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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE

ANNUAL REPORT 1985 Director Professor C.I.E. Donaldson, BA Melb., MA Oxf., FAHA

Deputy Director Professor G.W. Clarke, BA Oxf., MA NZ & Melb., LittD Melb., FAHA

Research Officer Dr J.C. Eade, MA St And. & Adel., PhD ANU

Visiting Fellows Professor A.D. Cameron, BA, MA Oxf. Dr J.K. Campbell, BA Camb., MA, D.Phil Oxf.

Professor J.M. Crook, BA, D.Phil Oxf.

Professor D. G~llop, BA, MA Oxf.

Dr H.J. Gregory, BA Monash, PhD Lond.

Professor A.C. Hamilton, BA Manitoba, MA Toronto, PhD Camb.

Professor P. Herbst, BA, MA Melb., BA Oxf.

Professor M.F. Herzfeld, MA Birmingham, D.Phil Oxf.

Professor M.L. Jacobus, BA, MA, D.Phil Oxf.

Mr R.H.A. Jenkyns, MA, M.Litt Oxf. Dr F.R.P. Just, BA, MA Melb., Dip. Soc. Anth. Oxf.

Professor A.H.T. Levi, BA, D.Phil Oxf.

Dr P. Magdalino, BA, D.Phil Oxf.

Professor R. Parker, BA Princeton, BA, MA Oxf., PhD Harvard

Mr D.W.R. Ridgway, BA Lond., Dip. Eur. Archeol. Oxf.

Professor G.M. Sifakis, PhD Land. Professor S. Vyronis, BA Memphis, MA, PhD Harvard

Dr P.B. Wilson, MA Edinburgh, D.Phil Oxf.

1 . Visiting Scholars Dr W.A. Krebs, BA Qld, MA, PhD Leeds

Dr E.M. Perkins, BEd, BA, MA, PhD Qld

Mr J.R. Rowland, BA Syd.

Professor G. Seddon, BA Melb., MSc, PhD Minnestoa

Dr J.G. Tulip, BA Qld, PhD Chicago

Mrs N.D.H. Underhill, BA Bryn Mawr, MA Land.

Conference Visitors: Mr R.R.M. Clagg, MA Edinburgh

Dr D.J. Constantine, MA, D.Phil Oxf.

Dr F. D'Andria, Laur. Lett. Class., Dipl. Arch. Milan

Professor E.L. Keeley, BA Princeton, D.Phil Oxf.

Professor F.M. Turner, BA Wm & Mary, M.Phil, PhD Yale

Dr v. Von Falkenhausen, PhD Munich The Hon. C.M. Woodhouse, MA Oxf.

During 1985 the Humanities Research Centre continued to encourage a diversity of research activities, while concentrating as usual upon a nominated theme. This year's theme was Hellenism: Rediscovering the Past. Four major international conferences, held in May, June, July and August, formed the focus of the year's activities, and between them drew over four hundred and fifty participants.

The first Conference, on Byzantium and Hellenism, examined the roles of its classical heritage in Byzantine civilization both at the centre in Byzantium and on the periphery in places as far apart as Sicily and Jordan. This conference was convened by Mrs Elizabeth Jeffreys (Modern Greek, Sydney) and Dr Ann Moffatt (Classics, ANU) and was held in conjunction with the Australian Society for Byzantine Studies. A photographic exhibition on the work of Gertrude Bell was mounted in Melville Hall for the Conference.

The second Conference, on Hellenism in Europe since the Renaissance, concentrated on the varying roles that Hellenism played in the late eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries in England, France and Germany. The Centre was fortunate in attracting to some of the leading overseas scholars at present working in this field and in addition to the Visiting Fellows at the Centre arranged for Dr D.J. Constantine (Oxford), Dr R.J. Howells () and Professor F.M. Turner (Yale) to participate in this Conference.

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The third Conference, on Ancient Hellenism: Greek Colonists and Native Populations, was held in the University of Sydney in conjunction with the Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies. It constituted the first Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology and honoured the contribution which Emeritus Professor A.D. Trendall has made to the focus and development of classical archaeology in Australia. The theme of the Conference was the interplay of local cultures on colonizing Hellenism not only in Italy and Sicily, but also in Spain and France, in North Africa and the Adriatic, the Black Sea and the Levant and as far abroad as Iran and Afghanistan. There were some thirty overseas speakers, and public lectures were given by the honorand, Professor A.D. Trendall, by Mr D.W.R. Ridgway (Edinburgh) and by Dr J.C. Carter (Austin, Texas). An exhibition was arranged in the Nicholson Museum and there were special tours made of Aboriginal displays in the Australian Museum and of rock­ carvings at Ku-ring-gai. The Conference conveners were Dr J.-P. Descoeudres and Associate Professor J.R. Green, both of the Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney.

The fourth Conference, on Hellenism and Neohellenism: Problems of Identity, was held at the University of in August and explored the part that the classical past has played, or has been made to play, in the formation of modern Greek society and culture. Public lectures were also given, in association with this Conference, by Professor M.F. Herzfeld (Indiana), the Hon. C.M. Woodhouse (London) and Professor E.L. Keeley (Princeton). This Conference was convened by Dr E. Gauntlett and Mr J.B. Burke, Department of Classical Studies, .

Most HRC visitors lectured extensively not only within the ANU but at Universities and Colleges elsewhere in Australia and several organized lecture and research tours also of Universities in New Zealand. The HRC Liaison Groups have continued to facilitate contacts and co-operation of this kind.

The Centre's 1985 Visiting Fellows spent their time as follows:

Professor Alan Cameron (Latin Language and Literature, Columbia University, NY; May/June) completed a revised chapter of his book on Callimachus and drafted another. He gave nine lectures at Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland Universities, as well as a paper at the May Conference.

Dr John Campbell (St Anthony's, Oxford; March-May) worked on the History of Modern Greece, with particular emphasis on the development of nineteenth-century political culture and the Greek Orthodox religious values. He also lectured at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Professor J. Mordaunt Crook (History, Bedford College, London; April-June) continued with his book on English architecture from the picturesque to the modern movement. He lectured in Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand and gave the public lecture at the June Conference.

3 . 14/1~ Professor David Gallop (Philosophy and Dean of Arts, Trent; January-August; shared Arts Faculty and HRC Visitor) prepared a translation and critical edition of Aristotle's three essays on sleep and dreams in the Parva Naturalia. He lectured on fourteen occasions in Auckland, Canterbury, Newcastle, Sydney, Western Australia, La Trobe, Melbourne and the ANU.

Dr Heather Gregory (History, New England; July-November) worked on a critical edition and translation of a volume of family letters from fifteenth-century Florence. She gave lectures in the ANU and Monash University.

Professor A.C. Hamilton (English, Queen's, Kingston; April-July) was engaged on a book of Elizabethan Romance, whilst continuing his duties as General Editor of the Spenser Encyclopedia. He lectured in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne as well as in New Zealand.

Professor Peter Herbst (Emeritus ~rofessor, Philosophy, ANU; September 1985-August 1986) is working in the area of epistemology and is completing a book entitled 'Critical Enquiry' .

Professor Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Indiana; June/July) carried out basic research and writing for a study of the relationship between historical process and the social self­ presentation in modern Greece. Professor Herzfeld lectured in Canberra, Adelaide and Western Australia, and also gave two papers to the August Conference, one a public lecture in Greek. He then went on to the University of Sydney at the invitation of the Anthropology, Linguistics and English Departments.

Professor Mary Jacobus (English, Cornell; January-June) completed a book on feminist literary criticism and psychoanalysis, and began work on a study of Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions. She had a very busy lecture timetable, lecturing to most Australian Universities and two in New Zealand.

Mr Richard Jenkyns (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; April-August) worked mainly on a book entitled The Mind of Virgil. He wrote three and a half chapters dealing with Virgil's influence on contemporary and later Latin poets, the Aeneid, landscape in Greek poetry and the political and cultural background to Virgil. He gave a paper at the June Conference and lectured at most major Universities in Australia and New Zealand, giving twenty-three papers in all.

Dr Roger Just (British School at Athens; February-June) substantially completed the revision for publication of his Oxford doctoral dissertation - an ethnographic study of the Ionian island of Meganisi, Lefkada. He participated in the May and June Conferences, and gave a paper at the August gathering, as well as lecturing to several ANU departments.

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Professor Anthony Levi (French, St Andrews; June-September) researched and wrote a 10,000 word paper on The Breakdown of Scholasticism: the Emergence of Evangelical Humanism for a Festschrift in honour of F. Copleston and completed his research on The Intellectual History of the Northern Renaissance. He gave forty lectures in all in New Zealand and Australia as well as delivering a paper at the June Conference.

Dr Paul Magdalino (Medieval History, St Andrews; March-May) made progress on the second chapter of his book on the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. He gave two lectures in Melbourne and delivered a paper at the May Conference.

Professor Reeve Parker (English, Cornell; January-June) worked on a book about narrative and dramatic aspects of Wordsworth's play The Borderers, completing drafts of the introduction and two and a half chapters. He lectured to seven Universities in Australia and New Zealand.

Mr David Ridgway (Archaeology, Edinburgh; July-September). Mr Ridgway's main research activity was the continuation of a synthetic account of the first Western Greeks and of their impact on the native populations of Italy, to be published by CUP. He delivered two papers at the June Conference, one of them a public lecture, and lectured to ten classical, archaeological and history departments in Australia.

Professor Gregory Sifakis (Classical Greek Literature, Thessaloniki; July-October) worked on a paper on 'Theatrical conventions of Old Attic Comedy', and concluded his monograph on the poetics of Greek Folksongs. He gave a paper at the August Conference, and twelve outside lectures to various audiences in Universities, Colleges and associations, establishing contacts with the Greek Archdiocese, communities and embassies.

Professor Speros Vryonis (History, UCLA; July-September) carried out the major writing and finished his study of Bulgarian ethnogenetic scholarship of the Post World War II era for a chapter in his projected book on studies in the ethnogenetic historiography of Turks, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Albanians and Greeks. His contacts with the Greek communities, Archdiocese and programmes enabled him to collect materials for a study of the relations between ecclesiastic and community institutions in Australia. He gave a paper at the August Conference and lectured in Melbourne and Sydney.

Dr Penny Wilson (New Hall, Cambridge; April-July) worked on a paper on eighteenth-century classical tradition which she gave to the May Conference; she did some preliminary work on Greek Tragedy and the Romantics and also wrote on Feminist reading of Augustan literature. She gave papers to Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School and to the Greek Department at Sydney University.

5 • The Visiting Scholars worked as follows: Dr W.A. Krebs (English, ANU; November 1984-February 1985) completed editorial work on the Collins Compact Australian English Dictionary and also worked on the History and Study of Language in the Scottish Enlightenment.

Dr Elizabeth Perkins (English, James Cook; October-December) worked on the papers on Tom Inglis Moore, and the prose writing of Charles Harpur.

Mr John Rowland (Canberra; January to March) researched and read for his projected piece on 'Tolstoi and the Modern World' and completed his book of verse translations of Andrei Voznesensky (now published).

Professor George Seddon (Architecture and Planning, Melbourne; March/April) worked on three projects: 'Memories of the University of Melbourne', a chapter in The Commonwealth of Science, and an environmental history of the Snowy River.

Dr James Tulip (English Literature, Sydney; September-December) worked on the change in Australian literature and culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with particular reference to the work of David Campbell.

Mrs Nancy Underhill (Fine Arts, ; September-December) undertook research towards a book of Sydney Ure Smith.

Throughout the year the Centre continued its weekly programme of Work-in-Progress Seminars, at which Visiting Fellows discussed their current research. Other speakers during 1985 were Doris Lessing, who read from and discussed her work on two occasions; Mr Peter Porter, who gave a reading of his poetry; Lord Asa Briggs, Provost of Worcester College; Emeritus Professor R. de Bray (formerly of Slavonic Languages, ANU); Mr Tadeusz Konwicki and Mr Gustav Gottesman, who discussed literature and politics in contemporary Poland; C. and S. Grishin (ANU) discussed their work on Middle-Byzantine Ornament; Professor Patrick Brady, Rice University; Dr Heather Glen, English Faculty, University of Cambridge; Professor Geoffrey Durrant, University of British Columbia; Dr R.J. Lyall, University of Glasgow; Dr Valentine Cunningham, University of Oxford; and lunch-time readings were also given by Mr Roch Carrier (Canada) and Ms Lauris Edmonds (New Zealand).

During the year three titles appeared, deriving from Conferences organised by the Centre: Seeing the First Australians, edited by Ian and Tamsin Donaldson (George Allen and Unwin, Sydney); Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe, edited by Roland Sussex and J.C. Eade (Slavica Publications, Columbus, Ohio); and Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, edited by J.C. Eade (HRC, ANU). The edited typescript deriving from the Centre's Conference on Renaissance Patronage (edited by Patricia Simons

6 . 14/1986 and F.W. Kent) was also delivered to Oxford University Press, and the second edition of the Centre's Directory of Research in the Humanities (this. time covering both Australia and New Zealand) was also made ready for the printer. Preparations continued for the production of the volume from the Centre's Landscape Conferences, to be produced as an in-house title, and negotiations are in train for publishing papers from this year's series of Conferences on Hellenism.

Planning continued throughout the year for the HRC's activities in 1986 and 1987. The theme for 1986 is Feminism and the Humanities and three conferences on this theme are planned for the year (the first two, in May and July, to be convened by Dr Susan Sheridan, Deakin University, and the third, in August, by Dr Susan Magarey, University of Adelaide). The theme for 1987 is Europe and the Orient and two conferences are planned, convened by Dr A. Gerstle and Dr A. Milner, both of ANU. There will be a third, separate conference in 1987 on Literary Journals, scheduled for May of that year.

The Director lectured for the Departments of English and History during first term, and supervised post-graduate students from the ANU and the Royal Military College, Duntroon. From 1 May to 1 November he took Outside Studies. After lecturing at Adelaide University in early May, he was attached until mid-September to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, as Visiting Scholar. He worked principally on a book entitled Happy Endings, but also completed a number of articles and shorter studies. His book (co-edited with Tamsin Donaldson) Seeing the First Australians was published in May, and his Oxford Authors edition of Ben Jonson in early October. He continued to chair a number of committees of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a national committee seeking to establish an Australian Centre in Italy.

The Deputy Director continued his research on the fragments and letters of Dionysius of Alexandria and saw through the press the third volume of The Letters of St. Cyprian of Carthage. Letters 55-61, to be published early in 1986 as Ancient Christian Writers, vol. 46. He served as Chairman of the ANU Library Committee, and as a member of the ANU Faculties Research Fund Committee, anc continued to teach and supervise for the ANU's Department of Classics. He was Acting Director of the Centre for six months of the year. After being closely involved in this year's four conferences, and being convener of the June Conference, he started work on the chapter he is commissioned to write on the Origins and Spread of Early Christianity for the revised Cambridge Ancient History, vol. x. He also received an ARGS award for continuing archaeological field survey work in Northern Syria.

The Research Officer, in addition to working on the Centre's main conference volumes, continued to act as editor of the Centre's quarterly Bulletin and produced the seventh edition of its descriptive Brochure. He also received a further renewal of his ARGS grant, in his capacity as Chief Investigator for the ACT

7 . Chapter of the Early Imprints Project. By the end of 1985, approximately 25% of Australia's largest holding of rare books had been processed. He also continued his work on Renaissance Astrology, with contributions to the Spenser Enoyotopedia (whose chief editor was a Visiting Fellow in 1985), collaborated with Dr Michael Hunter of London University in his biography of Samuel Jeake, and prepared work on the papers of Elias Ashmole, a long-term project intended to lead to a Biography.

The Centre's Steering Committee met .on eight occasions throughout the year to assist and advise the Director and Deputy Director on a variety of matters, and to elect Visiting Fellows for 1986 and 1987. The Advisory Committee met as usual in late November to review the events of the past year and to advise on future policy and activities. To the members of these committees, and in particular to its Chairman, Professor R.W.V. Elliott, the Centre owes special thanks.

The HRC's Secretary, Miss Mary Theo, continued to ensure that the Centre ran cheerfully and efficiently. She was ably assisted by Mrs Pearl Moyseyenko, stenographer, and Mrs Jodi Parvey, Mr William Verhelst and Mrs Krystyna Verhelst, wordprocessor operators. The Centre is deeply indebted to them for their work throughout the year.

PUBLICATIONS

BUTLER, Michael* The Ptays of Max Frisoh, London, 1985 (HRC/Macmillan Series).

CLARKE, G.W. 'An illiterate Lector?', Zeitsohrift far Papyrotogie und Epigraphik, 57 (1984), 103-104

'Syriac Inscriptions from the Middle Euphrates' (with T. Muroaka) Abr-Nahrain, 23 (1984-1985), 73-89.

'A decorated Christian tomb-chamber near Joussef Pasha', Abr­ Nahrain, 23 (1984-1985), 90-95.

'A funeral stele in the district of Membij: a preliminary report', Abr-Nahrain, 23 (1984-1985), 96-101.

'Approaches to the "Crisis" of the Third Century A. D.', Iris, 1984, 14-26 = Ctassioum, 26.1 (1985), 5-10 . •

COE, Richard N.* When the Grass was Tatter: Autobiography and the Experienoe of Chitdhood, Yale University Press, 1984.

CORBALLIS, Richard* Stoppard: The Mystery and the Ctookwork, Oxford and New York, 1984.

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DONALDSON, Ian (ed. with Tamsin Donaldson), Seeing the First Australians, Sydney, 1985.

(ed.), Ben Jonson, The Oxford Authors, Oxford and New York, 1985.

'Editing a "Standard" Text: Ben Jonson', in Editing Texts, ed. J.C. Eade, Canberra, 1985, 27-46.

'Centres and Circumferences: Australian Studies and the European perspective', in Australian and New Zealand Studies, ed. Patricia McLaren-Turner, London, 1985, 194-202.

EADE, J.C. (ed.), Editing Texts, Canberra, 1985.

(ed. with Roland Sussex), Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth­ Century Eastern Europe, Columbus, Ohio, 1985.

GREEN, Dorothy,* rev. H.M. GREEN History of Australian Literature, 2 vols, Sydney, 1984.

HOLQUIST, Michael* (with Katerina Clark), Mikhail Bakhtin, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1984.

HUNTER, Michael* 'The Problem of "Atheism" in Early Modern England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sth ser., XXV (1985), 135-57.

INGLIS, Fred* The Management of Ignorance: A Political Theory of the Curriculum, Oxford, 1985.

O'BRIEN, Denise* (ed. with Sharon w. Tiffany), Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific, University of California Press, 1984.

ROWLAND, J.R.* The Sculptor of Candles: Poems by Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Novella Matveeva, Brois Slutsky, David Samoilov, Leonid Martynov, The Leros Press, Canberra, 1985.

TOPLISS, Helen* Tom Roberts, 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonne, 2 vols, Melbourne, 1985.

9. 14/1~ TREITLER, Leo* 'Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music-Writing', in Early Music History, IV (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 135ff.

WHITE, R.S.* Let Wonder seem Familiar: Endings in Shakespeare's Romance Vision, London, 1985.

WIDDOWSON, Peter* 'The Anti-History Men: Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge', Critical Quarterly, Winter 1984, 5-32.

WILLIAMS, Gordon* 'Roman Poets as Literary Historians: Some Aspects of Imitatio', Illinois Classical Studies, VIII, no. 2 (1984), 211-37.

WRIGHT, Iain* 'History, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction', Criticism and Critical Theory, ed. Jeremy Hawthorn {Edward Arnold, 1985), 83-92.

* Former member; publication based on work done in the Centre and not previously cited.

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