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Japan
In the Japanese Studies Graduate Summer School
program, altogether 32 postgraduates from Australia, New Zealand,
Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and the USA
presented papers on their current research. Senior academics (20)
from Australia, Indonesia and Japan participated in the event
and contributed to panels and discussions. Apart from student
presentation, panel discussions, there were also two keynote addresses
by Prof. Bambang Wibawarta, University of Indonesia, and by Prof.
Lee Youensk, Hitotsubashi University.
The opening and closing ceremony of the JSGSS
took place in conjuction with the Graduate Summer Schools of Korea
Studies and the Pacific Studies. Prof. Robin Jeffrey, the Covenor
of the Collage of Asia and the Pacific and Prof. Rikki Kersten,
Dean of the Collage opened the event and the Japanese Embassidor
Mr Hideaki Ueda gave an opening address. The closing ceremony
was held in a relaxed BBQ party atmosphere. The High Commition
of Solomon Island gave the closing address. Both in opening and
closing ceremony, there were about 90-100 participants.
The participants were happy and content. Their
happiness was not only reflected in their oral expressions, but
alsoin questionary evaluation that was carried out after the program:
The participants rated the usefulness of the Summer School for
networking and their research as 4.5 out of 5.
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Korea
The conference consisted of panel presentations
by graduate students, at both Masters and PhD level, followed
by workshops at which established academics responded to the
presentations and general discussion took place. Twenty-two
graduate students presented papers, and 13 academics participated
in the workshops. Attendance at the sessions varied from 25
to 38 people. Participants came from SNU, Korea University,
and Yonsei University, the University of Auckland in New Zealand,
and in Australia from the University of New South Wales (Sydney),
Curtin University of Technology (Perth), Griffith University
(Gold Coast), Monash University (Melbourne), and ANU.
An insightful and on occasion personal Special
Address by His Excellency, Cho Chang-beom, Ambassador of the
Republic of Korea, was much appreciated by the participants.
The second address, on the transformation of the Tan’gun
myth, was given by Dr John Jorgensen. In his fascinating talk
he argued convincingly that the myth of Tan’gun has been
very much driven by popular science as well as, to some extent,
pop culture.
Once again, the ANU Korean Graduate Studies
Conference proved to be a very successful way of allowing upcoming
and established scholars in our region and beyond, to share
their research projects, problems and achievements and to establish
or strengthen collaborative research projects.
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Pacific Islands
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were presented by 24 students, eight of whom were Pacific islanders
funded by SSGM to attend the event. The SSGM visitors came from
Fiji, Tuvalu, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The
consensus among participants was that the event was highly suc-
cessful in pro- moting Pacific research and in creating links
among Pacific researchers. Highlights of the conference included
the papers given by the graduate students visiting from the Pa-
cific. The Pacific is- land visitors presented papers on a range
of topics:
Asia Pacific Week also gave ANU staff the oppor- tunity to
report on their own research. Speakers included Anthony Regan
on his Bougainville re- search, Greg Rawlings on the new real
estate boom in Vanuatu, and Sinclair Dinnen on state-building
in Melanesia. The event ended with a barbecue for Asia Pacific
Week 2007 participants, which was formally closed in an address
by the Solomon Is- lands’ High Com- missioner to Austra-
lia, the Hon. Victor Ngele. The High Commissioner’s full
speech can be viewed at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/melanesia/
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