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Issue: January/February 2004NewsStrong start for new Philippines CentreLa Trobe University and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines have established the Philippines-Australia Studies Centre (PASC) to encourage wider links between the two nations. Director of the Centre, Dr Trevor Hogan, a senior lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, said PASC is designed to increase student and teacher exchanges and research collaboration between Filipino and Australian scholars. Based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, it is a University-wide initiative spanning all faculties. Dr Hogan said La Trobe's extensive connections with universities in East Asia and North America mean researchers can stop over at Manila when they travel to those regions. A number of events have already taken place under the auspices of the new Centre. Professor Vivian Lin, from the School of Public Health, and Mr Cliff Picton, Social Work &Social Policy, visited Ateneo late last year. In February a delegation led by PASC director, Dr Hogan comprised La Trobe academics Professor Joseph Camilleri and Mr Larry Marshall, (Politics), and Professor Joel Kahn and Daisuke Tanaka, (Sociology and Anthropology). Ateneo University, founded by the Jesuits in the nineteenth century, is the Philippines' leading private university. It has strong research networks throughout Asia and close links with universities in Japan, USA, France and Spain. La Trobe Adjunct Professor Charles Mott - a former Australian diplomat, and Deputy Director of PASC - initiated the involvement of Australian Ambassador to the Philippines, Ms Ruth Pearce, who has been an active supporter of the Centre in Manila. Other La Trobe office bearers of the Centre include Professor of Asian Studies, John Fitzgerald. Details from tel: 03 9479 1693 or email: m.richter@latrobe.edu.au
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