HRC Visiting Fellows for 2004

Professor David SAUNDERS, Faculty of Arts, Griffith University, Historicising Juridification. (1 February 2004 to 28 February 2004). Email: d.saunders@mailbox.gu.edu.au

Professor Marilyn LAKE, History Program, La Trobe University: On Being a White Man, Australia, c.1900. (8 March 2004 to 7 May 2004). Email: m.lake@latrobe.edu.au

Professor Pnina WERBNER, School of Social Relations, Keele University: A comparison of Contemporary Sufi Cults in South Asia and Indonesia. (8-28 April 2004). Email: p.werbner@keele.ac.uk

Dr Tony DAY, Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Literature, identity, and freedom in postcolonial Indonesia. (12 April 2004 to 16 May 2004). Email: dayweiss@prodigy.net

Professor Vera MACKIE, Centre for Research and Graduate Studies, Division of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology: Globalisation and the Body: Asia-Pacific Perspectives. (13 April – 31 August 2004). Email: v.mackie@exchange.curtin.edu.au

A/Professor Barbara CREED, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne: The Darwinian Screen: Race and Nation in Australia and the Pacific. (1 May 2004 to 30 June 2004). Email: b.creed@finearts.unimelb.edu.au

Dr Jeanette HOORN, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne: The Darwinian Screen: Race and Nation in Australia and the Pacific. (1 May 2004 to 30 June 2004). Email: j.hoorn@finearts.unimelb.edu.au

Dr Stephen CHAN, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University: Mapping the Global Popular: An analytical framework for Hong Kong culture. (7 June 2004 to 18 August 2004). Email: sckchan@in.edu.hk

Professor Helen TIFFIN, Research Professor of Post-Colonial Studies, Queen’s University: The Wild Man from Borneo: Species, Race and Representation. (27 June 2004 to 20 July 2004).

Dr Po-Keung HUI, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University: The Making of a Communal Economic Subject - A Comparative Study on the Community Currency Projects in Hong Kong and Australia. (2 July 2004 to 4 August 2004). Email: pkhui@ln.edu.hk

Dr Danielle TRANQUILLE, Department of French, University of Mauritius: Representation of the Indian Ocean in travelogues. A Reading of 18^th and 19^th Century Travelogues. (13 July 2004 to 10 September 2004). Email: dtranq@intnet.mu

Dr Koichi IWABUCHI, International Studies Division, International Christian University: Reimagining the "national" through intersections between the "transnational" and the "multicultural" in Japan. (16 August 2004 to 13 September 2004). Email: iwabuchi@icu.ac.jp

Associate Professor Anjali ROY, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology: Globalizing Post-Colonialism: Rethinking Resistance. (23 August 2004 to 8Novemver 2004). Email: agera_99@yahoo.com

Dr Judith SNODGRASS, Centre for Cultural Research, Asian History and Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney: Buddhism in Australia: Asian participation in the formation of Australian cultures. (6 September 2004 to 23 November 2004). Email: j.snodgrass@uws.edu.au

Professor Clive EMSLEY, Department of History, The Open University: Crime, control and the European nation state c.1750-1950. (7 October 2004 to 11 December 2004). Email: c.emsley@open.ac.uk

Professor Jon SIGURDSON, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics: Culture and Technological Change in China's Political Posters. (1 October – 18 November 2004). Email: jon.sigurdson@hhs.se

Professor Neville KIRK, Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University: Nation, Empire, Class and Race in the History of Relations between Britain and Australia, 1901 to the present. (11 October 2004 to 31 December 2004). Email: n.kirk@mmu.ac.uk

Professor Shunya YOSHIMI, Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, University of Tokyo: "Americanization” and the Politics of Cultural Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region. (21-27 October 2004). Email: shunya443@aol.com

HRC Sabbatical Fellows for 2004

Dr Kathryn ROBINSON, Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU: Cultures, Native, Identities and Migrants. (1 March – 21 May 2004). Email: kathryn.robinson@anu.edu.au

Dr Caroline HUGHES, School of Politics, University of Nottingham: The Politics of Community in Post-Intervention Societies: Responses to Internationally Promoted Regime Change in Cambodia and East Timor. (8 March 2004 to 23 August 2004). Email: caroline.hughes@nottingham.ac.uk

Mr Kiyoshi KOJIMA, Managing Editor, Iwanami Shoten Publishers: Formation of knowledge of Asia in Japan after World War II. (4 October 2004 to 28 November 2004). Email: kojima@iwanami.co.jp 

Visiting Fellows Biographies

Lake, Professor Marilyn
History Department, La Trobe University
Dates: 8 March 2004 to 7 May 2004
Research Proposal: On Being a White Man, Australia, c.1900.

Professor Marilyn Lake holds a Personal Chair in History at Latrobe University. Between 2001 and 2002 she held the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University. She has also taught at Monash University and the University of Melbourne and held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Western Australia and Stockholm University. She has published both in Australia and overseas in a broad range of fields, including the history of feminism, racial and gendered citizenship, nationalism and sexuality and the impact of World Wars 1 and 2. Her work has appeared in international anthologies and leading journals. She was twice invited to address the International Congress of Historical Sciences, in Montreal (1995) and Oslo (2000). Recent books include Getting Equal The history of feminism in Australia (Allen and Unwin,1999), FAITH Faith Bandler Gentle Activist (Allen and Unwin, 2002) and Women's Rights and Human Rights International Historical Perspectives co-edited with Patricia Grimshaw and Katie Holmes (Palgrave, 2001). She is a Fellow of the Australian Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Day, Dr Tony
Senior Associate of the Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dates: 12 April 2004 to 16 May 2004
Research Proposal: Literature, identity, and freedom in postcolonial Indonesia

Tony Day grew up in Washington D.C., U.S.A. He received a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Cornell University in 1981. He has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, for the Bureau Indonesische Studien at the University of Leiden, and, for twenty years, at the University of Sydney where he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies. His publications include Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia (U. of Hawaii Press, 2002) and a volume of essays edited with Keith Foulcher, Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature (KITLV Press, 2002). He is currently a Senior Associate of the Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a visiting lecturer in Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at the same university. His present projects are a book on postcoloniality, modern Indonesian literature and the project of a "world literature" with Keith Foulcher and a book entitled Forms of reality: literature in Java, 1800-2000.

Werbner, Professor Pnina
School of Social Relations, Keele University
Dates: 8 – 28 April 2004
Research Proposal: A comparison of Contemporary Sufi Cults in South Asia and Indonesia

Professor Werbner is a key figure in the fields of cultural and diaspora studies. The scope of her work is reflected in her published articles and collected volumes, which engage with the challenges presented by the rise of Islamic radicalism, cultural hybridity, women, citizenship and difference. Her most recent book is Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims (James Currey 2002).

Chan, Dr Stephen Ching-kiu
Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Dates: 7 June 2004 to 18 August 2004
Research Proposal: Mapping the Global Popular: An analytical Framework for Hong Kong Culture

Dr Stephen Chan is Program Director of Master of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he served as Department Head of Cultural Studies from 2000 to 2003, and the first Director of its BA Cultural Studies in 1999. Prior to that, he taught English/Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he edited the bilingualHong Kong Cultural Studies Bulletin and directed the Hong Kong Cultural Studies Program (1994-1998). Chan received his education in Hong Kong (U Hong Kong, BA 1978, MPhil 1981) and USA (U California at San Diego, PhD 1986). Published on modern Hong Kong and Chinese culture, he was the founding editor of the book series Hong Kong Cultural Studies (in Chinese) released by the Oxford University Press (China) since 1997. He is the editor of Identity and Public Culture, Practice of Affect: Hong Kong Popular Song Lyrics, and Cultural Imaginary and Ideology. Co-author of Hong Kong Un-Imagined: History, Culture and the Future (Taipei 1997), Chan’s scholarly interests range from literary, filmic to a broad range of other forms in cultural imagination. His current scholarly interests are representation and narrative identity, the transnational re-shaping of Hong Kong action cinema, urban public culture, and critical education through popular genres. His latest works include “Building Cultural Studies for Postcolonial Hong Kong” (Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation, Rodopi 2002), “From Literary to Cultural Studies: A Hong Kong Perspective,” (Methodologies in Literary Research, Taiwan UP 2002), and Figures of Hope and the Filmic Imaginary of Jianghu in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema (Cultural Studies 2001).

Carter, Dr Michael
Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
Dates: 4 August – 4 September 2004
Research Proposal: The significance of the absence of clothing in non-European peoples to how 19th century British anthropology formulated definitions of civilisation and of being human

Dr Michael Carter was a lecturer at the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney from 1984-2003. His publications include; Framing Art: Introducing Theory and the Visual Image, 1990; Putting a Face on Things: Studies in Imaginary Materials, 1997; and Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes, 2002.

Roy, Associate Professor Anjali
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Dates: 23 August 2004 to 8 November 2004
Research Proposal: Globalizing, Post-Colonialism: Rethinking Resistance

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University where he also directs a research group on the history of policing. He did his first degree at the University of York and then undertook research at Cambridge University. He was among the first lecturers appointed to the Open University in 1970. He has also taught at the University of Paris and the University of Calgary, and has held fellowships at Griffith University, Queensland, and the University of Christchurch, New Zealand. He was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1982, elected President of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice in 1995, and re-elected in 1998 and 2001.

His initial research focused on the maintenance of public order in England during the decade of the French Revolution. His main interest now is in the comparative history of crime and policing in Europe since the mid-eighteenth century. His books include British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815 (1979), Policing and its Context, 1750-1870 (1983), Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 (2nd edn. 1996), The English Police: A Political and Social History (2nd edn. 1996) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999).

Kirk, Professor Neville
Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dates: 11 October 2004 to 31 December 2004
Research Proposal: Nation, Empire, Class and Race in the History of Relations between Britain and Australia, 1901 to the present.

Neville Kirk is Professor of Social and Labour History at the Manchester Metropolitan University. His research and publication interests lie in the field of comparative British, US and Australian history. His publications include Labour and Society in Britain and the USA, 2 vols, 1994, and Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia, 1880s-1914, 2003. He is currently writing an article on Scottish labour history. Kirk has held research fellowships at the University of Manchester, UNSW and in the History Program, RSSS, at ANU. As a Visiting Fellow in the HRC in 2004, he will be researching the themes of class, race, nation and empire in relations between Australia and Britain, 1901 to the present.

Mackie, Professor Vera
Centre for Research and Graduate Studies Humanities, Curtin University of Technology
Dates: 13 April - 31 August 2004
Research Proposal: Globalisation and the Body: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Vera Mackie's major publications include Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (paperback edition 2002); Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, co-edited with Anne Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre and Maila Stivens, Routledge, 2000; Relationsips: Japan and Australia, 1870s-1950s, co-edited with Paul Jones (History Monographs, 2001); Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality, Cambridge University Press, 2003 and Gurobaruka to Jenda Hyosho [Globalisation and Representations of Gender], Ochanomizu Shobo, 2003. She has recently been engaged in an ARC-funded research project on The Politics of Visual Culture in Modern Japan. Later in 2004 she will take up an ARC Professorial Fellowship at the University of Melbourne to work on A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan.

Iwabuchi, Dr Koichi
International Studies Division, International Christian University
Dates: 16 August - 13 September 2004
Research Proposal: Reimagining the "national" through intersections between the "transnational" and the "multicultural" in Japan

Dr Koichi Iwabuchi currently lectures Media & Cultural Studies in International Studies Division of International Christian University, Tokyo, and will be moving to International College of Waseda University in April 2004. He received a Ph.D. at University of Western Sydney. His doctorate thesis, which multilaterally analyses Japan's "return to Asia" in the 1990s in terms of popular cultural flows that have been activated under globalizing forces, was awarded the best Ph.D. dissertation prize from Australian Association of Asian Studies. He has published many articles on cultural globalization, transnationalism, multicultural politics both in English and Japanese, which include Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002) and Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas (ed. Hong Kong University Press, in press).

Hui, Dr Po-keung
Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Dates: 2 July- 4 August 2004
Research Porposal: The Making of a Communal Economic Subject - A comparative Study on the Community Currency Projects in Hong Kong and Australia

Dr Po-keung Hui received his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1995. He is now teaching at the Cultural Studies Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His main research interests are cultural economy, history of capitalism, and alternative development. He has co-edited the Cultural and Social Studies Translation Series, a Chinese book series jointly published by Oxford University Press (Hong Kong) and Bianyi Chubanshe (Beijing). He is the author of What Capitalism is Not (a Chinese book published by Hong Kong Oxford University Press, 2002). His English papers are published in journals such as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Traces, Asian Exchange, China Information and as book chapters in various books published by Routledge and Longman.

Tranquille, Dr Danielle
Department of French, University of Mauritius
Dates: 13 July 2004 to 10 September 2004
Research Proposal: Representation of the Indian Ocean in travelogues. A Reading of 18th and 19th Century Travelogues

Dr Danielle Tranquille is a lecturer in French and Francophone Literature and the University of Mauritius. She was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Bellagio Centre, Italy, June-July 2003. Danielle received her Mhil/PhD under the co-supervision of Prof. Jean- Louis Joubert from the Université Paris XIII, 1995, and Post-Doctoral Research under the Mentorship of Professor F.L Ionnet, French and Francophone Studies Department from UCLA, USA, 2000-2001.

Her latest research published papers include:
Quelle critique pour une littérature francophone? (Seminaire sur la francophonie mauricienne, Université de Maurice, March 2003); Translation Studies in Post-Colonial Societies (Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, Italy, June 2003); From Multi-Culturalism to Trans-Culturalism. A Question of Translation (International Conference organised by the Mauritius Writers’ Association, October 2003); Quand la médecine s’enrhum (Open Conference. Lire en fête, Centre C. Baudelaire, R.Hill, October 2003).

Dr Tranquille's publications include:
Anthlogie de la littérature mauricienne de 1768 à 1920 ( in collaboration with Dr J. G. Prosper) Mahama Gandhi Institute, 2000; Paroles d’île, Educational Productions Limited, 2000; Malcolm de Chazal en perspectives, AMDEF, île Maurice, 2002
Danielle’s forthcoming publications is Toofann. Mon cyclone. A translation in French of Toofann by Dev Virahsawmy, 2004.

Saunders, Professor David
Faculty of Arts, Griffith University
Dates: 1 February - 28 February 2004
Research Proposal: Historicising Juridification

David Saunders is Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Griffith University in Brisbane, and affiliated to the Centre for Socio-Legal Research in the Griffith Faculty of Law. He is also Honorary Professor in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.

David Saunders’ research has in recent years concerned the historical relations of law, politics and religion. His publications in this field include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). His previous books include Authorship and Copyright (London and New York: Routledge, 1992) and, co-authored with Ian Hunter and Dugald Williamson, On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality andf Obscenity Law (London: Macmillan; New York: St Martins Press, 1993).

With Ian Hunter, he has recently published a re-edition of Andrew Tooke’s 1691 The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature, the first English translation of Samuel Pufendorf’s De officio hominis et civis of 1673 (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). This volume also includes his translations of early eighteenth-century writings on natural law by Jean Barbeyrac, here appearing in English for the first time. Also with Ian Hunter, he edited Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Recent articles by David Saunders include ‘“Within the orbit of this life”—Samuel Pufendorf and the autonomy of law’, Cardozo Law Review 26, 3: 101-24, (2002); ‘The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment’, Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, 4: 473-90 (2003); and, with Ian Hunter, ‘Bringing the state to England: Andrew Tooke’s translation of Samuel Pufendorf’s De officio hominis et civis’, History of Political Thought 24, 2: 218-234 (2003).

In earlier years, his work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, English Literary History and European Intellectual Property Review.

David Saunders is currently engaged in two distinct but partially overlapping research projects. The first, combining historical and theoretical approaches, is a study of state sovereignty, the rule of law and religious settlements, from the French, German and English wars of religion to today’s jurisprudential thinking. This research focuses on issues of state/church separation, juridification and secularisation. The second project is a contextualised biographical study of the mid-seventeenth-century political and cultural milieu of the Finch family: Sir Heneage Finch (later Lord Chancellor Nottingham under Charles II), Sir John Finch (Professor of Medicine in the University of Padua and later English ambassador to the Ottoman Court), and Anne Finch (later Lady Anne Conway, correspondent of Cambridge Platonist, Henry More).

Sigurdson, Professor Jon
Dates: 1 October 2004 to 18 Novemberr 2004
Reserach Project: Culture and Technological Change in China's Political Posters

Jon Sigurdson is professor in Research Policy and Director of the East Asia Science & Technology and Culture Programme, at The European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics, and was previously director of the Research Policy Institute (1978-199) at Lund University. During 1995-2000 Sigurdson held the endowed ASTRA Professorship of East Asia Science & Technology and Culture at the Stockholm School of Economics. As a researcher in science policy he has developed special expertise in technology management at national and company level with a focus on areas such as: 1) Global structures for research and development (R&D) and their interaction with national systems for innovation; 2) Structural changes in the electronics and information technologies industries. Sigurdson held government posts in Swedish ministries of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Industry before embarking on an academic career. He has for the last 35 years been actively involved in Asia Pacific Studies with extensive stays in China, Hong Kong and Japan. His recent research has brought him as visiting professor to Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and Australia, and on short research visits to most countries in the region.

A proposed project, while at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, will identify cultural and technological elements and their interaction in a unique collection of political posters that span the years between 1962 and 1981. The collection which consists of some 1,300 posters was initiated during posting as cultural attaché in the Swedish Embassy in Beijing during 1964-67 and continued during the next 15 years on subsequent visits to China. Today, Asian countries are taken their place in the world - based on economic success and a confidence about their new roles in the world, although recent years have seen a partial decline. A growing success and confidence takes place in a part of the world where half the world’s population is living. Their perceptions and their expectations are going to dramatically change the world. China is the major country in region and its economic success has over the past two decades surprised the world. In a preceding period China was almost closed to the outside world – during a period that was characterised by the turmoil of the cultural revolution. However, these years also nurtured expectations and confidence in a modern society where technology would play an important role. Such views are reflected in the political posters that at the time played an important role to convey the message of a changing China.

The Project, by using the poster collection as an analytical tool, will result in an article that traces the linkages between culture and technology as depicted in the posters and drawing on other information sources that describe and analyse the phenomena. A tentative agreement has been reached with the Drill Hall Gallery of the Australia National University to organise an exhibition of a selected number of posters in the collection. The period for such an exhibition would preferably fall during late 2004.

Hoorn, Dr Jeanette
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne
Dates: 1 May to 30 June 2004
Research Proposal: The Darwinian Screen: Race and Nation in Australia and the Pacific

Jeanette Hoorn is Associate- Professor in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology. Her books include The Lycett Album Aboriginal Life and Scenery, Australian National Library Press, Canberra 1990, Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994; Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, (with Barbara Creed) Routledge, New York, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001; Vox Reipublicae, Feminism and the Australian Republic, (with David Goodman) La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1996. She is currently preparing a number of manuscripts in the field Australian art and film.

Creed, Associate Professor Barbara
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne
Dates: 1 May to 30 June 2004
Research Proposal: The Darwinian Screen: Race and Nation in Australia and the Pacific

Barbara Creed is Associate Professor in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The Monstrous:Feminine: Film Feminism Psychoanalysis (Routledge) and Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Allen & Unwin). She has written on film, theory and popular culture for a range of international journals and anthologies. She is currently completing Phallic Panic: Film, Horror, Gender and researching a new project, The Darwinian Screen, on film theory, race, ethics and the animal.

Snodgrass, Dr Judith
Dates: 6 September to 23 November 2004
Research Project: Buddhism in Australia: Asian participation in the formation of Australian cultures

Judith Snodgrass is Senior lecturer in Japanese history at the University of Western Sydney. Her book, Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition, published by University of North Carolina Press, July, 2003, is a study of the interactive processes of the formation of Western knowledge of Buddhism. Her work on Buddhism in contemporary Australia is an extension of this concern. She is currently working with Professor Ien Ang on a book tentatively titled 'Exhibiting Buddha: cross-cultural communication in the art museum'.

Hughes, Dr Caroline
Dates: 8 March to 23 August 2004
Research Project: The Politics of Community in Post-Intervention Societies: Responses to Internationally Promoted Regime Change in Cambodia and East Timor.

Caroline Hughes is a lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham and deputy director of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies at Nottingham. She completed her PhD on 'Human Rights in Cambodia: International Intervention and the National Response,' in 1998. She was appointed as a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, affiliated to the University of Phnom Penh in 1998-9, researching electoral accountability in Cambodia. From 1999-2001, she was a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellow at Nottingham, investigating the evolving concept of "opposition" in Cambodia.

Dr Hughes's current research interests continue to focus upon local responses to international promotion of political reform and post-war reconstruction in the Asia Pacific region. She recently published a monograph entitled 'The Political Economy of Cambodia's Transition, 1991-2002," published by RoutledgeCurzon in the UK. She is currently working upon a second monograph, to be entitled, "Communication and Democracy in Cambodia.' During 2004, Dr Hughes has visited Australia as a visiting fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne, and at the Centre for Humanities Research at ANU. She is currently working on a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK, investigating changing conceptions of the boundaries of the political community, within Cambodian and Timorese communities in Australia, as well as in Cambodia and East Timor themselves. The project will take her to East Timor to conduct field research in 2005.