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If the Tudulgal could thrive on a small sandy island and become a leading control centre in Australia's Torres Straits, how can these insights help build more resilient and sustainable communities around the world?Compared to other countries, Australia has next to no research about its sandy cay islands that formed 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, but tha…
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This podcast continues on from Part I of our interview with Professor JaneMaree Maher on Monash's Gender and Family Violence research.Why does international evidence show 80% of adolescent violence is committed by sons against their mothers? Why is more than one woman per week killed by their current or ex intimate partner in Australia? What do we …
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Why does international evidence show 80% of adolescent violence is committed by sons against their mothers? Why is more than one woman per week killed by their current or ex intimate partner in Australia? What do we need to do to make sure people with disability who may face violence are recognised and supported? What other challenges and barriers …
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Dr Xin Gu of our School of Media, Film & Journalism, is leading an ARC Discovery international research project: Urban Cultural Policy and the Changing Dynamics of Cultural Production. The research explores the dynamics of the “cultural economy” and how changing industry relationships, urban development and policy dynamics affect cultural productio…
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During the course of the twentieth century global migration flows have grown exponentially. Massive socio-political changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, notably the fall of the Berlin wall and collapse of the Soviet block, and later the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, all contributed to the increased international movement of people. And with major …
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Millions will likely soon die from antibiotic resistance. How do we galvanise collective responsibility to change this?Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. The WHO recently stated that this increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will lead to the death of millions in years to come unless all cou…
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For two decades, Dr Natalie Doyle, Deputy Director of the Monash European and EU Centre, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, has researched a specific strand of French social and political theory, with a particular interest in the intellectual heir of its leading figures Marcel Gauchet – whose majo…
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In 2010, The Border Crossing Observatory was founded by Professor Sharon Pickering and Associate Professor Leanne Weber, with Associate Professor Marie Segrave. It is an innovative virtual research centre that connects Australian and international stakeholders to high quality, independent and cutting edge research on border crossings.The work of th…
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For over 60,000 years Aboriginal Australians lived and thrived in the Australian landscape. They had sophisticated and complex social systems with languages and religions that were unrecognisable to 19th century Europeans. Today, more of the ingenuity and wisdom in Aboriginal Australian’s practices and knowledge systems is being uncovered – reveali…
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Associate Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths is driving a new research project, funded by the Monash/Warwick Alliance, to investigate the creation of empathy in the audience through theatrical depictions of trauma.The research arises from her Green Room Outstanding Performer Award winning performance in the Pulitzer prize winning play ‘Wit’ last y…
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This podcast is a continuation of Part I: Raising the political stakes with Jeanne d’Arc and Dr Ali Alizadeh where we explore Dr Alizadeh’s decades-long research into the controversial life and death of Jeanne d’Arc, depicted in a comprehensive new literary work by Dr Ali Alizadeh titled The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc due out this year. We discuss p…
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Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc)’s controversial life and death are being depicted in a comprehensive new literary work by Dr Ali Alizadeh titled The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc due out this year. We sat down with Dr Alizadeh to explore his decades-long research into the character of Jeanne d’Arc that brought up questions about political writing, the pheno…
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In October 2016, acclaimed Professor Stephen Hawking warned against the rapid development of artificial intelligence, saying that “the rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity," and predicting that robots could develop “powerful autonomous weapons” or new methods to “oppress the many.”The threat of…
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Where is our society going? Where is our culture going? Will it be better or will it be worse in the future? Science fiction deals critically with questions about utopia and dystopia today. Emeritus Professor Andrew Milner, from Monash University’s School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, talks about how understanding science fic…
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In 2007 the UN deployed its first all-female peacekeeping unit on a mission to Liberia in the lead-up to the country’s second election after a long civil war. Dr Lesley Pruitt from Monash Gender Peace and Security talks about what happened next.Read more: http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/news-events/women-as-leaders-and-peacekeepers-dr-lesley-pruitt…
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You might remember Godzilla demolishing San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, or Matthew Broderick defeating the monster in New York, but what do you know about Godzilla’s nuclear past? Monash School of Languages’ Dr Jason Christopher Jones talks about what subsequent Godzilla films have lost since the 1954 original, and what can be gained by researc…
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