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Arnan Wiesel »
Pianist Arnan Wiesel is a former head of keyboard at The Australian National University’s School of Music in Canberra. With Alice Giles he devised the Antarctica and Music celebration at the School of Music to commemorate the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14.
Rupert Summerson »
Rupert Summerson, an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, is a scientist and musician who researches wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica. He has had a long association with Antarctica, spending three winters there.
Anna Kenny »
Anna Kenny is a consultant anthropologist who has been based in Alice Springs for 25 years and was an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University between 2012 and 2016. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory since 1991, as well as in Queensland and Western Australia, and has written many connection reports for native title claims that have supported successful native title determinations. She is the author of a book on Carl Strehlow’s ethnography, The Aranda’s Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow’s Masterpiece Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (1907–1920) and co-edited with Nic Peterson German Ethnography in Australia. Currently, she is working on several native title claims and a monograph on T.G.H. Strehlow’s anthropology called Shadows of a Father.
Bettina Arndt »
Bettina Arndt trained as a clinical psychologist before becoming well known as one of Australia’s first sex therapists. As editor of Forum magazine, she taught medical students, doctors and other professionals and worked in the media educating the public about this fascinating subject.
She then moved on to writing about broader social issues, working as a columnist and feature writer for leading newspapers and magazines. As a respected social commentator she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from family law to childcare and ageing.
In 2010 she published the best-selling book, The Sex Diaries, based on research involving couples keeping diaries showing how they negotiate their sex supply. The sequel – What Men Want – was published in late 2010. She is currently enjoying speaking about her new research to audiences across Australia and overseas.
Peter Drake »
Peter Drake graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1962. Heinz Arndt supervised his PhD studies at The Australian National University which were completed in 1966. In his career as an academic economist Peter became expert on monetary systems and financial development, working on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Pacific island economies. His books include Financial Development in Malaya and Singapore (1969); Money, Finance and Development (1980); Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia (2004). Peter was Professor of Economics, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of New England, Armidale, before becoming the founding Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University in 1991. In 2003 he was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia in recognition of his contributions to university leadership, the study of economics and the delivery of overseas aid.
Howard Morphy »
Howard Morphy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.
Prior to returning to ANU in 1997, he held the chair in Anthropology at University College London. Before that he spent ten years as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He is an anthropologist of art and visual anthropologist.
He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art with a monograph of Yolngu Art, Ancestral Connections (Chicago 1991), Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) and most recently Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (Berg, 2007). He has also produced a pioneering multimedia biography The Art of Narritjin Maymuru with Pip Deveson and Katie Hayne (ANU Press 2005). He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film Australia and has curated many exhibitions including Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia. With Frances Morphy he helped prepare the Blue Mud Bay Native Title Claim which as a result of the 2008 High Court judgement recognised Indigenous ownership of the waters over the intertidal zone under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act.
His involvement in e-research and in the development of museum exhibitions reflects his determination to make humanities research as accessible as possible to wider publics and to close the distance between the research process and research outcomes.
David W. Lovell »
David Lovell is a Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales at ADFA. During 2004 he was Acting Rector of UNSW@ADFA, and in 2008 he was Deputy Rector. He gained his doctorate in the field of the History of Ideas, and his major research interests are in the problems of democratisation. In 1992 he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and in 1993 was Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is co-editor of its journal, The European Legacy. He is also a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He initiated the University’s links with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies in 2001, and has forged university links with Manipal University, India, and Airlangga University, Indonesia. During 2005 he was a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Europe Centre and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and concurrently held a visiting professorship at the European Information Centre in Berlin. In 2005 he was invited to the EU’s ‘A Soul for Europe’ initiative in Budapest, and in 2006 he spoke at the Beijing Forum on harmony and governance. He has written or edited more than a dozen books on topics including Australian politics, communist and post-communist systems, and the history of ideas. His most recent publications include: The Transition: Evaluating the postcommunist experience (edited, 2002); Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges (edited, 2003; second edn 2004); Freedom and Equality in Marx’s Utopia (edited, special issue of The European Legacy, 2004); Our Unswerving Loyalty: A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920-1940 (with K. Windle, edited, 2008); and Protecting Civilians during Violent Conflict: Theoretical and practical issues for the 21st Century (with I. Primoratz, edited, forthcoming 2011).
John Gillespie »
John Gillespie is a Professor in Law and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group at Monash University. His research interests include Asian comparative law, law and development theory and ethnographic research. His current work concerns land dispute mediation in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has also consulted for a wide range of international donors such as the World Bank, UNDP, IFC, Danida and Asia Foundation on legal development projects in East Asia. Recent book publications include (with Fu Hualing eds) Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia: Exploring the Limits of Law, 2014; (with Michael Dowdle and Imelda Maher eds.,) Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law ‘Competition, Regulation and Capitalism Lessons from Asia’ (2013); and (with Pip Nicholson eds.,) Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (2012).
Wee Ho Lim »
Born in Sarawak, Wee Ho Lim holds a first class honours degree in Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and is currently undertaking a PhD degree at The Australian National University in Ecohydrology and Environmental Physics.
Michael L. Roderick »
Michael Roderick was born in Queensland and holds a B.App.Sc (Surveying) from the Queensland University of Technology, a post-graduate diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Remote Sensing from Curtin University of Technology. He has been a researcher at The Australian National University since 1996. His research speciality is water, on topics ranging from plant cells to catchment hydrology to the global water cycle.