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We now ‘know more about the “hidden” women philosophers of antiquity than ever before,’ says Professor Han Baltussen FAHA, mostly thanks to historians and philosophers ‘asking the right questions’ of the primary sources available to us. So who were these hidden women philosophers, and what do they tell us about women’s intellectual contributions to the pool of human knowledge?
‘A Fellow’s Fellow’ is a new AAH interview series, bringing together two Fellows whose scholarship, legacy and career have had a marked impact on the other. In our inaugural interview, Professor Kate Fullagar FAHA FRHistS interviews Emeritus Professor Alan Atkinson FAHA, one of Australia’s most distinguished historians, on the importance of understanding pre-democratic history, the dilemmas of historians, and his next project.σ
Professor Denis Byrne FAHA explores how Chinese-Australians had a unique influence on housing styles in their home villages in Southern China in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. The ‘Australian houses’ represented their owners ongoing dual sense of belonging and now are relics of the transnational heritage that migration generates.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities is delighted to see five Fellows shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in four categories. The recipients will be announced Thursday 12 September 2024.
Dr Lauren Samuelsson from the University of Wollongong is a cultural historian and recipient of a 2024 AAH Publication Subsidy, which will support new research analysing the impact of the Australian’s Women’s Weekly Cookbook on Australian food culture.
Four Australian translators have been shortlisted for the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation; shortlisted works include a multi-award-winning French bestseller, a book of Chinese poetry, and an anthology of articles from Russian newspapers published in Australia.
The 2024 Publication Subsidy scheme will fund the publication of new and important research, with topics ranging from unions and labour relations, Australian food culture to the history and the impact of Australian-Chinese community organisations on our national identity.
A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio is drawing audiences to MONA. Esteemed playwright John Bell FAHA talks about the enduring legacy of Shakespeare, and why his writing continues to appeal to audiences today.
Dr Olga Boichak, a Ukrainian-born media scholar studying digital cultures, is the recipient of the 2024 Max Crawford Medal. Her research focuses on the role of media, data, and technologies in contemporary military conflicts, as well as digital sovereignty and digital infrastructure in wars.
Ethel May Punshon, known to many as Monte, was a woman who experienced every major social and political change of the 20th-century. As Professor Emerita Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA explains, Monte’s life reminds us how far Australia has come in its transformation into a more diverse, multicultural, open and outward looking society.
On 18 June, AAH Executive Director, Inga Davis, set the scene for the HASS and Indigenous RDC Symposium hosted by the Australian Research Data Commons.
Ten humanities researchers will travel overseas to conduct projects addressing issues of national and international significance, such as the experiences of children participating in humanitarian projects, the rise of nationalist movements, and the data obtained without consent from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 19th and 20th century.
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.