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The Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for over a quarter-century, he was a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Australia. Having worked during World War II for the Royal Navy as a translator of Japanese, Davis studied Chinese at the University of Cambridge 1946–1948, graduating with First Class Honours.
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.
Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studies and Asian studies. Traditional Oriental studies in Europe is today generally focused on the ...
The focus on Sydney ultimately resulted in the establishment of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (1975) and the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (1974) rather than a geographic expansion of OSA membership. [2] [5] The society also hosts regular seminars, the annual A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture as well as an Emerging Scholars Award. [6]
2009, Neville Meaney, “The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II” [5] 2010, Michael Walsh, "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia" [6] [7] 2011, Bonnie McDougall, “Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships” [8]
The studies of Aboriginal Australian history dates back 65,000 years ago when humans first populated Australia. [3] The exact arrival of Aboriginal Australians has however been a topic of dispute among historians and archaeologists , with the accepted period being between 40,000 and 80,000 years. [ 4 ]
Roy Clive Abraham (16 December 1890, Melbourne, Australia - 22 June 1963, Hendon, London) was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century. He worked for over thirty years on a wide range of disparate languages.
26th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Congress of Orientalists : New Delhi 4–10 January 1964, ed. R N Dandekar (Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Inst. 1970). 27th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Congress of Orientalists. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13–19 August 1967.