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2023 McCredie Musicological Award Recipient, Dr Sarah Kirby, examines the significance of International Exhibitions in the 19th century, and how the piano shaped Australia’s cultural identity.
In this week’s Five Minute Friday, Professor Sally Young FAHA aims to train a chat-bot to recite accurate information about Australia’s media history, and examines the role the humanities play in influencing AI’s use.
A Universities Accord with an excessive focus on technical skills, or single-sector skills, risks selling Australians short. To get the right mix of skills, we need the humanities at the national strategy table.
Dr Sarah Kirby is the recipient of the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ prestigious 2023 McCredie Musicological Award, recognising outstanding contribution to Musicology by an Australian scholar.
Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson FAHA explains why we need to invest in Critical Indigenous Studies: not because it is the ‘moral’ thing to do, but for the rich contribution Indigenous scholarship and knowledge stands to make to contemporary inquiry and society.
79 per cent percent of the ARC’s Linkage projects reported social impacts as an outcome of their grant, ahead of economic impacts.
All ten recommendations to the Review of the Australian Research Council (ARC) were agreed to, or agreed in principle, by the Australian Government in a major reform that will signal the end to Ministerial vetos and seek to restore research integrity.
As we observe the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, Jane Lydon FAHA calls on us to recognise slavery in all its forms, including those persisting today.
Philosophers, physicians, social workers and scientists have long explored the human tendency to form habits. They have also pondered how to break routinised habits by creating fissures—gaps in time that allow new habits to form. And, as Tony Bennett FAHA FAcSS shows in Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct (2023), the history of forming and changing habits is a politically charged one.
Photojournalist-turned-academic Dr TJ Thomson has been named the 2023 Max Crawford Medal winner for his exemplary career in which he helps to build media literacy and addresses misinformation and disinformation.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities welcomes the Minister of Education’s release of the Universities Accord Interim Report, led by Professor Mary O’Kane AC.
Dishonest politicians and the failure to act on mounting evidence of Robodebt’s inaccuracies has led to a major distrust in technology, media and essential services for our country’s most vulnerable people. Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship recipient Terry Flew FAHA explains how his mediated trust research can help us better understand questions of trust as they relate to news media, digital platforms, corporations, and global institutions.