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Building a National Languages Campaign: An Interim Progress Report

The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)鈥檚 National Languages Campaign was born out of a desire to help reverse the decline in language learning by Australian university students. Indonesian is something of the canary in the coalmine in this context鈥攁 leading indicator, so to speak鈥攁nd I am aware that not all languages taught

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鈥淏ecoming Resilient: Disaster Recovery in Post-Yolanda Philippines through Women鈥檚 Eyes鈥 by Dr Kaira Zoe Alburo Ca帽ete, John Legge Thesis Prize Winner

Congratulations on being awarded the John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in 黑料社区 in Australia in 2021! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? What鈥檚 the problem/topic it explores and what did you find? My thesis examines the reconstruction of Tacloban City in the Philippines following typhoon Yolanda (internationally known as Haiyan),

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“The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore”, by Cheng Nien Yuan John Legge Thesis Prize Winner

Can you tell us a bit about your thesis. What鈥檚 the problem it explores and what did you find? My thesis identifies and explores Singapore鈥檚 newfound interest in a specific form of narration as a phenomenon I call the storytelling state. Over the last decade, public (auto)biographical storytelling, elicited through visualised narrative interviews, have proliferated

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