Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Australian Academy of the Humanities advances knowledge of, and the pursuit of excellence in, the humanities in Australia for the benefit of the nation.
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2026 AGM Documents
The 2026 Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 18 November from 12:30-2:00pm AEDT. To attend and vote you must register at least 24 hours prior to the meeting for your name to be included in the voting list. Please click on the links below to access the applicable…
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Vale Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO FAHA 马克林 1939 – 2026
Born in Sydney in 1939, Professor Mackerras devoted six decades to the study of China and to Australia-China relations. He wrote or edited more than 40 books and nearly 200 scholarly papers, spanning Chinese history, musical theatre, ethnic minorities, Australia–China relations…
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Public Lecture: How can ancient Greece and Rome inform public policy today?
Abstract In this talk, Professor Holmes-Henderson will connect evidence from the ancient world with contemporary public policymaking. Based on her recent (open access) book Classics and Public Policy: perspectives from the UK (Routledge, 2026), Arlene will shine a light on how…
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Australia’s Learned Academies condemn attack on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences
The attack struck the Academy during the working day, killing members of its community, injuring others and causing extensive damage to its historic headquarters. We extend our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who were killed. Our thoughts are…
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Language learning and Translation in Australia’s Multilingual History
Image: ‘La tour da Babel’ by Endre Rozda 1958 Abstract An important aspect of Australia’s multilingual history has been movement between languages, both in terms of language learning and in terms of translation or interpretation. The taken-for-grantedness of language knowledge…
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Burke receives 2026 Medal for Excellence in Translation
Celebrating its tenth year, the Medal for Excellence in Translation is a major national award which recognises outstanding translation achievements and celebrates the vital role of translators and translation in Australian culture and scholarly discourse. The announcement of Dr…
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Reading is a research method
Reading is an art under threat. Humanities scholars, with our literary inclinations, have frequently perceived such a crisis. But now the digital world has shattered reading into a myriad flickering shards. And the book emerges as a precious sanctuary. The book has always…
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Emeritus Professor Chris Mortensen FAHA 1945 – 2026
Chris, as he was known to friends, colleagues, and students alike, was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He received his BA in philosophy with an accompanying major in mathematics from the University of Queensland in 1967, taking out the Douglas Price Memorial Prize in the…
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Humanities at the centre of Australia’s AI Future
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has made a submission to the Joint Select Committee’s Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence, arguing that Australia’s AI future will not be decided by technical capability alone — it will be shaped by the choices we make about what AI is…
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Research specialisation must not come at the cost of Australia’s knowledge system
The Academy supports, in principle, giving universities room to build genuine depth in areas of comparative advantage. Our support is conditional, however, on research specialisation enabling targeted research investment without sacrificing the breadth of scholarship,…
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Perspectives from beyond the Academy: Lynette Russell on the value of transdisciplinary research
Just over a year after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, an outbreak of smallpox devastated Aboriginal communities living on Country around Botany Bay. New research by historian Distinguished Professor Lynette Russell AM FAHA FASSA and a team of scholars at the ARC Centre…
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How we misremember the past: stories of memory and its malfunctions
Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles by Giovanni Paolo Pannini ca. 1730 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) When Alexander the Great visited ‘Achilles’ tomb’ near Ilion/Troy in the fourth century BCE and ordered it to be made more conspicuous in the landscape, with what…