2010-19
Being Humane – A Contested History
Professor Joy Damousi FASSA FAHA
14 November 2019, Brisbane
Turning the Level of Civilisation Up: The twenty-first century challenge (excerpt | audio recording | video)
Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA
15 November 2018, Sydney
Not just warriors or victims (audio recording)
Professor Kim Scott FAHA
16 November 2017, Fremantle
Academic Freedom and the Contemporary University: Lessons from China
Professor John Fitzgerald FAHA
15 November 2016, Melbourne
The ethnographic echo: Archaeological approaches to writing long-term histories of Indigenous spiritual beliefs and ritual practices
Professor Ian J. McNiven FAHA
2015
Generosity and the institutions of the humanities
Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson AM FAHA
2014
Creators or destroyers: The burning questions of human impact in ancient Aboriginal Australia
Professor Peter Hiscock FSA FAHA
2013
Politics, poetics and policy: Humanities and the new borders
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco AM FAHA
2011
Can the mute stones speak?
Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FSA FAHA and Heather Jackson FSA FAHA
2010
2000-09
The idea of an academy
Professor Ian Donaldson FBA FRSE FAHA
2009
Spectacle in sixteenth-century Venice: Or how Carpaccio, Giorgione and Titian represented patrician youth theatre
Professor Jaynie Anderson OSI FAHA
2008
Scales and balance: Archaeology, cultural heritage and sustainability
Professor Iain Davidson FAHA
2007
Multilingual society with a monolingual mindset
Professor Michael Clyne
2006
Informing the public: Is there a place for a critical humanities?
Professor Graeme Turner FAHA
2005
Teddy Roosevelt’s trophy: History and nostalgia
Professor Iain McCalman AO FASSA FAHA
2004
Backstage at the republic of letters
Dr Inga Clendinnen
2003
Inquiries into truth
Professor Mark Finnane FASSA FAHA
2002
Alternative Australias: Fates and fortunes
Professor Malcolm Gillies AM FLCM FACE FAHA
2001
Big history, globalisation and Australia: Towards a more inclusive account of the past
Associate Professor David Christian FAHA
2000
1990-99
Framing a new Australian republic
Barry Jones AO FAA FAHA FTSE FRSA FAIM
1999
Ancestral songs: Understandings of Aboriginal song since 1788
Professor Margaret Clunies Ross FAHA
1998
Australian archaeology: A contested discipline
Professor Rhys Jones FAHA
1997
Bush and Backwoods: Myths of musical identity in Australia and the United States
Professor Roger Covell FAHA
1996
The uses of the past
David Malouf FAHA
1995
History’s page: The humanities and Australia as a post-colonial society
Professor Deryck Schreuder FAHA
1994
Theatre and the Greeks
Professor Jeremy Green FAHA
1993
‘Wild Words’: The condition of language in Australia
Professor Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE FAHA
1992
Philosophers and kings: Variations on an old theme
Professor Gerhard Schulz FAHA
1991
The Humanities and the Australian environment
Professor Margaret Manion FAHA
1990
1980-89
The Humanities and the challenge
Professor John Hardy FAHA
1989
Language atlas projects of the Academy
Emeritus Professor Stephen Wurm FAHA
1988
Myth in Dante and Petrarch
Professor John Scott FAHA
1987
The role of the critic and the language of criticism
Professor Gerald Wilkes FAHA
1986
Technology and philosophy of work
Associate Professor Keith Campbell FAHA
1985
The sun state and its shadow
Professor Anthony Stephens FAHA
1984
The see-saw of pride and disillusionment
Professor Geoffrey Blainey FAHA
1983
The Chinese urge to civilise: Reflections on change
Professor Wang Gungwu FAHA
1982
Insurgents and survivors: The language of a colonial culture
Professor Gerald Wilkes FAHA
1981
European vision and Australia’s heritage
Professor Derek Mulvaney FAHA
1980
1970-79
Twenty years of progress in classical archaeology
Professor Arthur (Dale) Trendall FAHA
1979
Art as information: Thoughts on the art from Captain Cook’s voyages
Professor Bernard Smith FAHA
1978
The ladder of social evolution: Archaeology and the bottom rungs
Professor Jack Golson FAHA
1977
The persecution and assassination of Macbeth as performed in two centuries of French theatre
Professor Richard Coe FAHA
1976
Art, Science and Imagination
Professor John Passmore FAHA
1975
The rebel-reformer in modern Chinese biography
Professor Wang Gungwu FAHA
1974
Biography as history
Dr Francis West FAHA
1973
Goethe and the Dutch interior: A study in the imagery of romanticism
Dr Ursula Hoff FAHA
1972
‘Cur’d and Perfect’: The problem of Shakespeare’s text
Professor Harold Oliver FAHA
1971
The Literary influence of Academies
Professor Alec Hope FAHA
1970
