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Tempora mutantur: a new age at the ANU Classics Museum

The Australian National University’s Classics Museum is inconspicuous — housed in the heart of the university’s campus, just around the corner from Kambri. The 20th-century exterior is a stark contrast to the collection within, which boasts objects from Roman Britain, Europe, Northern Africa and the Near and Middle East. Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney has been Lecturer […]

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Annual Academy Dinner

Event Date: 6.00pm-10.00pm for Dinner, Thursday 13 November 2025 Venue: Queen Victoria Building, Sydney NSW. This event occured on 13 November 2025.  We warmly invite you to join us for our 56th Annual Academy Dinner, hosted by the Academy Council.  With formal presentations the 2025 Max Crawford Medal, McCredie Musicological Award, and the John Mulvaney

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Fellows Signing Ceremony

A 55-year long tradition to officially welcome Fellows. The Council of the Academy warmly invites Fellows to join them for this official ceremony where elected Fellows have the opportunity to add their signatures to the Academy’s historic Charter Book, alongside those Fellows elected to the Academy since 1969. Fellows will also receive their Certificates of

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Jill Bennett

She is Founding Director of The Big Anxiety festival, the Big Anxiety Research Centre and the ARC-funded Felt Experience & Empathy Lab (fEEL Lab) at UNSW. Jill’s immersive media and public engagement projects explore the role of creative technology and trauma-informed design in supporting mental and emotional health with a particular focus on lived experiences of

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Elizabeth Stephens

She was previously an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at UQ (2017-2021), Associate Dean Research at Southern Cross University (2014-2017), and an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses (UQ, 2010-2014). Elizabeth is author of over 100 publications, including three

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Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker

He is also an Australian Research Council Fellow (IN220100008) in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies of the Australian National University. Lyndon has significant experience lecturing and coordinating tertiary-level subjects, including the delivery of ‘on-country’ learning. He continues in his roles of policy development and research, and negotiations at the national and international levels,

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Richard Yeo

He is an historian of science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His books include Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in early Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 1993); Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge, 2001); and Notebooks, English

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Keynote: Human priorities, machine decisions?

Event details When: 9-10am, Friday 17 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Human priorities, machine decisions? Limitations of using mathematical models for decision support One way of interacting with possible uncertain futures is through the use of mathematical models to construct and visualise different kinds of outcomes and counterfactuals. Dr Erica Thompson will discuss

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Dr Marc Trabsky

He combines critical theory, socio-legal research, and science and technology studies to explore the interrelations between law, technology, and death. Marc has written Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019) and Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2023). He is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Law and Death (Routledge, 2024, forthcoming).

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Roslynn Haynes

As a graduate in both biochemical sciences and the humanities she is most interested in cross-disciplinary research, and is internationally recognised for her contributions to the field of science and literature over many decades. Roslynn has published five major books in the field that continue to be cited: H.G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future (Macmillan,

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.