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In today’s Five-Minute Friday Read, Purnendra Jain FAHA, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, examines Okinawa’s strategic and political importance in the Pacific while considering the impacts on the citizens of the islands.
In our new series, the Five-Minute Friday Read, we’re publishing essays by our Fellows on a range of important and timely topics in the humanities. Today, Kane Race FAHA, Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, explores the public health response to the current monkeypox outbreak and its relationship to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
In our new series, the Five-Minute Friday Read, we’re publishing essays by our Fellows on a range of important and timely topics in the humanities. Today, William (Bill) Loader FAHA, Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University, examines Biblical writings on same-sex relations and their implications for the modern-day Anglican Church.
In our new series, the Five-Minute Friday Read, we’re publishing essays by our Fellows on a range of important and timely topics in the humanities. Today, Helen Groth FAHA, Professor in the English and Creative Writing program in the School of Arts and Media, UNSW, writes about the significance and provenance of the attack on Sir Salman Rushdie.
With sadness, the Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges the passing of Emeritus Professor Lorenzo Polizzotto FAHA, one of Australia’s finest historians of the Florentine Renaissance.
In our new series, the Five-Minute Friday Read, we’re publishing essays by our Fellows on a range of important and timely topics in the humanities. Today, Frank Bongiorno AM FAHA, Professor of History at the Australian National University, writes about the importance of accessibility to Australia’s libraries and archives and examines their importance for humanities scholars.
We are delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s Humanities Travelling Fellowship.
These Fellowships enable early career researchers to undertake research overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with international researchers and networks.
Having supported hundreds of scholars over more than five decades, the Publication Subsidy Scheme is one of the Academy’s longest running awards programs.
Our Publication Subsidy Scheme supports quality publication in the humanities, with funding awarded to early career researchers to support costs associated with publication, such as illustrations, maps, and copyright fees.
In the spirit of Humanities Australia, the Academy’s journal, Emerita Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA writes about the challenges faced by the humanities in the age of fake news, pressure on academics to publish at all costs and rising international tensions.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges with sadness the passing of Emeritus Professor Philip Thomson FAHA, an eminent literary theorist and critic. He was elected to the Academy in 1991.
Zac Roberts, a Yuin scholar from the South Coast of New South Wales, has been awarded the 2022 John Mulvaney Fellowship to support his research into Indigenous-Jewish relations.
With deep sadness, the Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges the passing of Professor Janna Thompson FASSA FAHA, one of Australia’s most eminent philosophers with expertise in environmental ethics, feminism and global justice. She was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001 and to the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences in 2011.