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Many areas of cultural production from design to animation to film need to be reconsidered as a part of the inter-disciplinary approach of the humanities and creative practice. We open the Symposium with a focus on a creative practice which has always embraced the gesamtkuntswerk: opera. We foreground a researcher connecting contemporary classical music, composition, […]

As speakers address the important contribution of the arts and humanities to communities in crisis or facing disaster and extreme weather events, they consider case studies that can teach us about best practice. Artists and scholars who collaborate with communities under duress recognise the need for careful consideration of the methodological approaches they use in

Creativity and artistic inquiry—“bringing something new into the world, at times by severing, isolating, reconnecting, or testing the breaking point” (Hansen, 2018, 37–38)—has been increasingly recognised and validated as research within Australian universities, since the Dawkins reforms of 1989-94. This recognition was cemented through the work of scholars and practitioners in conjunction with the Australian

What is experienced as difficult in the creative arts changes dramatically over time and according to context. What was once considered acceptable might now be considered problematic and similarly what was once censored might now be normative. This session will consider the theme of difficulty and the changing nature of aesthetic reception in the era

This final session encourages reflection at the end of a symposium that has considered the power of bringing together Humanities research and creative practice. We will have covered topics ranging from the significance of First Nations design, to ethical methodologies, difficult art and cancel culture, the place of creative practice research in the contemporary Australian

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