Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute 2013 Annual Report Lakhnu Village, India Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute A Research Institute in the Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Report 2013 Regional Transformations GRAFFITI IN EKBATAN TOWNSHIP, EAST OF TEHRAN. PHOTO © ALI MOZAFFARI 2013 Contents Director’s overview .................................... 1 Conferences, seminars & events ............ 44 Research themes ..................................... 2 Media engagments ...............................55 Institute membership..................................3 Exhibitions, book launches & creative Indian Ocean Futures 2014 conference ... 4 works .........................................................56 Research projects ....................................... 5 Fellowships, awards & other notable achievements ...........................................58 Researcher seminar series 2013 .............34 Grant successes ........................................60 Researcher development program . ....... 35 Membership of editorial boards and Researcher toolbox .................................. 35 professional organisations ..................... .62 Member publications ............................... 36 Partnerships and networks .................... .66 Institute publications ..............................43 Visitors to the institute ...........................72 AAPI/ Black Swan Press online research collection (ORC) ........................................ 43 Photo credits ............................................74 Director’s overview 2013 was another good year for the institute and its members. We continued our program of seminars, career development, networking and related professional activities, as outlined in this report. AAPI was reviewed by Curtin, along with all the other university research institutes and centres. As a result, our funding was confirmed for a further five years. Although a number of colleagues moved on to appointments elsewhere, we welcomed four new Post-doctoral Fellows as associate members. We also welcomed Mr Mike Burbridge, Director of the Australian Sustainability Development Institute, to the Advisory Board as a representative of Curtin’s Office of Research and Development. In particular, the Indian Ocean Futures Initiative has to date resulted in the Indian Ocean Futures 2014 Conference, together with related developments to position Curtin as a national and international leader in the important field of Indian Ocean Studies. As always, my thanks to our members and our advisory board. We look forward to continuing our core activities and to extending and refining our research emphases and orientations throughout 2014 and beyond. Professor Graham Seal AM Director 1 Research themes KEY RESEARCH AREAS: • social-cultural, economic, political and environmental change and develop- ment in Australia, Asia and the Southwest Pacific • Asian, Southwest Pacific and related CULTURAL IDENTITIES ethnic communities within Australia and the region • National identity/ies • changing relations between Australia, • Gender and sexuality Asia and the Southwest Pacific. • Class formations • Race and ethnicity The Institute operates a broad research • Indigeneity, colonialism/post- agenda that provides for a range of specialist activities within a cross- colonialism disciplinary framework. • Literature, language and media To progress these activities the Institute REGIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS has three major research foci within which are pursued a number of cognate • Heritage themes. Members of the Institute • Tourism are mostly involved in two, sometimes three of these research themes, providing • Regional development for collaborative cross-disciplinary • Health outcomes. Each of the themes is under • Social and cultural policy continual review, while the research foci • Sustainable environments are reviewed regularly to ensure ongoing • Natural resource management and relevance, to allow for emerging and sustainable livelihoods innovative research developments and to accommodate membership changes. INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL RELATIONS • Terrorism and fundamentalism • Refugees, asylum seekers, immigration • War and peace, memorialisation • Transnational political and social movements • Human rights • Government and political systems • Global environmental change 2 Institute membership MEMBERS GOVERNANCE Dr Anne Aly The Institute’s day-to-day operations are the responsibility of a management Professor Dawn Bennett group chaired by the Director. For 2013 Dr Ian Chalmers members were: Professor George Curry Professor Graham Seal (Director) Professor Tim Dolin Professor Suvendrini Perera (Deputy Dr Lucy Fiske Director) Dr Caroline Fleay Professor Dawn Bennett Professor Anna Haebich Dr Chris Hubbard Dr Chris Hubbard Professor Bob Pokrant Dr Gina Koczberski Professor John Stephens Dr Robyn Mayes Associate Professor Grace Zhang Dr Ali Mozaffari INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD Dr Alexey Muraviev Associate Professor Bobbie Oliver Dr Peter Stanley (Chair): Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Dr Nonja Peters Society, University of New South Wales, Professor Suvendrini Perera Canberra, at the Australian Defence Force Academy Professor Bob Pokrant Professor Kim Scott Mr Mike Burbidge: Office of Research and Development representative, and Professor Graham Seal Executive Director, Australian Sustainable Professor John Stephens Development Institute, Curtin University Professor Jon Stratton Ms Margy Burn: Assistant Director- Dr Yasuo Takao General, Australian Collections and Reader Services, The National Library of Associate Professor Reena Tiwari Australia Associate Professor Grace Zhang Professor Edmund T. Gomez: Social and Behavioural Science Research Cluster, ASSOCIATE MEMBERS University of Malaya Dr Annette Condello Professor Brij V. Lal: Division of Pacific Dr Lisa Hartley and Asian History and The Pacific Centre, Australian National University Dr Tod Jones Dr Eric Omuru: Director, Cocoa Coconut Dr Thor Kerr Institute of Papua New Guinea Dr Susan Leong Emeritus Professor Peter Reeves: Curtin Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny University Dr John Yiannakis Mr Neville Roach AO: Chairman Emeritus, Australia India Business Council INSTITUTE PROJECT OFFICER Professor Graham Seal (Executive Officer) Dr Sue Summers Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute 3 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Professor Graham Seal (Convenor) Professor Suvendrini Perera (Creative Program co-director) Professor John Stephens (Executive committee) Professor Bob Pokrant (Security co- director) Dr Chris Hubbard (Security co-director) Associate Professor Reena Tiwari (Sustainability director) Professor Tim Dolin (Culture director) Indian Ocean Futures 2014 Distinguished Professor Anna Haebich (Creative Program co-director) Conference Professor Dawn Bennett (Creative Program co-director) The Indian Ocean Futures Conference is Professor Kim Scott (Executive an international conference presented by Committee) the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute from 25-28 March 2014 in Fremantle, Western INDIAN OCEAN FUTURES EXPERT Australia. NETWORK Indian Ocean Futures 2014 brings Dr Anita Kelleher – Chair of Australian and together academics, government, industry Asian Regional Nodes of the Millennium and communities to identify these Project changes and discuss the challenges for the Mr Neville Roach AO – Indian Prime future of the region and its peoples. Minister’s Global Advisory Council of Overseas Indians The conference emphasises papers and presentations that address present and Professor Dennis Rumley – Indian Ocean future interrelationships, connections Rim Academic Group, DFAT and compatibilities between three major Professor Julianne Schultz AM – Editor themes and the sub-topics in each: Griffith Review, Griffith University CULTURE – communities, identities, texts, Professor Peter Stanley – Australian communication, the arts, tourism Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW, Canberra SUSTAINABILITY – environment, climate, Professor Linda Briskman – Swinburne ecology, health, resources, spaces Institute for Social Research SECURITY – food, energy, borders, human Professor Terence Gomez – Social and rights, populations, education, climate, Behavioral Science Research Cluster, environmental University of Malaya Associate Professor Christopher Vernon – The conference includes a CREATIVE University of Western Australia PROGRAM of performances, exhibitions Dr Trevor Hogan – Thesis Eleven Centre for and displays as well as social events and tours. Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University Professor Tim Doyle – Indian Ocean Rim Website: http://www.iofc2014.com/ Academic Group 4 Research projects as a communicative platform for resisting the social, economic and cultural impacts of terrorism. The research will have ANNE ALY significant outcomes for developing Tweeting for God soft counter terrorism measures. It is grounded on a conceptualisation of Anne Aly (CI) with John Hartley and Tama terrorism as a communicative act and, Leaver (Lief project, 2013 – continuing) conversely, counterterrorism as colllective Curtin CI, Anne Aly, has established social resistance. It will contribute to an significant contributions to the understanding of how governments can understanding of how Australian Muslims harness local and global initiatives to engage social media platforms as build resilience. discursive spaces of religious expression. An investigation of ‘religious Twitter’ Muslim communities online will provide a valuable addition to Anne Aly (2011 – continuing)