School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology POSTGRADUATE BULLETIN 23 OCTOBER 2003 1. APA/MRS Scholarships applications close 31 October 2. Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship 3. APAI Scholarship in sociology 4. Potential SPRC Post Graduate Scholars 5. Revised Call for Papers: Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy 6. Global Political (Economy / Theory) Reading Group 7. Multimedia Developments for Use in Academia, Research & Industry 8. Institute of Postcolonial Studies Legal Scholarship Seminar - Monday 3 November 9. Feminist Forum: Tuesday 28 October 10. Political Science / CERC seminar cancelled 11. Bulletin Archive *********************************************** 1. APA/MRS Scholarships applications close 31 October A reminder that applications for Australian Postgraduate Awards and Melbourne Research Scholarships must be lodged at the Melbourne Scholarships office by 31 October. Applications may be made online at the website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/SCHOLS/ *********************************************** 2. Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship Up to three Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships will be available to students from Australia to spend the United States academic year of 2004-2005 at Harvard University. Closing date: Wednesday 5 November 2003 at 5pm For further information, application procedures and an application form: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/pgrad/travelling/fk.html *********************************************** 3. APAI Scholarship in sociology An opportunity exists for a student in sociology or similar social science discipline to take up an APAI PhD scholarship in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. The successful candidate will work with Professor Geoffrey Lawrence and myself, as well as representatives from the Queensland Government, on the project 'Engaged Government: A Study of Government-Community Engagement for Regional Outcomes'. Details of how to apply for the scholarship are available on the following web site: http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/?id=13686 Dr. Lynda Herbert-Cheshire Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Social Science The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia Tel: 07 3365 2383 Fax: 07 3365 1544 uqlherbe@dingo.uq.edu.au *********************************************** 4. Potential SPRC Post Graduate Scholars The Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales is recruiting postgraduate scholars. "Students are guaranteed an individual workspace, computing services and work in a research centre, surrounded by other full-time researchers. SPRC has a good record of successful PhD completions and graduates have gone on to establish interesting careers in universities, the public services, and NGOs." Please direct inquiries to: Michael Bittman Senior Research Fellow Social Policy Research Centre University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 9385-7806 Fax: +61 2 9385-7838 http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/ *********************************************** 5. Revised Call for Papers: Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, invites submissions for the next issue (Contretemps 4) on the theme of Security and Risk. Deadline for Submissions: 30 November 2003 Themes of security and risk play a decisive role in discourses of free-market capitalism. Recently, these themes have exceeded their economic boundaries. The global neo-liberal revolution in politics and economics, and the consequent retreat of the state with respect to the welfare of its citizens, has served to privatise the element of risk. While individuals are encouraged to assume an entrepreneurial outlook and take responsibility for their lives, a rising tide of neo-conservatism calls for more police, more prisons, and increased security on all fronts. When security becomes the basic principle of state activity, a critical stance toward issues of security and risk must itself take a risk. At play is the event of decision: who (or what) decides the place and limits of "security" and "risk"? What is philosophically at issue with respect to security and risk? What assumptions and interests lie hidden in the appeal to security, and what motivations underwrite the assignment of risk? What are the conditions and consequences of contemporary risk society, and how do we measure its effects? How does the appeal to security itself constitute a risk? When world leaders propose the incalculable risk of a military escalation without end, the difference between security and risk becomes undecidable. Is it possible that the political rhetoric of security and risk masks a fundamental loss of the right to decision a loss that must remain hidden if the state is to retain its sovereign legitimacy? Contributors are asked to submit manuscripts of 6000 words on the following possible themes: The state and globalization Terrorism, War on Terror Sovereignty and state responsibility Ideology and propaganda Media and spectacle Interdisciplinary papers are welcome. Deadline for Submissions: November 30 Please visit Contretemps at http:www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps for submission guidelines. Submissions are to be sent electronically as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word format to the following address. contretemps@mail.usyd.edu.au *********************************************** 6. Global Political (Economy / Theory) Reading Group The loosely titled "Global Political (Economy / Theory) Reading Group" is meeting again this Tuesday 28 October at 5:20pm in the Postgraduate Room. We will be discussing James F. Keeley, "Toward a Foucauldian analysis of international regimes" International Organization, Wntr 1990 v44 n1 p83-105 Available in pdf format from the JSTOR database [via the library catalogue] All interested parties welcome! Jarrod Lenne jlenne@unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 7. Multimedia Developments for Use in Academia, Research & Industry Places are still available in the following School of Graduate Studies ALPS course: Multimedia Developments for Use in Academia, Research & Industry This module will provide an overview of educational technology and a rationale for its use in educational and training sessions. The course will include a number of sessions about the process of designing and developing multimedia programs. These sessions will cover: choosing a development team, scoping the project, macro project design technical architecture, interface and graphical elements and design explanation and demonstration of an array of multimedia development tools Dates: Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 November Time: 9am - 5.30pm Venue: Biomedical Multimedia Unit, Medical Building, Physiology Wing Level 2, Room N204 Cost: $85.00 Closing date for applications Friday 31st October Postgraduates should apply now to ensure their place. Further information including the application form is available on www.gradstudies.unimelb.edu.au/services/skills/alps *********************************************** 8. Feminist Forum: Tuesday 28 October The series for feminist staff and postgraduate students to present work in progress. Lesbians in League? International feminist activism between the two world wars by Carole Moschetti Tuesday 28 October, 5.30 - 7.00 pm 5th Floor Function Room John Medley Building The University of Melbourne All staff and postgraduates interested in feminist ideas are welcome. Contact: Dr Millsom Henry-Waring, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology phone: 8344 6562 / email: m.henry-waring@unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 9. Institute of Postcolonial Studies Legal Scholarship Seminar Monday 3 November, 7.30pm the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 76 Curzon Street, North Melbourne Dr Roshan De Silva Representations of Nation and Nationalism in Sri Lanka Historicism, as Foucault reminds us, is a discourse of the continuous. It privileges the subject of consciousness, of intentionality, the subject who is the agent of history. Historicism remains within the terrain of classical ontology. What this critical account of nationalist historiography in Sri Lanka seeks to do is to interrupt this discourse of the continuous, to think beyond the closure that classical ontology entails. By focusing on the textuality of the Sinhalese Buddhist nation, we identify the contours of a structurating (im)possibility, an ambivalent and traumatic relation to a non-Sinhalese othe which guarantees the (im)possibility of the non-Sinhalese Buddhist nation. Roshan de Silva is a postcolonial legal scholar at Griffith University and the author of a forthcoming book in the Institute series, Writing Past Colonialism. *********************************************** 10. Political Science / CERC seminar cancelled The following seminar has been cancelled due to illness: Wednesday 29 October "Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in the Russian Transition" by Prof. Archie Brown (St Antony's College, Oxford) Room 212, Level 2 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton 1.00pm-2.00pm Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) *********************************************** 11. Bulletin Archive Current and previous issues of the postgraduate bulletin are archived on the web at: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/courses/postgraduate/bulletin.html