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Patrik Oskarsson was awarded a PhD in the field of international development by the University of East Anglia in 2011. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Rural and Urban Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. His research focuses on Indian resource politics, environmental governance and industrial development. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration with civil society groups in India.
Since 1999, Associate Professor Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega has been teaching Anglophone literature with a particular focus on postcolonial Pacific studies at the University of French Polynesia, Tahiti. She has published a monograph and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific fiction, and is currently writing a monograph on Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors. She co-organised the first two Bounty International Festivals in Papeete, Tahiti (2013, 2015), and has given seminars on Nordhoff and Hall’s Bounty trilogy in Chicago (2014) and at the Universities of Hawai‘i and of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (2018).
Emma Dortins is a Sydney-based historian and cultural heritage practitioner. She was awarded a PhD in history by the University of Sydney in 2013. A member of the Professional Historians Association (NSW and ACT), she has worked as a consulting historian, tutored and lectured for the University of Sydney and University of New England, and is currently part of the Heritage Division of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.
Ruth Gamble is an environmental and cultural historian of the Himalaya and Tibet. She completed her PhD at ANU in 2014, and is now a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University, where she is researching the history of Tibet's rivers. While at ANU, she developed and taught its Tibetan Language courses in collaboration with Chung Tsering, Tenzin Ringpopontsang and Grazia Scotellaro.
Tenzin Ringpapontsang is the Executive Director of the Phagpa Foundation, which is developing education facilities in Mongolia. He has translated several books from English into Tibetan, and is a foundation member of the Lokaksi Translator Group, which translates Buddhist sutras from Tibetan into English as part of the 840000 project. He completed his PhD at ANU in 2016, and while at ANU helped taught and helped develop its Tibetan Language program.
Chung Tsering teaches Tibetan at the ANU, and helped develop its digital Tibetan program. Before coming to ANU he taught Tibetan at INALCO, a languages University in Paris, and worked as an editor and researcher in the Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration. He has published more than ten books, including several that were translations from English into Tibetan.
Juliet Meyer is a PhD candidate in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, CASS, ANU. Her primary research focus is bioarchaeology and forensic taphonomy, with further interests in all aspects of the archaeology of the Asia-Pacific region.
Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History and Theory at Monash University, and a photography historian. She is author of Photography, Truth and Reconciliation (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Language of Light and Dark: Light and Place in Australian Photography (McGill Queen’s University Press, 2015) and The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008).
Robin Gerster is Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is the author of the travel book Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (Melbourne University Press, 1999), and the cultural history of the Australian involvement in the post-war military occupation of Japan, Travels in Atomic Sunshine (Scribe, 2008).
Gerald Roche is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University. His research looks at issues of language endangerment, maintenance and revitalisation. He has conducted extensive research in Tibet, examining the predicament of the region’s minority languages. His recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization (Routledge, 2018) and Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Open Book Publishers, 2017).