http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:11903 We prove a q-series identity that generalizes Macdonald's A⁽²⁾_2n η-function identity and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. We conjecture our result to generalize even further to also include the Andrews–Gordon identities. 2013-03-06T04:45:06.967Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:11893 "Divergent" Ramanujan-type series for 1/π and 1/π² provide us with new nice examples of supercongruences of the same kind as those related to the convergent cases. In this paper we manage to prove three of the supercongruences by means of the Wilf-Zeilberger algorithmic technique. 2012-11-06T00:31:54.860Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:11910 Around 1828, T. Clausen discovered that the square of certain hypergeometric ₂F₁ function can be expressed as a hypergeometric ₃F₂ function. Special cases of Clausen’s identities were later used by S. Ramanujan in his derivation of 17 series for 1/π. Since then, there were several attempts to find new analogues of Clausen’s identities with the hope to derive new classes of series for 1/π. Unfortunately, none were successful. In this article, we will present three new analogues of Clausen’s identities. Their discovery is motivated by the study of relations between modular forms of weight 2 and modular functions associated with modular groups of genus 0. 2012-11-02T02:41:00.230Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:3518 This paper explores The Devil's Playground (Schepisi, 1976), with reference points from the opening sequence serving as a springboard for a discussion of the representations of male sexualities and gender identities. In the analysis that follows sexualities and masculinities are taken to be diverse and intersecting, and bodies are understood as powerful sites for their interaction. This analytic focus on sexualities and masculinities reveals that the film speaks to a much wider historical canvas concerning the production of the modern gender order than a 'national cinema' analysis would show. 2012-03-07T23:03:35.034Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:9998 We thank the Pedagogies editors for publishing Fabos’s response and offering us a chance to reflect in kind on her reading of our article. We agree with many of her observations. Perhaps some brief clarifications are in order before we take up the substantive issues she raises in her critique. We hope to contribute some interesting lines of speculation and inquiry for readers of this issue and to justify the editors’ invitation to have this dialogue. 2012-02-09T22:50:03.735Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:9832 There has been no shortage of recent scholarly and other publications about Islam, especially since the events of 11 September 2001. In one way or another, these works attempt to retrieve, restore and explain the positive story about Islam that is under threat owing to contemporary events. Much of this story seems pertinent to the ethos of modern social work. Before engaging in their application to social work, this chapter begins with an outline of Islam's major social ethics and, in deference to the confused identity of Islam today, juxtaposes these with the dubious ethics of that other face of Islam, known widely by terms such as 'Jihadism', 'Radical Islam' or simply 'Islamism'. 2012-01-19T04:30:03.554Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4872 Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2011-12-07T22:50:03.812Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:8645 In his monumental study After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, George Steiner identifies communication across time and space as the key constitutive aspects of translation, and the translator as a powerful mediator between the distinctive values and traditions of cultures. His panoramic portrayal and interpretation of the complex formation of the cultural landscape of Western civilization over the centuries extends far beyond the narrow perspective of comparative linguistics or what Eugene Nida refers to as 'the mechanics of linguistic similarities and contrasts', as the title of his study might suggest. Steiner's penetrating vision thus anticipates the culture-oriented theoretical views articulated by leading Western translation scholars (and practitioners) of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Nida, Snell-Hornby, Vermeer, Venuti, Hatim and Mason, among others, on the role of translation in the construction and preservation of distinctly national and cultural identities as a hallmark of 19th and 20th century Western civilization. 2011-08-16T04:40:03.877Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:8445 The foundation of the Australian nation was unspectacular: the Commonwealth of Australia came into being with the stroke of a pen on a summer's day in 1901. At the time of federation, the majority of Australians was of British heritage and the mother country was by many still considered 'home'. With no foundation myth or unique defining history or culture to resort to, how could Australians forge a national identity? Nadine Kavanagh presents strong evidence that, surprising as it may be, encyclopaedias played an important role in the Australian nation building process. Contrary to their objective appearance, encyclopaedias have the power, along with other cultural, artistic and educational products, to subtly control and, para doxically, to change the societies which produced them. Like Prospero, encyclopaedists appear to conjure new realities. Kavanagh argues that the Australian Encyclopaedia, published in 1925/26 by Angus & Robertson in Sydney, was a cultural product with an agenda: to fill the conceptual void left by the unspectacular foundation of the Australian nation. 2011-07-21T04:20:16.799Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:7705 In the aftermath of World War II, the relegation of small Pacific Island states to the responsibility of Australia and New Zealand, largely translated into Australia administering English speaking Melanesian islands such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Torres Strait, and to some extent Fiji, while New Zealand, presumably because of its large Maori population, looked after Polynesia. This rather ad hoc arrangement led to large-scale Pacific migration, mainly to New Zealand, in search of work. However, since the 1990s, the lack of work opportunities and low wages in both New Zealand and the Islands has meant Maori and Pacific Islanders are coming to Australia in increasing numbers, and staying permanently. This paper is an attempt to examine why Maori and Pacific Islanders are putting down their roots in Australia and to what extent does this inform the identity of their children, particularly young men. The complex nature of transmutable, hybrid and negotiated identities are explored in this rapidly growing population group. This article represents a sample study of eighteen young Polynesian men, aged 18-28, who were born in Australia or migrated as young children. These interviews are part of a larger study being conducted by the first author. 2011-05-12T06:30:39.200Z ]]>