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 Latest Announcements
Socceroos v IRAQ
McCulloch Gallery, 13 November to 3 December
Research funding success for Globalism Institute
'Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality'
Australian report launch, 28 August
Publication of Local-Global, Volume Four
Hamilton: Food, Farming and Community
'Creating Community'
Report launch, 7 March
For further details about any of these announcements please contact Todd Bennet.
Socceroos v IRAQ
An exhibition of paintings by the Globalism Institute’s Les Morgan is now showing at McCulloch Gallery. ‘Socceroos v IRAQ’ is at the gallery at 8 Rankins Lane from 13 November to 3 December.
In Les’s words:
Driving through North Melbourne on the way to my studio I spotted a pub chalkboard and was intrigued by the words: ‘Socceroo’s V IRAQ, All Blacks V South Africa’. On the journey home I realised that the advertising board not only concerned the upcoming soccer and rugby games on the big screen, but appeared emblematic of my painting: highlighting the connections and disconnections of race and ‘terror’. My satirical bent on the social and political world, particularly the panic surrounding the so-called war on terror is combined somewhat incongruously with a painterly approach that interrogates the recent debacle and deportation of an Indian doctor for ‘recklessly supporting terror’.
For more information, visit the gallery website at www.mccullochgallery.com.au
Research funding success for Globalism Institute
Researchers at the Globalism Institute have been awarded more than $330,000 in grants in the latest Australian Research Council funding round.
Professor Paul James, Professor Manfred Steger and Peter Phipps were successful with their ARC Linkage Grant proposal, 'Globalizing Indigeneity: Indigenous Cultural Festivals and Wellbeing in Australia and the Asia-Pacific', and Professor James and Dr Anne McNevin were successful with their ARC Discovery Grant proposal, 'Irregular Migrants and Political Belonging in Global Cities'.
'Globalizing Indigeneity: Indigenous Cultural Festivals and Wellbeing in Australia and the Asia-Pacific' is a three-year project which will investigate cultural festivals as one of the few consistently positive spaces for indigenous communities to assert a more constructive view of themselves, both intergenerationally and as part of their struggle for respect as distinct cultures in the broader national community.
'Irregular Migrants and Political Belonging in Global Cities' is a three-year project which will investigate impacts of irregular migration in three cities in the Asia-Pacific region, and will draw on regional and Australian experiences of irregular migration to inform policy and political questions on these prominent issues of citizenship, migration and globalization.
'Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality' report launch
The Australian launch of the report, 'Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality: NGO and Agency Activity in Timor-Leste', took place in Melbourne on 28 August. The evening also saw the launch of the Timor-Leste research website, as well as an announcement regarding English training at RMIT for East Timorese women. The speakers were Gizela de Carvalho from NGO Feto Kiik Servisu Hamutuk (FKSH or Young Women Working Together, based in Dili), with the authors, Anna Trembath and Damian Grenfell from the Globalism Institute.
The report was launched in Dili, Timor-Leste, on 19 July. It includes essays, contact details and an extensive bibliography. It is available in both Tetun and English as a PDF file at www.timor-leste.org/gender/engagement.html.
Publication of Local-Global, Volume Four
The latest volume of the Globalism Institute journal, Local–Global, has recently been published. Volume Four includes a selection of articles, mainly based on
talks given at the Intercultural Food and Thought Mela held in Hamilton in February 2006. It also includes interviews and academically-reviewed research papers.
The volume is dedicated to Keith Warne, a well-loved community leader who played an integral part in the development of the RMIT Southern Grampians Shire community partnership and, later, in the establishment of the Local-Global research program. The volume also celebrates the work of Graham Pizzey, the well-regarded ornithologist and natural historian who continued his spectacular work on Australian birds while living near Dunkeld.
Local-Global is a collaborative international journal concerned with the resilience and difficulties of contemporary social life. It draws together groups of researchers and practitioners located in different communities across the world to critically address issues concerning the relationship between the global and the local.
Local–Global, Volume Four is available from the Globalism Institute. Please email Martin Mulligan to order a complimentary copy.
More information on Local-Global
'Creating Community' report launch
On March 7th, around 80 people attended the launch of a report on the community arts field and its social impacts. The report, titled 'Creating Community: Celebrations, Arts and Wellbeing Within and Across Local Communities', presents the outcomes of a study that spanned nearly four years and involved up to nine different researchers from the Globalism Institute. The research was conducted across the four Victorian communities centred on St Kilda, Broadmeadows, Daylesford and the Hamilton region in the western district. It can be described as the most far-reaching study yet undertaken in Australia on the community arts field and its social impacts.
In launching the report at the Global Learning Centre in Broadmeadows, the internationally-acclaimed performer and festival director Robyn Archer commended the authors for a full and frank analysis of the kinds of social impacts that authentic arts practices can have. She also expressed the view that the report should become a ‘manual’ for those who advocate for a better deal for the arts in Australia. Those attending the launch were enlivened by energetic performances by members of the Broadmeadows-based Anti-Racism Action Band (A.R.A.B.) and enjoyed food presented by members of Turkish Women’s Voice.
Download main report (1.05 mb)
Download supplement report:'Social Profiles of Local Communities' (335 kb)
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