Asia Pacific Week 2008
The Australian National University
ANU Campus 29 January – 1 February
EAST TIMOR STUDIES GRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL

The East Timor Studies Graduate Summer School is a week long period of workshops and research activities designed to bring together young scholars who are working on East Timor. The Summer School is held at the campus of The Australian National University in Canberra, and is open to participants from within and outside Australia. The program is still provisional at this stage. If you wish to take part you should let the program convenor know as soon as possible.

The program will showcase the work of young East Timor scholars in a formal setting and will include seminars, roundtable discussions, guest lectures as well as library visits and cultural events. The program also aims to provide students with an opportunity to use the rich resources held at the ANU library and the National Library of Australia. The East Timor Studies Graduate Summer School is open to honours-level and postgraduate students as well as recently completed post-doctoral students currently enrolled in any tertiary institution inside or outside Australia. Advanced undergraduates may also wish to attend as observers.

Several provisional themes for guest lectures have been proposed, and participants will be expected to make presentations on their own research interests. Provisional discussion topics for guest lectures are:

• agricultural development
• justice / legal system
• language
• oil and gas reserves
• education
• economy
• cultural heritage

Roundtable discussions on the following topics may be held:

• Future directions for East Timor research
• Challenges for fieldwork in East Timor

ANU Asia Pacific Week

The Summer School will take place as part of the University's Asia Pacific Week. This is designed to provide a forum for building networks among postgraduate scholars through exchange of knowledge and experiences surrounding the study of the Asia Pacific region. The 2008 East Timor Summer School is to be held in conjunction with summer schools in China Studies, Thai Studies, Indonesian Studies, Japan Studies, South Asia Studies and Vietnamese Studies. The Asia-Pacific week will feature special events such as keynote speeches, films, performances and exhibitions. Participants in the East Timor sessions will interact with participants from other summer schools in combined social functions and there will also be an opportunity for discipline-based groups from across the range of Asian Studies to meet on the Wednesday afternoon of the summer school.

Accommodation

Participants from outside Canberra will be housed at John XXIII College on the campus of the ANU. Meals will be provided as part of an accommodation package for participants who are successful in gaining a scholarship.

Applications

A number of scholarships will be provided to offset the cost of accommodation (single room plus three meals per day) and to provide an allowance for travel for participants. It is unlikely that there will be enough funds available to cover all the costs of travel, so participants are also encouraged to seeking supplementary funding from their own institutions. Participants in Asia-Pacific Week 2008 will be accommodated at John XXIII on the ANU campus. Applicants are required to submit the application form by email to Dr John Bowden, whose contact details follow below. Applications closed on 30 September 2007. Applicants will be advised about the success of their applications in early October.

Contact details

For further information contact the East Timor program convenor:

Dr John Bowden
Linguistics Department
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 6125 3281
Email: john.bowden@anu.edu.au