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Australian Academy of the Humanities
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We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
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📣 Meet our 2025 rising stars! 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

We asked Fellows of the Academy to nominate an early-mid career researcher they felt had an exemplary year in 2025. #humanities #EMCR
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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There are only three weeks left to apply for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The object of this fund is to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1
December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Christopher Wallace-Crabbe AM FAHA: humanities.org.au/our-communit...

We extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. He will be greatly missed.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Parents, here’s why you should stop steering your kids away from the humanities.

Published by @sydmorningherald.bsky.social@juliakindt.bsky.social on the role of the humanities in today’s increasingly complex society.

Full article on our website: humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Parents, here’s why you should stop steering your kids away from the humanities
Parents, here’s why you should stop steering your kids away from humanities degrees — they set students up for a complex future.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
We congratulate researchers involved in the new Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research 👏 👉 humanities.org.au
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Also delighted that Paul Turnbull is today elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities: 'Professor Turnbull has dedicated himself to applied research in collaboration with First Nation communities to facilitate repatriation of their Ancestors'
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Fellow Profile – Australian Academy of the Humanities
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November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Delighted that @capandgown.bsky.social is today elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

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Fellow Profile – Australian Academy of the Humanities
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November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Today, the Australian Academy of the Humanities has elected 30 new Fellows. 🎉

Election to the Academy is the highest honour in the humanities in Australia.

Meet our new Fellows: humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

📷: Prof Katerina Teaiwa FAHA from ANU
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Interesting-looking free event happening next Tues 25 Nov in Melbourne — Academic Freedom Symposium — organised by @humanitiesau.bsky.social and tickets are still available. @wmau.bsky.social humanities.org.au/events/acade...
Academic Freedom Symposium – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Join us at this year's CHASS in Melbourne to explore what it means to define, contest and safeguard academic freedom in the 21st century.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our 2025 Symposium, The Humanities and Creative Practice, is underway! 🎉

Convened by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA (pictured), over the next two days we’ll hear from artists, scholars and practitioners whose work generates new ideas, and builds Australia’s creative industries.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
In our submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Building Asia Capability in Australia, we call for urgent, coordinated national action to reverse a decades-long decline in Asia-focused education, research and expertise. humanities.org.au/news/austral...
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In partnership with CHASS, @humanitiesau.bsky.social will host a free Symposium on what it means to define, contest and safeguard academic freedom in the 21st century.
📅 Tues 25 Nov
📍University of Melbourne
Tickets: bit.ly/4qg5Q0y
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Congratulations to AAH Fellow Professor Frank Bongiorno AM FAHA FASSA, who will take up the newly created Donald Horne Professorship as the inaugural director of the University of Canberra's new Centre of Public Ideas, launching in early 2026. 👏 Congratulations, Frank!
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Australian Journal of Human Rights, Australia’s first peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to human rights, is seeking expressions of interest to fill positions on its Editorial Board. Apply by 21 November 2025: www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/research/aus...
📷: UNSW
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
In @theobserveruk.bsky.social AAH Fellow Professor Nick Evans FAHA describes linguistics as “the last opportunity for true exploration on Earth” — a journey into how humans think, remember, and create meaning.

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Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🎉 Distinguished Prof Nicholas Evans FAHA FBA has been awarded the prestigious Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from @britishacademy.bsky.social.

The medal is considered the “greatest honour” in linguistics and recognises lifetime achievement.
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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I am renewing my pinned post about my book. In the meantime, I wrote this to be accessible to all, more or less on the same subject of what art is.
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But is it art? How stories give art meaning – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Rock art is found across the globe. Archaeologist Iain Davidson considers how we can understand and discuss the stories behind rock art.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Free event 📣The right to enquire? A Symposium on #academicfreedom.

📅 Tues 25 Nov
📍 University of Melbourne
Tickets: bit.ly/4qg5Q0y

Speakers include Prof @michellearrow.bsky.social, Prof @joelobianco.bsky.social, Prof
@adriennestone.bsky.social, Prof Frank Bongiorno, Prof Peter Greste & more.
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The History Council of South Australia welcomes applications for its annual Fellowship program. The HCSA Fellowship provides support for Australians researching and writing about South Australian history, with a prize of $2,000.

Apply by 15 November 2025. 👉 historycouncilsa.org.au/hcsa-fellows...
HCSA Fellowship - History Council SA
History Council of South Australia Fellowship Fellowship Applications for the 2026 HCSA Fellowship are now open, and close on the 15th of November 2025. To apply for the Fellowship, please email your ...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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The DMRC 2026 Summer School is back again on our Kelvin Grove Campus in Brisbane, Australia from 2 February to 6 February 2026, featuring interactive sessions showcasing digital humanities and social science research across key programs and projects within the DMRC.
October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Operatic narratives traditionally portray women as victims of violence.

In her keynote, Dr Felicity Wilcox will share how her research challenges the status quo in opera through artistic practice that is as political in its subject matter as it is in its ways of doing 👉 bit.ly/48T9mHR
October 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Australian Research Council have opened applications for 2026 Future Fellowships. Apply by 5 November 2025. 👉
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October 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
We’re thrilled Nicole Moore, Professor in English and Media Studies at UNSW Canberra, will speak in our Panel on Difficult Art at our upcoming Symposium, The Humanities & Creative Practice. Tickets on sale 👉 bit.ly/4ms139Z
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM