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This year’s edition of Humanities Australia again demonstrates the ability and effectiveness of the humanities in addressing current challenges, with articles covering a wide range of topics: from the value of the arts in times of crisis, to conceptions of loneliness in the past and present, to the ongoing legacy of frontier violence, colonisation, and

“The articles in Humanities Australia have always, by their very nature, addressed topics of relevance to this country” said Academy Editor Emeritus Professor Graham Tulloch FAHA. “It so happens that a number of articles in this edition address issues that have been particularly prominent over the course of the year, either through considering contemporary events

This year’s issue of Humanities Australia once again features essays, poems and reflections by our Fellows alongside edited versions of several of our key lectures including the annual Academy Lecture, the A.D. Trendall Lecture and the Sir Keith Hancock Lecture. The articles in this year’s edition span a number of disciplines, including history, linguistics, classical

The articles in this year’s edition span a number of disciplines, including cultural and communication studies, philosophy, literary studies, digital humanities, classical studies, European and Australian history, and Asian studies. Yet as in previous years, a common theme emerges. Each article in this edition engages the idea of ‘mapping’ – whether it be inter-cultural relationships

While the contributors to this issue come from a broad range of the disciplines represented in the Academy, including linguistics, philosophy, the arts, history and Asian studies, some common themes have emerged, especially in relation to questions of human rights, both in the past and today.

Several of the essays this year deal with interactions between the human and natural worlds, involving the hunting and collecting of animals and insects, across various times and cultures. Others deal with the hunting and collecting of information, whether in fifteenth-century Florence or contemporary Australia. This remains an essential part of humanities scholarship despite the

This issue of Humanities Australia again aims to present a small sample of the outstanding research and writing being carried out by humanities scholars and arts practitioners in Australia and internationally. There is a particular focus here on material originally presented at the Academy’s annual symposium in November 2014 and on essays about the First

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