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Some current research being undertaken by members of the Centre:
Leong K. Chan is senior lecturer in graphics/media at the University
of New South Wales. His current research focuses on national ideology, cultural
identity and graphic communication in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.
He is also co-director and co-chief investigator of the Australian Socio-Graphic
AIDS Project (AGAP), and the South-East Asian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project
(SEAGAP). The latter two research projects document the trajectories of
HIV/AIDS through material and visual cultures, public health campaigns and
socio-graphic representations of the epidemic. He is co-editor of Gay,
Lesbian and Queer Studies in Australia (University of Sydney, 1999),
and Visualising AIDS: Images in Art and Design (University of New
South Wales, 2000). He is co-curator of two forthcoming exhibitions, Rubber
Love: HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia, to be held at the UTS Gallery, University
of Technology Sydney, from May to June 2001, and Interventions and Preventions:
Twenty Years of HIV/AIDS Public Health Campaigns in Australia, to be
held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, from October 2001 to April 2002.
Address: School of Design Studies, College of Fine Arts, University of New
South Wales, PO Box 259, Paddington New South Wales 2021, Australia. Email:
l.chan@unsw.edu.au
Dr Raymond Donovan lectures in cultural analysis, gender studies
and social theory at the University of Newcastle. He is completing a socio-historiography
of HIV/AIDS covering Australia, Britain and North America, a documentary
chronology which tracks the genealogy of the epidemic from as early as 1952
through to the present. Contrary to the notion that HIV/AIDS is a discrete
biomedical entity, the documentary chronology treats the epidemic as a cultural
production which is mapped in its multiplicity of intersecting and often
contradictory histories. He is also co-director and co-chief investigator
of the Australian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project (AGAP), and the South-East
Asian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project (SEAGAP). The latter two research projects
document the trajectories of HIV/AIDS through material and visual cultures,
public health campaigns and socio-graphic representations of the epidemic.
He is co-editor of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies in Australia (University
of Sydney, 1999), and Visualising AIDS: Images in Art and Design
(University of New South Wales, 2000). He is co-curator of two forthcoming
exhibitions, Rubber Love: HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia, to be held
at the UTS Gallery, University of Technology Sydney, from May to June 2001,
and Interventions and Preventions: Twenty Years of HIV/AIDS Public Health
Campaigns in Australia, to be held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney,
from October 2001 to April 2002.
Address: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Newcastle,
University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia. Email: sord@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Robert Aldrich has co-edited, with Garry Wotherspoon, a 962-page two-volume biographical dictionary, Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II and Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present, which will be published by Routledge, in London, in November 2000. The dictionary, to which a number of ACLGR members contributed, includes entries on some one thousand figures important in the history of homosexuality in the Western world. Robert has also published an entry on the Mediterranean in the recently-published second edition of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, edited by George E. Haggerty under the title Gay Histories and Cultures.
Robert Aldrich is now completing a book on Colonialism and Homosexuality, an exploration of the connections between male homosexuality and European imperialism, particularly in the British and French empires of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The book will be published, by Routledge, in 2001. He has also written an article on 'Homosexuality in the French Colonies', which will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality devoted to France and edited by Jeffrey Merrick and Michael Sibalis.
Dr Gerard Sullivan is completing a project with Peter Jackson from the Australian National University which examines cultural differences in lesbian and gay identity, community and social position. This will result in a book under contract with Haworth Press, the provisional title of which is Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity and Community. With Simone Fullagar of Charles Sturt University and Glennys Howarth, Gerard is also working on an ARC-funded project which examines the extent to which sexual orientation might be associated with youth suicide in Australia.
Please contact the Centre for further information on the Visiting Scholars Scheme.
Visiting Scholars for 2000:
Professor Christopher Robinson and Dr Raymond Donovan
Dr Raymond Donovan lectures in cultural analysis, gender studies and social theory at the University of Newcastle. He is completing a socio-historiography of HIV/AIDS covering Australia, Britain and North America, a documentary chronology which tracks the genealogy of the epidemic from as early as 1952 through to the present. Contrary to the notion that HIV/AIDS is a discrete biomedical entity, the documentary chronology treats the epidemic as a cultural production which is mapped in its multiplicity of intersecting and often contradictory histories. He is also co-director and co-chief investigator of the Australian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project (AGAP), and the South-East Asian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project (SEAGAP). The latter two research projects document the trajectories of HIV/AIDS through material and visual cultures, public health campaigns and socio-graphic representations of the epidemic. He is co-editor of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies in Australia (University of Sydney, 1999), and Visualising AIDS: Images in Art and Design (University of New South Wales, 2000). He is co-curator of two forthcoming exhibitions, Rubber Love: HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia, to be held at the UTS Gallery, University of Technology Sydney, from May to June 2001, and Interventions and Preventions: Twenty Years of HIV/AIDS Public Health Campaigns in Australia, to be held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, from October 2001 to April 2002.
Previous Visiting Scholars:
1999:
Dr Gabriele Winter. Dr Gabriele Winter is a social scientist with a
background in social work, sociology and political science and lectures
at Charles Sturt University. Her main research interest areas are social
welfare and social policy, representation and regulation of sexuality, gender
and youth. Her recent publications focus on sociology, youth 'at risk',
alternative sexualities and media representations. Gabriele's current research
concerns social citizenship, sexual minorities, and the experience of gays,
lesbians and transgender persons in accessing welfare benefits and social
services.
Dr David Phillips. Dr David Phillips lectures in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury. He is an art historian and his research interests include the history of photography, art theory, contemporary art, and the teaching of gay studies.
Dr Blye Frank. Dr Blye Frank is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he teaches in the area of gender, sexuality and schooling. His major area of research is social and psychological constructions pf masculinities. While at the Centre, Blye worked on two current research projects: a study on gay men in teaching, and masculinity and psychiatry.
1998:
Professor Christopher Robinson, Professor of European Literature, Oxford
University.
1997:
Dr Raymond Donovan. Dr Raymond Donovan lectures in social analysis and
gender studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University
of Newcastle, NSW.
Stephen Hodge. Stephen teaches human geography and resource and environmental
management in the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University. His
research interests include: the management of social resources in urban
environments, with a focus on the spatial distribution of human services
(such as health and education) in the Sydney region; and the relationship
between space and sexual identity.
1996:
Dr Jim Wafer. Dr Jim Wafer is an anthropologist teaching at the University
of Newcastle, NSW. His research interests include Aboriginal sexuality,
South American culture and society, and the history of lesbians and gays
in the Hunter region of NSW.
1994:
Professor David Halperin. Professor David Halperin is one of the
world's foremost authorities on gay studies. Previously at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he was Professor of Literature, David's published
work includes the much-acclaimed study of sexuality in the ancient world,
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love
and Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography.