Language and Culture issue 8 march 09 - The University of Sydney

Australian Research Council Discovery
by Michele Ford
Projects, 2009
In 2009, seventeen academics from our School have applied for grants for
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects, doubling the number
applied for in 2008. The range of topics demonstrates the diversity of research
and teaching that occur within the School.
ARC DP 2009 grant applicants:
Olivier Ansart, Imagining modernity in Eighteenth Century Japan (Department
of Japanese Studies)
Alice Caffarel, Simone de Beauvoir, the Mentor: Exploring the Power of Her
Language (CI 1,with Dr Canzhong Wu from Macquarie University as CI 2;
Department of French Studies)
Yasuko Claremont, Literary Connections: Australians and Japanese in the
Pacific War and Occupied Japan (Department of Japanese Studies)
Kathryn Crameri, Nationalism and self-determination in Catalonia since 2003
(Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies)
Tamara Ditrich, Divine Pairs in Ancient Indian Scriptures: Gender and Stylistic
Expressions of Dual Eeities in the Rgveda, (APD, Currently at the University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia, associates with the Department of Indian Sub-continental
Studies)
Dwi Novi Djenar, When Youth Write: Documenting the Development of
Colloquial Indonesian into a New Written Variety (Currently at La Trobe
University, associated with the Department of Indonesian Studies)
Birte Giesler, Self Performance - Biotechnology and Human Identity in
Contemporary German Drama (Department of Germanic Studies)
Vera Mackie, The Local and the Global: Embedding Human Rights in the Asia-
Pacific Region (APF, associated with the Department of Japanese Studies;
requested 4 PhD scholarships)
Drasko Mitrikeski, Understanding Splits within Buddhism: the Impact of
Nagarjuna’s Dharmadhatustotra (APD, SLC admin, associated with the
Department of Indian Sub-continental Studies)
Fernanda Penaloza, Culture, Political Rapprochement and Borders: Argentine-
Chilean Relations (1978-2008) (Department of Spanish and Latin American
Studies)