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A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876–2012 A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876–2012 Celebrating 125 years of the Faculty of Arts edited by Nick Harvey Jean Fornasiero Greg McCarthy Clem Macintyre Carl Crossin Published in Adelaide by University of Adelaide Press The University of Adelaide Level 1, 230 North Terrace South Australia 5005 [email protected] www.adelaide.edu.au/press The University of Adelaide Press publishes externally refereed scholarly books by staff of the University of Adelaide. It aims to maximise the accessibility to its best research by publishing works through the Internet as free downloads and as high quality printed volumes on demand. Electronic Index: this book is available from the website as a down-loadable PDF with fully searchable text. Please use the electronic version to serve as the index. © 2012 The Authors This book is copyright. 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For the full Cataloguing-in-Publication data please contact the National Library of Australia: [email protected] A history of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide, 1876-2012 : celebrating 125 years of the Faculty of Arts / edited by Nick Harvey … [et al.] University of Adelaide — Faculty of Arts — History Harvey, Nick ISBN (paperback) 978-1-922064-37-0 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-922064-36-3 Project Editor: John Emerson Project Coordinator: Julia Keller Cover design: Emma Spoehr Book design: Zoë Stokes Paperback printed by Griffin Press, South Australia Contents List of Contributors viii 1 The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and 1 the BA Degree at the University of Adelaide since 1876 Nick Harvey 2 Webs of Significance: an Ethnographer’s Account of 23 Anthropology at the University of Adelaide from 1973 to 2011 John Gray 3 The History of the Centre for Asian Studies at the 51 University of Adelaide Gerry Groot 4 Classics at the University of Adelaide (1874–2012) 81 Ron Newbold 5 English and Creative Writing: ‘the abode of … 109 literature; the home of poetry and fiction’ Philip Butterss 6 A Tale of Resilience: the History of Modern European 133 Languages at the University of Adelaide Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby 7 Geography, Environment and Population at the 181 University of Adelaide, 1904–2012 Nick Harvey 8 Gender Studies and Social Analysis 209 Margaret Allen and Susan Magarey 9 History 235 Wilfrid Prest 10 The History of Aboriginal Languages and Linguistics 265 at the University of Adelaide Rob Amery 11 The Digital, Participatory and International Turn: 299 Media at the University of Adelaide Mary Griffiths 12 Musical fusions 325 Jenny Rosevear 13 Philosophy at the University of Adelaide 351 Chris Mortensen, Graham Nerlich, Garrett Cullity and Gerard O’Brien 14 Politics at the University of Adelaide 359 Peter Mayer Appendices I Deans of the Faculty of Arts at the University of 387 Adelaide 1887–2012 II The University of Adelaide Fulbright Scholars 390 1950–2012 III Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday Honours, Faculty 393 of Arts staff and alumni 2003–2012 IV The University of Adelaide Rhodes Scholars 1904–2011 399 List of Contributors Professor Margaret Allen is Professor Emerita in Gender Studies at the University of Adelaide. She has researched gendered histories for four decades, publishing on women writers and Australian cultural history, South Australian women’s history and nineteenth century British Quakers. Currently she researches transnational, postcolonial and gendered histories and on whiteness, in particular, on links between India and Australia from c1880–1940. Publications include as co-author, Fresh Evidence, New Witnesses: Finding Women’s History (1989) and Limited Access: Women’s Disadvantage in Higher Education Employment (1995). Dr Rob Amery is Head of Discipline of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide and Convener of Kaurna Warra Pintyandi (KWP). Rob completed a PhD in 1998 at the University of Adelaide (published in August 2000) on Kaurna language reclamation. He serves as consultant linguist to Kaurna programs in schools and various community projects and naming activity. From October 2010 until February 2011 he was guest professor of Australian Studies (Aboriginal languages) at the University of Cologne, Germany and Lansdowne Scholar at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2004. Teaching and research interests include Australian Indigenous languages, Kaurna linguistics, endangered languages, language revival, languages in contact and lexical semantics. Dr Phil Butterss is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Phil has taught Australian literature and film in the Discipline since 1991. He has recently completed a biography of C. J. Dennis and is currently working on a history of literary Adelaide. Professor Garrett Cullity is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. His widely-acclaimed book The Moral Demands of Affluence (Clarendon A History of the Faculty of Arts ix Press) won him the Eureka Prize for Ethics in 2008. Widely published, his research interests include practical reasons and rationality; ‘moral reasons’ and their content; beneficence and aid; moral theory and anti-theory; moral virtues and ‘virtue ethics’; moral epistemology; and cooperation and public goods. Professor Jean Fornasiero is Professor of French Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French history and literature — on individual authors such as Balzac, Maupassant, Nerval, Verne, Zola, and on the history of utopian thought. As part of an ARC funded project to rehabilitate the reputation of French explorer, Nicolas Baudin, she has published studies on the artwork, the personnel and the scientific results of his voyage. Her work includes an award-winning book, with John West-Sooby and Peter Monteath, entitled Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, 1800–1803 (Wakefield Press, 2004; revised edition 2010; Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize, 2005). She was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Government in 2003. Professor John Gray is Professor of Anthropology in the Discipline of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are anthroplogical theory, anthropology of experience, historical anthropology, space, place and movement, ritual, kinship, caste and forms of social asymmetry, gender relations, local economy, human-animal relations, European Union policy (Common Agricultural Policy), rural communities in contemporary society, aesthetics, Local poetry, national identity; architecture — the construction and meaning of built forms; cultural geography — experience of place and space in social life. John is sole author of three books, joint editor of another book, and has written 10 book chapters and 18 articles in professional journals. Associate Professor Mary Griffiths is Associate Professor of Media at the University of Adelaide and served as Head of the Discipline from 2006–2011. Previously at Monash University, she took a leadership role in internationalising the Arts faculty’s blended delivery, offshore communications programs. Later, she x A History of the Faculty of Arts held a senior position in Screen and Media at the University of Waikato, NZ. Visiting professorships include Napier University and the University of Leeds, UK. Her research and teaching focuses on the social and political impact of new technologies, participatory media and narrative forms. She has held editorial roles on four international academic journals, including Communication, Politics and Culture; and annually chairs the e-participation track at the European Conference of E-Government. A media commentator on new technologies and their impact, she has served on the boards of Radio Adelaide and 44 Adelaide. Dr Gerry Groot joined the Centre for Asian Studies in 1999 and is currently Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies and Head of Discipline at the University of Adelaide. Gerry graduated from the Centre for Asian Studies with an Honours degree in 1989. In 1997 he completed a PhD in the Centre under the supervision of Sylvia Chan. Professor Nick Harvey is Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, the University of Adelaide. He is also Director of the Centre of Coastal Research (CCR) at the University. Nick has expertise in areas including coastal processes, global coastal change; the greenhouse effect; coastal management and environmental impact assessment. He has authored nine books and monographs, 18 chapters and nearly 40 refereed articles as well as a number of shorter refereed contributions. In 2007 Nick was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of which he was one of the Lead Authors. Professor Emerita Susan Magarey, founding Director of the Research Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Adelaide (1983–2000) and founding Editor of the journal Australian Feminist Studies (1985–2005), was made a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia for pioneering Women’s Studies as an academic field and elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2006.