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The A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture is held annually in commemoration of A.R. Davis, the Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney and a key figure in post-war Asian Studies in Australia.[1][2] It is organised by the Australian Society for Asian Humanities (formerly the Oriental Society of Australia) and published in the Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities (formerly the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia).[3]

Speakers and topics

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Speakers and topics have included:

  • 1995, S.N. Mukherjee, “Orientalism and History”
  • 1998, Adrian Snodgrass, “Language, Rules and Ritual: Semantics and the Indo-Japanese Fire Ceremony”
  • 2000, Roland Fletcher, “Seeing Angkor, New Views of an Old City.” [4]
  • 2001, Joseph Jordens, “Gandhi’s Non-Violence Revisited.”
  • 2002, Michael G. Carter, “‘The Scholar as Dragoman”
  • 2004, Alison Broinowski, “The Outbreak of Occidentalism”
  • 2005, Leith Morton, “Shamans Make History in Okinawa: A reading of Oshiro Tatsuhiro’s Novel Noro (Mantic Woman, 1985)
  • 2006, Frits Staal, “Secrets behind Walls”
  • 2007, Colin Mackerras, “China's Islamic Minorities--Contemporary Perspectives”
  • 2009, Neville Meaney, “The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II” [5]
  • 2010, Michael Walsh, "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia" [6][7]
  • 2011, Bonnie McDougall, “Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships” [8]
  • 2012, Jocelyn Chey, “Laughing down the ages: A brief history of humour in China” [9]
  • 2013, Jamila Hussain, “Reflections on Islamic thought over the ages” [10]
  • 2015, Carol Hayes, “Women writing women: 'A woman's place' in modern Japanese women's poetry” [11]
  • 2016, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, “Caste, nation and modernity: Indian nationalism's unresolved Dilemma” [12][13]
  • 2017, Jon von Kowallis, “Takeuchi's Lu Xun / China's Takeuchi” [14]
  • 2018, Mabel Lee, “On the creative aesthetics of nobel laureate Gao Xingjian” [15] [16]
  • 2019, Adrian Vickers, “From Orientalism to Inter-Asia Referencing” [17][18]
  • 2020, Devleena Ghosh, “The bones of our mothers”: Coal, climate and resistance in a Chhattisgarh District” [19][20]
  • 2021, Vera Mackie, "Asia in Australia: History on the Streets"[21]
  • 2022, Barbara Hendrischke, "Daoist Plans for a Millennium of Great Peace" [22]
  • 2023, Ari Heinrich, "Contaminated Art in Contaminated Times: Jes Fan at 2020 Sydney Biennale" [23] [24] [25]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lee, Mabel. "AR Davis memorial lecture, 2018: On the creative aesthetics of nobel laureate Gao Xingjian." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 50 (2018): 1-21.
  2. ^ "Journals". MCLC Resource Center. 16 July 2014.
  3. ^ "JOSAH".
  4. ^ "Professor Roland Fletcher". Radio National. 18 July 2000.
  5. ^ Meaney, Neville (16 January 2010). "The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II: A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture, 2009". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia – via search.informit.org.
  6. ^ Walsh, Michael (16 January 2011). "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia: A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture, 2010". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia – via search.informit.org.
  7. ^ "The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Vol. 43". Sydney University Press.
  8. ^ McDougall, Bonnie S. (16 January 2012). "Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 44: 1–15 – via search.informit.org.
  9. ^ Chey, Jocelyn (16 January 2013). "Laughing down the ages: A brief history of humour in China". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 45: 1–18 – via search.informit.org.
  10. ^ Hussain, Jamila (16 January 2014). "Reflections on Islamic thought over the ages". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 46: 3–10 – via search.informit.org.
  11. ^ Hayes, Carol (16 January 2015). "A. R. Davis memorial lecture, 2015: Women writing women: 'A woman's place' in modern Japanese women's poetry". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 47: 1–18 – via search.informit.org.
  12. ^ "The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Vol. 48". Sydney University Press.
  13. ^ Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (16 January 2016). "Caste, nation and modernity: Indian nationalism's unresolved Dilemma". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 48: 5–24 – via search.informit.org.
  14. ^ von Kowallis, Jon Eugene (16 January 2018). "Takeuchi's Lu Xun / China's Takeuchi". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 49: 1–25 – via search.informit.org.
  15. ^ Lee, Mabel (16 January 2018). "A.R. Davis memorial lecture, 2018: On the creative aesthetics of nobel laureate Gao Xingjian". Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. 50: 1–21 – via search.informit.org.
  16. ^ Sima, W. (2023). The High Road to the Near North: Origins and Development of Sinology in Australia. Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊, 7(2), 631-656. doi:10.1017/jch.2022.21
  17. ^ "The Oriental Society of Australia | The 2019 A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture – From Orientalism to Inter-Asia Referencing: Reflections on Asian Studies in Australia – School of Languages and Cultures".
  18. ^ Society, IACS. "2019 A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture given by Professor Adrian Vickers (The Oriental Society of Australia)".
  19. ^ "The Oriental Society of Australia 2020 A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture (Online) | "The bones of our mothers": Coal, climate and resistance in a Chhattisgarh District – School of Languages and Cultures".
  20. ^ @USydSLC (18 November 2020). "🎧 LISTEN" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ^ "2021 A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture "Asia in Australia: History on the Streets"". Australian Society for Asian Humanities. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  22. ^ "A.R.Davis Memorial Lecture | Daoist plans for a millennium of great peace". 30 September 2022.
  23. ^ https://www.csaa.org.au/2023/10/a-r-davis-memorial-lecture-contaminated-art-in-contaminated-times-jes-fan-at-the-2020-sydney-biennale/
  24. ^ https://twitter.com/lyndang/status/1713866416112521723
  25. ^ https://www.sydneyeventsthingstodo.com/events/contaminated-art-in-contaminated-times-jes-fan-at-the-2020-sydney-biennale
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