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 Fellowship, the dinner is a chance to catch up with Fellows, meet our 2025 award recipients, and celebrate humanities scholarship.
The Dinner address, How can the Arts Thrive?, will be delivered by Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins FAHA.
Joanne Tompkins, retired from the University of Queensland, has held additional roles including a three-year secondment as Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts, at the Australian Research Council (ARC); terms on research excellence evaluations in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong; and a consultant on research strategy. Her research expertise lies in spatial theories and virtual reality; multicultural theories and drama; intercultural performance and feminist performance. She is the author of two monographs, four co-authored books, three edited books, and over 60 referred articles/chapters on post-colonial, multicultural, intercultural theatre, and spatial studies. She is co-editor of a book series for the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), and the Australasian Drama Studies Association named an editing award in her honour. She is a founder of AusStage and involved in several digital humanities projects. She received an honorary doctorate from Queen Mary University of London. Ortelia, the company that emerged from her research, has recently been sold to an international entity.
