Biography

In January 2004 Auriol Weigold was appointed Course Convenor and Lecturer in the
University of Canberra’s new BA International Studies. She had been a Visiting Research Fellow and part-time lecturer and tutor in the Division of Communication and Education since being awarded a PhD in Indo-British political history in 1997.

Auriol has Research Masters and Honours degrees, also in Indo-British fields from the Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide. Auriol’s main area of recent work has been developing the first year and subsequent units of the BA International Studies. She also researches and writes about aspects of the Australia-India bilateral relationship, published frequently in Asian Analysis e-journal.

The Conference “Midnight to Millennium: Australia-India Interconnections” was organised by Auriol at the University of Canberra in 1999. Since then she has organised annual Australia-India Update Seminars in Canberra up to and including 2004. The 2008 India Seminar will be held at University of Canberra on 6-7 November, organised by Auriol jointly with ANU.

During 2006 and 2007, Auriol wrote Churchill, Roosevelt and India: Propaganda during World War II, published by Routledge, New York in September 2008.

Book Publications – Auriol Weigold

Weigold, A, Churchill, Roosevelt and India: Propaganda during World War II,
Routledge, New York, 2008

Book Chapters and Journal Articles – from 2000

• ‘Cripps Offer and the Nationalist Response: Constructing Propaganda in the United States, 2000, South Asia, New Series, Vol XXIII, No. 2, December
• ‘Midnight to Millennium: Australia-India Interconnections’, Introductory Chapter & Guest Editor, 2000, South Asia, Special Issue, Vol XXIII
• 'Midnight to Millennium in Canberra, Australia, 1999, 2002, C. vanden Driesen & Satendra Nandan (eds), Austral-Asian Encounters, Prestige, New Delhi
• ‘Security in South Asia: Outsider Perspectives’, M. Vicziany and A. Weigold in Contemporary South Asia. Vol 12, No. 2, June 2003
• ‘Australian Mainland Press: On Post-October 12 Bali’, N.N. Vohra (ed) India and Australasia: History, Culture and Society, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2003
• ‘Terms of Alliance: Australia, India and the USA’, Santosh K. Sareen (ed), Australia & India Interconnections: Identity, Representation and Belonging, Mantra Books, New Delhi, 2006
• ‘Benign Whiteness in Australian Race Relations, D. Gopal (ed), India-Australia Relations: Convergences and Divergences, New Delhi, 2008

Asian Analysis & Dissent articles from 2003

• ‘India Language to confuse and confront’, Asian Analysis e-journal, May 2003
• ‘Indo-Israeli Trade Talks. Where is Australia?’ Asian Analysis e-journal, Sept. 2003
• ‘Upsetting the neighbours: The Australian Press on engagement with Asia post-Bali’, Dissent, No 11, Autumn/Winter 2003
  

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