题目：Race, Nation and Asian Engagement in Australian Studies

演讲人：Professor David Walker （大卫·沃克教授）

主持人： 王敬慧副教授，清华大学外文系澳大利亚研究中心

时间：2013年11月8日（星期五）上午10：00-11：30

地点：六教A 201

主办：清华大学外文系、清华大学外文系澳大利亚研究中心

演讲人介绍：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 ofAustralia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century(UWA Publishing, 2012). A collection of his Asia-related essays has been published under the titleEncountering Turbulence: Asia in the Australian Imaginary(Readworthy, 2013). His recently published personal history,Not Dark Yethas 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