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Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Centres of Excellence Workshop

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Join us in Canberra or online for insights on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) premier Centres of Excellence program. There are major opportunities for aspiring researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences to design transformational research programs and strategic partnerships with enduring impact in the leadup to the 2026 CoE round and beyond. This …

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UPDATE – HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons

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  Event details When: 12.00-12.10pm, Friday 17 November 2023. Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre Foyer Jenny Fewster, HASS and Indigenous RDC Director, ARDC will provide an update about HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. In 2020 the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (HASS&I RDC) was announced as a first step toward developing a more …

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Rights and Revolutions

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  Event details When: 12.10-1.30pm, Friday 17 November 2023. Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre Foyer In a panel chaired by Professor Mark Andrejevic FAHA and featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Maggie Walter FASSA, Professor Leanne Wiseman and Dr Jake Goldenfein we will explore: AI and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing, increasingly pervasive …

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Automating public culture: Creators, institutions, audiences

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  Event details When: 11.30-12.50pm, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Creativity and cultural labour practices have long been considered resistant to automation. Our sector – though often underpaid and undervalued – took comfort in this, luxuriating in the knowledge that our work was profoundly and unequivocally human – even when it is (almost always) the product of …

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Keynote: Human priorities, machine decisions?

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Event details When: 9-10am, Friday 17 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Human priorities, machine decisions? Limitations of using mathematical models for decision support One way of interacting with possible uncertain futures is through the use of mathematical models to construct and visualise different kinds of outcomes and counterfactuals. Dr Erica Thompson will discuss …

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Automating life & death

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  Event details When: 2-3.30pm, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins FAHA will chair a panel featuring Dr Tatiana Bur, Roslynn Haynes, Dr Marc Trabsky and Elizabeth Stephens, exploring: Humans, gods & machines in Greco-Roman antiquity Ideas of AI and automation have held cultural traction since Greek antiquity. …

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Machine Memories, Methods, and Histories

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Event details When: 10-11.30am on Friday 17 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Professor Richard Yeo FAHA of Griffith University considers an early forerunner to today’s artificial intelligence memorywork; Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington compares the ways in which machines and human historians use questions in historical reasoning; and Professor Gerard Goggin FAHA draws upon his …

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Between Humans & Machines: old questions, new challenges

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Event details When: 9.30-11am, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Speakers Malavika Jayaram is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong Kong with a regional focus.       Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker is an Aboriginal man of Alyawarr descent …

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How should we conceptualise the human in an Anthropocene world?

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Event details When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 15 November 2023 Where: G06 Theatre, Elizabeth Murdoch Building (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Registration free but bookings essential. Register here. The Anthropocene is understood to be a new geological epoch in which human activities dominate Earth’s surface processes. If the Anthropocene is defined by the activities and impacts of people, …

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Artificial figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture

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Event details When: 4pm, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Registration free but bookings essential. Register here. Note: online tickets are available for this event, onsite tickets are fully booked. Digital assistants with feminised voices, deceptive female robots, all-male research groups: gender forms a fundamental part of how we imagine the …

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Fellows Signing Ceremony

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The Council of the Academy warmly invites Fellows to join them for this official ceremony where elected Fellows have the opportunity to add their signatures to the Academy’s historic Charter Book, alongside those Fellows elected to the Academy since 1969. Fellows will also receive their Certificates of Fellowship. Event details When: 5.45-6.45pm (AEDT), Thursday 16 November …

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.