Registrations open for our 50th Symposium
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2019-08-20
- What future is there for the past?
- How do we ensure that new technologies enhance human flourishing?
- How do we create more liveable cities through civic cultures?
- What does the future have in store for the humanities, and what can the humanities offer the future?
These questions and many more will be at the heart of our 50th anniversary Symposium – Humanising the Future – to be held at The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane from 13-15 November 2019.
This event brings together perspectives from philosophy and ethics, history, classics, languages and linguistics, urban planning, museology, architecture, cultural studies, musicology, and the creative and cultural industries.
Our convening team – Stuart Cunningham AM FAcSS FAHA (QUT), Mark Finnane FASSA FAHA (Griffith), Jean Burgess (QUT) and Elizabeth Stephens (UQ) – have assembled a stellar line-up of speakers including:
Genevieve Bell FTSE – Australian National University (keynote speaker) Hasan Bakhshi MBE – Nesta UK (by video) Elise Bohan – Edith Cowan University Jean Burgess – QUT Digital Media Research Centre Barbara Creed FAHA – University of Melbourne Terry Deen – Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art Marcus Foth – QUT Urban Informatics Lesley Johnson AM FAHA – University of Technology Sydney Sarah Kenderdine – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA – Australian National University Neil Levy FAHA – Macquarie University/University of Oxford Malcolm Middleton OAM – Queensland Government Architect Sandra Phillips – Library Board of Queensland Jason Potts – RMIT University Blockchain Innovation Hub Ellie Rennie – RMIT University Digital Ethnography Research Centre Lynette Russell AM FRHistS FASSA FAHA – Monash University Ineke Sluiter FBA – Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands McKenzie Wark – Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York
Visit our website for the full program.
The Symposium is open to all. We deeply appreciate the support of our co-Principal Symposium Sponsors – Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland – along with our Associate Sponsor, CQUniversity.
Order of Events
Wednesday 13 November
Join us for the Symposium curtain-raiser, the 9th Hancock Lecture, which will be presented by Clint Bracknell (Edith Cowan University) at 5pm at the Griffith University Art Museum, South Bank Brisbane. Clint will focus on his interdisciplinary approach to enhance the revitalisation of endangered Noongar language and song in the south coast region of Western Australia.
Thursday 14 November
Day one of the Symposium will commence at 9am at The Edge, State Library of Queensland South Bank. The 50th Academy Lecture will be delivered by President Joy Damousi FASSA FAHA at 4:30pm with a reception to follow.
Friday 15 November
The Symposium will resume at 9am, and will conclude with a reflection on the past, present and future for the humanities in Australia – including a keynote presentation by former Academy president Lesley Johnson AM FAHA, and a panel discussion with the Vice-Chancellors of Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland.
Academy Fellows’ events will take place from Friday 15 to Saturday 16 November. Please see our website for details.
About the image
Detail from Jon Cattapan’s ‘The Group Discusses’ (2002). Reproduced with kind permission of the artist.
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