Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
{{Short description|University department in Canberra, Australia}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
| established = 2009
| parent = Australian National University
| city = Canberra
| state = Australian Capital Territory
| country = Australia
| coordinates = {{coord|-35.2818|149.1201|display=inline,title}}
| website = {{url|rspas.anu.edu.au/index.php}}
| address = ANU Hedley Bull Centre, HC Coombs Building
}}
The Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs is a constituent of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. The study of the Pacific was formerly a research focus of the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies, founded in 1946 at the Australian National University.The historical background to the foundation of the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies within the Australian National University is documented in Stephen Foster and Margaret Varghese, The Making of the Australian National University, 1946–1966, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1966; Reprinted ANU E Press, 2009. Following a University restructure in 2009, the Research School was amalgamated with the Faculty of Asian Studies and renamed the College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP).{{cite web | title=Welcome to the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific | website=ANU College of Asia & the Pacific | url=https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/}}Office of the Vice-Chancellor, [http://info.anu.edu.au/ovc/Executive/040PP_University_Structure/academic_structure University Structure]; retirieved 2011-05-16. Kipnis in his introduction to his book dates the demise of RSPAS as 31 December 2009 {{Citation | author1=Kipnis, Andrew B | title=Governing educational desire: culture, politics, and schooling in China | publication-date=2011 | publisher=The University of Chicago Press | isbn=978-0-226-43755-2 }} The disciplines and units of the College were distributed among four Schools:
- Crawford School of Public Policy
- School of Asia and Pacific Affairs
- School of Regulation and Global Governance
- School of Culture History & Language
In 2015, the School of Asia Pacific Affairs, was renamed Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs in honour of Coral Bell, a leading Australian scholar of international politics.Foreign Policy Research Institute, [http://thinktanks.fpri.org/research-school-pacific-and-asian-studies Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831031121/http://thinktanks.fpri.org/research-school-pacific-and-asian-studies |date=31 August 2011 }}; retrieved 2011-05-16
Publications and outreach
During its existence, scholars from the RSPacS and RSPAS produced a large number of books and journal articles as well as various other publications that reported on its work and subjects within its scope.{{Citation |periodical=Quarterly Bulletin |date=2000 | publisher=Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | issn=1443-7104 }}{{clarify|reason=Which quarter? Article title?|date=August 2023}}{{Citation |magazine=The Asia-Pacific magazine |date=1997 | publisher=Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University | issn=1329-6663 }}{{clarify|reason=Article title? Which issue?|date=August 2023}}{{Citation |periodical=New Asia-Pacific Review |type=Catalogue record |date=1996 | publisher=Dragon Media, Inc | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15949464 | access-date=17 November 2012 |via=Trove |title=Trove }}{{clarify|reason=Article title? Which issue?|date=August 2023}}{{Citation |periodical=Conversations: Occasional Writing from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies |date=2000 | publisher=The Australian National University | issn=1444-0849 }}{{clarify|reason=Article title? Which issue?|date=August 2023}} For example, one of the major achievements of the research school was the establishment of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies by Professor Heinz Arndt in the mid-1960s. Now in publication for over 40 years, the Bulletin has documented the development of the Indonesian economy and is today the leading international journal dealing with the economic development of Indonesia.Arndt has documented the work surrounding the development of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies in his memoir, A course through life: Memoirs of an Australian economist, Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, ANU, 1985.
Other work on the region included support for the major annual Indonesia Update conference in Canberra where Australian and overseas experts discussed the state of development in Indonesia. The Update conference, which is now organised within the College of Asia and the Pacific, leads to the publication of a conference volume. During the 1980s and 1990s, RSPAS was joint publisher of the conference volume in cooperation with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies{{cite web|url=http://www.iseas.edu.sg/|title=Home|website=iseas.edu.sg|access-date=31 May 2018}} in Singapore.{{cite web|url=http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/publications/publications_ius.php|title=Indonesia Update Series Publications – Indonesia Project – ANU|website=Crawford.anu.edu.au|access-date=31 May 2018}}
In 2018, the school signed a memorandum of understanding with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, to collaborate on research into the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence.{{Cite web|url=http://bellschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/stories/6455/bell-school-signs-mou-cambridge-university-ai-centre|title=Bell School signs MoU with Cambridge University AI centre|last=Wenholz|first=Olivia|date=2018-10-10|website=Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs|access-date=2019-03-01}}
The number of linked publication series of the staff RSPAS is of considerable size covering its scope – with publications relating to Australian, Pacific, and Asian subjects.{{cite web|url=http://coombs.anu.edu.au/RPN/rspas-print-archive.htm|title=Home|website=Coombs.anu.edu.au|access-date=31 May 2018}} However following the change in arrangements in the ANU in 2010, some projects effectively closed down.{{Citation |periodical=China Heritage Newsletter |type=Catalogue record |date=2005 | publisher=China Heritage Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19892125 | access-date=17 November 2012 |title=Trove }}{{clarify|reason=Article title? Which issue?|date=August 2023}}
Pandanus Books was a publishing arm of RSPAS which produced a range of significant publications relative to south east Asian studies until it was wound down in 2006.{{Citation | title=Pandanus Books to Wind Down | journal=Bookseller + Publisher Magazine | publication-date=April 2006 | volume=85 | issue=9 | page=9 | issn=1833-5403 }}
= Internet =
A significant presence for the RSPAS on the internet was the RSPAS-based work Asian Studies WWW Monitor supported by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek. The Monitor was established in April 1994 and operated until January 2011.{{cite web|url=http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html|title=Home|website=Coombs.anu.edu.au|access-date=31 May 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://asia-www-monitor.blogspot.com.au/|title=The Best of the Asian Studies WWW Monitor|date=27 January 2011|website=Asia-www-monitor.blogspot.com.au|access-date=31 May 2018}} Later, the Pacific Studies WWW Monitor (ISSN 1443-8976) modelled on the Asian Studies monitor was established in April 2000.
= Conferences =
Subject areas of the conferences that RSPAS conducted or shared with other bodies were extensive in their coverage of Pacific and Asian areas of interest to Australia,{{Citation | title=Annual report | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | issn=1442-1852 }} this also subsequently attracted researchers with experience who would go on to work in Australian government agencies or authorities, or otherwise government would co-opt RSPAS staff onto their bodies.{{Citation | author=Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | title=Directory of research | publication-date=2000 | publisher=Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | issn=1443-7090 }} Of significance of the government relationship between RSPAS and the government is the title of the doctoral these by van Konkelenberg who wrote about The relationship between the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific Studies and the federal government 1946–1975.{{Citation |author1=Van Konkelenberg |author2=Jude Nicholas | title=Australia's Cold War university: the relationship between the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific Studies and the federal government 1946–1975 | publication-date=2009 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/158913681 | access-date=17 November 2012 }}
Collections
The various divisions or sections within RSPAS had collections of materials in relation to the study areas that were on a par or complementary with that held by the National Library of Australia{{Citation | author=ANU Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies. Cartographic Services | title=Index to Papua New Guinea 1:100,000 topographic survey maps held in Cartographic Services, up to 2004. Topography |type=Catalogue record |date=2004 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28578872 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916165658/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28578872?q&versionId=34749698 |archive-date=2016-09-16 | access-date=17 November 2012 }}{{Citation | author=Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau | title=Tam-tam, 1980–1984 |date=1980 | publisher=Tam-tam | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37847914 | access-date=17 November 2012 }}{{dead link|date=August 2023}}
Coombs Building
For much of its history, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies was housed in the Coombs Building, a notable architectural icon on the ANU campus. The building, named after leading Australian economist H.C. Coombs, was inaugurated on 11 September 1964. A set of interlinked hexagons –- originally two, with third added later, together with a lecture theatre and extension—the Coombs Building was the hive in which research and teaching were carried out on the Asia-Pacific region.The Coombs: A House of Memories, is a set of some thirty-five personal recollections by scholars and staff who spent time in the building. {{Citation | author1=Coombs, H. C. | author2=Lal, Brij V. | author3=Ley, Allison | others=Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | title=The Coombs: a house of memories | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies | isbn=978-1-920942-88-5 }}
Deans of the College of Asia and the Pacific
- Professor Andrew MacIntyre, starting in 2008{{cite web|url=http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/about/governance|title=Our governance|date=10 October 2012|website=Asiapacific.anu.edu.au|access-date=31 May 2018}}
- Professor Michael Wesley
- Professor Brendan Taylor (Acting) (2016–2018)
- Professor Toni Erskine (2018–current)
References
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= Further reading =
- Firth, Raymond. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25169281 "The Founding of the Research School of Pacific Studies,"] The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jun. 1996), pp. 3–7
- Foster, S.G. and Varghese, M.M. (1996). The Making of the Australian National University, 1946–1996. Sydney: Allen and Unwin. {{ISBN|978-1-921536-62-5}} {{OCLC|314011417}}
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