Applied anthropology and economic development, comparative trading practices, and natural and human resource management throughout Southeast Asia

The analysis of 2-3000 year-old Oceanic ceramic ornamentation for deriving and relating the development of related technologies within a range of culturally valuable artefacts. The use of laboratory replication and macroscopic examination for revealing ceramic ornamentation techniques.

Linguistics

China

Archaeology & Natural History

The literature of Malaysia and Singapore and is presently engaged in a research project on the images of women in the manuscript tradition and in the modern Malay novel, as well as in literary translation from Malay into English.

music, interculturalism, ethnic identities, nationalism, cultural politics, media, performing arts, cultural policy areas: Malaysia, Singapore.

China

Geography and Logistics of Eurasian Trade Routes; Contemporary Zen Buddhism in the West; Online Research & Scholarly E-Publishing; Online Asian Studies; Online Pacific Studies; Online Tibetan Studies.

China

Life and poetry of Wiji Thukul. Popular and progressive cultural production and social dynamics in contemporary Indonesia. Use of new media in collaborative research and teaching of Indonesian language and culture.

natural history collections, science and Empire, crossed stories

Chinese history, geography and literature of the Han period and of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Political and cultural history of China and Mongolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; Sino-Mongolian philology

Southeast Asia

Linguistics

Critical migration and diaspora studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, transnational aesthetics, and the social production of historical memory, particularly between Asia and Europe.

Anthropology

Phonological systems and sound change; typology of polysemy and lexical semantics; pragmatics of face-to-face conversation; historical linguistics; language geography and areal phenomena; verbal art, folkloristics, ethnomusicology

DFAT Grant 07 THAILAND UPDATE CONFERENCE 2007

Pacific Music

China

Pacific

Linguistics

Zoogeographic and coevolutionary trends in introduced, invasive and synanthropic vertebrates.

Southeast Asia

China

History, politics, and anthropology of Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar and Thailand, with particular attention to the politics of religion, civil society, human security and human rights, governance and sustainable development, and the politics of development, international aid and health.

The social and economic history of China (especially, during the Song Dynasty period), in Neo-Confucian philosophical history, and, in the comparative social history of Japan and China.

Southeast Asia

PNG/Pacific

Pacific

Archaeology & Natural History

Archaeology & Natural History

Australian languages and descriptive linguistics, language change and language variation, especially the history of the Germanic languages, morphology, phonology, typology, language acquisition

China

Indonesian history and society, Indonesian regional politics, Asian security issues, historical biography and the biography genre in general, Australia's relations with Asia.

The legacy of 'development' in the social and political lives of Papuan school migrants in Manado, Sulawesi.

Archaeology & Natural History

Linguistics

Korea

Anthropology

Topics in the grammar and semantics of Koromu, PNG

Geological and environmental history of coastal ecosystems and adjacent wetlands.

Literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth-century Muslim Southeast Asia. Ideologies and genres in classical Malay manuscript literature. History of Southeast Asian Muslim calendars.

The literature and popular culture of contemporary Java; patterns and sites of pilgrimmage in Java and Madura; and the Catholic Church in East Timor.

Cambodia: Human Security and development; post conflict State-building; Governance and decentralisation; History and politics

Social, cultural, religious and intellectual history; historiography, the history of historical writing; biography; the relationship between power and knowledge in elite and local settings. Current research interests include policing, magic, and the environment in Thailand's mid-south.

Anthropology

Language policy and language planning, Community/local language maintenance, Language learning in primary schools, Literacy and academic writing

The anthropology of development; social studies of science and technology; postcolonial studies; Latin American studies; Asian studies.

Linguistics

PNG/Pacific

Old Javanese language and literature, Early history of Indonesia.

Archaeology & Natural History

Australia-Japan relationship; Japan in Australian moving images; women and migration; expatriates in Japan; war and memory.

Hmong; minorities and the state; Southeast Asia and China; religion and development; history, locality, transnationals.

Journal of Pacific History

Japan

Chinese social and intellectual history, and global issues relating to the evolution and interaction of knowledge systems.

Christian Missions to the Chinese in Australia; the work of the Church Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in Fukien Province, China; the Anglican Church in China (Sheng Kung Hui); Australian Missionaries in China; Australian missionary history.

Pacific

History of pre-modern Southeast Asia; literature and art history of Java and Bali.

Hindi and Urdu language and literature in the Indian cultural tradition in Fiji.

Anthropology

Anthropology of Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu; history of anthropology, biography of Malinowski.

China and the Chinese in Indonesia in the mid twentieth century; overseas Chinese nationalism; migration history; ethnicity and identity.

Anthropology

Chinese history: environment, economy, demography, proto-science, geography, emotions.

Aust Pacific Science Foundation - Nine Thousand Years of Gardening in PNG

Swamps, caves and lakes across Asia Pacific and the development of methods to measure environmental change. Climate change and high resolution records.

The nation-state in contemporary Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; Indonesian Islam; Impact of the West on Indonesia; Indonesian history; Indonesia's Writing Traditions; Javanese theatre; Early Javanese history.

South Asia

Prehistory and early history of Indonesia, especially South Sulawesi; Bugis philology; early history of Australia, especially maritime discovery.

20th century history of Vietnam; comparative revolutions in Asia.

Modern Japanese (and East Asian) intellectual, political and environmental history; changing views of nature in the course of modernisation in Japan and East Asia, especially in respect of rivers and water; regional environmental history; struggles over the definition of past (especially China and Pacific wars) and future (beyond capitalism and the Cold War) identities in Japan; North Korea as regional and global problem in early 21st century, with especial reference to the Japan-North Korean relationship.

Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.

Southeast Asian History, as a coherent whole. More specific work on Sumatra, the early modern period, nationalism, revolution and social/economic history.

Economic geographer specialising in urban and regional development in the Asia-Pacific Rim and the role of transport (road, rail, sea and air) and communications.

Austronesian and Papuan languages, theory of language change, contact-induced language change, historical change in grammatical constructions. Regional focus on Papua New Guinea and on Taiwan.

Austronesian linguistics; pidgins and creoles; language contact and language change; vernacular education; language endangerment and globalisation.

Pacific