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08/09/2011
Where is Dr Leichhardt?
Where is Dr Leichhardt? was launched by Professor Peter Read in Canberra at the National Museum of Australia on 16 May 2013, and in Queensland at Brisbane's Avid Reader Bookshop on 7 June 2013.
04/03/2013
From a Distant Shore - launched by Adam Shoemaker
On Thursday 21st February 2013, Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender's book From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012 was launched by Adam Shoemaker, Monash University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education). Read Professor Shoemaker's launch speech.
04/03/2013
Monash Nominations now open for the Warwick Prize for Writing
An innovative writing prize with global competition, across all disciplines.
Staff members and students of Monash University are invited to nominate a work for the coveted Warwick Prize for Writing. Launched in 2008, this innovative award is open to excellent and substantial pieces of writing in any genre or form, from any part of the globe.
Naomi Klein was awarded the inaugural prize in 2008 for The Shock Doctrine; and Peter Forbes, the 2011 Prize for Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. Managed by The University of Warwick, the £25,000 biennial prize has now been extended to include nominations from Monash students and staff as part of the alliance between the two universities.
For more information, or to nominate please view the Website at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/prizeforwriting/.
Twitter: @Warwickprize #warwickprize
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/warwickprizeforwriting
07/02/2013
Book launch invitation - From a Distant Shore
You are invited to celebrate the launch of:
From a Distant Shore:
Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012
by Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender
To be launched by Professor Adam Shoemaker,
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Monash University5.15pm, Thursday 21st February, 2013
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Building H room B12
Caulfield campus map - PDFRSVP: email sarah.cannon@monash.edu
or phone 9905 0526
by February 15
09/01/2013
Book of the year - A Wild History
On 22 December 2012, The Australian published an article on 2012 "Books of the year" as nominated by a selection of Australia's leading authors and critcs. In choosing A Wild History as his book of the year, Nicolas Rothwell said the following:
A Loose convention once required reviewers to select their books of the year from the titles they had themselves reviewed in the preceding 12 months. It is a convention I find easy to honour this year, in choosing A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier, a sweeping record of the frontier region between the Kimberley and Top End in contact times. Its author, Darrell Lewis, is at once historian and investigator, archeologist and collector of unconsidered trifles. He has tramped the Victoria River region for decades, discovering its secrets. His tale is one of eccentrics, reprobates and maniacs; his characters are rebels, fantasists and murderers. The book is full of intriguing pictures and strange conversations. Laughter and tears are on every page. The narrative hovers on the edge of the unbelievable: the archival references prove the tale. Bushmen, bagmen, cattle-duffers, cattle-spearers - here they are. A Wild History is a triumph of publishing: the recuperation of a well-buried past.
NICOLAS ROTHWELL
Journalist and author
To read the full article in The Australian go to http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/books-of-the-year/story-fn9n8gph-1226541203228
09/01/2013
A Wild History - review by Tom Griffiths
On 13 December 2012, Tom Griffiths reviewed A Wild History in Inside Story: Current Affairs and Culture from Australia and Beyond:
If Ned Kelly had been gentler and more learned but just as much a bushman he might have written A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier (Monash University Publishing, $29.95). Darrell Lewis’s book is a distillation of bush wisdom and scholarly tenacity, of courageous fieldwork and equally adventurous archival sleuthing, of forty years of learning the country and of a lifetime of listening to history. Lewis has walked the Victoria River District in Australia’s northwest, swum its crocodile-infested rivers, got to know its plants, animals and people, slept under its stars, inspected its caves, recorded its inscriptions on rock and tree, and then pursued its material diaspora wherever it may have migrated. I am reminded of a great landmark work in Australian history, A Million Wild Acres, a book about the Pillaga Scrub by another bush scholar, Eric Rolls. Lewis’s book is full of frontier stories, superbly researched and skilfully told...
— Tom Griffiths
To read the full article Inside Story go to http://inside.org.au/best-overlooked-books-2012/
21/12/2012
Closedown for the Christmas / New Year period
Monash University Publishing will close at 1pm on Friday 21st December 2012 and will reopen on Monday 7th January 2013.
We wish you a very safe and happy Christmas, and all the best for 2013!
The China Breakthrough launched at Glee Books by James Curran
James Curran from The University of Sydney launched Billy Griffiths' new book on Gough Whitlam in China 40 years ago: The China Breakthrough: Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971. Billy was also interviewed by Phillip Adams on Late Night Live on 29 November.
See the full photo gallery from the launch on our Facebook page.
26/10/2012
Peter Fitzpatrick in conversation – Tuesday 20 November
Australian Book Review – for its first event at City Library – presents Peter Fitzpatrick , author of a new and highly praised dual biography, The Two Frank Thrings. Peter Fitzpatrick will be joined by noted film historian Brian McFarlane, co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Readers and theatre-goers will relish this conversation about the flamboyant and often deceptive lives of these two giants of the Australian entertainment industry.
Tuesday, 20 November at 6 p.m. for prompt 6.15 p.m. start
City Library, Majorca Room and Gallery, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000
The library is located in the CAE building on the corner of Degraves Street and Flinders Lane,
between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets (Melway reference: Map 1B, M9).
This is a free event, but bookings are essential:
(03) 9699 8822 or rsvp@australianbookreview.com.au
24/10/2012
In Conversation with Clinton Fernandes
(a Gleebooks event)
Editor Clinton Fernandes will discuss his new book Peace with Justice: Noam Chomsky in Australia with Peter Slezak, UNSW's Professor of Philosophy, on 19 November 2012 at Gleebooks.
This is a free event. For further information and to RSVP please see Fernandes in Conversation at Gleebooks.
30/08/2012
Launch of The Two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick
More than 150 people gathered at the Arts Centre Melbourne on 23 August to celebrate Peter Fitzpatrick's new biography The Two Frank Thrings.
Launched by actor, director and writer Graeme Blundell and held in the superb ANZ Pavilion room overlooking Southbank, the crowd enjoyed listening to tales of Frank Thring junior - the actor and King of Moomba - and his flamboyant lifestyle. His relationship with his father, Frank Thring senior, was complex and difficult but inevitably shaped him profoundly. The senior Frank had created Efftee Films - Australia's first 'talkies' studio - and had built a fortune and what he hoped would be the beginning of a dynasty. His son squandered the fortune and derailed the dynasty in the process of creating his own flamboyant legend.
Monash University Publishing Director Nathan Hollier commented on the importance of this work to the press, stating: ‘This is a very scholarly work but also a very entertaining story that called for a hardback publication and a big marketing push’. He noted that this is a work of prize-winning quality.
The Arts Centre Melbourne Collections team delved deep into the archives and were able to display a collection of memorabilia from both Frank Thrings, including the famous 'golden dressing gown' worn by Frank junior.
See our website for more information on the book or visit our Facebook page for more launch photos.
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Author Peter Fitzpatrick, with Nathan Hollier, Director of Monash University Publishing
Photos and memorabilia of the two Frank Thrings
Peter Fitzpatrick
Peter Fitzpatrick and Graeme Blundell
Guests mingling at the Arts Centre Melbourne
21/08/2012
Peace With Justice: Noam Chomsky in Australia
Editor Clinton Fernandes in conversation with Scott Burchill, 05/09/2012
The New International Bookshop presents Clinton Fernandes, author of Peace With Justice: Noam Chomsky in Australia, in conversation with Scott Burchill (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Deakin University). The evening will be MC'd by Nathan Hollier, director of Monash University Publishing.
Details:
6:30pm, Wednesday 5 September
Meeting Room 1, Trades Hall
54 Victoria St, Carlton, Victoria
This is a free event.
Please RSVP to Sarah Cannon:
Email: sarah.cannon@monash.edu
Phone: 03 9905 0526
21/08/2012
Verge - creative writing anthology launch, 02/09/2012
The latest edition of the creative writing anthology Verge 2012: Inverse, edited by Samantha Clifford and Rosalind McFarlane, will be launched at the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Poetry editor of The Age Gig Ryan will launch Verge 2012: Inverse at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival at a free event on Sunday 2 September at 11.30am in the Yarra Building.
Visit the Verge blog: http://vergeannual.wordpress.com/
and
the Verge facebook page: http://en-gb.facebook.com/vergeannual
21/08/2012
Asia Pacific Education - book launch, 30/08/2012
Monash University Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of Asia Pacific Education: Diversity, Challenges and Change, edited by Philip Wing Keung Chan, on Thursday 30 August 2012.
The launch will be held at 1pm in the TLS Seminar Room:
Room 110, 1/F Building 6 at Monash University's Clayton Campus.
The event will be MC'd by Mr. Mayur Katariya (Manager, Research Degrees of Office, Faculty of Education). Professor John Loughran will launch the book, followed by speeches from Professor Ilana Snyder (Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Education) and Dr. Nathan Hollier (Director, Monash University Publishing).
For Further information please contact our marketing coordinator, Sarah Cannon:
Ph: +61 3 9905 0526
sarah.cannon@monash.edu
www.publishing.monash.edu
(Please note that Sarah is not in the office on Fridays, nor on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons.)
21/08/2012
The Two Frank Thrings - launch by Graeme Blundell on 23/08/2012
Monash University Publishing is
delighted to announce that Australian
actor Graeme Blundell will launch
Peter Fitzpatrick’s The Two Frank Thrings
on 23 August 2012 at the
Arts Centre Melbourne.
Launch photos will be available here soon.
22/03/2012
Launch of A Wild History by Darrell Lewis
Professor Tom Griffiths (left) and A Wild History author Dr Darrell Lewis (right)
Professor Tom Griffiths launched Monash University Publishing's new title A Wild History, by Darrell Lewis, at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, on 15 March 2012. Tom has kindly given permission for his launch speech to be reproduced here:
A Wild History - Professor Tom Griffiths' launch speechThis impressive book is a distillation of bush wisdom and scholarly tenacity, of courageous fieldwork and equally adventurous archival sleuthing, of 40 years of learning the country and a lifetime of listening to history. This is a book that makes me proud to be a historian because Darrell shows us what sensible magic great historians can conjure. Darrell is about as secular and direct and true and no-nonsense as one can be, so he will be amused or possibly scornful at this mention of ‘magic’ in association with his work. But I’m fair dinkum. Something entrancing and mysterious does happen when sensitive and thoughtful historians steep themselves in the past. The essence of good history is a balance between empathy and perspective, between intimacy and distance – or, as W K Hancock put it, between attachment and span. Historians immerse themselves in context; they give themselves wholly and sensually to the mysterious, alchemical power of archives, testimony and environment. As well as gathering and weighing evidence piece by piece with forensic intensity, they sensitise themselves to nuance and meaning, to the whole tenor of an era, the full character of a person, the ineffable power of a place. And if they are like Darrell, they will also have walked that land, swum its crocodile-infested rivers, got to know its plants and animals and people, slept under its stars, inspected its caves, recorded its inscriptions on rock and tree, and then pursued its material diaspora wherever it may have migrated. What results is not just a work of scholarship but a work of art: a gift to the region and the nation from someone who is neither insider nor outsider but something remarkable in-between. Every region of Australia – indeed, of the world – deserves its own Darrell. But you can’t plan for such a book to happen. You can’t write a grant application for forty years investment. You can’t get a corporate sponsor to back an enquiry so exhaustive and so discomforting. You certainly can’t get a Human Ethics Committee to approve such an open-ended and enduring investigation. You can’t design or contrive wisdom. It grows from personal commitment, original vision, a hunger to understand, a lifelong sense of responsibility to the people one talks to and writes about, a knowledge and love of the land, a willingness to be frugal, a capacity to be humble. These are some of the wellsprings of wisdom, and one of the virtues of history as a craft is that it accommodates and even encourages many of these wild sources of creativity. Darrell has written ‘a wild history’ but he is not a wild man. He makes a fabulous blackberry jam. He carefully stitched my daughter’s goal umpiring flags with the result that, for years, AFL Canberra was governed by Darrell’s craftsmanship. He knows how to find the perfect campsite, out of the wind, free of mosquitoes and catching the morning sun. He writes with clarity, delicacy and precision and with a delightful natural rhythm to his words. Darrell is at home in the wild but he is a gentleman, and a gentle man. Ned Kelly’s ghost – in full rattling armour – has sometimes put in an appearance at Canberra gatherings but never, you may have noted, when Darrell Lewis is around. It is as if Kelly knows that you don’t mess with Lewis. In this unique book, Darrell seeks ‘to replace current wild imaginings with a more soundly based “wild history”’. Although his knowledge and research is cross-cultural, and Aboriginal people are key players in this book, he has chosen to tell a white man’s history – and, as he says, literally a white man’s history because for much of the settler period white men outnumbered white women by as much as 50 or 100 to one. His account explores two themes especially – the nature of contact and encounter between Aborigines and whites, and the formation of a local settler society. His detailed ethnographic attention to cultural encounter and to the various phases of a violent frontier are compelling and utterly convincing. And he is also attentive to what was an environmental frontier, a physical assault on the land by the cattle themselves. The book draws on important methodologies such as Darrell’s renowned use of repeat photography to document environmental change, and it offers significant findings such as his observation of increasing tree numbers in riverine areas especially in the post-war period. The book is thus an environmental history in the best sense – the land, vast and harsh and majestic, is always present, not just as scenery, but as an everyday force and context that itself changes as it interacts with economy and society. And this is not a side-story but carries one of the central themes of the book, which is, to quote Darrell, that ‘Ultimately both sides lost – the coming of the cattle began the destruction of the paradise for both’ [Aborigines and settlers]. Darrell always weighs evidence carefully, resists any simple conclusions and leads us towards more complex, deeper understandings. He is therefore a myth-buster extraordinaire. So, over the years we have learned from Darrell that Robert O’Hara Burke was possibly shot dead by John King and that Ludwig Leichhardt may have ended up in the Great Sandy Desert. And so here he delves beneath myth to reveal the hidden history of Jasper Gorge or he explodes the popular belief that Alexander Forrest’s report of his 1879 traverse of the Victoria River country caused a land rush. As Darrell puts it with characteristic directness: ‘The facts are otherwise’. He relishes demolishing other frontier illusions, showing how they were ‘nothing more than a pipedream, or perhaps a “pub-dream”. You can see that Darrell is not only interested in understanding, as far as one is able, what happened, but also in how knowledge is transmitted across generations, or not. Thus a crucial insight of his work concerns the absence of family dynasties among the white people of the Victoria River country. There was, he observes, a weak transmission of local knowledge from generation to generation among local whites. ‘By contrast’, writes Darrell, ‘Aborigines don’t come from somewhere else, stay for a period and then leave. Instead, their family dynasties extend back to the Dreaming. … They are in fact the ‘keepers’ of much ‘European’ history.’ So Darrell’s history of the white people of this district is traced partly through the memories of the black people. This is an extraordinary inversion of the Australian frontier with which we think we are familiar – and another brilliant piece of mythbusting. Let me share with you another inversion of the frontier that Darrell discerns. Here he is describing (p. 22) the impressions of John Lort Stokes in 1839:
Professor Henry Reynolds has written a superb Foreword to this book where he comments that Darrell ‘came to the historical records with a rich treasury of life experience – and it shows – he really does know what he is talking about.’ And Reynolds also observes that Darrell has the trust of the families of the district, both Aboriginal and European. ‘He is one of them’, declares Reynolds, ‘and not a blow-in busy-body from down south’. And in another of Henry Reynolds’ appraisals of this work, he rightly lauded Darrell’s ‘complete mastery of the sources’. I’m proud that this book grew out of a PhD thesis completed in the Centre for Environmental History in the ANU School of History. I want to say a word about the Centre for Historical Research here at the National Museum of Australia, Darrell’s institutional home during the final stages of writing this book. I am very impressed by the books emerging from this Centre – there are many fine recently published examples by staff here, and some extraordinary manuscripts from Darrell’s colleagues are circulating at this very moment. It makes you think about what constitutes a productive environment for research and writing. Many universities have completely lost the plot (although I am lucky to work in an enlightened corner of a good one) and many institutions multiply the bureaucratic obstacles to deep, intensive thinking. But there is something going on here that is good, very good. The Centre is collegial, welcoming, generous-hearted, interdisciplinary and conversational. It fosters an enabling chemistry. Its director and staff believe in the importance of the book as a scholarly and public product. And the Centre no doubt benefits greatly from its place in a museum, for a museum guarantees a meaningful and lively public interface, and it also supplies the steadying ballast of a collection. Those of us interested in how to generate productive intellectual ferment might well benefit from looking at what is going on here under our very eyes. I would also like to pay tribute to Darrell’s publisher, Nathan Hollier, and to Monash University Publishing. They quickly recognised a great book when they saw it. And they have made a beautiful production of it. Monash University Publishing has bestowed a rare honour on Darrell and one that will make him the envy of his professional colleagues – they have given him pages of text with footnotes at the base of them. In doing that, the publisher has judged the audience well. Darrell weaves a rich story of evidence and memory, of myth and truth, and the footnotes are part of it. People will love reading both above and below that line. Finally, of course, we want to thank Darrell – for his organic, vernacular telling of true stories, for his years of fieldwork in the clear air of the Dry and in the floods of the monsoons, in the majestic ranges and across the great Mitchell grass downs, for his meticulous, archaeological attention to the surviving material evidence of the history of this region, for recording all those etched messages in the skins of boabs, for capturing the stories of people, black and white. I am reminded of a great landmark work in Australian history, a book by another bush scholar, Eric Rolls, about the Pillaga Scrub and called A Million Wild Acres. Like Eric, Darrell knows his land inside out. Like Eric, he gives the dignity of a name to his people, wherever possible. And like Eric, Darrell is a skilled storyteller – have a look at how he carefully unpacks one story of an Aboriginal attack in 1895 on two white teamsters, John Mulligan and George Ligar. It is a story told in compelling slow-motion over 27 pages in the middle of the book so that, as the drama unfolds, there is also revealed the full cross-cultural complexity, biographical depth and topographical beauty of the Victoria River country. In A Wild History, the fields of Indigenous history, settler history and environmental history – the three themes, incidentally, at the heart of the National Museum of Australia – are seamlessly and impressively entwined. Thank you, Darrell, and congratulations! It gives me great pleasure to launch A Wild History. —— Tom Griffiths |
Tom Griffiths:
Professor of History and Director, Centre for Environmental History, ANU;
Chair, Editorial Board, Australian Dictionary of Biography;
Adjunct Professor of Climate Research, University of Copenhagen;
Professorial Affiliate, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia.
Photo courtesy of Anne Faris
Author Darrell Lewis
Darrell Lewis and Mick Dodson
Monash University Publishing Manager Nathan Hollier, launcher Tom Griffiths and author Darrell Lewis.
Photo courtesy Anne Farris
23/02/2012
Making Them Indonesians - launch
Helene van Klinken's Making Them Indonesians: Child Transfers Out of East Timor received an enthusiastic response at its official launch on 16 February 2012 at Monash University's Caulfield campus, and was attended by academics and others from southeast Asia and Australia. The book was launched by human rights worker and head of the International Center for Transitional Justice program, Galuh Wandita. Photographs from the launch are below:
Making Them Indonesians author Helene van Klinken.
Nathan Hollier, manager of Monash University Publishing manager, at the launch.
Galuh Wandita officially launches Making Them Indonesians.
MC Patrick Walsh.
Marika Vicziany, from the Monash Asia Institute, at the launch of Making Them Indonesians.
Helene van Klinken signing books.
A Lively Launch for a Life of SYN
Author Ellie Rennie at the Life of SYN launch. Photo by Evan Munro-Smith.
Ellie Rennie’s Life of SYN: A Story of the Digital Generation was launched on Thursday 8 December at Loop Bar in Melbourne. The event was emceed by the irreverent (except where Rennie is concerned) Bryce Ives, President of SYN, and Rennie’s book was launched by Andrew Crook, of crikey.com.
Monash University Publishing Manager Nathan Hollier said, "The book, the first in a digital cultures series, relates the kinds of creative responses to the contemporary media environment that Monash University Publishing also seeks to initiate. The launch was a lively and festive occasion and it's great to see such a high level of interest in an important work like Ellie's."
Visit our Facebook page for our coverage of the launch or see SYN’s Facebook page for some fantastic photos by Evan Munro-Smith that really capture the celebratory mood of the event.
08/09/2011
Ian Britain celebrates the launch of our Prato book
On 13 October a crowd gathered at the ColourFactory to celebrate the launch of the Monash University Prato Centre's ten-year history A Site of Convergence.
Professor Stephanie Fahey, Cynthia Troup and Dr Nathan Hollier
Joanne Mullins, Linsey Gosper (ColourFactory) and Kate Hatch discuss Jo-Anne Duggan's work
Ian Britain amuses and moves the crowd
Dr Ian Britain launched the book with aplomb. Ian is a well known and distinguished essayist and cultural conversationalist of great urbanity, and is a past editor of the journal Meanjin. He was a contributor to Australians in Italy and is currently writing a biography of Australian artist Donald Friend.
A Site of Convergence was also launched by Professor Ed Byrne, Monash University's Vice-Chancellor, at Prato.
08/09/2011
Nathan Hollier: Let's invest in developing our culture
Monash University Publishing's manager Nathan Hollier makes the case for investing in the humanities in The Australian's Higher Education supplement.
06/07/11
Announcement to all subscription agents
Monash University Publishing – journals in 2011
Dear Subscription Agents,
Thank you for your patience with us in letting you know the details of our journals for 2011 and onwards.
Following the transition of Monash University ePress to Monash University Publishing in September 2010, we aim to concentrate on book publishing – both online and in print – and will continue to publish a small list of academic journals.
As of 2011, we publish the following journals:
History Australia
Monash Bioethics Review
As of 2011, we no longer publish the following journals:
The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
The Bible and Critical Theory
The Telecommunications Journal of Australia
For further information about these journals, which all have new publishers, please follow the links above.
Please do NOT send any payments for 2011, as we will have to return these to you. If you have orders or enquiries for 2011 subscriptions please contact Sarah Cannon.
Thank you for your support, and please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah with any queries.
Sarah Cannon
Monash University Publishing
+61 3 9905 0526
Sarah.cannon@monash.edu
www.publishing.monash.edu
(Please note that Sarah work Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays only.)
15/06/11
Launch of Andrew Reeves'
Up from the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909–1968
For book publishers, launch events occasion much excitement and trepidation. Will it just be you, the author, the bookseller and a slice of cake eaten in embarrassed silence? Or will the masses descend, hungry for the words of your author and your invited launcher, struggling to form an orderly queue in their eagerness to get a signed copy? Tired already after a restless night's sleep, you reassure yourself, in the preceding moments, that you’ve done all the preparation you could have: you’re in the hands of the gods now.
On 3 June 2011 the gods smiled on Monash University Publishing. Over 200 people turned up to the State Coal Mine Visitor’s Centre in Wonthaggi to hear Senator the Honourable Kim Carr launch Professor Andrew Reeves’ coalmining history with passion, impressive knowledge and a rich awareness of the book's contemporary relevance. Boxes of books lost in transit to the mine were located and available. Professor Bruce Scates, as MC, was entertaining and thought-provoking. The author was gracious, personal and moving, speaking of the strength of a community that, looking around the room, was unmistakable. Wine flowed. Hands were shaken. Smiles and stories were exchanged. Good will abounded. A sense of history hung in the air. Flashes and clicks of cameras added to the atmosphere, while recording it all.
A tour of the mine followed, and was safely negotiated, while the publishers retreated to a local pub to tell themselves how well it all went and how relieved they were it was over ...
Images © 2011 Peter Love. Left to right: a local miner; Professor Bruce Scates and author Andrew Reeves; the mine tour.
23/05/11
An exploration of Wonthaggi's rich history
Historian Andrew Reeves unearths the rich mining history of Wonthaggi, located on Victoria's southeast coast, in his first book Up from the Underworld:Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909–1968.
The publication, to be launched next month the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr, explores how the town's workers came to exert a disproportionate amount of influence on the coal mining Industry for more than 60 years.
"The history of Wonthaggi is enigmatic: despite having only thin and broken seams of coal, the town was able to build a successful living that went against the profit predictions of many mine owners," Reeves says.
Read the full media release for Up From the Underworld.
25/3/11
Launch
Up from the Underworld
Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909–1968
By Andrew Reeves
On Friday, 3 June, Monash University Publishing and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Mining and Energy Division, Victorian Branch will formally launch Up from the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909–1968 by Andrew Reeves.
To be launched by Senator The Honorable Kim Carr. All welcome.
Date: Friday 3 June 2011
Time: 3 for 3.30pm
Venue: State Coal Mine, Wonthaggi, Visitor Centre
Garden Street, Wonthaggi (Melways REF X912 R 12 /
Vicroads Country Street Directory of Victoria REF 358 H 12)
RSVP: by 27 May 2011
Telephone: 03 9905 0526
Email: sarah.cannon@monash.edu
Mine tour
We will also be holding an underground tour of the mine after the book launch at 4.30pm sharp. RSVPs are essential (to sarah.cannon@monash.edu or 03 9905 0526).
Please note this is a walking tour and will take one hour to complete. We recommend sturdy shoes and warm clothing.
For details of the book please go to www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ufu.html.
19/05/11
VCA Art Forum Series #9: JANINE BURKE
Janine Burke will take a walk down memory lane, recalling what the Australian art scene, including the VCA, was like in the 1980s.
When: Thursday 19 May, 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Venue: Art Auditorium, School of Art, Gate 4, Dodds Street, Southbank
Further enquiries: 03 9685 9400 or email Scott Miles
Free admission and all welcome
Janine Burke is the award-winning author of sixteen books of art history, biography and fiction, including an acclaimed series about the Heide circle that includes biographies of Sunday Reed, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester. Her book, The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection, was shortlisted for 2007 NSW Premier's award for non-fiction.
This talk coincides with Janine's exhibition at Margaret Lawrence Gallery and her book titled Personal View: Photographs 1978-1986.
Image Credits:
(Left) Elizabeth Gower and Jenny Watson, From Janine Burke: Personal View, Janine Burke.
(Right) Janine Burke. Photograph: David Sheehy.
25/03/11
Announcing our newest imprint: The Monash Asia Institute
The Monash Asia Institute and Monash University Publishing are proud to announce that Monash Asia Institute Press has become an imprint of Monash University Publishing.
Through this initiative, the Monash Asia Institute Press will gain access to new markets and production systems and attain greater visibility within global education and publishing sectors, while Monash University Publishing will be greatly strengthened by association with such a well established and prestigious scholarly publisher.
Production and distribution of Monash Asia Institute Press titles will now be handled by Monash University Publishing, while the Monash Asia Institute will retain full control of editorial decisions and procedures.
The Monash Asia Institute and Monash University Publishing are planning a launch event, to mark this new arrangement, in the near future.
Our new distributor and agent: Footprint Books!
Monash University Publishing and Footprint Books are delighted to announce that effective immediately, Footprint Books is the exclusive agent and distributor in Australia and New Zealand. All orders and enquiries should now be directed to Footprint Books:
www.footprint.com.au
email: sales@footprint.com.au
phone: (02) 9997 3973.
Footprint Books will only accept returns of Monash University Publishing books if they were supplied by Footprint Books. For enquiries to Monash University Publishing please contact Sarah Cannon:
email: sarah.cannon@monash.edu
phone: (03) 9905 0526.
18/11/10
Announcement to all subscription agents
Monash University Publishing – journals in 2011
Dear Subscription Agents
We do appreciate your patience with us in letting you know the details of our journals in 2011 and onwards.
Monash University ePress became Monash University Publishing in September 2010 (please refer to our new website at www.publishing.monash.edu). We aim to concentrate on book publishing – both online and in print – as well as continue to publish a small list of academic journals.
We will publish the following journals in 2010:
History Australia
Monash Bioethics Review
We will not publish the following journals in 2010:
The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
The Telecommunications Journal of Australia
At this stage we cannot yet confirm who will publish:
The Bible and Critical Theory
For all of these journals we aim to send an announcement about how to renew your customers’ subscriptions shortly (editors are currently confirming new urls etc).
Please do NOT send any payments for 2011, as we will have to return these to you. If you would hold on to your 2011 orders until detailed information is available we would appreciate it – this won’t be too far away.
Thank you for your support, and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any queries.
All the best
Sarah Cannon
Monash University Publishing
+61 3 9905 0526
Sarah.cannon@monash.edu
www.publishing.monash.edu
(Please note that I work Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays only.)
29/09/10
Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand launched
The first book from Monash University Publishing, A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, was launched by Professor Tony Coady of the University of Melbourne before a crowd of philosophy enthusiasts on 14 September at Readings Carlton.
The Companion, an encyclopaedic collection that addresses a diverse range of the theories, philosophers, publications and associations that make Australasian philosophy distinct, is a highly original work in its field.
Professor Coady, one of Australia’s best known philosophers, declared it a ‘genuine pleasure to initiate the debates and conversations that this book will inevitably generate’.
Dr Nick Trakakis, who coedited the Companion with Professor Graham Oppy from Philosophy at Monash University, cited articles that tell ‘fascinating and relatively unknown stories’ about local philosophy as being of notable interest, and singled out those that evoke the vibrancy and distinctiveness of the Melbourne philosophy scene as amongst his personal favourites.
The volume suggests some of the more broadly distinguishing characteristics of Australia and New Zealand philosophy that have inspired respect and some surprise from international philosophers and academics. ‘I suspect that part of the surprise comes from the image of our nations as backwaters in which sport and booze are dominant preoccupations,’ said Professor Coady. ‘How can Ockers do metaphysics?’
Dr Nathan Hollier, Manager of Monash University Publishing, said it was no coincidence that the Companion was launched alongside Monash University Publishing itself. ‘It embodies many of the qualities of serious scholarship that we are aspiring to become known for,’ he said.
10/09/2010
Monash University Publishing officially launched
Left to right: Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Adam Shoemaker, University Librarian MsCathrine Harboe-Ree, Vice Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne, Dr Barry Jones and Monash University Publishing Manager Dr Nathan Hollier.
After many months of preparation, Monash University Publishing was launched on September 8, 2010. The launch was held in the foyer of the Robert Blackwood Hall, Clayton, below Leonard French’s great Alpha and Omega stained-glass window (a detail of which is used in the banner of this web site).
University Librarian Cathrine Harboe-Ree officiated at the ceremony, giving a warm welcome to over 100 guests including authors, editors, scholars, readers and fellow publishers.
Monash University Vice Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne praised the high standards of its first three titles, Australians in Italy, Closing the Gap in Education?, and A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, and spoke enthusiastically about the role that Monash Univerity Publishing will play within the university:
“Today is about boosting, in a very major way, the university’s capacity to communicate our scholarly works to communities of scholars around the world that we interact with and also the people in the regions where we have campuses”, he said.
The Hon Dr Barry Jones officially launched Monash University Publishing, having previously launched its earlier incarnation, Monash University ePress, in March 2005. Dr Jones, chair of the government’s Book Industry Strategy Group, stated that electronic publishing will “challenge the existing industry, much of which is very conservative, to rethink what they’re doing and where they’re going."
“The opportunites are tremendous and exciting and I’m looking forward to Monash University Publishing making its submission to our group.”
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Adam Shoemaker expressed a passionate commitment to open access publishing on behalf of the university. “Scholarly writing matters and accessibility to that work matters, and the transformation of that work into education in the broadest sense also matters” he said, emphasising that Monash University Publishing will make the majority of its publications available online for free.
He also gave tribute to the work of recently deceased colleague, editor and author Bill Kent, whose life was honoured in a memorial service the previous day. He said that together with Ros Pesman and Cythia Troup, Bill had produced an exceptional book in Australians In Italy.
Manager Dr Nathan Hollier gave thanks to the many people involved in making Monash Univerity Publishing a reality. “It’s been clear to me as a publisher that the reputation of Monash University is so strong and so established that if it has a major publishing arm it will almost certainly become a significant player within scholarly publishing in Australia and beyond.”
Staff at Monash University Publishing look forward to making that a reality.
Photos of the launch can be viewed on our Facebook page.
03/09/10
On 8 September Monash University ePress will be relaunched as Monash University Publishing, following nearly two years of work to establish a new platform and operating environment.
Monash University ePress was set up in 2003 by the inaugural manager, Michele Sabto, who had a brief to develop an economically sustainable electronic publishing model that used information technology to capture, publish, retrieve, read and present scholarly material.
The ePress was launched on 15 March 2005 by the Hon Barry Jones, who has accepted our invitation to relaunch the press.
The ePress has sold online access to books and journals, as well as printed versions of books. Its journals include History Australia, Monash BioEthics Review and Telecommunications Journal of Australia, and since coming into being it has published fifteen books.
A major review of the ePress in 2008–2009 resulted in the envisioning of a radical new future for this publishing operation.
Monash University Publishing will concentrate on open access publishing, particularly but not exclusively of scholarly monographs, and will become the single ‘shopfront’ for Monash-based publishing operations.
That is, site visitors will be able to access other Monash-based publications through the new Monash University Publishing website.
Everything published by Monash University Publishing will be available as print-on-demand, and selected books will be promoted and made available through bookshops.
An important feature of the new operation is the closer engagement of researchers. Three faculty based editorial boards have been established (Arts, Art & Design and Education), and discussions are underway with other faculties and research centres.
Special thanks are due to the ANU E Press of the Australian National University, which agreed to Monash becoming a collaborator in developing the software needed to get the new press up and running.
Monash University Publishing has also drawn on the ANU E Press example in developing its business model and systems.
We hope readers and authors now and in the future will find much of interest and value in the work of Monash University Publishing.
