Abstract
Edwin Wise, PhD Candidate, Sociology, La Trobe; Dr Andrea Vestrucci, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Milan; Peter Murphy, Professor of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics, Head of the School of Creative Arts, James Cook University; Christine Ellem; Trevor Hogan; Peter Beilharz; Phillipa Rothfield, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University; George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures; Dr Eduardo de la Fuente, Lecturer in Sociology, Flinders University; Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne; Dr Sian Supski, Sociology, Monash University, Commissioning Editor, Thesis Eleven; Julian Potter, PhD Candidate, Sociology, La Trobe; behind on stage, the Andy Sugg Group.
2010: The Year in Review
Bundoora
Honorary Research Fellow
2008–2011
Dr Ira Raja, Department of English, Delhi University
As this is my first report for Thesis 11 Centre, I will cover the years 2008–2010 inclusively.
I gave nine conference and research seminar papers across three years (five in 2010; one in 2009; and three in 2008):
17 Dec 2010, ‘Intimate Tyranny: The State, Individual Agency and Embodiment in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance’, Melbourne South Asian Studies Group seminar, University of Melbourne. [By Invitation]
24–25 Nov 2010, ‘Can the Subaltern Eat? Modernity, Intimacy and Consumption in the Indian family’, Workshop on Gender and Masculinities: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ANU, Canberra. [By Invitation]
23 Sept 2010, ‘The Economy of Desire: R.K. Narayan in The Illustrated Weekly of India’, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
5–8 July 2010, ‘Intimations of Modernity: Gender Relations in India, 1947–1975’, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), 18th Biennial Conference 2010, University of Adelaide, Australia.
26–27 Apr 2010, ‘An Intimate History of the Family in Indian Writing in English’, Ninth Annual Israeli Asian Studies Conference, University of Haifa, Israel.
26–27 Dec 2009, ‘Living to Tell: Mirabai and the Challenge of Categories’, The Sacred and the Secular in South Asian Literature and Culture, Tenth Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
7–10 Dec 2008, ‘Subaltern Masculinities: Modernity, Anxiety and Consumption in the Indian Family’, Workshop on Traffic: India and Australia: Knowledge, Cities, Movement, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, Ranthambhore, Rajasthan, India.
12–13 Nov 2008, ‘The Ethics of Caregiving Between Mothers and Daughters in Indian Fiction’, Workshop on Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. [By Invitation]
18–21 Sept 2008, ‘Key Journals and Institutions’, Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Annual Lecture
11 August
22–23 March (Flinders University) Adelaide, 25–26 March (La Trobe)
This was co-hosted with Flinders University, Sociology Department, and led by Professors Anthony Elliott, John Carroll and Peter Beilharz. Graduate students from both La Trobe and Flinders participated in both cities across the week.
Guest Speakers also included Daniel Chaffe for Flinders University, Professor Mastaka Katagiri from Chiba University, Japan, and Professor Atsushi Sawai from Keio University, Japan.
Seminars
1 April
Meet the Maguires: Professor John Maguire (Sociology, Leicester University): ‘Power and Global Sport: Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance.
Dr Jennifer Maguire (Media and Communication, Leicester University): ‘Cultural Intermediaries from Bourdieu to Cultural Economy: the case of Wine Promoters’
7 July
Music and cultural traffic: Stories and studies
Dr David Nichols (Planning, University of Melbourne): ‘265,836 words on Australian pop music 1960–1985’
Clinton Walker (Cultural Studies, Macquarie University): ‘In Melbourne Tonight: the Live Music Scene 1960 to 2010’
John Henshall (Economist and Planner): ‘Blues Music at the Crossroads: How Blues and Cultural Tourism is Revitalising Downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, Cradle of the Blues – the 2010 report’
14–18 July
Mildura Writers’ Festival
Memory and the Senses: a Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Workshop: Facilitators: Trevor Hogan & Peter Beilharz.
The connection between memory and the senses is palpable. Sian Supski (Social Investment Centre, Swinburne University) talks about her work on kitchens, cooking and smell and David Walker (Professor of Australian Studies, Deakin University) discusses family memoirs. Both read selections from their recent books
23 November
Associate Professor Ranjani Mazumdar (Cinema Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University): ‘Terrorism, Surveillance and Conspiracy in Bombay’s Recent Urban Cinema’
10 August
30 years and 100 issues of Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology (Sage: London, Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA)
The highlight of the year was the publication of the hundredth issue of Thesis Eleven journal which also marked 30 years since the first issue. Issue 100 (February 2010) began with a reprint of the journal’s first editorial from 1980, and a response or counter-editorial from Peter Beilharz. It also consisted of a series of short ‘postcards’ from thinkers who have had an important role in the history with the journal, including Agnes Heller, Maria and György Markus, Martin Jay, Chris Rojek, David Freeman, John Carroll, Ghassan Hage, Maria Pia Lara, Gerard Delanty, Peter Wagner and Andrew Milner. Other highlights included a 30-year survey of the history of the journal by George Steinmetz; the 2009 annual lecture from Alastair Davidson on the history of human rights and the left, as well as Patrick Wolfe’s response, a discussion from Nikos Paperstergiadis on the idea of ‘the South’ and a post-mortem on communism from Zygmunt Bauman. We were also very privileged to include an unpublished paper from Jeffrey Alexander on ‘Marxism and the Spirit of Socialism’ which was written around the same time that Thesis Eleven began, and demonstrates some interesting parallels with the journal’s concerns. In addition to this, Alexander also contributed a reflection of the ‘Marxism Project’ to accompany and contextualize this paper. The 100th issue also included the 2008 annual report on activities of the Thesis Eleven Centre, a republication of the edifying reflections of the infamous ‘Klaus Truggle’ on the D. H. Myer’s history of ‘Marx down Under’. The issue finished on a touching note of thanks from Luis David.
To celebrate this achievement we held a launch party and seminar at Chisholm College, La Trobe University, with speakers including George Steinmetz, Robert Manne, John Carroll, Patrick Wolfe, Miriam Bankovsky, Philipa Rothfield, Andrea Vestrucci, Christine Ellem and the editors, Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy, Beilharz and Hogan. The party featured a performance by jazz ensemble the Andy Sugg Group.
We followed up with another commemorative seminar at TASA with presentations by Beilharz, Hogan, Ellem, Pauline Johnstone (Macquarie), Eduardo de La Fuente (Monash), and Craig Browne (Sydney).
‘Thesis Eleven: Beyond the Antipodes – Thirty Years, One Hundred Issues’, Annual Conference of The Australian Sociology Association, Macquarie University, Sydney, 6–9 December
Another major milestone of the life of the Centre was a shift from its administrative base in the School of Social Sciences to the level of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. For the first time in its nine years of existence the Centre now has a clear administrative structure and financial support from the university for the next three years of its activities. The DVC Research Professor Tim Brown requested that the Centre organize a major event in 2011 to register this change. The second half of 2010 was therefore an intensive period of event and budget planning and fund-raising by the Directors, and we employed Christine Ellem as Project Officer to these ends.
We are proposing to run a Festival of Ideas on Popular Visual and Print cultures, India, Philippines and Australia set for mid-2011 at La Trobe. We have already been successful in raising funds from external sources for this initiative. We have set up a special working group for Festival planning including Professor Norie Neumark (Centre for Creative Arts), Dr Ira Raja (Visiting Fellow, Thesis Eleven Centre), and Dr Vincent Alessi (Director, La Trobe Art Museum).
Peter Murphy; Trevor Hogan; George Steinmetz; Peter Beilharz.
Activities of the Directors
Peter Beilharz
I began the year joining Ghassan Hage and his team working on the collaborative writing project After Newton. In February I joined with Tim Soutphommasane to discuss ‘The Future of Social Democracy’ for the Fabian Society. In March I delivered a lecture on Zygmunt Bauman and shared in the Flinders–La Trobe Society seminar in Adelaide. In Adelaide I also visited blues musician Chris Finnen at the Semaphore Workers Club. In April the John Hipwell/Tom Burstall documentary Back to My Roots, in which I appear, was shown on BBC 4. I also joined in the special seminar held at UNSW to celebrate the life and work of Maria Markus. In July I was invited to South Africa by the Academy of Sciences, for work with members at Grahamstown, Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Bloemfontein. Late July I joined the Centre contingent to the Mildura Writers Festival. In August I worked with George Steinmetz as annual Centre lecturer, and together with George and Ghassan Hage at Melbourne. September took me to Manchester, where I met with Kevin Morgan, then Leeds, where I met with Bauman, Tester, and Davis of the Bauman Institute and participated in the inaugural event of the Institute, celebrating the life and work of Janina Bauman and signing an MOU with Leeds, and meeting with Ritzer, Sassen and Liebeskind. I met with Chris Rojek in London, and Anders Michelsen in Copenhagen. In November I organized the annual Heller Lecture, with Graeme Davison. December took me to Sydney, to work on the ASSA workshop on neoliberalism, and to TASA at Macquarie, to present on Jean Martin and to celebrate the hundredth issue of Thesis Eleven.
Trevor Hogan
The year commenced with visits to India and Singapore. At Goa I attended the biennial ‘Australia and India: Convergences and Divergences’ International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA), 18–21 January 2010, Goa University, India. At this conference I gave two papers: ‘Australian Suburbia: The World’s Most Liveable Cities, but Are They Sustainable?’ and ‘The Vinyl Age: Rock Music in Australia 1945–1995’ – a report on a research project. After short visits to Mumbai, Pune, and Bangalore I returned to Singapore, where I was Visiting Affiliate at the Asia Research Institute (Asian Urbanisms Cluster), National University of Singapore, 1–11 February. With the Asian Urbanisms Cluster Director, Dr Tim Bunnell, I co-convened a one-day research workshop on the theme of ‘Gated Communities and Private Urbanism in Southeast Asia’, 5 February. I gave the lead paper on ‘Discordant Order: Manila’s Neo-Patrimonial Urbanism’. At the end of the year I joined Peter Beilharz and Sheila Shaver to give a paper at our joint session on Professor Jean Martin at the annual conference of The Australian Sociology Association, Macquarie University, Sydney, 6–9 December. My paper was ‘Two Pioneers and a Biographer: Mayo, Martin, and Trahair and the Strange Case of the Missing Tradition of Industrial Sociology in Australia’. In addition to a full-time teaching load and directing the Philippines-Australia Studies Centre, I have worked closely with Beilharz, Ellem and Dr Ira Raja in the preparing of thsppe new three-year plan and budget of the Centre and of the special Festival set for June 2011.
2011: The Year in Review
From left: Dr Ira Raja, Department of English, Delhi University, Visiting Research Fellow, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe; Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies Co-Chair, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa; Peter Beilharz; Christine Ellem; Professor John Webb, Deputy Director, Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne; Trevor Hogan.
Bundoora
Honorary Research Fellow
2008–2011
Dr Ira Raja, Department of English, Delhi University
I published two research articles, one independently and the other with Ken Botnick as co-author; two academic introductions for my two edited volumes of fiction; two essays for the Year’s Work in English Studies, covering the field of South Asian literature; one translation of a Hindi short story into English, for a Canadian publication on South Asian fiction; one commissioned essay of about 12,000 words on the role played by journals in the institutionalization of postcolonial studies, for the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, with Deepika Bahri as second author. Early in 2010 I published two edited anthologies of fiction: Grey Areas: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction on Ageing (Delhi: Oxford University Press) and, with Kay Souter, An Endless Winter’s Night: Mother-Daughter Narratives from India (Delhi: Women Unlimited). I also edited with Trevor Hogan a special issue of Thesis Eleven on Australia and India. I co-wrote with Phillip Darby, a short piece on ‘Australia and India’, for Antipodean Sociology: Place, Time and Division, ed. Beilharz and Hogan (Oxford University Press, 2012).
In addition, I completed in the course of my fellowship at La Trobe, the draft of a monograph, tentatively titled Intimate Modernity – a series of essays which engage with ideas and issues of inwardness, consumption, tyranny and visuality in the Indian novel in English between 1894 to 1996. Drafts of four chapters have been presented at various conferences. The introductory chapter is still waiting to be written.
I have presented a total of 14 research papers: five in 2008–2009; five in 2009–2010; and four in 2010–2011. In the meanwhile, I also accepted the Associate Editorship of the journal South Asia (Taylor and Francis); as well as an invitation from the journal to edit a special issue for them on the theme of ‘Indian families: Security, Sexuality, Socialisation’, which has been accepted for dual publication as a journal issue and an edited collection (December 2012). Finally, I worked towards organizing two major academic events on campus: a one day workshop on ‘Family Ties: Security, Sexuality and Socialization in Indian Families’, 13 Sept 2009, and ‘A Festival of Ideas on Popular Print and Visual Cultures in India, Australia and the Philippines’, 7–15 June 2011.
In 2011 I gave four conference and seminar papers:
15 June 2011, ‘Intimate Tyranny’, Violence and the Imagination Colloquium, Monash University.
8–10 June 2011, ‘Unruly City’, with Ken Botnick, Popular Print and Visual Cultures, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
6 May 2011, ‘The Elevating Influence of Friendship": Interiority, Sisterhood and Marriage in late 19th century India’, University of Western Sydney, Sydney. [By Invitation].
8 April 2011, ‘The Elevating Influence of Friendship]: Interiority, Sisterhood and Marriage in late 19th century India’, ANU, Canberra. [By Invitation]
14–17 July
Mildura Writers’ Festival
‘City and Country’ – Thesis Eleven Centre opens the Festival leading a discussion with Professor Judith Brett (Politics, School of Social Sciences, Bundoora Campus) and Professor John Martin (Centre for Sustainable Communities, Bendigo Campus).
7–15 June 2011: Word, image, action: Popular print and visual cultures festival of ideas
W O R D, I M A G E, A C T I O N: POPULAR PRINT AND VISUAL CULTURES FESTIVAL OF IDEAS.
Festival opening @ North Melbourne Town Hall, Tuesday, 7th June, from 6 pm
Music by Little John (duo)
2011 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture with Ron Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley@ ‘Media, Intellectuals and the Public Sphere’
Opening Dinner @ The Institute of Postcolonial Studies 8:40 pm
Print and Visual Cultures Workshop @ La Trobe University, Bundoora campus, Wednesday, 8th June–Friday 10th, 9:30am–4/6pm
A three-day series of lectures, invited papers, plenaries, film screening, art exhibition, artists discussion, and live performance from punk art band ‘This Histrionics’.
Wikileaks Forum @ The Wheeler Centre, Monday 13th June 3-5pm
‘Does Wikileaks Matter?’ A forum on Wikileaks with Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Peter Vale and Eleanor Townsley
Bauman Forum and Documentary World Premiere @ State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Room, Tuesday 14th June, 4-8pm
Half-day public forum on the work of Zygmunt Bauman with speakers from The Bauman Institute, Leeds and The Thesis Eleven Centre; followed by world premiere screening of ‘The Trouble with Being Human These days’ by Director Bartek Dziadosz. Concludes with reflections on ‘The Trouble with Being Human These days’ from Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Keith Tester.
Trailer: http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/
Public Lectures
Christopher Pinney, ‘Impressions of Hell: Printing and Punishment in India’, @North Melbourne Church Hall, Saturday, 11th June, 7:30pm, hosted by The Institute of Postcolonial Studies.
Ron Jacobs, ‘The Media Narrative in the Global Financial Crisis’, @Melbourne University, Monday, 13th June, 6:30pm, followed by dinner and drinks, hosted by the TASA Cultural Sociology Group
Anders Michelsen. ‘Atrocious Imagination: The Paradox of Affect – the Imagination of Violence.’ Keynote for ‘Violence and the Imagination Colloquium’ @Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Wednesday, 15th June, 9–10:30 am Program: http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/violence-imagination/
Public Film Screening @State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Space, Wednesday, 8th June, 6–8pm
Robert Nery’s documentary: ‘In 1966 the Beatles came to Manila.’
Art exhibition: Vernacular cultures and contemporary art from Australia, India and the Philippines @Luma, Glenn College, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Friday, 10th June, 4–6 pm
Asks how contemporary artists remobilize vernacular cultures to interrogate and mediate the cultural ethics of globalization, as they engage themes including surf culture, tattoo designs, informal architecture and colloquial language.
Curators Lecture by Ryan Johnston, and discussion with local artists
With Punk Performance Band ‘The Histrionics’ and the Boombox Burgers Taco Truck
Film and video exhibition: A post boom Beijing @Bendigo Visual Arts Centre, View Street, Sunday, 12th June, 12:30–4 pm
Day trip to the Bendigo Visual Arts Centre, including viewing of Arena: A post boom Beijing, film and video exhibition.
Curators lecture by Laurens Tan.
Walking tour: Laneways, street art and public installations@ Melbourne CBD, Saturday 11th June, 2–4 pm
Walking tour of Melbourne laneways, street art and installations as well as local art and moving image museums (limited places available, booking essential. Contact details below)
Masterclass Intensives for Postgraduates @ La Trobe University Bundoora, Wednesday, 15th June, 10am–5:30pm
Settler Societies And Popular Culture Various speakers, including Marilyn Lake, Peter Vale, Patrick Wolfe and Anthony Moran will discuss the popular cultures of settler societies, exploring issues of race particularly, and looking comparatively across the experiences of different settler societies.
‘Keywords Masterclass Inspired by Raymond Williams’ Keywords (1983): 13 thinkers will each talk about their chosen or nominated keyword, approaching their topics in terms of traditional keywords (socialism, liberalism); 20th-century innovations (such as the postmodern and schemata); or exploring the currency of other words (such as utopia, the migrant, regions, urbanism, walking and metanoia).
Print and Visual Cultures workshop (a closer look) @ La Trobe University, Bundoora campus, Wednesday, 8 June, 10:00–11:30 am opening lecture,
Philip Lutgendorf (Wisconsin): Chai Why? The Making of the Indian ‘National Drink’. (Chair: Ira Raja)
Participating Chair: Mark Davis (Leeds University)
Speakers: Tony Moore (Melbourne), Ken Botnick (St Louis), and Laurens Tan (Brisbane)
Panel 1: Landscape and narrative. Chair: Susan Martin.
Kirsty Duncanson: ‘Native’ Landscapes, ‘Cultivated’ Gardens and the Erasure of Indigenous Sovereignty in Two Recent Instance of Australian Cinematic Jurisprudence
Jerry Respeto (Manila): Landscape and Memory: The Visuality of Sacredness in Pakil, Laguna
Panel 2: Identity and Documentation. Chair: Assa Doron (Canberra)
Sanjay Srivastava (Delhi): Duplicity, Intimacy, Community: Of Identity Cards, Permits and Other Fake Documents in Delhi
Jim Masselos (Sydney): Image and Memory: Great people and their depiction in photographs, ephemera and prints in India from the late 19th century
Rapporteur for the day, Abhijit Gupta (Kolkata)
Panel 3: Sight and sound. Chair: Peter Friedlander
Alvin Yapan (Manila): The Oral in Philippine Visual Culture
Kalpana Ram (Sydney): Being ‘Rasikas’: The Affective Pleasures of Music and Dance Spectatorship and Nationhood in Indian Middle Class Modernity
Panel 4: Print cultures. Chair: Sanjay Srivastava (Delhi).
Nandini Chandra (Delhi): Corporal Punishment in the Hindi Children’s Press (1920–50)
Abhijit Gupta (Kolkata): Notes towards a Prehistory: The Comic Book in Bengal
Sabeena Gadihoke (Delhi): Cover Girls: Saris, Slacks and Style at the Turn of the Seventies
Panel 5: Circulating print. Chair: Philip Lutgendorf (Wisconsin)
Kama Maclean (Sydney): ‘Desh Chintan’: Visual Metaphors of 1930s Nationalism in India
Peter Friedlander: Kabir verses: from Manuscript to Mass Media
Panel 6: Urban spatialities. Chair: Christine Ellem
Sambudha Sen (Delhi): Technology, Visuality and the Making of a Modern Urban Imaginary
Gary Devilles (Manila): City Blindness: Visuality and Modernity in the Works of Farley Del Rosario, Daniel Alegaen, and Iza Caparaz
Chair: Vince Alessi
Speakers: Alfredo Aquilizan (Manila and Brisbane), Richie Lerma (Manila) and Gina Fairley (Sydney)
Rapporteur for the day: Vijay Mishra (Delhi)
4.00–5:15 Indian Photo and Media Art: A Journey of Discovery by N. Pushpamala (Bangalore and Delhi) Glenn College Lecture Theatre
10:00–11:30 Public Lecture: Peter Vale (Johannesburg): The Centenary of Cartoons on South Africa’s International Relations, Martin Building Lecture Theatre, Room 141. Chair: Peter Beilharz
Panel 7: Cinematic reflections. Chair: Kalpana Ram (Sydney).
Ranjani Mazumdar (Delhi): The Film Advertisement in 1960s India
Vijay Mishra (Delhi): Salman Rushdie, Bollywood and Popular Culture
Brinda Bose (Delhi): Kolkata Turning: Contemporary Bengali Cinema and the Politics of Change
Panel 8: Modes of intimacy: from signboards to mobile phones. Chair: Sanjay Srivastava (Delhi)
Assa Doron: Multimedia phones, Society and Cultural practices in North India
Ken Botnick and Ira Raja: The Aesthetics of Accommodation: Signboards, Streets and Democratic Spaces
2.15–3:45 Plenary: On photography. Chair: Kama Maclean
Speakers: Christopher Pinney (London), Sabeena Gadihoke (Delhi), and N. Pushpamala (Bangalore and Delhi)
Rapporteur for the day: Anders Michelsen (Copenhagen).
We are very pleased to report that the funds expended on the festival have resulted in concrete strategic outcomes:
The Thesis Eleven Centre was able to successfully implement a plan to consolidate a global network of six research centres.
The publication of three special themed issues in the Journal of Material Culture and Thesis Eleven journal, a special initiative managed by our postdoctoral fellow and key connection at the University of Delhi, Ira Raja.
An agreement by two other research centres in Leeds and Johannesburg to host events in 2013 and 2014
Professors Eleanor R. Townsley, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke University; partly obscured: Ron Jacobs, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York; Chris Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London; Sambudha Sen, Professor and Head of Dept of English, Delhi University.
Ranjani Mazumdar, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Brinda Bose, Associate Professor of English, Delhi University; and Professor Vijay C. Mishra, Professor of English, Murdoch University.
In front: Luis David, SJ. Associate Professor, Dept. Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Editor, Budhi Journal; partly obscured: Professor Marlu Vilches, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University; behind left: Jerry Respeto, Professor, Dept. Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University and theater director; behind right: Alvin B. Yapan, Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Dept. Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University, and creative writer and filmmaker.
Philip Lutgendorf.
Dr Maria Marina, Postdoctoral Fellow, La Trobe University; Dr Laurens Tan, adjunct Professor, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, artist, writer and curator.
16–22 June – Manila
Thesis Eleven Centre and PASC delegation from Australia:
Beilharz, Hogan, Ellem, de la Fuente, Supski, Ladrido, Salazar, Potter, Raja, Vale, Fettling, Alessi, Vernon.
In addition to planning meetings, art exhibitions, field trips, the sesquicentenary celebrations by Ateneo of Jose Rizal’s birth, we co-hosted a workshop.
Visual cultures, modernity, and society
Conference-Workshop Program
Ateneo de Manila University
21–22 June 2011
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology
La Trobe University
Philippines Australia Studies Centre
La Trobe University
Philippines Australia Studies Network
Ateneo de Manila University
21 June 2011, Tuesday
8:00 – 8:30: Fellowship Time
8:30 – 8:45: Welcome Remarks
8:45 – 9:45: Session 1: ‘Urban cultures and visual artists’, Beilharz and Supski; Devilles (Chair: Luis David, S.J.)
9:45 – 10:00: Morning coffee/tea
10:00 – 11:00: Session 2: Cinema and aural aesthetics. Pamintuan; Neumark (Chair: Gary Devilles)
11:00 – 12:00: Lecture: Twentieth-Century Music: A Case Study in the Sociology of Modernity, by Eduardo de La Fuente; Response by Peter Porticos (Chair: Trevor Hogan)
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch hosted by School of Social Sciences and the Office of International Relations (Social Science Conf Rooms 3 and 4)
1:00 – 2:30: Session 3: ‘Death, the sacred, and jeepney spirituality’, Harvey; Respeto; Gustafson (Chair: Mark Joseph Calano)
2:40 – 4:10: Session 4: Language, new media, and visuality
Yapan; Hogan; Javellana, S.J. (Chair: Ranilo Hermida)
4:30 – 6:00: Lecture: ‘On the Centenary of Cartoons on South Africa’s International Relations’, by Peter Vale. (Chair: Peter Beilharz)
6:00 – 8:30: Conference dinner hosted by the Vice President of the Loyola Schools, Leong Hall Roof Deck
22 June 2011, Wednesday
8:00 – 8:30: Fellowship Time
8:30 – 10:00: Session 5: ‘Body, Nature, and Modern Technolog’. Calano; Potter; Barbaza (Chair: Alvin Yapan)
10:15 – 11:45: Session 6: ‘Food, Intimacy, and Motherhood’. Supski; Salazar; Tan (Chair: Remmon Barbaza).
11:45 – 1:00: Lunch hosted by the School of Humanities
1:00 – 2:30: Session 7A: ‘Transportation, Road Spaces, and Urban Life’, Pante; Raja; Labastilla (Chair: Jean Tan).
Session 7B: ‘Mateship, nationhood, and imagined futures’, Ellem; Ladrido; Palacios (Chair: Jerry Respeto)
Leong Hall Dean’s Conference Room
2:30 – 3:20: Session 8: ‘Regions, Identities, and Autobiographies’. c/o Trevor Hogan
3:35 – 4:35: Session 9: ‘Social Justice and Civil Society’. Vernon; Hermida (Chair: Rowena Anthea Azada-Palacios)
4:35 – 4:45: Concluding remarks
4:45 – 5:00: Proceed to Ateneo Art Gallery
5:00 – 6:00: Lecture: Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art, by Vincent Alessi.
6:00 – 6:30: Launch of Me Here Now (Director of the Ateneo Art Gallery)
Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art. LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art will present the exhibition Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art at Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila. The exhibition showcases works by Australian artists who are engaged, as the title suggests, with the notions of identity and landscape in contemporary Australia. It will focus on notions of Australianness, youth culture, migrant identities, aboriginal identity and landscape as place. The exhibition will include the works of prominent Australian artists such as Donna Bailey (photographs), Scott Redford (video), Michel Riley (photographs) Sean Gladwell (video) and David Rosetzky (video) amongst others. Presenting multiple works by each artist with a focus on new media the exhibition will give a Filipino audience an insight into the current practices and trends in Australian photography, video and installation.
Below is an Extract from Professor Peter Vale’s ‘Black Arts’ Column, reflecting on the Thesis Eleven events in Melbourne and Manila, from the Supplement to the Mail and Guardian, 30 September to 6 October 2011:
Day One
In the gloaming of a mid-winter evening, I feel that I’m at a rock concert. Actually, I’m jiving to the sounds of Steppenwolf’s hit Born to Be Wild in the art gallery of Melbourne’s La Trobe University amid a brilliant display of contemporary art from the Philippines, India and Australia. But, hold on, these words are not quite what I remember from the original. What’s going on? The live band playing certainly isn’t the great Steppenwolf, but they are on fire. They’re a locally acclaimed outfit called the Histrionics, led by a bespectacled singer called Danius Kesminas. Immediately I take to him because, his energy aside, under his suit he is wearing a T-shirt that reads ‘Crimes against Humanities’. The Histrionics continue an Australian tradition of joke bands. But their style is less joke and more satire. No, that’s too mild: their message is scorn for the post-Steppenwolf generation. Kesminas, who once taught at an art college, is particularly barbed. His version of the 1968 hit is called Taught to be Mild and his chorus runs like this:
Like a true art school child
We were taught, taught to be mild.
But we’re satisfied,
We’ll never ask why,
Taught to be mild.
Day Two
The shimmer of Manila – colour, sun, people, rain – makes it difficult to get the proverbial grip on the place. And I certainly didn’t get it until I caught my first sight of a Jeepnee … ‘A what?’ you may well ask. Officially, they’re Manila’s chief form of transport and, like the combi-taxis in South Africa, they run regular routes across this city’s extensive network of concrete highways. Originally, they were purpose rebuilt from United States Army surplus Jeeps – hence the name – but these days they’re more likely to be retreaded Japanese trucks shipped here and then chopped up in backyard body shops. From the comfort of a combi it is the unofficial role of the Jeepnee that interests me most. This is because they’re works of art – magnificently decorated in all possible shades, slogans and signs and adorned with shrines: each Jeepnee is a veritable mobile piece of art, but with a twist – each carries a genuflection to Christ or the Virgin. The centuries-long hold of Catholicism over the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7 000 islands, is everywhere to be seen.
Day Three
In the Colayco Pavilion at Ateneo de Manila University, I stop to watch a clutch of students struggle with the1970 Beatles hit Let It Be. One reason is that their keyboard player is no Billie Preston, whose great keyboard talent anchored the original. But the words seem quite unfamiliar to these youngsters. They smile and wave. Do they know that this grey-haired old white guy raved to the same song when he was their age? But a second question is the more interesting. Do they know, I wonder, that the Beatles once visited Manila? It was 1966 and the Fab Four were returning from a tour to Japan. The Manila leg was a disaster. Their manager, the troubled Brian Epstein, was at his most neurotic and, though they played to a packed audience in a football stadium, they escaped a riot at the airport on their departure, coming within an inch of their lives. The usual suspects were to blame: an authoritarian democracy, drink, drugs, rock ’n roll. And it didn’t help that they snubbed Imelda Marcos, the president’s wife, who was then at the beginning of her long, long hold over Filipino politics. Robert Nery, an Australian-Filipino filmmaker, has made a movie of the visit. The rough cut is a long rambling piece interspersed with terrific insights into the mixing of cultural codes during the early Marcos years.
Day Four
The Ateneo de Manila University is a sprawling campus on what was once the outskirts of the city. Its high fences and policed gates keep the grey concrete and black tar of the city away from its lush lawns and green trees. Once upon a time the Ateneo (as it is colloquially called) was in the city centre and it was there that Filipino national hero and liberator José Rizal was a student. This year is the sesquicentennial anniversary of Rizal’s birth – this says how old the Ateneo is. Spanish Catholics brought education, including higher education, to the Philippines from the mid-1500s onwards. The Ateneo (translated as the Athenaeum) is in the Catholic tradition, which explains, perhaps, why this campus houses a primary school, a high school and the university. What is that old Jesuit maxim: ‘Give me a child for his first seven years and I’ll give you the man’?
Day Five
The traveller’s nightmare struck last night – troubled teeth. Across the highway from the Ateneo, I spy a sign that reads ‘Oabel-David Dental Clinic’. Shall I chance it? I do. And it pays off. As she tends my tender spots, Dr Marivic David-Oabel tells me that she and her husband, who comes from a long line of dentists, both graduated from the nearby University of the Philippines. Alas, their only child, a boy, has eschewed dentistry, to study management across the road at the Ateneo. Gently she chides me, not for the oral hygiene that put me in her chair, but for consorting with the Jesuits! I can’t help wondering whether her great skill isn’t, perhaps, helped by the good side of the US influence in the Philippines. The long love-hate relationship between the Philippines and the US began with the former’s annexation in 1898, and the recruiting of Americans to teach Filipinos at all levels and in all trades and professions commenced in 1901. So, the Jeep in the word ‘Jeepnee’.
Day Six
This is to be a day for the soul and the belly. We’re set to visit cathedrals, a mosque, St Thomas University (founded in 1611), a traditional Filipino house and much more besides. Each place of worship is built in a different historical period – and each has a distinct motive and story to tell. But our interest is caught by the queues of glittering wedding parties at each stop. A rumour runs through our group that the costs of maintaining these old buildings is high and Saturday weddings are a source of regular income. Following my 23-year practice in cathedrals, I buy a candle to light for Beth, our daughter, who was born a Catholic. In the Café Ysabel, a lithe professor with an expertise in things comparative has organized a practical course in the sociology of food. A specially designed menu, with parallel courses from appetiser to main dishes, is served, the idea being to trace the origins of Filipino dishes. So, kinilaw na tuna (tuna with sea salt, Davao style) is served with boquerones (anchovies in olive oil, Madrid style); pancit molo, a chicken broth, compares with wonton soup. Then a pork and chicken dish called adobo alongside the Spanish adobado; chicken inasal compares with Indonesian style ayam panggang; kare-kare, a beef dish, is set against a Thai curry; a vegetarian course called bringhe is eaten alongside an Indian biryani; and, finally, ice cream (obviously American). Not surprisingly, I feel as if I need a postprandial walk but, alas, no luck. We’re shepherded back to waiting combis. It takes two more tourist stops and almost colliding with one of Manila’s mobile objets d’art before we reach the Ateneo and fall into bed.
Mark Joseph Calano, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University.
Centre front: Peter Vale, Professor, University of Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University.
Julian Potter, PhD Candidate, Sociology, La Trobe; Jerry Respeto; Dr Sian Supski, Sociology, Monash University, Commissioning Editor, Thesis Eleven; Remmon Barbaza, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University; Gary Devilles, Assistant Professor, Kagawaran Ng Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University.
Activities of the Directors
The greater part of our individual and collective efforts were directed this year to the Festival and associated events in Melbourne, Bendigo and Manila. We would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Christine Ellem, project officer, for her herculean efforts, pragmatism, intelligence, and seemingly infinite reserves of patience and good humour. It has been remarkably productive for the Centre, and we are still in disbelief that we managed to organize it in the space of 10 months. That we were able to do so was in no small part due to the creative and indefatigable commitment of Dr Ira Raja, whose idea it was in the first place to hold a workshop on ‘Popular Print and Visual Cultures in India and Australia’. From there we blew out into a major festival, and Dr Raja had the good grace to go along with it, then the energy and imagination to help us raise the finances and recruit many outstanding scholars from India, the US and the UK. The other members of the working party (Alessi, Fettling and Neumark) were also important in securing partners, events and ideas. We thank the volunteers Jenny Ferguson, Yanhang Cai, Julian Potter and Bryan Valionis.
We are also delighted that the Festival has contributed to the emergent confederation or network of research centres in social theory, historical sociology and cultural studies. The event was based not only on person-to-person but centre-to-centre links. Each of our links, with Yale, Ateneo, Leeds, Copenhagen, Delhi, and Johannesburg, was represented by directors or their deputies. The proceedings of our events will feed in to Thesis Eleven journal, but more, we will now proceed to regularly involve these centres in further events (South Africa, 2012–13; Leeds, 2014, etc.) and in developing issues of the journal. The journal will now operate as a journal of centres, a world first.
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The Directors have also continued to collaborate on our research projects, and this year we managed to find time to complete with Clinton Walker a long two-part article on the Australian recording industry that will be published in Thesis Eleven journal in 2012.
We continue to work on our own chapters for the book on Jean Martin and the Social Sciences in Australia. We gave a joint research paper on ‘Jean Martin and the rise of Social Sciences in Australia’ to the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, 1 June.
With Christine Ellem as Production Assistant we worked on the second edition of our book Sociology: Place, Time and Division which we completed by the end of 2011. It has a new sub-title, Antipodean Perspectives, 35 new chapters, with most of the rest of the retained chapters from the first edition also being revised, four new photo essays, and a range of new images, and the introduction and conclusion essays and the glossary have been re-written. More on this in next year’s annual report.
Peter Beilharz.
2011 was largely a year given to project development. I spent significant time in semester one developing the Festival of Ideas and the appeal against ERA journal ratings, with Chris Ellem. In semester two I followed the lead of Hogan and Ellem in developing our OUP text. June and July were consumed by our Festival of Ideas. While on study leave in the second half, I visited the US, UK, and South Africa and later Germany. I gave papers at the American Sociology Association (ASA) in Las Vegas, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein, the latter at a special event inspired by Thesis Eleven. I consolidated our link with Peter Vale, and opened a new link with the premier South African journal Theoria. I visited George Steinmetz, Peggy Somers and Geoff Eley at Ann Arbor, and toured the ruins of Detroit with Mathieu Desan. I visited Jeff Alexander and Ron Eyerman at Yale, and joined in undergraduate and postgraduate classes there. I visited Zygmunt Bauman in Leeds and shared in a master class at the Bauman Institute. I was invited to join in the Bauman/Heller Conference at Jena, invited to respond to Perry Anderson there, and finally gave three papers at the event, including opening and closing. This event opened the possibility of an ongoing link with the Imre Kertesz Kolleg. I gave two papers at The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) in Newcastle, and papers to the Brotherhood of St Laurence, La Trobe and Monash (twice). I sat on the ASA History Lifetime Award Panel and the Monash PhD panel of Howard Prosser. Finally, I had the bittersweet honour of participating in two events in memory of Bernard Smith, one at The National Gallery, the other at the University of Queensland.
Trevor Hogan
Christmas 2010 found me in a plane to Singapore to take up a three month fellowship as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute (Asian Urbanisms Cluster), National University of Singapore, 26 December 2010 to 8 April 2011. During this stay I had two weeks in Manila in February to undertake research on that city (an article with Peter Murphy published in 2012, and a photo essay with Caleb Hogan) as well as help prepare the Manila events in June 2011. 2011 also finally witnessed the publication of the papers arising from our workshops in Delhi and Ranthambhore in December 2008. Dr Ira Raja and I were the commissioning editors and wrote the introductory essay: ‘India and Australia: Knowledge, Cities, Traffic’, Thesis Eleven 105 (May 2011).
As well as working on the Festival events and ensuing outcome projects (including two special issues of Thesis Eleven journal set for publication in 2012), the greater part of my focus in this year has been preparing the second edition of Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives for publication by OUP, Melbourne, in 2012.
I gave four papers at research seminars in 2011 – one each at Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore (March); Monash (April), Ateneo de Manila (June) and La Trobe (June).
Research projects
Jean Martin and the Social Science in Australia
The Vinyl Age: History of Australian Rock Music, 1945–1990
Social Division and the Pursuit of Harmony in the Antipodes in the Twentieth Century
Sociology: Place, Time and Division
Publications in 2010
Books edited
Raja, I. (ed.) Grey Areas: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction on Ageing. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Raja, I. (ed.) An Endless Winter’s Night: Mother-Daughter Stories from India, with Kay Souter. Delhi: Women Unlimited.
Chapters in books
Beilharz, P., ‘Thesis Eleven Journal’, in Opie and Drakakis (eds) A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Monash University Press, Melbourne.
Beilharz, P., ‘Modern and Postmodern’, in Hall et al. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Routledge, London.
Beilharz, P., ‘Zygmunt Bauman (1925–)’, From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical Theorists, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Hogan, T. with Divya Anand and Kirsten Henderson, ‘Environment and Culture’, in John R. Hall et al. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, London: Routledge.
Raja, I. ‘Introduction: Narratives of Ageing’, Grey Areas: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction on Ageing, ed. Ira Raja. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 13–31.
Raja, I. and Kay Souter, ‘Introduction’, An Endless Winter’s Night: Mother-Daughter Stories from India. Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2010, pp. 11–31.
Articles (refereed journal)
Hogan, T., ‘A Walk in the Cordillera, September, 1986: A Photographic Essay’ Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture. X:3: 143–183 (dated 2006, published 2010).
Raja, I., ‘Rethinking Relationality in the Context of Adult Mother-Daughter Caregiving in Indian Fiction’, Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts, official journal of the Gerontological Society of America, Vol 3(1) (2009): pp. 25–37.
Article (journal of opinion)
Raja, I. and Mridula Chakraborty, ‘New Literatures: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka’, The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 1075–1095.
Refereed conference proceedings
Beilharz, P., ‘Jean Craig and the Factory Girls’, Social Causes, Private Lives, TASA Annual Conference, http//www.tasa.org.au/conference 2010, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Commentary
Beilharz, P., ‘Counter-editorial’, Thesis Eleven 100 (February 2010): 11–15.
Review essays
Henderson, Kirsten, ‘Water and Culture in Australia: Some Alternative Perspectives’, Thesis Eleven 102 (August 2010): 97–111.
Reviews
Beilharz, P., ‘John Anderson, Lectures on Political Theory, 1941–45; Bernard Smith, The Formalesque – A Guide to Modern Art and its History’, Thesis Eleven 101 (May 2010): 133–136.
Beilharz, P., ‘Stuart Macintyre, A History of Social Sciences in Australia’, Thesis Eleven 104 (November 2011): 124–127.
Beilharz, P., ‘Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, Australian, 18 September, pp. 24–25.
Publications in 2011
Peter Beilharz
Books
Sociology – Antipodean Perspectives, edited with Trevor Hogan, OUP (in press).
Chapters
‘The Marxist Legacy’, in G Delanty and S Turner (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 33–44.
‘Modernity in Motion’, in G Hage and E Kowal (eds) Force, Movement, Intensity. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 55–65.
‘Zygmunt Bauman’, in G Ritzer (ed.) Major Social Theorists, Volume 2. London: Blackwell, pp. 155–174.
Journal articles
‘Prehistoric modes of textual production’, Alternatives 36(1): 25–31.
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski, ‘“To Love and to be Loved”: Janina Bauman’s Ordinary Life’, Thesis Eleven 107 (November 2011): 101–105.
‘Rock Lobster – Lobby Loyde and the History of Rock Music in Australia’, Thesis Eleven 109 (April 2012): 64–70.
‘The Vinyl Age – The History of Rock Music in Australia, Part 1 – 1945–1975; Part 2 – 1975–1995’, with Trevor Hogan and Clinton Walker (total 22,000 words), Thesis Eleven 109 and 110 (April and June 2011).
Refereed conference proceedings
‘So Sharp You Could Bleed: Sharpies and Visual Culture, A Moment in the Seventies History of Melbourne’, with Sian Supski, Local Lives/Global Networks, TASA Annual Conference, University of Newcastle, 28 November – 1 December 2011, Newcastle, NSW.
Reviews
‘Stuart Macintyre ‘The Poor Relation: A History of the Social Sciences in Australia’, Thesis Eleven 104 (February 2011): 124–126.
Ira Raja
Articles (refereed journal)
With Deepika Bahri, ‘Key Journals and Institutions’, Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
With Ken Botnick, ‘Subtle Technology: The Design Innovation of Indian Artisanship’, Design Issues (MIT Press journal) 27(4) (2011): 43–55.
Article (journal of opinion)
With Mridula Chakraborty, ‘New Literatures: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka’, The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 994–1004.
Translation
Usha Yadav’s short story, ‘Tarpan’, published under the title ‘Libations’ in Carolan, Cheng and Tsui (eds) The Lotus Singers: Stories from Contemporary South Asia, Boston, 2011, pp. 191–199.
Publications by other Centre Associates
Articles (refereed journal)
Anand, Divya, ‘Sustainable Development and Environmental Politics: Case Studies from India and Australia’, Thesis Eleven 105 (May 2011): 67–78.
Review essays
Davidson, Alastair, ‘Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment’, Thesis Eleven 105 (May 2011): 134–143.
PhD research (completions 2009–2010)
Congratulations to Dr Kirsten Henderson and Dr Divya Anand. Kirsten is now a research and policy officer with the Murray-Darling River Basin Authority in Canberra. Divya lives in Boston, MA, with her IT expert husband. Both Kirsten and Divya have published articles and reviews in Thesis Eleven journal.
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (Beilharz)
Kirsten Henderson: ‘Rethinking the Politics of Water in Australia’ (2004–2008, awarded in 2009).
Principal Supervisor (Susan Martin, English Program); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Divya Anand: ‘Re-narrating De-natured Landscapes: An Eco-critical Comparison of Contemporary Indian and Australian Writings on Nature and Environmental Politics’ (2006–2010).
PhD research (current)
Principal Supervisor (Beilharz); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Darrell Bennetts: ‘Antipodean Reflections on Imperial Vistas and Colonial Experience in New Zealand’ (2005–2010; on leave 2011).
Yanhang Cai: ‘Georg Simmel as Social Theorist’ (commenced March 2011).
Christine Ellem: ‘Modernity and Utopia: The Political and Ethical Legacy of Modern Utopias’ (2007–2010; on leave 2011).
Harry Paternoster: ‘Marxist Theories of Social Class’ (commenced March 2011).
Julian Potter: ‘Faust and Technological Modernity’ (2010–).
Principal Supervisor (Beilharz); Co-Supervisor (John Carroll)
Mark Scillio: ‘Work and Life’ (commenced 2009).
Principal Supervisor (Beilharz); Co-Supervisor (Anthony Moran)
Tim Hamilton: ‘Race Relations in the Antipodes’ (commenced 2010).
Mark Mallman: ‘The Costs of Downward Mobility’ (commenced 2011).
Principal Supervisor (Beilharz); Co-Supervisor (with History)
Andrew Self: ‘Social Movements in Latin America’ (commenced 2009).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (Beilharz)
Joseph Salazar: ‘Consuming Nationalism: Food, Culture, Space, Memory’ (2009–).
Edwin Wise: ‘Place, Space and Culture: A Study of Manila’ (2007–2010; on leave 2011).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (tbc)
Angela Serrano: ‘Motivations of the Military in Organising Military Coups against the National Government: A Case Study of the Oakwood Mutiny of 27 July 2003, Manila (commenced June 2010).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (Helen Lee)
Marby Villaceran: ‘Philippine Women in the Australian Diaspora: Writing their Own Experiences and the Art of Creative Storytelling’ (commenced July 2010).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (John Morton)
Andrew Morrison: ‘Social Networks in Philippine Organisations’ (2009–2010; suspended 2011).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (John Carroll)
Trevor Wilson: ‘Islamism and Modernity: a return to Absolutist Thought?’ (2008–).
Principal Supervisor (Hogan); Co-Supervisor (Hayden Aarons, Wendy Mee)
Rangsan Prathumwan: ‘Contemporary Christianity and Consumerism’ (commenced March 2011).
Principal Supervisor (Helen Lee); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Skilty Labastilla: ‘Transition from Youth to Adulthood by Males in Informal Settlements in Davao City, Mindanao’ (2008–).
Principal Supervisor (Trevor Budge); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Nguyen Khai Huyen Truong: ‘Ho Chi Minh City – A Motorcycle City in Vietnam’ (2009–2011 – submitted thesis October 2011).
Principal Supervisor (John Carroll); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Scott Doidge: ‘The Bourgeois Ideal Type: German and American’ (commenced March 2010).
Principal Supervisor (Julie Rudner); Co-Supervisor (Hogan)
Rangajeewa Gungamuwage: ‘Urban Crime and Violence and Planning for Safe Urban Environments in South Asian Cities’ (commenced June 2010).
Principal Supervisor (John Tebbutt, Media Studies); Co-Supervisors (Beilharz and Hogan)
Estelle Ladrido: ‘Filipino Among Filipinos: Investigating How Transnational Television Participates in National Identity Construction’ (June 2010).
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology: Annual Lectures
2002: Bernard Smith
2003: Gyorgy Markus
2004: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
2005: Joanna Bourke
2006: Maria Pia Lara
2007: Stuart Macintyre
2008: Alastair Davidson
2009: Philippa Mein Smith
2010: George Steinmetz
2011: Ron Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley