Current Projects and Seminars

Postgraduate research seminars

The Australian Centre hosts a regular series of postgraduate seminars aimed at providing an informal, supportive and constructive intellectual environment for our postgraduates to present their research and exchange research and theoretical concerns. In addition, a full-day "Work-in-Progress" program, at which students present on issues of research and methodology, is held at the end of each year.

Australian Centre Postgraduate Seminars - Semester 2, 2006 All seminars on the second Tuesday of the month at 4.30pm in the back seminar room, 137 Barry St.

ALL WELCOME!

Enquiries: Sara Wills, 8344 9975 or s.wills@unimelb.edu.au

In addition, all postgraduate research students are very welcome to attend the Australian Centre staff seminar series: http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/public/seminars.html

Postgraduate research projects

The Australian Centre's rich diversity of interests is reflected in the research being conducted by its postgraduate students. Our postgraduates are working on a wide range of topics and in a variety of disciplines. Co-supervision with other faculties (for example, Faculty of Music, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning) and other departments within the Faculty of Arts is also possible.

COMPLETED WORK

PhD

• 2006 Jessica Carniel: The Coming-Of-Age of a Community: Gender, ethnicity, identity and Italian Australian film and literature as Bildungs romane
• 2006 Paul Fox: Clearings: six colonial gardeners and their landscapes
• 2006 Belinda Nemec: The Grainger Museum in its Museological and Historical Contexts
• 2005 Pamela Macintyre: Women Shaping Girls: Constance Mackness, educator and author
• 2005 Sarah Scott: Politics: Patronage and the Emergence of an Australian Art Tradition: Exhibitions of Australian Art in Europe, 1945-1965
• 2005 Sheridan Palmer: Intersections of Culture: European influences in the fine arts in Melbourne 1940-1960
• 2004 Sangeeta Sandrasegar:Modern heart and broken start - navigating the shadowlands of sexuality
• 2004 Elizabeth Hartrick: Consuming illusions: the magic lantern in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand 1850-1910
• 2003 Geert Lovink: The Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture
• 2003 Mustafa Rostom: An Examination of Intergenerational Ethnicultural Practices of Lebanese Sunni Muslim Individuals in Relation to the Family and the Broader Australian Community
• 2003 Peta Stephenson: Where are You From? Race and Ethnicity in Australian Imaginings of the Nation
• 2003 Barry O'Mahony: The Irish Contribution to Australian Culture: A Gastronomic Perspective
• 2002 Clare Wright: Ladies Lounge: Women and Pubs
• 2001 Leonarda Kovacic: A Historical Search for Gender and Women in Written Records and Material Culture of the Gumaroi

Masters

• 2004 Yohanes Hardati: Between fact and metaphor: a reading of William Dampier's and James Cook's exploration journals
• 2004 Noè Harsel: From Dock to Docklands: Changes in Melbourne's Urban Design
• 2004 Kiera Lindsey: Free Way: The Hume Highway as Spatial Narrative
• 2004 Mytoan H. Nguyen: Memory, Politics, and Identity: The settlement experiences of the Chilean Left in Australia 1973-2003
• 2003 Robin Lucas: The Diaries of Nettie Palmer
• 2003 Deborah Salter: The Child in Australian Painting 1815-1959
• 2003 Sabra Thorner: Self-centering Aboriginalities: An examination of three Aboriginal cultural centres in South-Eastern Australia
• 2001 Inna Zaitseva: Refugee Policy in Australia, 1945-2000
• 2001 Melanie Frey: Australian Literature: Narrative and Identity

Postgraduate Diploma

• 2004 Yohanes Hardati: Alienation of the Post-colonial Subjects
• Wayne Knoll: The Frontier Birth of Australia in the Life and Thought of Joseph Tice-Gellibrand Masters

WORK IN PROGRESS

PhD

• Deb Anderson: Drought in a Sunburnt Country. Reinventing the Australian Climate
• Jeannine Baker: Australian women war correspondents
• Joy Braddish: South-Asian Disapora in the West: Dialogism or Domination?
• Kelly Butler: History, memory and contemporary Australian fiction
• Jane Button: The significance of photography in the contemporary world and its uniqueness/distinctiveness as a cultural practice.
• Peter Collingwood: Space Without Place? The Spatial Politics of Commercial Radio in Australia
• Ian Kieran Crichton:Music in the University of Melbourne
• Gary Foley: Our best friends are our worst enemies: the road to native title: Aborigines and the AP 1973-1993
• Wendy Garden: The Empire Strikes Back: The Poetics of Self Representation in Photographs from India and Australia
• Vivian Gerrand: A Comparative Cultural Study of Recent Immigration to Italy and Australia
• Jillian Graham: (Co-supervision with Music): Composing Biographies of Five Australian Women: Motherhood, Marriage and Music
• Olivia Guntarik: Indigeneity and the Mainstream: The politics of museum display
• Kirsty Harris: Not Just 'Routine Nursing': The roles and skills of the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I
• Palmina Iacobelli: Unnatural acts: reading the 'wog phenomenon' (1987-2003) in post-colonial Australia
• Felicity Jensz: Collecting Cultures: The Moravian Missionaries in South-Eastern Australia
• Andrea Lemon: Circus in Australia: 1920s to present day
• Moya McFadzean: The Glory Box: Marriage, migration and material culture, 1930-1960
• Simeon Moran: Ordinary white: the (re)production of race in middle Australia
• Les Morgan: The Significance of Diaspora Aesthetics
• Vivienne Nicholson: Grassroots Democracy: Assumption or reality?
• Sybil Nolan: Robert Menzies and The Age: A relationship in liberalism
• Jana Paschen: Writing the Land
• Carla Pascoe: "Childhood in 1950s Australia"
• Karen Pickering: The cultural politics of the New Right in Australia
• Jane Poynter: Landslide: Exploring the slippage between geographical representation and memory in narratives about the Australian landscape
• Natalia Radywyl: The spatial impact of digital technology on contemporary art and new art institutions
• Moira Rayner: Political, social and ethical constraints and opportunities for the participation of children and young people in Australian public decision-making
• Heather Sheard: The milk of human kindness: The life and vision of Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown
• Annette Shiell: All the Fun of the Fete
• Georgia Shiells: Space, history telling and citizenship: indigenous and immigrant engagement with museums in Australia
• Kathy Temin: The Process of Identification
• Kristy Yeats: The New Left movement in Australia 1956-1975

Masters

• Fiona Kinsey: In Focus: Women, cycling and photography in late 19th Century Australia
• Catherine Nicholls: Characterising Australian Children's Animation
• Chelsea Rodd: A comparative study of policy and media representation of refugees under the Liberal governments of Malcolm Fraser and John Howard
• Peter Stell: Sexual gender study of dance theatre history of Australia