ADI Publications
Professor John Powers delivered a paper entitled “Being a Mādhyamika Means More Than Just Arguing with Opponents: Purbuchok and Mikyö Dorje on Experience and Epistemic Instruments” at the International Association for East Asian Philosophy Conference at Meiji University in Tokyo on 15 December.
A/Prof Melinda Hinkson and A/Prof Thalia Anthony (UTS) published the essay Three shots in Arena Magazine no. 162, https://arena.org.au/three-shots-by-melinda-hinkson-and-thalia-anthony/
This is an expanded version of an essay that was published in The Guardian on 19 November: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/19/police-culture-must-be-examined-as-part-of-investigating-kumanjayi-walkers-death
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed has published an article in Politics and Religion, ‘Military, Authoritarianism and Islam: A Comparative Analysis of Bangladesh and Pakistan‘.
Dr Quanda (Samuel) Zhang has a new paper published in China Economic Review, ‘Income Inequality and subjective wellbeing: Panel data evidence from China‘.
Dr Timothy Neale and Dr Will Smith have edited a special section in the journal Cultural Studies Review titled ‘An Elemental Anthropocene’. Co-edited with Alison Kenner (Drexel University), the section features four articles from scholars who participated in the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne event that was held at Deakin University in September 2018 and supported by ADI. Amongst these articles is a new paper by Neale, Smith and Alex Zahara (Memorial University of Newfoundland) on the governance on wildfires past, present and future.
Enqi Weng has published her new book with Routledge, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia: Of Dominance and Diversity.
She also has a new journal article published in the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, ‘Through a National Lens Darkly: Religion as a Spectrum‘.
She has also taken on the role of co-convenor for the Sociology of Religion Thematic Group at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).
Dr Dara Conduit’s book The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2019) was reviewed in International Affairs as a ‘produced a timely and brilliantly written book on a critical actor in Syria.’ The review is available here.
Leanne Kelly has two recent publications as she awaits her PhD graduation with ADI.
Reid, C., Kelly, L. & Ervin, K. 2019. Doctors in secondary schools program: Implementation in a rural Victorian school, Rural and Remote Health, 19(4), 5524.
Kelly, L. 2019. Children’s opinions of retrospective pre-post ‘thentests’, Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 15(33): 54-65.
A journal article by Dr Alex Roginski about phrenology on the Maloga and Cummeragunja Missions appears in the latest issue of the History Australia journal.
Her review of an edited volume about coastal first contact in Australia also appears in the current issue of the Australian Book Review.
Dr James Barry received an Honorable Mention in the 2018-2019 Der Mugrdechian-Society for Armenian Studies Outstanding Book Award for his book Armenian Christians in Iran. Established in 2015, the Der Mugrdechian-SAS Outstanding Book Award recognises works that advance knowledge and scholarship on Armenian society, culture, and history from ancient times to the present.
Dr Ali Mozaffari has reflected on the killing of the Iranian Commander, Qassem Soleimani, concluding that “Iran as a civilizational idea has deep cultural, historical and familial roots in the region and may thus survive. But the Islamic Republic and its brand of identity and politics are likely to have a different fate.” See full article here.