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There’s been much talk recently about whether children under 18 should be banned from accessing social media. Many claim social media negatively impacts children’s wellbeing. But is exclusion the answer? What are the other solutions? Professor Axel Bruns FAHA from QUT Digital Media Research Centre and Dr Aleesha Rodriguez from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child examine how we can keep children safe online — while still upholding their rights to information and education.
This week Professor Helena Grehan FAHA reveals how the immersive experience of theatre helps audiences sit with complex and often contradictory ideas and emotions. She explores the multi-award production, Jurrungu Ngan-ga ‘Straight Talk’ and its call for us to reconsider ideas of incarceration, imprisonment and Australian nationhood.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has awarded the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation to Stephanie Smee for her translation of the multi-award-winning French bestseller, ‘On the line: notes from a factory’ by Joseph Ponthus, published by Black Inc. in Australia in 2021.
Philosopher and architectural theorist Dr Lucy Benjamin is the 2024 recipient of the Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award, which will support new research into how we think about the past, the kind of memorials we construct to commemorate history, and how we perceive monuments as time passes.
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.
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.