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Don Niles »
Don Niles is Acting Director and Senior Ethnomusicologist of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. He is interested in research and publication on all types of music and dance in Papua New Guinea, including traditional, popular, and Christian forms. The author/editor of numerous books, articles, and audiovisual publications on various aspects of music, dance, and archiving, Don also edits the Institute’s music monograph series (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics) and journal (Kulele: Occasional Papers in Pacific Music and Dance). He is a vice president of the International Council for Traditional Music and former editor of their journal, the Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Alistair Noble »
Alistair Noble is an Australian-born pianist, composer and musicologist. He has performed extensively in recital around Australia, and made many broadcasts for the national (ABC) radio. As a chamber musician he has worked many fine performers, and as a piano duo performs regularly with his brother Colin Noble. He was a founding member of the ensemble Lachrymae Musarum (Sydney) and of the Newling Ensemble (Armidale). His compositions have been performed, recorded and broadcast in Australia and North America.
Alistair holds a PhD in composition and musicology, and is currently Head of Theory and a lecturer in Musicology at The Australian National University’s School of Music. Alistair’s primary research area is mid-20th century music, with a special focus on the work of Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe and Edgard Varèse.
Fadzilah Majid Cooke »
Fadzilah Majid Cooke is Associate Professor in Environmental Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) an appointment she has held since 2003. At UMS she was Head of the Ethnography and Development Research Unit from 2005 until 2008. Before joining UMS, from 1995 to 1997, she was a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. From 1998 to 2002, she won two fellowships, a postdoctoral at RMIT and a research fellowship at The Australian National University (2000 to 2001). She has undertaken research and published in the area of agricultural development, environmental change, customary land and the politics of civil society for close to 15 years starting with her PhD work at Griffith University. She has published nationally and in Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Gary P. Morriss »
Gary Morriss was born in Singleton, Australia in 1951. He obtained a B.Math. with first class honours in mathematics/physics at Newcastle University in 1976 and gained his Ph.D. in statistical mechanics from Melbourne University in 1980. After postdoctoral appointments at Cornell and ANU, he became a Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at ANU. In 1989 he was appointed as Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He is now a Professor in theoretical physics and serves as Undergraduate Director in the School of Physics. His research interests are statistical mechanics and dynamical systems.
Kirsty Gillespie »
is senior curator (anthropology) at the Museum of Tropical Queensland and a member of staff at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. She received her PhD from The Australian National University in 2008 for research into the music of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Kirsty is the author of Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (ANU E Press, 2010) amongst other publications. Since 2007 Kirsty has worked with the people of the Lihir Island Group, PNG, on a cultural heritage programme as they experience large-scale gold mining. In 2013 she co-curated the exhibition Musical Landscapes of Lihir at the University of Queensland (UQ) Anthropology Museum. Kirsty is also an honorary fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ.
P.G. Toner »
Peter Toner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a social anthropologist and ethnomusicologist who has conducted research and written on the relationship of music to sociality, ritual, and place in northern Australia; on digital audio, memory, and archival institutions; and on folk music and the invention of tradition in Atlantic Canada.
Bob Breen »
Bob Breen’s experience in first-hand research on international and regional peace support operations began in Somalia in 1993 and continued in Rwanda, the Middle East, Mozambique, Bougainville and East Timor periodically until 2002 when he began a PhD program at ANU, graduating in 2006. In 2007 he visited Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a review of Australian military force projection. In 2008 he published Struggling for Self Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s. In the same year he also co-authored a monograph for the Land Warfare Studies Centre, The world looking over their shoulders: Australian Strategic Corporals on Operations in Somalia and East Timor. He published two studies for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on meeting security challenges in the South Pacific and strengthening civil-military collaboration for responding to overseas emergencies in 2009 .
Currently, he is writing a volume of the official history of Australian peacekeeping in the South Pacific 1980-2006 and completing a manuscript on the Adaptive Army initiative 2007-2010.
Ryan Walter »
Dr Ryan Walter, author of A Critical History of the Economy, researches the relationship between politics and economic knowledge. He lectures in political theory at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.
Alan Rumsey »
Alan Rumsey first came to Australia in 1975 as a University of Chicago PhD student to study language and its relation to other aspects of social life among the Ngarinyin people in the Kimberley district of Western Australia. During 1978-95 he lectured in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. While continuing his work with Aboriginal people in the Kimberleys, since 1981 Rumsey has done his main research in the Ku Waru region in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, partly in collaboration with Francesca Merlan. Their work there has included projects on language and politics, verbal art, and child language socialization. In 1996 Rumsey joined the Anthropology Department in what is now the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, where he is a Professor and former Head of Department. In 2004 Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. During 2010-11 he served as President of the Australian Anthropological Society. He is currently heading a major, ARC funded comparative project on Children’s language learning and the development of intersubjectivity, with special focus on Ku Waru children’s interactions with adults and other children . Key publications include ‘Wording, meaning and linguistic ideology’ (American Anthropologist 90: 91:346-61, 1990); Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Francesca Merlan, 1991); ‘Agency, personhood and the ‘I’ of discourse in the Pacific and beyond’ (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6:101-115, 2000); Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands (ANU Press, co-edited with Don Niles, 2011); and ‘Intersubjectivity, deception, and the “opacity of other minds”: perspectives from Highland New Guinea and beyond’ (Language and Communication 33:326-43, 2013).
Richard Eves »
Richard Eves is an anthropologist who has published widely on issues of social change in Papua New Guinea. He is currently a Senior Fellow at State Society and Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University. In 2008, with Leslie Butt, he co-edited the ground-breaking volume Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia (2008), a collection of anthropological papers on how the epidemic is being understood and responded to in Melanesia. Most of his recent work deals with contemporary issues in Melanesia, straddling the boundaries between anthropology, development and international health, with a particular focus on gender, violence and the AIDS epidemic.