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Director Deputy Director Research Officer Visiting Fellows THE 14/1986 10/1/86 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 Australia 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 (London) and Professor F.M. Turner (Yale) to participate in this Conference. 2. 14/1986 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 Melbourne 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, University of Melbourne. 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, Canberra 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. 4. 14/1986 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.
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