ANU Events
A conference focusing on the changing role of emotion in social life and social theory will be held at the ANU from July 911. Prominent writers on the subject from the US, Europe and Australia, representing a range of disciplinary fields, will speak at the event which is being hosted by the Humanities Research Centre. Enquiries to Leena Messina on 249 2711.
A public lecture titled "State racism and the education of desires" will be presented by Professor Ann Laura Stoler, a visiting lecturer in History and Women's Studies from Michigan University, at 8pm on Friday June 28 at Manning Clark lecture theatre 2. Prof Stoler will describe how politics and racism helped shape concepts of sexuality and desire in 19th century Europe.
The Canberra School of Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition titled Fire and Light, displaying the work of pairs of Australian and Indian artists who each spent time in the other's country. Works by David Jensz (ACT), N N Rimzon (Delhi), Judith Wright (Brisbane) and Jayashree Chakravarty (Calcutta) are on display.
An exhibition featuring a diverse range of contemporary indigenous Australian art will be on display at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery until June 29. The exhibition, sponsored by Telstra, combines work by artists from remote central Australia and urban centres and is based at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The Gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday, noon till 5pm.
The 1997 ANU Chess Festival will be held from July 1620. The festival includes ACT Primary and Secondary Schools Championships, University Co-op Bookshop Simul, Department of Computer Science Carbon v Silicon Match and the ANU Open. Information is available on the Web site - http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Shaun.Press/anuadd97.html - or on 249 3434.
The Faculty of Science has called for submissions from individuals or groups for a review of the Division of Botany and Zoology. Submissions must be received before July 31. Enquiries to Ursula Boot on 249 3887.
Roderick West, chair of the Committee for the Review of Higher Education Policy and Financing, will present a public address on the future of higher education in Australia at the Canberra University Law Theatre on Monday June 30 at 4pm. The event will be hosted by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. An entry fee of $5 will be charged.
The John Curtin School of Medical Research library has been renamed the Sir John Eccles library, in honour of the Nobel laureate who was the foundation Professor Physiology at the School from 195166.
ANU People
Prof John White of the Research School of Chemistry has been awarded the 1997 H.G. Smith Medal by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. The medal recognises the most significant contribution to published research in chemical science in the previous 10 years and followed his work on x-ray scattering.
Prof Neil Trudinger, Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, was last month elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Prof Trudinger was one of the six foreign Fellows the Society is allowed to elect each year from "persons of the greatest eminence for their scientific discoveries and attainments". He was elected for his work on elliptic partial differential equations.
Dr Loofs-Wissowa, a Visiting Fellow and former Reader in the Southeast Asian Centre, has been named a Commandeur in the Order of the Palmes Academiques.
Prof Patricia Jalland of the Research School of Social Sciences' History program has won the first New South Wales Premier's Award for her book Death in the Victorian Family, published last year.
Kylie Catchpole of the Faculty of Engineering has been awarded a $63,000 award over three years from the Energy Research and Development Corporation for her project on Thin Multicrystalline Solar Cells.
Occupational Health and Safety Administrator Anvida Lamberts retired at the end of April after 35 years at the ANU. Mrs Lamberts joined the staff in 1962, working with Bob Horan, School Secretary to the RSPAS Director Sir John Crawford. She was on the organising committee to establish the first childcare centre at the university and expanded and maintained the Wellness Program after joining OH&S.
