Discovery Projects commencing 2007:
A/Prof CJ Mews; Dr KA Green; Dr JM Pinder
Medieval Virtue Ethics and the Formation of the Feminine Moral Subject: Jeanne of
Navarre to Marguerite of Navarre
2007: $104,991; 2008: $100,000; 2009: $84,991 Administering Organisation: Monash University
This
research will generate fresh community awareness of the importance of
teaching ethics in everyday rather than academic language, with a
particular relevance to women, thus contributing to the national debate
about what constitutes values education. By showing how famous women
writers were not isolated individuals, but adapted an established
tradition of communicating ethics to women, the research will
contribute to contemporary debates about the relevance of the teaching
of ethics. The project will develop further existing close connections
between Australian scholars and researchers in both Europe and the USA.
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Dr MT Davis; A/Prof DF Lemmings Approved The Courtroom, Lawyers and the Press: Negotiating Justice in the Age of the Public Sphere 2007: $108,000; 2008: $54,000 Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland The
origins of modern Australian systems of justice are derived from
institutions and cultures developed in Britain, and this project will
contribute a deeper understanding of their nature and provenance. It
will illuminate the roots of the modern trial as an instrument of
governance that involves largely symbolic, rather than substantive,
popular participation, and trace its equally significant role as a form
of popular entertainment. Besides their obvious relevance to questions
about active citizenship in modern Australia, scholarly studies of
these issues will contribute in a major way to Australia's
international reputation for producing highquality scholarly
contributions to British studies.
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Dr A Fitzmaurice Approved Understanding the concept and meaning of freedom in Western history 2007: $54,375; 2008: $32,989; 2009: $39,404; 2010: $44,151 Administering Organisation: The University of Sydney
This
project directly engages with current political and social debate and
particularly with the National Research Priority 'Safeguarding
Australia'. The priority goal 'Understanding our region and the world'
is at the heart of the project because it addresses the principal
political problem following from September 11, 2001: namely, the price
of freedom. The project's principal national benefit will be to use
history to challenge our very understanding of the nature of freedom.
The project questions the paradox that freedom can be assured by
compromises made in the name of security and that, in this sense,
freedom has a 'price'.
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Dr PJ Holbrook
A study of the impact of human agency in Shakespeare on Western culture and society
2007: $52,230; 2008: $41,106; 2009: $55,368
Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland
The
project is important to the international reputation of English
Literature scholarship and to the continuing development of
Shakespearean studies in Australia. It will augment a growing area of
research, the study of Early Modern Europe, that has achieved critical
mass in this country, as reflected by the establishment in 2005 of the
ARC Network for Early European Research. The project will contribute to
our knowledge of the history of the ideal of personal and collective
autonomy or self determination, an ideal absolutely central to
Australian culture. Grasping the rich genealogy and historical context
of this formative and essential ideal is vital to understanding our
national identity.
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Prof MB Clunies Ross
Approved The Language of Old Norse Poetry, an important intellectual achievement of the Western Middle Ages
2007: $105,282; 2008: $113,653; 2009:$127,010
Administering Organisation: The University of Sydney
Old
Norse poetry, produced from the Viking Age until the end of the Middle
Ages, is one of the most important achievements in European literature.
Thematically, it ranges from praise of Viking kings to Christian
devotion; in metre and style it is extremely elaborate. It has applied
value to a range of disciplines, including history, archaeology,
linguistics and religious studies. This project will make Norse poetic
language more accessible to scholars and the general public by
providing new resources in the English language for its understanding,
superseding previous studies because of the use of fully revised
primary data.
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Dr JF Ruys (QEII) Approved
Learning from Life: The Creation of Experiential and Life Long Learning
in Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
2007:$124,792; 2008:$134,402; 2009:$123,563; 2010:$124,462; 2011:$118,313
Administering Organisation: The University of Sydney
Experiential
and lifelong learning are fundamental principles of modern Australian
educational practice, from primary and high school to university and
centres of adult education; they are of interest to the Federal
Government (Higher Education Review, Senate Inquiry, DEST project).
This innovative project will investigate the cultural heritage of these
practices, detailing how they arose in medieval Europe and were refined
by thinkers and practitioners throughout the early modern period. It
will reveal how a reliance on received authority and example was
transformed into a modern pedagogic mode that encourages learning
throughout the course of life and teaches pupils how to think for
themselves and to learn from life experience.
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A/Prof YA Haskell; Prof S Starkstein
Approved Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy: lessons for modern psychiatric theory and practice
2007: $56,294; 2008: $40,294; 2009: $32,294
Administering Organisation: The University of Western Australia
This
pioneering collaboration between researchers in humanities and medicine
will investigate the ways psychosomatic illness was defined and spread
in early modern Italy. Epidemics of such illness still occur today and
have had a major social and economic impact on Australia in recent
decades. Our project will draw lessons for modern psychiatric theory
and practice from historical and cultural differences in the
conceptualisation and communication of 'hypochondria'. It will shed
light on a very contemporary ethical dilemma in psychiatry: should
doctors lie to 'hypochondriacal' patients? It will also contribute to
current debates on the role of disease labels and information in the
incidence and 'infectiousness' of psychosomatic illness.
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A/Prof LE Hill; Prof WR Prest; Dr BA Buchan
An Intellectual History of Political Corruption
2007: $53,000; 2008: $72,000; 2009: $45,000
Administering Organisation: The University of Adelaide
The
project will bring expert historical and conceptual knowledge to bear
on the shortcomings of current policy debates, thereby suggesting new
possibilities for redefining and clarifying the problem of corruption
and the meaning of good governance. --- Linkage Projects:
Dr SM Broomhall; Prof JE Malpas; A/Prof JE Barclay Lloyd; Prof JA Griffiths; Mr C Wood
An interdisciplinary framework for place-based research and its impact on the tourist industry
2007: $27,410; 2008: $53,868; 2009: $51,133
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s):
Australians Studying Abroad
The University of Western Australia
The
project situates Australian research at the heart of an
interdisciplinary inquiry into the understanding of place, and its
socio-cultural analysis. It promotes national research on the
interpretation of place in social analysis, and the publications
produced respond to commercial needs for high-level interpretative
place-based studies in the tourism industry. The generation of
intellectually rigorous knowledge capital for outbound educational tour
operators locates Australia at the intellectual cutting edge of
scholarly content for educational tourism and for heritage
organizations worldwide. The project is explicitly designed to provide
early career training, with opportunities for research on the tourist
industry.
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