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Crosscurrents
30 September 2022

Pacific island nations suffered severe depopulation from introduced diseases as a consequence of contact with European vessels, a new study led by ARC Future Fellow Professor Geoffrey Clark and PhD Candidate Phillip Parton
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Every two years, the ANU Mongolia Institute sponsors a Mongolia Update. These Updates aim to inform the public about Mongolia’s social, political and environmental factors. This year, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Mongolia in 2022, the Update was held in Ulaanbaatar.
Dr Natasha Fijn provides an update. Read More
In the News

Britain used to rule a quarter of the world. What happened?



In a recent ABC feature, CHL's Dr Meera Ashar talks about the journey and evolution of colonial India and why there have been such mixed reactions in India to the Queen’s passing.   

Ukraine has scored ‘a major breakthrough’ but the war in Europe is far from over, experts say

CHL Visiting Fellow Dr Leonid Petrov recently spoke on Channel 7’s ‘The Latest’ program about how concerned Australia should be by India’s presence at the Vostok War Games, a major military exercise also involving China and Russia.   

It's hay fever season… or is it? We bust 5 hay fever myths


CHL Director Professor Simon Haberle spoke to ABC radio Sydney recently about hay fever and the best way to handle the hay fever season.    

2,300-year-old skeleton unearthed in HCM City 

CHL's Dr Hsiao Chung Hung has spoken to Vietnamese media outlets about a 2,300-year-old human skeleton found in Ho Chi Minh City.   
Congratulations to Ying Xin Show on being awarded a DECRA!

Ying Xin was recently awarded a DECRA to the value of $421,000 for her project titled Un/making homeland: Sinophone literature and Cold War culture in Malaya. Her project aims to advance understanding of Cold War culture and decolonisation through Chinese diaspora experience and literature. By unearthing a corpus of underexplored archives, using literary analysis and ethnography, this interdisciplinary project offers the first comprehensive study of Sinophone literature and print culture in Cold War Malaya. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of how Chinese diaspora writers claim subjecthood amidst anti-communist violence in Southeast Asia, which will shed light on the complex interplay of geopolitics, literature and identity. Overall, this project benefits Australian understanding of Chinese diaspora responses to global superpower rivalry during the ‘old’ Cold War amidst a similar phenomenon today.
Video Spotlight

Murrindyarr-yaba Seminar Series
Genomics, consumer DNA testing, and personal reconnections

 
The recording of the second seminar from the signature CHL Murrindyarr-yaba Seminar Series, hosted by the CHL Murrindyarr-yaba ECR Collective, just went live. If you missed the discussion before, you can watch it now. 

CHL's Dr Ray Tobler introduces the basic scientific principles used to reconstruct human history and ancestry from genetic data and discuss how his colleagues and he have applied these methods to investigate the deep history of Indigenous Australians stretching back ~50,000 years. Watch Video
Events

Anthropology Seminar Series 2022 
25 July–25 October 2022, 3:00pm–4:00pm

The cross-campus seminar series in anthropology has returned with a new set of seminars!
Check out the lineup on the event website

These seminars are online, free and open to all, with no registration required. You can join the seminars via Zoom.

Lu Yang's Screen Bodies
29 August–16 December 2022, 9am–5pm

Screen Bodies is a solo exhibition by Lu Yang, one of the most highly acclaimed new media artists in China today. Part of a generation of artists who grew up with digital technologies, Lu Yang works in a range of digital forms from motion capture performances to video games, 3D animation, virtual reality, and augmented reality.

Seminar with Dr Haji Oh
5 October 2022 
4:30pm–6:00pm (AEST)


Dr Haji Oh is a third-generation Zainichi Korean contemporary artist born in Japan, currently residing in Australia. She has participated in exhibitions all across Japan and abroad. In this seminar, Dr Haji Oh will share insights into the politics, the untold memories and histories of the Zainichi experience embodied in her textiles and weaving practice. 
She will be joined PhD candidate Soo-Min Shim whose research revolves around contemporary arts of the Korean diaspora.

Register here.


CHL HDR Symposium 
6 October 2022, 10:00am–4:00pm (AEST)

CHL presents its Annual Symposium to bring the
School's HDR community together. This year is all about sharing the varied modes of travel and articulating things seen, felt, and learnt along the way. The theme is inspired by the way rivers widen and bough more deeply the older their routes are. It is about how weaving is both social and creative – at times fiddly and at others a flow – layered to make a tapestry, a basket, a blanket: to embrace stories, people and the rest. 

Register here.

CUT: Deconstructing the Yoga Pant
Cultural Creativity and Research in Asia and the Pacific: A CHL Flagship Program
7 October 2022, 1:00pm–2:30pm (AEST)

The yoga pant has become an iconic piece of clothing in many parts of the world, signalling an uneven meeting point between the practice of yoga and the imperatives of neoliberal self-perfection. This workshop explores the politics of the yoga pant by examining how stretchy fabric promotes gendered and cultural ideologies of flexibility that may conceal surprising rigidities.

For more information, click here. Register here.

Scarface Yosaburo (与話情浮名横櫛)
ANU Za Kabuki
7–9 October 2022, Fri & Sat 6:00pm; Sun 12:00pm (AEST)

This October, the Southern Hemisphere's oldest Kabuki troupe will present its first 45th annual performance and its first live in-theatre performance in two years! 

Scarface Yosaburo (与話情浮名横櫛) narrates the journey of Otomi, a mistress of a powerful gang boss Akama Genzaemon, and the adopted son of a wealthy shop owner Yosaburo. What happens when ex-lovers who still love each other, believe that the other has already moved on?


For tickets and timings, click here.

Indonesian Film Night: Semesta: Islands of Faith
12 October 2022, 5:30pm–8:00pm (AEST)

Balai Bahasa Indonesia (ACT), in conjunction with CHL and the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, will host this Indonesian Film Night featuring the 2018 documentary film, Semesta (Islands of Faith).

This is the first public screening of Semesta in Canberra.  

Through the lens of faith and culture across Indonesia’s vast archipelago, Semesta documents the story of seven individuals’ struggle to adapt to climate change and their efforts to lead their communities in the face of growing environmental challenges. 


Registration is essential. 

LCNAU Seventh Biennial Colloquium: Looking back, moving forward: New directions and challenges in languages and cultures 
28–30 November 2022
4:30pm–6:00pm (AEST)


The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) addresses some of the big issues confronting the discipline of languages and cultures within the Australian tertiary sector. This year’s event provides academics, scholars and educators with the opportunity to reflect on the changes, challenges and innovations that have occurred since its first national colloquium in 2011. Early bird rates are available until 3 October 2022. 


Register here
WHS Corner

World Mental Health Day – ANU wellbeing program
(10–15 October 2022) 

 
World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October annually. This year, ANU has put together a series of wellbeing activities for staff and students to enjoy,  including  yoga, jujutsu, free-movie screenings and more. All activities are open to friends and families as well.

Register now!

Wearing a mask while on campus



ANU still requires that masks be worn indoors for the foreseeable future. You must wear a mask indoors on campus. This applies in all teaching spaces and work areas. 

There are only a limited number of exceptions when you can remove your mask, which can read about here.  
Announcements
The Facilities and Services Division has just launched its new Services Hub, located at Shop 1.27 underneath Chifley Library.

This will be an exciting new liaison space for increased accessibility to our Kambri and Commercial Services Teams. There are also plans in the works for a variety of security, administrative and parking services to be catered from the Hub during various time periods throughout the week. More information will follow shortly. 
 
The Information Technology Service Hub is located at Shop 1.26 underneath Chifley Library. This ITS Shopfront will enable in-person staff and student support services through bookings made here.  
 
A third services hub is progressing and more information will be available shortly.
These new services hubs aim to increase accessibility to centralised services.
Important Announcement on CHL Publications

We have a new functional mailbox dedicated to all
publications-related submissions and queries.

Going forward, please address any emails for CHL
publications to
publications.chl@anu.edu.au.

We will no longer be using
communicate.chl@anu.edu.au for this purpose.
If you are interested in supporting the work and research of our School, you can now donate to the School of Culture, History & Language fund here.
Reconciliation Australia News and Publications

Reconciliation Australia is the lead body for reconciliation in Australia. They inspire and build relationships, respect and trust between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. 
You can access relevant publications of Reconciliation Australia here.

We aspire to take your stories and experiences to the wider audience, be it at CHL, CAP, ANU or even beyond. And who better to tell these stories than the people at the heart of it?

We want to hear from you about your research, study, observations, field experiences and lots more! You can share these in any form you like, either through an article, a feature, prose or poetry, through images and captions, and even phone videos. Alternatively, have a conversation with us and we can help write your stories for you.

Let’s collaborate. Reach out and keep us informed! Email communicate.chl@anu.edu.au.

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