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Ms Ratih Hardjono accepting her Australian Alumni Award department Indonesian Studies cont’d. Ms Hardjono has also been a presidential advisor, and at present is running non-government organisation called “Sekolah Demokrasi” devoted to creating grassroots support for democracy through education. See also The Australian: www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ story/0,25197,25101295-12332,00.html Korean Studies On 26 May, Dr Pankaj Mohan will give an exhibition talk on ‘Korea at the Centre: A Fresh Look at the Art and Literature of Late Choson’. This is part of a series of talks that will take place as part of the exhibition Korean Dreams: Paintings and Sreens of the Joseon Dynasty at the Art Gallery of NSW from 5 March - 8 June. In his talk Pankaj will demonstrate how Sirhak or Practical Learning School of the Late Choson period (18th and 19th Centuries) challenged the Sinocentric orientation of Korean art and culture and used it instead as a conduit to articulate uniquely Korean cultural experiences. Japanese Studies news The Department has been involved in a number of successful events: the Inoue Yasushi Award Ceremony, the Forum on the Silk Road and the Opening of the Inoue Yasushi Silk Road photographic exhibition on 20 March. Canon Australia reproduced 32 clear photographs of the Silk Road in the 1970s for the exhibition. Dr Yasuko Claremont, Chair of Japanese Studies received a Special Award from the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation for her contribution and effort to promote research in Japanese literature in Australia through public announcement, application, selection of award winners and related events of the Inoue Yasushi Award since 2006. Yasuko accepted it on behalf of the organising committee in the School of Languages and Cultures.
New staff members... Andrew McGarrity Department of Indian Subcontinental Studies Andrew McGarrity is the new Lecturer in South Asian and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. Andrew completed his undergraduate and postgraduate doctoral studies in this Department under Dr Peter Oldmeadow and has been teaching in the Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies, and Asian Studies programs since Peter’s retirement mid-2008. Andrew’s expertise is in South Asian and Tibetan philosophy and history of ideas in tradition and modernity and Sanskrit and Tibetan language study. With his training in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Indian, Buddhist and Western Philosophy, and with his youth, enthusiasm and cooperative nature, Andrew is a most welcomed addition to the Department. Enrique Santamaría | Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies Enrique Santamaría Busto was born in Burgos, Spain. He completed a double major Arts degree in Applied Languages at the Universidad de Burgos and in Comparative Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he received his MA in Spanish as a Foreign Language. His professional activity is orientated to the teaching of Spanish language and culture, covering a wide range of disciplines (Advanced Grammar, Spanish for business, Creative Writing, Spanish civilization of the 20th century, French-Spanish translation, DELE, Spanish pronunciation). He has taught and coordinated courses at a number of universities in the United States and Europe and is currently writing his PhD on Spanish pronunciation in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Yi Zheng Department of Chinese Studies Yi Zheng received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Since then she taught modern Chinese literature and culture as well as comparative cultural studies in the US, Germany and Israel before coming to Sydney. She has also held fellowships from the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies), Berlin; Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Studies), Budapest; and the Porter Institute for Comparative Poetics, Tel Aviv. She is completing a monograph on civility and taste in contemporary Chinese print media, which is based on research completed in an ARC funded discovery project (2006-2008) investigating the changing structures of class and taste culture in China, of which she is co-Chief Investigator.
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