Eminent Australians reflect on humanising the past, present and future
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2019-08-20
On the occasion of our 50th Birthday, we are taking time to not only celebrate the contribution of the humanities to our national life, but also to consider all that they can offer as we enter a new era marked by rapid technological change, major environmental challenges and shifting ideas about what it means to be human.
To help us do this, we have called upon several of our Honorary and Corresponding Fellows—leaders in their field who have made a significant contribution to the humanities and the arts, and to cultural life in Australia and internationally—to offer their view on how the humanities disciplines have helped deepen our understanding of our past and present, how they will help ensure a humanised future, and what is really at the heart of the Academy’s motto—Humani nihil alienum — “nothing that is human is alien to me.”
See our website for reflections provided by the following eminent Australians:
- Performer, artistic director and arts advocate Robyn Archer AO FAHA
- Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University Professor Rosina Braidotti Knight Order of Netherlands Lion FAHA
- Distinguished scholar in history and Asian studies Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FAHA
- Actor, director and philanthropist Carillo Gantner AC AO FAHA
- Internationally awarded author Dr Kate Grenville AO FAHA
- Producer, writer and director Dr John Hughes FAHA
- Australian writer and former politician The Hon Barry Jones AC FAA FACE FTSE FASSA DistFRSN FAHA
- Poet, novelist, critic and essayist John Kinsella FAHA
- Former Justice of the High Court and Chancellor of Macquarie University The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG FRSN FAHA
- Celebrated novelist Alex Miller FAHA
- Leading cultural researcher and founding Editor of Griffith Review Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA
- Former Director-General of the National Library of Australia Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM FAHA
- Biographer and novelist Nicholas Shakespeare FAHA
- Renowned philosopher Professor Peter Singer AC FAHA
- Director of UWA Publishing Professor Terri-ann White FAHA
- State Librarian of NSW and distinguished scholar in classical studies Dr John Vallance FRSN FAHA
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