shearmur (of the Hunger Games and The Bourne Identity) has optioned the film rights.

Another success story from our Creative Writing

students is Molly Murn (MA in Creative Writing) who was selected by University of Queensland Press for a highly competitive Varuna Publisher Fellowship to develop her manuscript The Heart of the Grass Tree for possible publication with the press. Molly was granted a one week residency at Varuna, the Writers House in the Blue Mountains, as part of the Fellowship.

In the Department of Archaeology, Madeline (Maddy) Fowler received two research grants in 2013. Maddy was one of two recipients of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology scholarship, receiving $2,000 towards fieldwork costs incurred while recording the maritime cultural landscape of Point Pearce Mission, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. She also received the $8,000 Berndt Research Foundation Australian Postgraduate Research Grant. The grant was awarded for the curation of an exhibition entitled ‘Children, Boats and “Hidden Histories”: Drawings by Aboriginal Children at Point Pearce Mission, 1939’ (Flinders University and the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation) hosted by the South Australian Maritime Museum, and for additional thesis fieldwork costs.

Finally, Stefano Bona (PhD student in Language Studies – Italian) has won the attention of ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies) who will support his PhD project ‘The Representation of China on Italian Screens after 1949: Cultural Economic and ideological implications’ with a $5,000 grant to travel to Italy. This travel will allow Mr Bona to access essential sources in public and private local repositories and film archives, as well as to interview directors and producers who worked on films shot in China by Italian directors.

Postgraduate Student Achievements

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Creative Arts Research

These days I see a steady stream of professional artists engaging with the academy, back studying one thing or another. Even if the relationship between creative arts practice and university processes and procedures can be a little testy, there is no doubting the amount of interaction taking place between them. And since the inauguration of creative doctorates in the late 1990s, there has been marked growth in the theory and practice of creative arts research.

That is possibly the only fact on which consensus would be forthcoming. Everything else – the subject, purpose, methods and benefit of this area – is controversial, sometimes ill-temperedly so. Bold claims have been made for creative arts research and so far it is probably true to say that the results while acceptable have not been unprecedented. Traditional modes of research have been challenged but not displaced. New forms of exegesis have arisen – reflective professional practice, essentially – and the box of critical tools enlarged. But no one would maintain that creative arts research is now a stable disciplinary area or that, unlike the growth of the social sciences in the 1950s and 1960s, it has revolutionised the framework of university education. Creative arts research is an enclave of Humanities research, itself an enclave in these STEM-obsessed days, where all problems are technical problems and questions of virtue and value are things we leave to the political process or arguments in the pub.

The potential of creative arts research is a different matter. By first giving the creative arts disciplinary status following World War II, now allowing them research status (however contentious), universities have opened a dialogue with a field at least as complicated as its own. It will take time and effort for the two institutional mobilisations to find a working accommodation. Preparing a paper for a New Humanities Conference in June this year, I set out to research the

history of research. Not ‘creative research’ but the traditional kind, the sort that causes few problems for university indexes of citation. My questions were precise and practical. How did the monograph morph into the journal article? How did academic journals establish themselves as the preferred forum for the scholarly exchange of views? Where did the peer evaluation system originate? Despite casting my reading net widely and contacting a range of scholars, I came up with few answers. There are many definitions of research, and not a few broad discussions of the trivium, the quadrivium and the thinking of Wilhelm von Humboldt. But I could find nothing approaching a ‘genealogy’ of university research, and the most likely reason is that there isn’t one. Traditional research is not a clearly delineated, discrete set of aims, methods and values. It is a confluence of understandings, alliances, assumptions, customary approaches and accepted outcomes. This does not make it bogus or its epistemological claims invalid. But it certainly changes the perspective on any ‘new’ area of research and its acceptance. What matters is time, tolerance and actual examples of actual alternative research. It is unlikely these will be so novel that they land wholly outside current research paradigms (hence my use of inverted commas); and equally unlikely that more defining, beyond agreeing initial parameters, will do much good in itself. The main thing is to set about growing a robust ecology of types, a diverse repertoire of research outcomes that complement each other, allowing room for the concerns of new areas to mesh with established ones.

In history, my own discipline, there is considerable talk of la longue durée. It is a check on historians, reminding them that change doesn’t happen at the speed of an i-phone upgrade. Creative arts practice and university scholarship are finding new ways of working together and that is to be commended. But it involves a process of double validation that must and should take a while to work itself out, even as it leads to an enlarged notion of research in the end.

Strategic Professor Julian Meyrick

The main thing is to set about growing a robust

ecology of types, a diverse repertoire of research outcomes

that complement each other, allowing room for the concerns of new areas to mesh

with established ones.

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In March 2014, AusStage Project Manager, Jenny Fewster (above) and Flinders Strategic Professor of Creative Arts, Julian Meyrick will join Emeritus Professor Julie Holledge in Oslo to participate in the Inaugural IbsenStage Seminar ‘Cultural Transmission: Where Quantitative Analysis meets Qualitative Interpretation’. The seminar will bring together researchers

AusStage: Phase 5Developments

Since 2012 AusStage has been collaborating with the University of

Oslo to develop our capacity to integrate

with international data sets.

Flinders University is leading AusStage for a fifth round of development with funding from the Australian Research Council and collaborating universities in 2014.

For the last fifteen years, AusStage has pioneered innovative methodologies for researching live performance in Australia. But the creativity of Australian artists extends beyond national borders.

New developments in 2014 will internationalise AusStage by opening the flow of information between our Australian data set on live performance and equivalent holdings in international collections. The aim is to support innovative research on live performance of international significance and open new collaborations with international partners.

In recent years, AusStage researchers have been invited to give research presentations on our methodological innovations at UCLA, UC Berkeley in the USA, Open University Hong Kong, Fudan and Nanjing Universities in China, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Germany, Oslo University in Norway, and Oxford and Reading Universities in the UK.

Since 2012 AusStage has been collaborating with the University of Oslo to develop our capacity to integrate with international data sets. The Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo is using the AusStage model to build IbsenStage, a global database of over 10,000 productions of Ibsen’s plays world-wide.

Henrik Ibsen’s global stature as a founding figure of modern drama provides an ideal

focus for internationalising AusStage. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist of the modern era and his plays have had a major impact on the development of theatre in Australia.

and digital archivists with an interest in building an international academic network to facilitate digital research into cultural transmission through the performing arts. With the fifth round of ARC funding, AusStage is working with researchers from twelve Australian universities to develop new methodologies for analysing aesthetic transmission between Australian and international artists. With partners in industry, government and the collections sector, AusStage will extend the data set to support research on global markets, international distribution and cultural diplomacy.

The aim is to overcome the limitations of national research boundaries and enable longitudinal analyses of the global forces shaping Australian culture by tracking the promotion of national culture through international touring, and mapping the industry of Australian performance in a global market.

There are also some technical issues and data protocols to develop in integrating AusStage with international data sets. These include implementing a methodology for resolving identities and matching records on people, organisations, places and works; addressing the issues of merging data sets in different languages and character set; and sharing the development of software for querying, visualising and analysing international live performance across linked data sets.

Image top: Courtesy of National Library of Norway, Christiania, Norway, 1898.

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2014 Research FellowshipsMeet our Research Fellows

Dr Andrew Gleeson’s research project concerns the nature of morality and especially its relation, if any, to religion.

He is conducting this research partly in collaboration with colleagues in Australia and overseas, and a vital part of his work uses funds from a variety of sources, including his FIRtH fellowship, to organise events involving these philosophers. Last year he hosted a visit to Flinders University by UK philosopher Professor David Cockburn and this year he is bringing out Professor Tim Chappell, also from the UK. Dr Gleeson organised two small workshops last year involving a number of Australian and overseas

philosophers and is planning another for June of this year. His research has already given rise to a number of accepted refereed publications and more now are approaching readiness for journal submission. The culmination of the project will be a major international conference on moral philosophy to be held at Flinders in the middle of 2015, organised with Flinders colleague Dr Craig Taylor. Dr Gleeson will report on his research to the School of Humanities and Creative Arts and the community at large in an academic paper and a public lecture to be delivered towards the end of 2014. Eventually, he plans to publish his work in book form.

Associate Professor Kate Douglas’ research project will involve completing two books on life narratives of childhood and youth.

The first, Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth—co-edited with Dr Kylie Cardell (Routledge 2014) brings together a series of chapters on the changing nature of the autobiography of childhood mode. New forms and subjects have come to inflect the sub genre in significant ways and this collection traces these changes.

Associate Professor Douglas will also be working on a co-authored book: Self-Made: Life Writing and Youth with Dr Anna Poletti, Monash University. This book offers an historical overview of young people’s life narrative texts before focussing on particular case studies within

the book’s chapters. How can an historical understanding of youth and life narrative contribute to our understanding of the current practices of life narrative in youth cultures and in online environments? In this book Douglas and Poletti broadly analyse and theorise life narrative texts created by authors during their youth period. While what constitutes ‘youth’ is an historical and socially specific term (usually late adolescence to the mid-to-late-twenties), their focus is on texts written at the time of coming of age (artistically, intellectually, emotionally, for example): texts written during youth rather than retrospectively. Douglas will present work from this book at the International Auto/Biography Association conference in Banff, Canada in May 2014.

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Australian Aboriginal art arguably constitutes one of the most dynamic, narrative-based, and best-known forms of visual expression in the contemporary art world. So when Croatia joined the European Union in 2013, having aspired to membership for many years, the Australian Embassy in Zagreb decided to celebrate the occasion with an exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art, which opened on Australia Day at Croatia’s foremost national gallery Galerija Klovićevi Dvori (http://www.galerijaklović.hr/izlozba/yilpinji-ljubav-magija-i-obredi), situated in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, after which it would tour rural and major outlying towns in Croatia, and later Serbia.

Croatia’s Australian Embassy therefore contacted Flinders senior lecturer in Australian Studies, Christine Nicholls, with a brief to organise such an exhibition and also to provide relevant lectures at key institutions in Zagreb, as well as in some of the larger outlying Croatian towns. Among those institutions were major art galleries, the University of Zagreb, the University of Rijeka, and the City Library at Novi Sad, situated in the local Town Hall.

The exhibition Yilpinji: Ljubav, magija i obredi (‘Yilpinji: Love, Magic and Ceremony’, with the subtitle Izlozba o ljubavi i ljubavnim prijestupima u vizualnoj umjetnosti australskih Aboridzina, opened at Zagreb’s Galerija Klovićevi Dvori, with speeches by the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, The Honorable Josip Leko, and the Australian Ambassador to Croatia, The Honorable Susan Cox (among others). With an opening night attendance of 2,000 plus people, and more than 100, 000 visitors through its doors, Yilpinji’s…season had to be extended, thereby delaying the exhibition that followed it – an exhibition of major works by Picasso from key Parisian institutions.

Since then, Yilpinji… has toured Dubrovnik, and Zadar and Split, where

Samson Martin Japaljarri, Ngarlu Jukurrpa - Honey Ant Men’s Love Story Dreaming, 2003, etching, sugar lift painting and acquatint on two plates, on Hahnemuhle 350 gsm paper, image size 32.5 x 49 cm, reproduced with the permission of Warlukurlangu Art Centre, Yuendumu, and Aboriginal Art Prints, Oxford Street, Paddington.

Opening of the Yilpinji exhibition, ‘Love, Magic and Ceremony’, at the Galerija Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb. (From left to right): Ms. Dijana Grahovac, Public Diplomacy and Consular Officer (partially obscured), at the Australian Embassy, Croatia; Mr. Josip Leko, Parliamentary Speaker, Government of Croatia (who opened the exhibition); Her Excellency Susan Cox, Australian Ambassador to Croatia; Dr. Christine Nicholls, Flinders University; Dr. Iva Polak, Professor at the University of Zagreb, interpreter and translator of the Croatian catalogue; Ms Karolina Zlatunic, PA, to Mr Leko; Photograph by Damir Grahovac.

it opened on Australia Day this year. The Croatian tour continues.

Following Croatia’s initiative, the Australian Embassy in Belgrade requested a curated exhibition of similar ilk, which resulted in another touring exhibition of artworks by old Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara masters working from the Tjungu Palya art cooperative, based in northern South Australia. Dr. Nicholls also attended that opening, which took place in the art gallery of Belgrade’s major television studio, and which also continues to tour Serbia.

In Belgrade many lectures were provided to large audiences, as in Croatia, and Dr. Nicholls was asked to speak to many representatives of the media. In Serbia Dr. Nicholls also toured outlying regions, providing lectures and public addresses. Diverse lectures and talks were given in Belgrade, including one to a group of United Nations representatives in Human Rights House, and another to a group of Roma children at the Roma Museum in Husinkih Rudara, Belgrade.

Later this year the artworks in Serbia and Croatia will be exchanged and they will continue to tour until the end of 2015, after which they will be exhibited in other parts in the world.

All of this is indicative of the high level of respect of Croatians and Serbians for Australia and its culture, but also of their hunger to learn more about Australia’s unique Aboriginal cultures, languages and visual art traditions. The desire to incorporate a detailed education component into their travelling exhibition programs reveals an appetite to go beyond superficial understandings and really engage with this unique visual art on its own terms.

The exhibitions in Serbia and Croatia show just how successfully the underlying themes, ideas and narratives of Australia’s Aboriginal art can be conveyed to geographically and culturally distant, but uniquely empathetic, small nations.

Exporting the Love: The Yilpinji Exhibition in Croatia and Pitjantjatjara Old Masters in Serbia

All of this is indicative of the high level of respect

of Croatians and Serbians for Australia

and its culture...

Workshops and Seminars 2013

English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies

The English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies (ECWAS) seminar series ran a non-traditional series in semester 2, 2013. Instead of hosting a series of conference-style talks we ran an intensive workshop series in which participants read and commented on near-complete scholarly papers for publication. The participants were: Tully Barnett, Lisa Bennett, Danielle Clode, Kate Douglas, Emma Maguire, and Associate Professor Robert Phiddian. The group met fortnightly with papers being circulated a week beforehand. The aim of the series was to support and accelerate the submission of papers to scholarly journals and/or book publications and thus to strategically increase publication output amongst staff and postgraduates. All participants reported feeling energised and encouraged by the feedback provided. We embedded a follow-up plan in this process to ensure that all of the workshopped papers are submitted. We plan on running a similar series in semester 2, 2014.

Philosophy

In April 2013 the department held a very successful two-day workshop on ‘Theory and Anti-Theory in Ethics’. This was attended by over 40 philosophers from across Australia and New Zealand. In June-July the department hosted a visit from Professor David Cockburn of the University of Wales in the United Kingdom. Professor Cockburn led a series of symposia on meta-philosophical themes entitled ‘Untangling the Knots’. A number of interstate visitors came to Flinders to participate in these symposia. Professor Cockburn was also among several visitors to attend a special one-day philosophy event, organised by the department, in honour of distinguished Australian philosopher Professor Raimond Gaita. The department’s activities continue this year with a visit in June by Professor Tim Chappell from the Open University in the UK. Professor Chappell will be a keynote speaker at symposia on the theme ‘Between Morality and Religion’.

Archaeology Seminars: 19 Years and Going Strong

Over the past 19 years, the Department of Archaeology’s seminar series has hosted a number of well-known archaeologists and related specialists and attracts an audience from off-campus professionals and the general public in addition to our students and campus colleagues. The 2013 series was no exception, and included a much-discussed presentation by Dr John Perkins, of the University of Bristol and British Museum, on money and the Indian Ocean trade on the Medieval East African Coast.

In 2013 there were presentations from a number of archaeological consultants who gave students an understanding of the real world of archaeology in practice. Outstanding presentations were given by Dr Tim Owen, of Godden Mackay Logan Heritage Consultants, on Indigenous settlement patterns and burials in South Australia and a discussion of ‘Apollo, Dionysus and Rhys Jones’ by Dr Scott Can of West Coast Archaeology.

Other highlights of the program revolved around archaeology and mining. Presentations in this area included a lecture by Dr Phillip Hughes on the timing of human occupation in arid South Australia, and Indigenous speakers Glen Wingfield, Mick McKenzie and Harry Dare, who gave a presentation on working together with archaeologists at Olympic Dam, South Australia. In addition, Dr Ross Anderson of the Western Australian Museum gave a fascinating presentation on the maritime history and archaeology of the township of Cossack, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.As in previous years, our PhD students give their entry and exit seminars through this venue and our honours students present their final results, for which they are marked, in this forum. The Archaeology Seminar Series meets each Thursday during semester from 3-5pm. Afterwards you can join us for a sausage sizzle, graciously hosted by the Flinders Archaeology Society after the seminar.

Writers & Their Worlds

The Writers & Their Worlds seminars have brought over 150 speakers to talk on their lives. These include scriptwriters, poets, novelists, wine and food writers, sci-fi writers, children’s writers, music writers, librettists, lyricists, and romance writers – plus illustrators and publishers. This rich and varied mixture is virtually a writing festival in instalments.

In 2013 celebrated poet David Mortimer kicked things off, and we next heard advice on funding for young writers from Dale Durie of Carclew Youth Arts. Flinders’ own John Long spoke about his Wilderness Society award winning work and Philip White, one of Australia’s best wine writers, blended anecdotes with insightful humour. Artist and author Stephanie Radok entertained us ahead of Gillian Dooley, Flinders’ editor of Transnational Literature.

Patrick Allington, whose debut novel was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award started the second semester. In her wry talk, poet Alison Flett explored environmental influences on the writing voice, and prize-winning teacher Mark Tredinnick covered key aspects of the writing life.

Multi-talented Kerryn Goldsworthy, 2013 Pascall Prize Australian Critic of the Year, spoke wittily about her writing, editing, and judging major prizes. Mag Merrilees focussed on her Flinders PhD novel The First Week, and prominent biographer Susan Mitchell discussed her life-writing achievements, before award-winning playwright Phillip Kavanagh gave us a view into his life in theatre.

Poet Indigo Eli was a lively presence, too, talking about interdisciplinary arts practice. Finally, Lauren Butterworth organised our PhD writing students to read, highlighting the Wheatsheaf Hotel’s Speakeasy events she organises where Flinders students appear.

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Flinders Postgraduate Conference

23-24 April 2014Flinders WHIP (Work – Honestly – In Progress) Postgraduate Conference is a free interdisciplinary conference designed to provide a space for all Flinders University Humanities and Creative Arts postgraduate students to present works-in-progress in a stimulating and supportive environment. WHIP Conference is an annual event organised by Humanities and Creative Arts (HCA) postgraduate students and is now part of the wider activities of the Flinders WHIP Postgraduate Association, a student run organisation that aims to enrich the experience of HCA students at Flinders.

The aims of the conference are to facilitate the exchange of ideas, motivate research, shape arguments, and allow postgraduates to share feedback and connect with their community in a supportive environment.

The conference will showcase a range of postgraduate research activity from across the School. It will also feature a roundtable session where students are invited to open up conversations with a panel of academic, professional and library staff members.

Last year’s conference included a range of speakers from across the HCA postgraduate cohort. Presentations included thesis chapters in the early stages of drafting; developed conference papers from students who ultimately presented their work at national and international conferences; excerpts from creative writing theses; and in-progress research proposals. The delegates closed the conference by celebrating a successful event over wine generously provided by FIRtH.

This key event on the Humanities and Creative Arts calendar is a dynamic hub where staff and postgraduates have the opportunity to connect, converse and invest in the vibrancy of Humanities-based research at Flinders.

National Archaeology Student Conference (NASC)

11-13 April 2014Whether attending as a delegate, a presenter or an organiser, conferences provide important opportunities for learning, networking and personal development. With this in mind, Dr Annie Clarke began the National Archaeology Students Conference in 1998, so students could gain experience in presenting in a comfortable forum as well as acquiring skills in organising and running a national conference. In 2004 Flinders University hosted the last NASC, and after a ten year break will do so again.

Although largely an archaeology based conference, NASC is open to students of all disciplines as archaeology itself is quite a multidisciplinary profession. Undergraduates, honours and post-graduate students are able to present a paper on a topic of interest, or on their own and collaborative research. This year students from Romania and Tanzania will be presenting alongside others from all corners of Australia. Proceedings from the conference provide students with an opportunity to have their work peer reviewed and published.

Dr Clarke, who’s interests include the archaeology of Arnhem Land and the archaeology of cross-cultural engagement and colonialism, will open proceedings. Also in attendance will be Professor Emeritus Brian Fagan, one of the most prolific writers of archaeological and anthropological texts. Fagan began his literary career when the lack of suitable student learning material led him to fill the gap by writing his own book on archaeology, which is now in its 13th edition. Students beginning their archaeological studies today will undoubtedly find one of Fagan’s works within their own library.

Global Events Congress VI and International Event Studies Academy

9 -11 July 2014GEC VI is an important international meeting for researchers and practitioners in event and experience design, management and marketing and will be hosted by Flinders University and supported by FIRtH and sponsored by Adelaide City Council, Emerald and Cognizant publishers, University of Technology Sydney, UniSA, the Adelaide Festival Centre and Events SA in 2014.

Building on the success of the five previous congresses in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Guangzhou (China), Leeds (UK) and Stavanger (Norway), the 2014 program will include an opening ceremony, keynotes on research and practice within their respective program strands, research paper sessions, civic reception and conference dinner. Post-conference tours and activities and a partners’ program will also be available.

The keynote speakers include, Douglas Gautier (Australia), CEO and Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival Centre, Ian Yeoman (NZ), tourism and event futurist and author; Nathan Shedroff (USA), author of Experience Design 1 and 2.0.

GEC VI will also provide a forum for the International Event Studies Academy, established in Norway in 2012. Tourism’s Associate Professor Steve Brown is a founding Director of the Academy and chairs the organising committee for GEC VI.

Upcoming Conferences in 2014

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Awards and Grants 2013

AwardsDr Elizabeth Boase received a Gold Award from Australasian Religious Press Association for the best theological article in 2013.

Dr Amy Roberts in conjunction with Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff (Flinders staff) and Catherine Bland (PhD student) and external colleagues (Professor Calogero Santoro and Chris Carter) were awarded an AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering) Award in 2013. The award allows these researchers to test clay samples via Neutron Activation Analysis for the purposes of investigating the provenance of ceramics from Caleta Vitor in Chile, South America.

Dr Wendy Van Duivenvoorde has received a Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Researchers. This award recognises the outstanding contribution made as an early career researcher to the University.

Pamela Graham who is undertaking a PhD in life narrative studies, has received one of Flinders University’s Best Student Research Paper Awards for her cultural analysis of the 2008 anthology by Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia. Her paper entitled Alice Pung’s Growing up Asian in Australia: The Cultural Work of Anthologized Asian-Australian Narratives of Childhood, appeared in Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism (April 2013).

GrantsIn the recent ARC funding round, the School of Humanities and Creative Arts received the second-highest amount of ARC funding of all Schools in our University.

Associate Professor Melanie Swalwell (Screen & Media) was successful with her Future Fellowship application worth $846,329 over 4 years.

Professor Julian Meyrick and his team secured a Linkage Grant for AusStage Phase 5 (worth $325,000).

Associate Professor Heather Burke and Dr Mick Morrison (Archaeology) are part of a collaboration (administered by UNSW) that has been successful in securing a LIEF grant worth $400,000.

Dr Wendy Van Duivenvoorde and Dr Jennifer McKinnon are CIs on the ARC Funded Linkage Project: Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: a maritime archaeological reassessment of some of Australia’s earliest shipwrecks led by Professor Alistair Paterson at UWA. Total: $489,367 (2013 – 2016). Partner Organisations: University of Amsterdam; British Museum; Western Australian Museum; Prospero Productions; National Archives of the Netherlands; Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands; Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

Successful team applicants for the 2013 Creative Research Fund grants were:

• Dr Matt Hawkins, Dr Tom Young, Ms Helen Carter and Mr Richard Back. Project Title: Creating short films in order to facilitate feature film production: utilising crowd-funding and non-traditional distribution partners. Amount awarded: $9,485.00.

• Dr Alison Wotherspoon, Professor Phillip Slee, Dr Grace Skrzypiec, Dr Mubarak Rahamathulla. Project Title: ‘The Australian-Indian Network to Reduce School Bullying: A Series of Evidence-based Best Practice Videos and an online resource’. Amount awarded: $9,110.00.

A team led by Mr Joh Hartog and Dr Maggie Ivanova has been awarded a Flinders Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant. The team, consisting of Mr Joh Hartog, Dr Maggie Ivanova, Dr Kalinda Ashton, Dr Steve Evans, Mr John McConchie, Dr Alison Wotherspoon and Ms Katie Cavanagh, has devised a project entitled ‘Learning with/from Others: Inter-Cultural Dialogue through Adaptation in the Creative Arts’. The project aims to develop transnational literacy among second- and third-year Creative Arts students.

Dr Danielle Clode was awarded $5,200 from the Australian Orchid Foundation for her project ‘The Wasp and the Orchid: Edith Coleman’s contribution to the study of Australian Orchids’. In conjunction with this grant, Danielle was also awarded the Moran Award for History of Science Research by the Australian Academy of Sciences to further her research on Edith Coleman’s nature writing.

Dr Irene Belperio (Language Studies)

Medusa, Saint Lucy and Beatrice: Dante’s Vision Quest in the ‘Commedia’ and Redemption Through the Gaze of the ‘Other’

Professor Desmond O’Connor & Professor Diana Glenn

Dr Andrew Craig (English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies)

The Search for Closure in Selected Literary Representations of the End of the World

Dr Giselle Bastin & Dr Nick Prescott

Dr Laura Inez Deane (English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies)

Australian Psychoses: Women’s Madness and Australian Psychosis

Dr Kylie Cardell & Dr Shannon Dowling

Dr Rodney John Fopp (Theology)

Presuppositions and Resurrection Belief: Science, History and Faith

Mr Phillip Tolliday & Reverand Dr James McEvoy

Dr Antje Guenther (Drama)

“Vielleicht Braunchen Frauen Solche Titel Nicht…” Changes and Continuities in the Lived Experience of Women in Leading Positions in the GDR Theatre

Associate Professor Peter Monteath & Emeritus Professor Michael Morley

Dr Md. Rezaul Haque (English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies)

Negotiating History, (Re-)Imaging the Nation: The Indian Historical Novel in English

Associate Professor Kate Douglas & Associate Professor Rick Hosking

Dr Matthew Paul Hawkins (Screen & Media)

Writing is Rewriting: Defining the Purpose of Drafts in Feature Screenplay Development in a Collaborative, Micro-Budget Environment

Dr Ruth Vasey & Associate Professor Mike Walsh

Dr Robert Marc Marchand (Drama)

“Reciprocal Fluxion” The Creation and Consumption of Fictive Identities in Drama Filmmaking Practice Using the Character-Based Improvisation Process

Dr Jonathan Bollen & Emeritus Professor Julie Holledge

Dr Annette Margaret Marner (English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies)

A Desire of her Own

Professor Jeri Kroll & Dr Danielle Clode

Dr Beatrice Panne (Theology)

To Discern the Body is to Become the Body: An investigation into the communal discernment practices of the Church

Mr Dunstan McKee & Professor Andrew Dutney

Dr Olga Castro Sanchez (Language Studies)

Language learners’ self-efficacy and interactional patterns in oral and computer-mediated communication

Dr Colette Mrowa-Hopkins & Dr Antonella Strambi

Dr Debra Gayle Shefi (Archaeology)

Heritage today, gone tomorrow: in situ preservation of underwater cultural heritage in law and practice

Associate Professor Heather Burke, Professor Donald Pate & Dr Jennifer McKinnon

Dr Susan Julia Starling (Theology)

Silent Rivals in Christian Education: A Shalom Perspective

Mr Mark Worthing & Associate Professor Stephen Downs

Dr Matthew Laurence Usher (Philosophy)

Pain and Pleasure in Plato and Cognitive Science

Mr Rodney Allen, Dr George Couvalis & Associate Professor Ian Ravenscroft

Dr Jerry Trevor Raymond Whitney (Theology)

Towards Liberation: Pastoral Relationship with People with Intellectual Disabilities Living in Institutions

Mr Neil Pembroke, Professor Andrew Dutney & Dr Lorna Hallahan

Dr Thomas Geoffrey Young (Screen & Media)

Creative: Producing the University Feature Film: Double Happiness Uranium

Dr Ruth Vasey & Associate Professor Mike Walsh

Phillip Kavanagh (Drama)

Creative Writing: “Little Borders”: a play for two actors and accompanying exegesis

Dr Jonathan Bollen & Associate Professor Robert Phiddian

Jean Evelyn McBain (English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies)

The early eighteenth-century periodical and the twenty-first century blog: a comparative analysis of participatory media

Dr Kylie Cardell & Associate Professor Robert Phiddian

Coursework Degrees

Master of Arts(Teaching English as a Second Language)• Marie Danielle Amyot• Ankhbayar Batsuuri• Welmince Djulete • Narantuya Dorj• Altantsetseg Tumenkhishig • Rany Widiasti

Master of Creative Arts and Creative Writing• Dennis James Wild

Master of Creative Arts and Screen Production• Yin Zeng

Master of Language Studies • Wendy Ann Dekker • Elizabeth Ann Campbell • Mina Hiwada

Master of Maritime Archaeology• Zoran Alexander Kiljpa

Master of Teaching English as a Second Language

• Robert Cettl• Hyeong Jun Chae • Margaret Rose Clark• Feiya Li• Koichiro Matsumura • Muliadi Muliadi • Sanghyun Oh• Keisuke Okubo • Hasan Ahmad H Oqdi• Ting-Chia Tien• Qing Xu

Master of Tourism• Toulakham Phandanouvong

Master of Screen & Media• Thi Hong Chi Nguyen

PhD and MA Completions 2013Research Degrees (PhD) Research Degrees (MA)

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Thursday Night

They wheeled her in, dumped in a trolley with the nuts,

two litres of Coke, a packet of crisps.

Late-night shopping, always a great night out

for the kids. Lots of action. Lots of specials.

She had a great time. She always did

on Bundy and Coke. Beer. Whatever.

First she’d been giggly, then happy, then angry,

then she forgot the banners and flashing lights,

the mall’s muzak droning like a social worker.

Got into the video game in her head.

How many fighters left? Who was the enemy?

She even forgot where she’d got the money.

She’d spent all hers by 7:00. By 8:00

they’d wheeled her back to the Drop-in Centre.

It was hot in the mall, cold in the winter air,

too windy to light a joint, brass-monkey weather.

She was cold when they wheeled her in.

Seventeen, thin as an icicle

with a face like toughened glass.

The other kids stopped playing pool for a look,

then potted the balls, shuffled the cards, lit a smoke.

She drifted in and out of a haze. Couldn’t wake.

The ambulance came – 2.6 they said.

She should have been dead.

Her friends laughed. The ones who bought her the drinks.

You couldn’t count on her to do anything right.

But she always had a great time

late-night shopping. Out cold on a Thursday night.

From Jeri Kroll, Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2013.