ADI publications

Prof Emma Kowal, Dr Timothy Neale, and Dr Thao Phan have received the STS Infrastructures Award for their work on the Australasian STS grad network (AusSTS). The award recognises exemplary initiatives to build and maintain infrastructure supporting  Science and Technology Studies. It is awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), the world’s largest international STS professional association.

Following on from the successes of his two previous terms (2014-2021), Prof Benjamin Isakhan has been re-appointed Adjunct Senior Research Associate with the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is his third three year appointment (2021-2024) and will see Prof Isakhan work with colleagues at the University of Johannesburg on various projects as well as visit South Africa to give seminars, workshops and to foster and enhance their research culture and output.

Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto is appointed as Associate Editor of the Asian Congress for Media and Communication Journal.

Dr Jaya Keaney attended the international Material Life of Time conference that took place on 15-17th March (online), where she presented a paper titled “Time circles, developmental origins and epigenetics in Indigenous Australia.”

Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto co-wrote a situated, timely and reflective piece with Dr Maria Tanyag of the Australian National University. The article entitled “A murderous plague in the Philippines“, which critically examines the ongoing and intersecting crises in the Philippines, is published in New Mandala.

A/Prof Maurizio Meloni has presented (remotely) on “Galenism as Biopolitics: Manipulating the Milieu before European Modernity” at the conference Postgenomic Determinisms: Environmental Narratives after the Century of the Gene 25th  – 26th  March 2021, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Dr J. R. Latham’s research report from the ‘Experiences of LGBTIQA+ people with disability’ collaborative project with the Institute of Health Transformation (IHT) was recently launched by the Vice Chancellor and Victoria’s Commissioner for Gender and Sexuality, Ro Allen. A poster from the project is available to download here. Please do share amongst your colleagues and networks.

Prof Ihsan Yilmaz’s article “Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: necropolitics in Turkey” has now been published in Third World Quarterly. The article addresses the lack of engagement in the literature on the construction of populist narratives and especially on the relations between populist narratives and violence. Based on an empirically rich case study of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader President Recep T. Erdoğan, it shows that the populist narrative of the party and its leader is necropolitical as it is based on narratives of martyrdom, blood and death. The paper also shows that to maintain authoritarian stability, the incumbents instrumentalise these populist necropolitical narratives for repression, legitimation and co-optation. We analyse this complex case by combining the literatures on populism, necropolitics, politics of martyrdom and authoritarianism, and contribute to all of them.

Matteo J. Stettler, a Ph.D. student in Philosophy affiliated with the Philosophy and History of Ideas (PHI) research team of the ADI, presented at the 21st AECDO Conference organised by the Dominican University College, Ottawa, ON (on the theme ‘Ethics and the Good Life’) a paper by the title ‘Cicero’s Hortensius in the Christian Tradition: Lactantius and Augustine’s Apotreptics to Philosophy and Protreptics to Christianity.’ – Friday 26 March