2012 CCG News
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CCG Welcomes Principal Research Fellow
Fast track your research - applications now open for 2013 Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowships
CCG's Professor David Walker awarded title of Alfred Deakin Professor
CCG Welcomes New Research Fellow
New Book - Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging
New Book - Catholics and Catholicism in Contemporary Australia: Challenges and Achievements
Special Seminar - Racism in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization - 7 March
CCG Book Launch - 15 February
Dr Michele Lobo - Double Booked!
PhD scholarship at CCG
CCG Welcomes Principal Research Fellow
CCG welcomes the appointment of A/Professor Danny Ben-Moshe as a Principal Research Fellow within CCG in charge of grants developments and research partnerships. Danny comes to CCG from VU where he held previously the position of Director Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives (ICEPA) from 2011-08 and then the Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (2008-12). He is currently the lead Chief Investigator on a three year $388,000 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant ‘The Nature of Transnationalism: Linkages and Identity of diasporas in Australia’.
In addition to working on his own projects, Danny will assist CCG members in their research and grants development activities especially those from industry and philanthropic organisations and to facilitate collaborative partnerships with external bodies.
Fast track your research - applications now open for 2013 Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowships
Applications are now open for Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2013.
The Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowships were established to support excellence in research undertaken in areas of research strength at Deakin University.
The Fellowships are designed to support early career researchers.
Applicants must have an outstanding track record relative to opportunity in order to be short-listed.
Successful applicants are expected to be based full-time at the University for the duration of the Fellowship and will be supervised by a University staff member.
A Deakin University staff member may only supervise one 2013 Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow but may supervise existing Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellows.
Read how Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellows have succeeded at CCG.
CCG's Professor David Walker awarded title of Alfred Deakin Professor
CCG's Professor David Walker was recently awarded the title of Alfred Deakin Professor, in recognition of his achievements and contribution to the University. The title of Alfred Deakin Professor is the highest honour that Deakin (via its Council) can bestow upon its academic staff members and it is testament to the calibre of awarded staff.
Professor Walker commenced at Deakin University in 1991 as Chair in Australian Studies. He is widely published, specialising in the historical examination of Australian responses to Asia. He has long been recognised, in Australia and internationally, as a leading cultural historian and has contributed to the development of Australian Studies programs in universities in Indonesia, China and Japan.
Prior to joining Deakin University Professor Walker graduated from Adelaide University with an honours degree in History. He completed his PhD in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1972. He lectured in History at Auckland University before moving to the History Department at the University of New South Wales in 1977, serving as Head of the School of History in 1990.
In 1997/98 Professor Walker held the Monash Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. In 2001 he was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in 2005 he was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Since 2005 he has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Renmin University, Beijing.
In 2010 Professor Walker held the ‘Distinguished Visiting Chair of Australian Studies’ at the University of Copenhagen and he received the Deakin University Award for Research Excellence.
Professor Walker’s book, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939, has received much attention and recognition since its publication in 1999; it was awarded the Ernest Scott prize for the best history of Australia or New Zealand published in 1999/2000 and Professor Walker has subsequently been awarded two ARC Discovery Grants for two further volumes of this study.
In 2011 Professor Walker’s latest book, Not Dark Yet: A Personal History, was published; it is a memoir about the history of his family from the time of their settlement in South Australia in the late nineteenth century. He has also signed a contract for a new co-edited publication to appear later this year.
The CCG team congratulates Professor Walker on this prestigious achievement.
CCG Welcomes New Research Fellow
In March 2012, CCG welcomed Dr Anna Halafoff to the Centre as a Research Fellow. Prior to coming to CCG, Anna was a lecturer at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, and a researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific, at Monash University (2005-2012).
Anna holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology (Monash University), Master of Letters, Peace Studies (University of New England) Graduate Diploma in Education (University of New England) and a Bachelor of Arts (University of Melbourne). Anna’s current and recent research projects/interests include: intercultural and interreligious relations; cosmopolitan governance; multiculturalism; community engagement and countering violent extremism; religions and beliefs (worldviews) education; and Buddhism in Australia.
In 2011, Anna was named a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Global Expert in the fields of multifaith relations, and religion and peacebuilding.
New Book - Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging
Sensational reporting by the media has led to attitudes that racialise Muslims and frame them as potential threats to national security, placing them outside the circle of trustworthy citizenship. Muslims in the West are increasingly confronted with the pressure of conforming to dominant core values and accepting ‘mere tolerance’ from society, or else risk exclusion and even hostility when exercising their rights to maintain diverse cultural norms and religious practices.
Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging offers not only rigourous accounts of current difficulties, but also new thinking and deeper understanding about race relations and intercultural engagement in multicultural societies. It explores the increasing visibility of Muslim migrants in the West and the implications this has for multicultural co-existence, cultural representations, belonging and inclusive citizenship.
About the Editors
Fethi Mansouri is director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and holds a chair in Migration and Intercultural Relations, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University. He is the author and editor of many books. In 2004, his book Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees under Temporary Protection was short-listed for the Human Rights Medals and Awards.
Vince Marotta is a senior lecturer in sociology at Deakin University, the managing editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies and co-convener of the Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism thematic group within the Australian Sociological Association. In 2011 he edited a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies on virtual ethnicities and co-edited the book Intercultural Relations in a Global World.
Published by Melbourne University Press
New Book - Catholics and Catholicism in Contemporary Australia: Challenges and Achievements - Edited by Dr Abe Ata
Over the last 60 years, the Catholic community in Australia has undergone dramatic changes. The outcome of these changes in society and the Church is that today’s Catholic community looks very different from that of the 1950s. Mass attendance rates have fallen; the number of priests, sisters and brothers is declining and their average age is increasing. The relationship between clergy and people has changed. Old forms of devotion like the Rosary have nearly disappeared but there has been a growth of interest in alternative forms of prayer borrowed from a variety of cultures and traditions. An array of leadership roles has been filled by lay people, and lay people (by no means all Catholics) comprise virtually the entire staff at Catholic schools and the majority of students at Catholic theological colleges. Researcher Robert Dixon comments: 'Some Catholics see these changes as a tragedy but most regard them as welcome evidence of a Church prepared to adapt to meet changing circumstances. Yet the changes that have taken place have primarily been changes in rules and practices. The Church's teachings have been re-interpreted in the light of modern understandings of history sociology the sciences and other fields of human endeavour, and then re-expressed in language more suitable for the times.' This project brings together scholarly perspectives from around the country and internationally and across disciplines whereby the authors explore how a stream of spiritualties and identities express themselves. The authors show ways in which the Church and others are engaged in efforts to restructure institutions, beliefs and practices to effect social change.
This is a book for all who are interested in the present status and the possible future direction of the Catholic Church in Australia.
Dr Abe Ata was born in Bethlehem of Palestinian-Lebanese Christian parents. He graduated in psychology at the American University and was nominated as a delegate to the United Nation's World Youth Assembly in New York. He immigrated to Australia in 1972 and shortly afterwards was employed at Melbourne University where he completed his doctorate in 1980. Since then he has taught in several Australian, American, Jordanian, West Bank and Danish universities and he was an Honorary Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. His publications span 15 books and 95 refereed articles, including The West Bank Palestinian Family (1986), Bereavement and Heath in Australia (1996), Australia's Christian-Muslim intermarriages (2003); Catholic and other Christian Intermarriages in Australia (2005) and Us and Them: Christian Muslim Relations in Australia (2009). Dr Ata is currently a Visiting Research Fellow within the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation.
Published by David Lovell Publishing
Racism in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization
with Professor Philomena Essed
March 7 2012 12pm, The Blue Room
RSVP Essential by COB 1 March - RSVP now
Abstract
The European unification has been foremost a project of whiteness. Notions of tolerance, multiculturalism and antiracism, somewhat popular in the 1980s, have all but disappeared from political agendas. The turn of the century has been witness to the emergence of what I call entitlement racism: the idea that majority populations have the right to offend and to humiliate the ‘Other’. Expressions of this form of racism vary according to racial, ethnic and religious group attributions and can range from assimilative paternalism to extreme cultural humiliation. The Netherlands is a case in point.
Discover more about the event, including information about Professor Essed's professional background on our event website.
CCG Book Launch
CCG will host a book launch for two recent publications Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Relations in a Global World at 12:30pm on the 15 February in C2.05.
The event will include special guests, Deakin University Vice Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander, Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Brenda Cherednichenko and Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Dr B Hass Dellal OAM. 
Visit our event website to view details of the publications including abstracts, reviews and information about the editors.
For more information, or to RSVP to the event email CCG.
Read from Dr Michele Lobo's about her double book launch here.
PhD scholarship at CCG
Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, is currently inviting outstanding candidates to apply for a PhD scholarship to be undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) project.
Since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has suffered an extraordinary era of both heritage destruction and devastating spikes in violence. The core aim of this project is to empirically test the assumption that a significant relationship exists between these two phenomena. To do this, the project will develop the world's first database of heritage destruction in Iraq via interviews, archival research and fieldwork. This database will then be correlated with existing measures of violence in Iraq to determine the precise nature of their relationship. This will set the precedent for studies of both heritage and violence and enable policy formation towards the minimization of heritage destruction and spikes in violence during times of conflict.
The project aims are:
- Developing the world's first database that documents, over a crucial almost nine-year period (2003-11), the destruction of heritage in Iraq.
- Examining whether or not, and to what extent, a significant relationship exists between the heritage destruction documented in this database, and spikes of violence as documented in existing and reliable measures such as the Iraq Body Count database.
- Setting a significant precedent in studies of both heritage and violence by providing innovative methods that can then be applied to other contexts (past, present or future) in which the destruction of cultural heritage and violence occur simultaneously - and to thereby enable policy formation that minimises (or prevents altogether) heritage destruction and spikes in violence during times of conflict.
For more information including eligibility requirements, visit our website.
