报告题目： Race, Nation and Asian Engagement in Australian Studies

报告人：Professor David Walker 大卫·沃克教授

主持人：清华大学外文系澳大利亚研究中心 王敬慧副教授

报告时间：2013年11月8日 星期五上午10：00-11：30

报告地点：第六教学楼A 201

主办单位：清华大学澳大利亚研究中心、清华大学外文系

 

演讲者介绍:

 Professor David Walker is inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University. Professor Walker has written extensively on Australian representations of Asia. His prize-winning book, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to 1939 (UQP, 1999) has been translated into Chinese and published by China Renmin University Press (2009). An English edition was published in India in the same year and a Hindi translation will be published in 2013. He is the co-editor with Agnieszka Sobocinska of Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century (UWA Publishing, 2012).

A collection of his Asia-related essays has been published under the title Encountering Turbulence: Asia in the Australian Imaginary (Readworthy, 2013). His recently published personal history, Not Dark Yet has just been translated into Chinese by Professor Li Yao and will be published by The People’s Literature Publishing House, Beijing, in 2014. Professor Walker is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities