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2024 Triebel Lecture: Secret police files as life writing, or how the Stasi made writers into ‘enemies of the state’.

Event details Triebel Lecture: Emerita Professor Alison Lewis FAHA, University of Melbourne Lecture Date: 5.30pm, 28 November 2024 Venue: Abercrombie Building (H70), Darlington Ln & Abercrombie St Darlington, NSW 2008 Registration: This event is free but bookings are essential. Book here The 2024 Triebel Lecture is being held in association with the LCNAU Eighth Biennial Colloquium, ‘Trans/Formation: research […]

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The ideas & ideals of Australia: The Lucky Country turns sixty

Rhoda Tjitayi, Piltati Tjukurpa, 2023 © Rhoda Tjitayi/Copyright Agency, 2024 In person registration has now closed — stream the Symposium with an online registration for just $50.   The 60th anniversary of Donald Horne’s landmark book, The Lucky Country, prompts us to think afresh about Australian culture and social changes, and ask: are ordinary Australians fulfilling

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Annual Academy Dinner

We warmly invite you to join us for our 55th Annual Academy Dinner, hosted by the Academy Council.  With a dinner address, “In quotation marks – the Australian public intellectual”, by Professor Glyn Davis AC, Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and formal presentations the 2024 Max Crawford Medal, Medal for Excellence in Translation,

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Fellows Signing Ceremony

A 55-year long tradition to officially welcome Fellows. 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

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2024 Academy Lecture

Event details ‘Australians—the aristocrats of Asia?’ Donald Horne dedicated a full chapter of The Lucky Country to challenge Australians to take Asia more seriously. In 1964, Australians clearly needed reminding that, rather than being just off the coast from Portsmouth, in fact, we were just off the coast of Denpasar. In the sixty years since

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A Big Dialogue: The State of the Arts in The Lucky Country – Who Cares? Why Bother?

  When: Wednesday 13 November, 5.30-7.30pm Where: Louie Louie, Verity Lane Market, Canberra Price: $20 (student), $45 (theatre seating), $65 (cabaret) per ticket (concessions available) Details: Light food is included in the ticket price and there will be a cash bar onsite. Held in the hub of Verity Lane Market – ticket holders can stay on for

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2024 Hancock Lecture: What makes a multicultural nation?

Join us on Monday 2 September for the 2024 Hancock Lecture. Presented by Dr Nathan Gardner from the University of Melbourne. Event details Hancock Lecture: Dr Nathan Gardner, University of Melbourne Lecture Date: 5.30pm, 2 September 2024 Venue: Gallery room, State Library of New South Wales Registration: book here What makes a multicultural nation? The contribution of Chinese Australian

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2024 Trendall Lecture

Experiencing immersion from antiquity to modernity

Australia has a rich history of world-leading researchers of the ancient world, its languages, literature, thought, history, art and civilisations. The Trendall Lecture celebrates this long tradition and reminds us of the deep and continuing relevance of the ancient world and late antiquity to modern life. We are delighted to partner each year with the Australasian

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Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Centres of Excellence Workshop

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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Rights and Revolutions

  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

  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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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.