AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES

ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 CONTACT DETAILS

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Executive Director Dr Christina Parolin

Office Manager Christine Barnicoat

Policy and Projects Manager Dr Kylie Brass

Fellowship Coordinator Gabriela Cabral

Publications and Gillian Cosgrove Communications Coordinator

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International Coordinator Dr Meredith Wilson

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© 2014 Australian Academy of the Humanities All images © Australian Academy of the Humanities unless otherwise indicated. Editor: Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby am Faha Designer: Gillian Cosgrove Printer: Canprint Communications Pty Ltd Cover image: Section of Mapamondi by Abraham Cresques. Facsimile of the 1375 edition of the Catalan Atlas in France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, known as Atlas catalan de 1375. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Report 2013–14

This document is a true and accurate account of the activities and abridged financial report of the Australian Academy of the Humanities for the financial year 2013–14, in accordance with the reporting requirements of the Academy’s Royal Charter and By-Laws, and for the conditions of grants made by the Australian Government under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (Cth).

CONTENTS

From the President 2 Publications and Communications 19

From the Executive Director 5 Grants and Awards 20

Council 6 International Activities 23

Strategic Plan 7 Obituaries 26

The Fellowship 8 Treasurer’s Statement 39

Events 14 Abridged Financial Report 40

Policy and Research 16

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Funding for the production of this report and a number of the activities described herein has been provided by the Australian Government through the Department of Education. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Education. 2 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

FROM THE PRESIDENT

The following report showcases the many and varied sciences (HASS) sector, to contribute more effectively ways the Academy has sought this year to make a to the national conversation about the education and contribution to public life in Australia, to provide research system in Australia. The data provided in leadership and advocacy on behalf of the humanities the report will be a key resource for policy makers, community, and to promote connections between researchers, teachers, and the public at large. It is our humanities researchers and their colleagues – both in hope that the report encourages a strategic approach Australia, internationally and across the disciplines. to the development of HASS fields by universities and government. I take this opportunity to share some highlights from an often challenging, though very rewarding, year for the Academy – and to offer my thanks to all Advocacy and leadership those who contributed to the Academy’s successes One of the key policy areas in which we have been and achievements. contributing this year is to the work of the Chief Scientist in developing a national strategy for science, Landmark Research Project technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We were pleased that early drafts of the proposed TheMapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in strategy document acknowledged the importance of Australia project was a key priority for the Academy in the HASS disciplines, but we have taken a strong and 2013–14. Initially conceived by our Academy as a project consistent position that a national research strategy to map the humanities in Australia, we welcomed is needed to take a whole-of-system view of the sector. the offer of funding from then Government Minister, This is to ensure that any research support policies or Senator the Hon Chris Evans, and his request to expand mechanisms implemented as a result of the strategy the project to include the social sciences, and to involve do not lead to the exclusion of the HASS disciplines. our colleagues at the Academy of the Social Sciences in But we are also concerned to promote recognition Australia (ASSA). With strong support and co-funding of the strong evidence now available that the HASS from both ASSA and the Office of the Chief Scientist, disciplines will not only be essential to ensuring that along with our own cash and in-kind support, the industries can function effectively in an export market, project set out to provide an understanding of student but are fundamental to posing the right questions enrolment trends and teaching and research activity in and contributing to the solutions to the key societal the humanities, arts and social sciences, and to examine challenges of our time. current and future capacity in these disciplines. Both the complexity of, and sheer amount of data in, Connecting across the disciplines the higher education and research space has meant The theme of the 2013 annual Symposium, the project has been a colossal undertaking by the Environmental Humanities, provided an opportunity to project team: Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner FAHA consider the important contribution of the humanities (Project Leader), Dr Kylie Brass (Research Manager), to this growing field, and to the new and productive Rebecca Coates (Research Assistant); and the Steering collaborations between humanities researchers and Committee: Professor Mark Western FASSA, Professor those in the sciences and social sciences. The event was Joy Damousi FAHA FASSA, Professor Stephen Garton a great success, attracting a large number of participants FAHA FASSA, and Professor Sue Richardson am FASSA. and an impressive array of excellent speakers. It is I also wish to acknowledge the extensive support for difficult to single out any one presentation, but the project from the Australian Research Council (ARC). particular mention must go to Dr Thom van Dooren, It is a testament to the expertise and dedication of who delivered an outstanding 2013 Hancock Lecture on the project team that we submitted a final report of Hawaii’s endangered crow population and their cultural, outstanding quality to the Department of Industry and social and environmental significance to the country the Office of the Chief Scientist on 30 June 2014. We are and its peoples. Dr van Dooren’s lecture demonstrated indebted as an Academy to the work and commitment so aptly the remarkable work being undertaken by of Graeme Turner and Kylie Brass, the report authors. younger researchers in the humanities. I am very Although the report is not an advocacy document, grateful to the two convenors of the Symposium, it provides the crucial evidence base to allow the Professor Gay Hawkins FAHA and Professor Peter Academy, and others in the humanities and social Harrison FAHA. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 3

Collaboration across the disciplines, and between the unenviable task of selecting the 2014 recipient from four Learned Academies in Australia, also continued an outstanding field of ten candidates. I look forward this year under the auspices of the Australian to offering my personal congratulations to the 2014 Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA). The focus Crawford Medallist, Dr Tom Murray, when I present of activity remained largely directed at the Securing him with the Medal and Certificate at the 2014 Fellows’ Australia’s Future (SAF) research programme, which Dinner in Canberra on 21 November. was announced by the Chief Scientist in January 2012, funded through the ARC, and with the aim to undertake International research on long-term issues of concern to government. This year we have focused our international It has been a requirement for all the ACOLA projects collaboration efforts on strengthening existing that the expertise of the four Academies be represented, connections and forging new relationships in the and the SAF programme relies on the good will and Asia region. We have conducted two very successful dedication of Fellows from across the four Learned research workshops – one on history and one with Academies, as well as a number of outstanding mid- a focus on philosophy – with our colleagues at the career researchers. Our representatives on each of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences (CASS). I was projects – ranging from Asia literacy to agricultural delighted to travel to Beijing in June to sign a formal futures, urbanisation to innovation and productivity – Memorandum of Understanding with CASS which have been extraordinarily generous with their time, lays the platform for collaboration between our two participating in various ways in these projects. organisations over the next three years. I also had the Particular mention must go to Professor Ien Ang FAHA privilege of meeting my counterpart at the National who leads the major research project, Asia Literacy: Academy of Sciences in Korea, Professor Sook-Il Kwun, language and beyond, examining the many forms to discuss possible closer collaboration between our of public diplomacy for which Australia’s research two Academies. and science sectors make an important and direct contribution; and to Professor Stuart Cunningham Finally FAHA, who led a sub-project under another of the I have noted above the extraordinary contributions studies to explore the HASS-STEM skills mix in a select of individual Fellows to the various activities and number of major Australian businesses, with important achievements over the 2013–14 year. I also sincerely findings for how the mix of skills helps transform thank the many other Fellows, too many to name, who business capability. have given their time to support Academy activities Special mention must also go to the three Fellows who during the 2013–14 year, including the Heads of Section, play an integral role in overseeing the entire research those who contribute to the Academy’s publications, programme, actively participating in and representing and those who have responded to our requests for the humanities disciplines on the SAF programme advice on our many policy submissions. The Academy Steering Committee. Professor Peter McPhee am faha relies considerably on the generosity and expertise of FASSA, Professor Mark Finnane FAHA FASSA and Professor the Fellows who share directly in the successes and Lesley Head FAHA FASSA have made an outstanding achievements of the Academy. contribution to the Academy, and to ACOLA, in this role. I also wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to my colleagues on Council – many of whom are new this year, or Promoting excellence returning again to Council – for their wisdom and in the humanities advice. I also thank those who have taken on extra roles One of the principal roles of the Academy is to promote on the Council: Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO excellence in the humanities. The Max Crawford Medal, FAHA FSA, Honorary Secretary; Professor John Fitzgerald made possible by a generous bequest to the Academy FAHA, International Secretary & Vice-President; from the late Emeritus Professor R.M. Crawford obe Professor Deirdre Coleman FAHA, Vice-President; FAHA, enables the Academy to recognise and celebrate Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse FAHA fassa, the achievements of the remarkable young scholars Treasurer; and Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby AM who constitute the next generation of leaders and FAHA, Editor. thinkers in the humanities. Awarded every two years, the Academy’s Awards Committee had the somewhat 4 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

I acknowledge and thank the Council members who finished their term in November 2013: Professor Anna Haebich faha fassa; Professor Pamela Sharpe faha; Professor Matthew Spriggs faha fsa; Professor Gillian Whitlock faha; and Dr Robert Young faha. My warmest thanks to all members of the Secretariat for their extraordinary dedication and hard work in supporting the Academy. They contribute immensely to the success of the Academy and to the general sense of good will and enthusiasm that characterizes the external profile of the Academy. It has been wonderful to work with them as a team and as individuals. And my particular thanks to Dr Christina Parolin whose leadership has been central in the creation of such a team. My final word of gratitude must go to Graeme Clarke, our long-standing Honorary Secretary, who announced in November 2013 that he would retire from his role on Council at the November 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM). While Graeme’s considerable and unique contribution to the Academy during his 40‑year association will be celebrated in November, I wish here, in my last Annual Report as President, to record my deepest gratitude to Graeme. It has been an extraordinary privilege and a great pleasure to work with him during my five years on the Council, especially during the time I have been President. Graeme’s immense knowledge of the Academy and its history has been invaluable to me in my role as President, as is the great wisdom which accompanies this knowledge. I hope very much that the Academy will be able to draw on his knowledge and advice in the future in various ways.

Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson AM faha President THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 5

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The 2013–14 year again proved a busy, though We have also transitioned to electronic processes for particularly productive year for the Secretariat. our grants and awards management. For the 2014 round, The additional staff appointed last year significantly we undertook a trial of Smarty Grants, an online grant increased our capacity to meet the objectives of the application and assessment system. The trial of the new Academy as set out in both the Royal Charter and the system proved a great success, for both applicants and 2011–15 Strategic Plan, as evidenced by the range of for the Awards Committee in the assessment process, activities outlined in the pages that follow. and we will adopt the technology for future rounds of our grants and awards. In addition, at 30 June 2014, we With the election of the new Government in September are working towards introducing an online registration 2013, responsibility for the administration of the system for our annual events – Symposium, AGM and Academy’s grant-in-aid from government returned to the the Fellows’ Dinner. Department of Education (from the former Department of Innovation, Industry, Climate Change, Science, and It has been my privilege to work now with three Tertiary Education). Responsibility for research now lies Presidents during my time at the Academy: first with with the Minister for Education, the Hon Christopher Emeritus Professor Ian Donaldson FAHA FBA frse (when Pyne MP, and science with the Minister for Industry, I was Deputy Director) and, as Executive Director, with the Hon Ian Macfarlane MP. At 30 June 2014, the Professor Joseph Lo Bianco AM FAHA and Emeritus implications of the new distribution of responsibilities Professor Lesley Johnson AM FAHA. Few people could remains unclear, though we are concerned that the new claim to have worked for a succession of leaders of this arrangements will make it difficult for the government to calibre and acclaim, and people of such outstanding take a whole-of-system approach to higher education. humanity, warmth and generosity. As a member of the ACOLA Secretariat Board, I continue As Lesley fulfils her final year as President in 2014, to liaise regularly with my counterparts at the three I remain deeply grateful of her dedication to the other Learned Academies. Each of the Secretariats fulfil Academy and support to the Secretariat. Much of an important function in the Securing Australia’s Future her work has been under the radar, ensuring that (SAF) projects, not only managing and administering the contribution the humanities disciplines make to the individual projects contracted to the Academies, but the public good, including in addressing key societal in identifying Fellows and other researchers working challenges, is appropriately recognised in policy circles. in the applicable fields of enquiry and promoting I have personally learned a great deal from Lesley’s their involvement in the wide range of SAF projects. diplomatic, thoughtful and good-humoured approach – In addition, each Secretariat is closely involved in the and have witnessed first hand the enormous respect task of developing new project proposals in conjunction in which she is held in the higher education sector in with their Fellows. Australia. It has been a pleasure and an honour to work under her direction. Within the Secretariat we continue to seek ways to streamline our processes and improve services for My final word of thanks goes to the remarkable team Fellows and other members of the community who I have the privilege to lead at the Secretariat. A Fellow interact with the Academy. Last year I reported the recently remarked to me that she had read an article impending move to an electronic voting system for arguing that conscientiousness was one of the most the Academy’s elections. After rigorous testing and important, yet underrated, qualities in the workplace. refinement, I am delighted to report that our transition I have the excellent fortune to work with a group of to online voting in 2013 was a resounding success. people who demonstrate this quality in spades. I am The new system was strongly endorsed by the Fellows deeply appreciative of the outstanding work ethic who reported the ease of use of the new system. It is of each and every one of my colleagues, and their early days, but we have already seen an increase in dedication to the Academy and its goals. the numbers of Fellows voting, which is a particularly pleasing result. DR CHRISTINA PAROLIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 6 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

COUNCIL

The Academy is governed by a Council, elected from among its Fellows, which provides strategic direction, policy guidance and management oversight.

COUNCIL TO 16 NOVEMBER 2013 COUNCIL FROM 16 NOVEMBER 2013 President President Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson am Faha Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson am Faha Honorary Secretary Honorary Secretary Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke Ao Faha FSA Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke Ao Faha FSA Treasurer Treasurer Professor Pamela Sharpe Faha Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse Faha Fassa Editor Editor Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby am Faha Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby am Faha Immediate Past President Immediate Past President Professor Joseph Lo Bianco am Faha Professor Joseph Lo Bianco am Faha Vice-President and International Secretary Vice-President and International Secretary Professor Gillian Whitlock Faha Professor John Fitzgerald Faha Vice-President Vice-President Professor Anna Haebich Faha Fassa Professor Deirdre Coleman Faha Council Members Council Members Professor Deirdre Coleman Faha Professor Han Baltussen Faha Professor Matthew Spriggs Faha FSA GSM (Vanuatu) Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle Faha Chevalier dans Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse Faha Fassa l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques Dr Robert Young Faha Professor Majella Franzmann Faha Emeritus Professor Susan Sheridan Faha

COUNCIL MEETINGS Council met on four occasions in the reporting period: 9 August 2013, 13 November 2013, 20 February 2014 and 27 May 2014. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 7

STRATEGIC PLAN

HEADS OF SECTION In 2010 the Council adopted a Strategic Plan for 2011–15 to guide the activities and programmes of the Academy. The Academy has eleven disciplinary Sections Each strategy in the Strategic Plan relates to the mission representing the range of scholarly expertise of and core objectives of the Academy, and sets out the Fellows. The Council and Secretariat draw upon the proposed activities through which the achievement of expertise vested in the Sections when preparing the objectives will be measured. An implementation policy responses to government, participating in plan is considered annually by the Council. international initiatives and developing annual Symposium themes. These Sections also form the Academy’s eleven Electoral Sections. VISION Archaeology A tolerant, vibrant and innovative public culture Professor Tim Murray Faha (to 16 Nov 2013) in Australia enriched and enabled by a thriving Dr Jennifer Webb Faha (from 16 Nov 2013) humanities sector. Asian Studies Professor Robert Cribb Faha (to 16 Nov 2013) MISSION Associate Professor Helen Creese Faha The Australian Academy of the Humanities exists to (from 16 Nov 2013) advance knowledge of, and the pursuit of excellence in, Classical Studies the humanities in Australia for the benefit of the nation. Emeritus Professor Roger Scott Faha OBJECTIVES Cultural and Communication Studies Professor Tim Rowse Faha Fassa 1. To promote and develop excellence in the humanities in Australia and abroad. English Emeritus Professor Graham Tulloch Faha 2. To foster collegiality within the Fellowship and provide a focal point for the wider humanities European Languages and Cultures community in Australia. Professor Stathis Gauntlett Faha (to 16 Nov 2013) Professor Anne Freadman Faha (from 16 Nov 2013) 3. To support the dissemination of humanities research to demonstrate the value of the humanities History to the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of Professor John Gascoigne Faha the nation. Linguistics 4. To provide independent and expert advice to Professor Diana Eades Faha improve public debate and public policy. Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas* 5. To provide leadership in the humanities community Professor Majella Franzmann Faha (to 16 Nov 2013) in Australia. Philosophy and the History of Ideas* 6. To advance national cultural prosperity through Professor Stewart Candlish Faha (from 16 Nov 2013) collaborations with allied Australian organisations Religion* and other bodies. Emeritus Professor William Loader Faha 7. To strengthen the humanities in Australia (from 16 Nov 2013) and abroad through collaborations with allied The Arts organisations overseas. Professor Jaynie Anderson Faha 8. To support excellent teaching of the humanities at * During 2013 Council endorsed a recommendation from all levels of education in Australia. the Heads of Section meeting that the Philosophy, Religion and History of Ideas Section be divided into two Sections – Philosophy and the History of Ideas, and Religion. Fellows were asked to self-nominate for membership of these Sections. 8 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

THE FELLOWSHIP

As of 30 June 2014 the total number of Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities was 574, including 85 Honorary Fellows and 40 Overseas Fellows.

Foundation Fellows Tony Bennett Tony Coady Ian Donaldson Alexander Cambitoglou Alison Betts Peter Cochrane Helen Dunstan Francis West John Bigelow Deirdre Coleman Mark Durie Gerald Wilkes Virginia Blain Conal Condren Simon During Geoffrey Blainey Graham Connah Edward Duyker Fellows Barry Blake Ian Copland Diana Eades Michael Ackland Geoffrey Bolton Alan Corkhill Rifaat Ebied Alexander Adelaar Brian Bosworth Nikolas Coupland Louise Edwards Alexandra Aikhenvald Penny Boumelha Anthony Cousins Paul Eggert Robert Aldrich James Bowler Roger Covell Brian Ellis Christine Alexander Clare Bradford Philip Cox Robert Elson Peter Alexander David Bradley Barbara Creed Nicholas Evans Cynthia Allen Ross Brady Helen Creese Michael Ewans Pauline Allen Richard Broome Robert Cribb Dorottya Fabian Philip Almond Susan Broomhall Peter Cryle Trevor Fennell Atholl Anderson Peter Brown Garrett Cullity Antonia Finnane Jaynie Anderson Trevor Bryce Stuart Cunningham Mark Finnane Warwick Anderson Kathryn Burridge Ann Curthoys John Fitzgerald Ien Ang John Burrows Frederick D’Agostino Brian Fletcher Edward Aspinall John Butcher Joy Damousi Janet Fletcher Alan Atkinson Brendan Byrne Iain Davidson Josephine Flood Valerie Attenbrow Barbara Caine Peter Davis Susan Foley Bain Attwood Keith Campbell Richard Davis William Foley Philip Ayres Stewart Candlish Graeme Davison Jean Fornasiero Gregory Bailey Hilary Carey Igor de Rachewiltz Peter Forrest Han Baltussen David Carter Rafe de Crespigny Richard Fotheringham Dirk Baltzly Alan Chalmers Franz-Josef Deiters David Frankel Joan Barclay-Lloyd David Chalmers Alan Dench Majella Franzmann Ivan Barko David Chandler Donald Denoon Anne Freadman Geremie Barmé Richard Charteris Jean-Paul Descoeudres Richard Freadman Geraldine Barnes David Christian Anthony Diller John Frodsham Alison Bashford William Christie RMW Dixon Alan Frost Peter Bellwood John Clark Robert Dixon John Frow Andrew Benjamin Graeme Clarke Christine Dobbin Edmund Fung Roger Benjamin Inga Clendinnen John Docker Raimond Gaita Michael Bennett Margaret Clunies Ross James Donald Ann Galbally THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 9

Regina Ganter Lloyd Humberstone David Marr Graham Nerlich Iain Gardner Ian Hunter David Marshall Colin Nettelbeck David Garrioch Duncan Ivison Angus Martin Nerida Newbigin Stephen Garton Liz Jacka James Martin Brenda Niall John Gascoigne Frank Jackson Lynn Martin Daniel Nolan Moira Gatens Alan James Alfredo Martínez Expósito Susan O’Connor Stephen Gaukroger Robin Jeffrey Jim Masselos David Oldroyd Stathis Gauntlett Anthony Johns Freya Mathews Graham Oppy Penelope Gay Lesley Johnson Peter Mathews Tom O’Regan Anthony Gibbs Vivien Johnson Brian Matthews Michael Osborne Ross Gibson Trevor Johnston Isabel McBryde Peter Otto Paul Giles Brian Jones Iain McCalman Samantha Owens Philip Goad Philip Jones Janet McCalman John Painter Cliff Goddard John Jory Gavan McCormack Nikos Papastergiadis Jack Golson Naguib Kanawati Jock McCulloch Paul Patton David Goodman Daniel Kane Brian McFarlane Marko Pavlyshyn Nanette Gottlieb Grace Karskens William McGregor Andrew Pawley Jeremy Green Margaret Kartomi Mark McKenna Michael Pearson Karen Green Jamie Kassler Anne McLaren Elizabeth Pemberton Bridget Griffen-Foley Veronica Kelly Brian McMullin Hetti Perkins Gareth Griffiths David Kennedy Andrew McNamara Roslyn Pesman John Griffiths Jeanette Kennett Timothy McNamara Pam Peters Paul Griffiths Dale Kent Peter McNeil Margaret Plant Tom Griffiths John Kinder Ian McNiven Lorenzo Polizzotto Patricia Grimshaw Diane Kirkby Peter McPhee Daniel Potts Sasha Grishin Wallace Kirsop Scott McQuire John Powers Colin Groves John Kleinig Philip Mead John Poynter Rainer Grün Stephen Knight Betty Meehan Wilfrid Prest Anna Haebich Stephen Kolsky Vincent Megaw Graham Priest Ghassan Hage Leonie Kramer Timothy Mehigan Robin Prior Alan Hajek Ann Kumar John Melville-Jones Clive Probyn John Hajek Marilyn Lake Peter Menzies Elspeth Probyn Sylvia Hallam Brij Lal Francesca Merlan John Pryor Michael Halliday Michael Lattke Constant Mews Paul Redding Peter Hambly Susan Lawrence David Miller Peter Reeves Jane Hardie John Lee Margaret Miller Anthony Reid Margaret Harris David Lemmings Elizabeth Minchin Greg Restall Peter Harrison Alison Lewis Timothy Minchin Craig Reynolds John Hartley Michael Lewis Vijay Mishra Henry Reynolds Yasmin Haskell Miles Lewis Francis Moloney Eric Richards Gay Hawkins Samuel Lieu Clive Moore John Rickard Roslynn Haynes Chin Liew Ten John Moorhead Merle Ricklefs Lesley Head Ian Lilley Peter Morgan Ronald Ridley Luise Hercus Genevieve Lloyd Howard Morphy Catherine Rigby Laurence Hergenhan Rosemary Lloyd Meaghan Morris David Roberts Stephen Hetherington Joseph Lo Bianco Teresa Morris-Suzuki Libby Robin Roger Hillman William Loader Chris Mortensen Michael Roe Peter Hiscock Anthony Low Raoul Mortley Robert Rose Peng Ho Martyn Lyons Frances Muecke Malcolm Ross Robert Hodge Stuart Macintyre Stephen Muecke Timothy Rowse Peter Holbrook Colin Mackerras John Mulvaney William Rubinstein Roderick Home Roy MacLeod Julian Murphet Alan Rumsey Clifford Hooker John Makeham Kerry Murphy David Runia Virginia Hooker Richard Maltby Tim Murray Gillian Russell Gregory Horsley Margaret Manion Bronwen Neil Penny Russell Rodney Huddleston Gyorgy Markus Brian Nelson Horst Ruthrof 10 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

Pierre Ryckmans Graeme Turner Carrillo Gantner Royall Tyler Abdullah Saeed Ian Tyrrell Peter Garnsey Alexandra Walsham Antonio Sagona Jonathan Unger Kate Grenville Terri-ann White Paul Salzman J V Neustupný Ranajit Guha Gough Whitlam Margaret Sankey Theodoor van Leeuwen Rosalind Halton Deryck Schreuder Gerard Vaughan John Hay Overseas Fellows Gerhard Schulz Peter Veth Shirley Hazzard Robert Archer John Scott David Walker Harry Heseltine Richard Bosworth Roger Scott Christopher Wallace-Crabbe Robyn Holmes Giovanni Carsaniga Peter Sculthorpe John Ward Janet Holmes à Court Leigh Chambers Frank Sear James Warren Jacqueline Huggins Sean Cubitt Krishna Sen Richard Waterhouse Richard Hunter Gregory Currie Pamela Sharpe Lindsay Watson Clive James Martin Davies Kenneth Sheedy Jennifer Webb Barry Jones Michael Devitt Susan Sheridan Elizabeth Webby Edwin Judge Mark Elvin Thomas Sheridan Marshall Weisler Thomas Keneally Gerhard Fischer Jeff Siegel Peter White Michael Kirby William Fitzpatrick Anna Silvas Robert White Patrick Kirch Hilary Fraser John Sinclair Shane White David Konstan Malcolm Gillies Larry Sitsky John Whitehorne Geoffrey Lancaster Kevin Hart Glenda Sluga Gillian Whitlock Sylvia Lawson Alan Henry Roger Smalley Anna Wierzbicka Mabel Lee Elizabeth Jeffreys Barry Smith Stephen Wild John Legge Michael Jeffreys Michael Smith Peter Wilson Gerhard Leitner Bill Jenner Terence Smith Trevor Wilson William Lycan Benedict Kerkvliet Vivian Smith John Wong John Lynch Randy LaPolla Charles Sowerwine Richard Yeo David Malouf David Lawton Virginia Spate Robert Young Bruce Mansfield Li Liu Jim Specht Charles Zika David Marr Kam Louie Matthew Spriggs Patrick McCaughey Jiri Marvan Ann Stephen Honorary Fellows Shirley McKechnie Audrey Meaney Anthony Stephens James Adams Ross McKibbin Robert Merrillees Janice Stockigt Phillip Adams Michael McRobbie Nigel Morgan Daniel Stoljar Harry Allen Hugh Mellor Takamitsu Muraoka Margaret Stoljar Penelope Allison Fergus Millar Philip Pettit Hugh Stretton Hugh Anderson Alex Miller Huw Price Martin Stuart-Fox David Armitage Ann Moyal Stephen Prickett Yoshio Sugimoto John Bell Glenn Murcutt Margaret Rose Sharon Sullivan Rosina Braidotti Les Murray Peter Singer Firstname Surname Paul Brunton James O’Connell Michael Smith Paul Taçon Ross Burns Patrick O’Keefe Michael Stocker Peta Tait Peter Carey Philip Payton Neil Tennant Harold Tarrant Dawn Casey Lyndel Prott Nicholas Thomas Paul Thom Dipesh Chakrabarty Lyndal Roper Michael Tooley Janna Thompson Ray Choate Lionel Sawkins Gungwu Wang Philip Thomson Betty Churcher Andrew Sayers Douglas Yen Rodney Thomson Christopher Clark Julianne Schultz Rodney Tiffen Patricia Clarke Kim Scott Helen Tiffin John Coetzee James Simpson Robin Torrence Peter Conrad Bruce Steele Martin Travers Anne Cutler Colin Steele Stephanie Trigg Terrence Cutler Ninian Stephen Carl Trocki Roger Dean Andrew Stewart Garry Trompf Robert Edwards Michael Stone Graham Tulloch Sheila Fitzpatrick Ian Templeman David Tunley Jan Fullerton John Tranter THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 11

Deaths Professor John Powers, School of Culture, History and Language, The Australian National University. The Academy notes with deep regret the deaths of the following Fellows during this reporting period. Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment We extend our sincere sympathies to their families and Society, The Australian National University. and friends. Emeritus Professor Horst Ruthrof, formerly Murdoch Michael J (Mike) Morwood (2003), 23 July 2013 University (now retired). James R Lawler (Foundation), 28 July 2013 Professor Jeff Siegel, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England. John Basil Hennessy ao (1982), 27 October 2013 Professor Peta Tait, Theatre and Drama, School of David Malet Armstrong ao (Foundation), 13 May 2014 Humanities, La Trobe University. Maxwell Charlesworth ao (1999), 2 June 2014 Obituaries for these Fellows are included in this report. Honorary Fellows Elected in 2013 Mr Paul Brunton OAM, Emeritus Curator, State Library Fellows Elected in 2013 of New South Wales. Associate Professor Peter Brown, School of Language Dr Ross Burns, Scholar and former officer of the Studies, The Australian National University. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Associate Professor Peter Cochrane, Professor Rosalind Halton, Humanities Research Independent Scholar. Institute, University of Newcastle. Professor Nikolas Coupland, Faculty of Arts and Social Mr David Marr, Journalist, author and commentator. Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. Professor Philip Payton, Director, Institute of Cornish Associate Professor Janet Fletcher, School of Language Studies and Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne. at the University of Exeter; Adjunct Professor of History, Associate Professor David Goodman, School of Flinders University, Adelaide. Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University Mr Andrew Sayers AM, Arts Leader; Former Director of Melbourne. of National Museum of Australia and National Professor Yasmin Haskell, Classics and Ancient History, Portrait Gallery. The University of Western Australia. Professor Andrew Stewart, Nicholas C Petris Professor Peter Holbrook, School of English, Media Professor of Greek Studies and Professor of Ancient Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of California, Berkley. Professor Michael Lewis, Department of Japanese Studies, The University of Sydney. Professor Alexandra Walsham BFA, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Professor Freya Mathews, Faculty of Humanities and Trinity College. Social Sciences, La Trobe University. Associate Professor Mark McKenna, Department of History, The University of Sydney. Professor Peter McNeil, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney. Professor Ian McNiven, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University. Associate Professor Scott McQuire, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne. Professor Julian Murphet, Centre for Modernism Studies, University of New South Wales. Professor Daniel Nolan, Department of Philosophy, The Australian National University. 12 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

Fellows sign the charter book and receive their ceritificates of Fellowship from President Lesley Johnson am faha at the Annual General Meeting in Brisbane, November 2013. 1. Professor John Wong 2. Associate Professor Samantha Owens 3. Professor Paul Giles 4. Professor Daniel Kane 5. Professor Penny Russell 6. Professor Veronica Kelly all photos: lyle radford THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 13

Academy Fellows Honoured The Academy warmly congratulates the following Fellows who received honours during 2013–14.

Queen’s Birthday 2014 Honours Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellowships 2013 Professor Barbara Caine AM faha FASSA was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Professor Nicholas Evans FAHA FBA aims to discover Australia for significant service to tertiary education, and understand the causes of language diversity in particularly to gender studies, to women’s history, and some parts of the world but not in others, in order as a role model and mentor. to help the countries and communities in our region maintain their rich linguistic heritage. Professor Tom Griffiths AO faha was awarded an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Professor Mark Finnane FAHA fassa will investigate Australia for distinguished service to tertiary education, the successes, failures and limits of the criminal trial in particularly social, cultural and environmental history, Australia from the colonial era to the post-war decades. and through popular and academic contributions to Professor Glenda Sluga FAHA is the recipient of the Australian literature. prestigious Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellowship which The Honourable Dr Barry Jones AC FAHA FAA FACE recognises her leadership role and provides her with FAIM FASSA FRSA FRSV FTSE was awarded a Companion additional funding to help mentor women in the (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia humanities. Her project, ‘Inventing the International’ for eminent service to the community as a leading aims to provide a genealogy of how, in the years after intellectual in Australian public life, through 1815, economics and politics intersected historically to contributions to scientific, heritage, musical, medical, make the modern global world. political and public health organisations, and to the Australian Parliament.

Australian Research Council Future Fellowships 2014 Dr Bronwen Neil faha, to examine how dreams and visions were used as tools of religious control and as justification of violence against other religions from Classical Antiquity through early Christianity to early Islam. 14 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

EVENTS

Annual Meetings and Events The Academy’s 44th Annual Symposium, Environmental Humanities: The Question of Nature, was held at The University of Queensland on 14–15 November. Convenors Professor Gay Hawkins FAHA and Professor Peter Harrison FAHA assembled a remarkable list of speakers and an engaging programme, featuring 16 local and international speakers, including Professor Jane Carruthers FRSSAf ASSAf from the University of South Africa. As part of the event, Dr Thom van Dooren from the University of New South Wales presented the Academy’s 2013 Keith Hancock Lecture. The Symposium highlighted some of the exciting new Academy President Lesley Johnson addresses the 2013 Fellows’ Dinner, Hillstone, work carried out under the rubric of environmental St Lucia. photo: lyle radford humanities. It demonstrated how this new approach can incorporate more traditional perspectives offered by such disciplines as history and philosophy, while at the same time prompt new forms of critical reasoning that challenge the boundaries of the sciences and humanities in productive ways. Sessions covered areas as diverse as environmental history, natural philosophy, visualising environments, postcolonial and digital landscapes, and natural values. An innovative session titled Visualising Environments was held in partnership with the University of Queensland Art Museum and its ‘NEW’ 2013 exhibition. Symposium participants were invited to view the exhibition prior to the session, which included a section devoted to works by contemporary artists responding Dr Lisa Ford, recipient of the 2012 Max Craword Medal, at the to environmental issues. Three artists featured in the 2013 Fellows’ Dinner, Hillstone, St Lucia. photo: lyle radford exhibition – Fiona Hall ao, Janet Laurence and Caroline Rothwell – joined scientist Christian Witte from the Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (who uses remote sensing technology to map environmental changes) to discuss their approach to representing environments. The panel discussion explored how artists and scientists approach the visualisation of nature, what practices and technical devices inform their work, and the kinds of parallels that emerge between the creativity of art and science. The Academy is grateful for the support of the University of Queensland, and of its Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Peter Høj ftse, who Dr Thom van Dooren, presenter of the 2013 Hancock generously hosted the event and a reception for Lecture, with Dr Lisa Ford, recipient of the 2012 Max Craword conference delegates. Medal, at the 2013 Fellows’ Dinner, Hillstone, St Lucia. photo: lyle radford THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 15

The Fellows’ Dinner was held at Hillstone St Lucia, History of the Academy initiative and included the presentation of the 2012 Max Two large projects continue in the lead-up to the Crawford Medal to one of its joint recipients, Dr Lisa Academy’s 50th anniversary in 2019. Ford, who had been unable to attend the dinner in 2012. The Crawford Medal recognises outstanding The Academy is grateful to the Fellows who have achievement in the humanities by a young Australian joined the President on the Steering Committee for scholar. Dr Lisa Ford, Senior Lecturer in History at the the projects: Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison FAHA University of New South Wales, has established herself FASSA, Professor Anna Haebich FAHA FASSA, Professor as a leading scholar of her generation working on the Iain McCalman AO FAHA FASSA FRHistS and Emeritus socio-legal history of late eighteenth- and nineteenth- Professor Ian Donaldson FAHA FBA FRSE. century anglophone settler societies, Australia The partnership between the Academy and the National among them. Library of Australia (NLA) to enhance its oral history The Academy Council again hosted New Fellows’ Drinks collection of interviews with Fellows of the Academy prior to the Fellows’ Dinner, to welcome the Fellows is well underway. In the reporting period the first elected in 2012 in a relaxed setting prior to the formal interview took place. Professor James R Lawler faha was signing of the Charter Book at the AGM. interviewed by Rob Linn at his home in Paris, and the conversation is now available on the Library’s website. The 2013 AGM took place at the University of Sadly, Professor Lawler passed away just months after Queensland on Saturday 16 November, during which the interview took place – his obituary appears in twenty new Fellows and eight new Honorary Fellows this report. were elected to the Academy. the sir keith hancock lecture Emeritus Professor Sir (William) Keith Hancock (1898– 1988) was a Foundation Fellow and the first President of the Academy. He is commemorated in this lecture series in which ‘young Australian scholars of excellence’ are invited to talk about their work in a form accessible to a general audience. The 2013 Hancock Lecture was presented by Dr Thom van Dooren of the University of New South Wales, at the Academy’s 44th Annual Symposium held in November at the University of Queensland, St Lucia campus. Dr van Dooren’s research is situated in the broad interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. His current work focuses primarily on the philosophical Professor James Lawler interviewed by Rob Linn in the Australian Academy of and ethical dimensions of species extinctions – an the Humanities Fellows oral history project. http://www.nla.gov.au/amad/nla.oh- approach that draws the humanities into conversation vn6262626. © National Library of Australia. with ecology, biology, ethology and ethnographic work with communities. Work continues on research for a book and website material on the history of the Academy. In April 2014 Academy Lecture Academy President Lesley Johnson, Executive Director Christina Parolin and Associate Professor Julia Horne Professor Peter Hiscock FAHA FSA, Tom Austen Brown met with representatives of the NLA to discuss a future Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University ARC Linkage application, with the Academy and the of Sydney, delivered the 2013 Academy Lecture. Entitled NLA as the industry partners. The Library has agreed to Creators or Destroyers, the lecture was held at the be a collaborative partner of this project. University of Western Australia on 9 August. It was a fitting culmination of a series of Academy events in Perth, including a Council meeting and a special signing of the Charter Book for Perth-based Fellows. The evening lecture was well attended and generated much debate and very positive feedback. A version of Hiscock’s lecture was published in the 5th issue of Humanities Australia. 16 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

POLICY AND RESEARCH

GOVERNMENT and policy The Academy provided expert advice and responded to INTERACTIONS a range of consultation papers, reviews and enquiries, including the following: A change of government after the federal election in September 2013 resulted in the establishment of a new • Submission to DIICCSRTE’s Assessing the Wider network of government connections, with the Academy Benefits Arising from University-based Research involved in meetings and briefings with new Ministers Discussion Paper (August 2013) and bureaucrats. The responsibilities previously covered • Participation in advisory workshop at the invitation by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Climate of the Chief Scientist on the development of the Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (DIICCSRTE) were split between the Department of (STEM) Strategy (September 2013) Industry (Minister the Hon Ian Macfarlane MP) and the Department of Education (Minister the Hon Christopher • Submission on the draftScience, Technology, Pyne MP). Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Strategy (September 2013) Following the machinery of government changes, the four Learned Academies will now report to the • Liaison with and advice to Science Division, Department of Education (which oversees the Higher Department of Industry, with mapping research Education Support Act 2013 – Higher Education capacity against Strategic Research Priorities for Research Promotion). Annual strategic meetings Australian Research Committee (July–Sept 2013) between the Academies and the new Department • Submission to the Framing the Future: Developing an will continue. Arts and Cultural Policy for NSW Discussion Paper Key areas of focus for the Academy in its advice to (December 2013) government this year included research infrastructure • Submission to the Australian Heritage Strategy needs for the humanities, a national strategy for Asian Consultation (January 2014) languages, and the importance of a whole-of-system approach to research. • Submission to the Draft Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2015 Submission Guidelines Throughout the reporting period Secretariat staff have (February 2014) had regular meetings with staff from the Office of the Chief Scientist, with the ARC, with staff from the • Submission to the Review of the Australian (former) Department of Innovation, Industry, Climate Curriculum (February 2014) Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, and with the new Departments of Education and Industry. ACADEMY RESEARCH PROJECTS The Academy also participates in quarterly meetings of the newly formed Research Agencies Consultative Mapping the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Group involving research agencies, peak bodies and in Australia government departmental representatives. The Academy continues its work leading an important Over the course of the year, the Academy has been project charting Australia’s current capacity in the HASS involved in providing input to the Chief Scientist’s sector. It aims to identify gaps and opportunities for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics future by developing a comprehensive understanding (STEM) Strategy. The President participated in a final of student enrolment trends and teaching and consultation on a national strategy for the STEM research activity. disciplines on 21 May. The President and Executive The project is funded jointly by the Academy, the Director held meetings with the Chief Scientist to Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Office discuss the need for a broader national research of the Chief Scientist, and the Department of Industry. strategy, inclusive of the humanities, arts and social sciences disciplines. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 17

The Academy warmly thanks the members of the Humanities Connections project’s Steering Committee, comprised of Fellows TheHumanities Connections project provided funding of both Academies: Emeritus Professor Graeme for a meeting of the new Australian University Turner FAHA (Chair), Professor Mark Western FASSA Heads of English, a peak body drawing together (Deputy Chair), Professor Joy Damousi FAHA FASSA, English departments at more than 30 universities as Professor Stephen Garton FAHA FASSA, and Professor well as existing literary associations. The meeting Sue Richardson am FASSA. was timed to coincide with the Academy’s Annual The project was officially launched on 26 July 2013, Symposium, and Humanities Connections funding when both the Minister and the Academy issued enabled the participation of attendees from smaller, media releases. Universities Australia also issued a regional universities. media release in support of the project. A roundtable consultation took place in March 2014. Sector and COLLABORATIONS AND CONNECTIONS discipline-based experts provided feedback on the data mapping completed to date. A second roundtable was Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) held with representatives from the ARC in April 2014. In January 2014 the Presidency of ACOLA passed from The project submitted a draft report to the Department the Academy (President Lesley Johnson AM FAHA) to of Industry on 30 April as per the terms of the contract. the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (Professor The final report was submitted to the Department on 30 Deborah Terry FASSA FAPS). The Chair of the Secretariat June 2014, with a launch planned for late October 2014 at Board rotates in turn with the presidency, so the role the National Press Club in Canberra. passed to Dr John Beaton, Executive Director of the The report marks the first time that data on teaching Academy of the Social Sciences. and learning, research and the academic workforce ACOLA met in in Melbourne on 26 March 2014. have been brought together in this way and it offers Professor Joe Lo Bianco am fAHA represented the an important benchmark in itself, by which future Academy President, who was overseas at the time. exercises can measure growth and/or contraction across the sector. A further three projects are now being developed by ACOLA as part of the Securing Australia’s Future Humanities Benefits programme. The Academy is developing a publication which aims to demonstrate the critical importance of the humanities Securing Australia’s Future (SAF) Programme to key societal challenges. It will be used to promote the The Academy continues to collaborate on a series of benefits of humanities research to a general audience. multidisciplinary research projects with the three other Learned Academies Special Projects Learned Academies, in consultation with the Office of the Chief Scientist, to advise the Prime Minister’s The objective of the ARC’s Learned Academies Special Science, Engineering and Innovation Council on long- Projects is to support the development of Australian term challenges facing the nation. research. Broad themes supported by the programme include: national and international collaboration in The reporting period saw some changes in the research; discipline research development; professional Academy’s representatives on the Programme Steering development for early- and mid-career researchers; Committee. The current representatives on the science, humanities, social science and technical and committee are Professor Mark Finnane FAHA FASSA, engineering research policy; and multidisciplinary, Professor Lesley Head FAHA fassa and Professor Peter interdisciplinary, or cross-disciplinary research. McPhee AM FAHA FASSA. The Academy records its thanks to the outgoing member Professor Iain McCalman AO The ARC has not conducted a round of the programme FAHA FASSA FRHistS. since 2010, but in mid-April announced that the scheme would be open for funding commencing in late 2014. Professor Ien Ang FAHA chairs the Expert Working Group The Academy submitted a proposal for a three-year for Project 3 – Asia Literacy: Language and Beyond. project aimed at mapping the humanities in the Asia A workshop, ‘Science and Research Collaboration in region and identifying opportunities for strengthening Asia and the Pacific’, took place on 4 November 2013 collaboration between researchers in Australia and Asia. in Canberra and involved Fellows from all four Learned Academies, representatives from the Department of Industry, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and other expert researchers. A second workshop on cultural and public diplomacy was held the following day. The project’s 18 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

second interim report was delivered on 30 April 2014, National Scholarly Communications Forum with a final report expected for release in early 2015. Presentations from the National Scholarly The Presidents of all four Learned Academies met with Communications Forum (NSCF)’s May 2013 event the Chief Scientist on 14 August 2013 to discuss new ‘Open Access Research Issues in the Humanities SAF projects for the second phase of the programme. and Social Sciences’ have been uploaded to the A further two projects were approved: one focusing on Academy’s website. The next forum is scheduled for Agriculture, and one on Urbanisation and Low-Energy August 2014 when the NSCF will convene a panel as Transport. Professor Peter McPhee am FAHA fassa played part of ‘The Value of the Humanities’ symposium at an integral role in developing the urbanisation project, the Australian National University. In consultation and Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison FAHA fassa with Colin Steele FAHA, the full NSCF archive has agreed to join the expert working group for the project. now been uploaded to the Academy’s website. All of the presentations from previous events are now The final report for Project 4,The Role of Science, available, and future roundtables will be added to this Research and Technology in Lifting Australia’s online resource. Productivity, was approved and launched at a National Press Club Address in Canberra on 3 June 2014. Research Alliance Professor Stuart Cunningham FAHA contributed The Academy continued its role in the Research important new research for the project, involving a Alliance, formed in the lead-up to the 2013 Federal series of case studies examining the mix of STEM and election to urge non-partisan support for all forms of HASS skills in several innovative Australian companies, research. The alliance brought together peak research which attributed these skills mixes to transforming organisations in Australia for the first time in order to business capability. call on politicians to take a coordinated approach to Copies of all final reports are available from research investment and development in accordance ACOLA’s website: www.acola.org.au with six fundamental principles. Those principles are: 1. Investing strategically and sustainably Making Interdisciplinary Research Work 2. Building our research workforce – getting and The second report from theMaking Interdisciplinary keeping the best Research Work project, The Character of Inter­ disciplinary Research: Examined through a sample 3. Building a productive system and getting the most of socioenvironmental research projects, by Professor out of it Michael Webber, was launched in November 2013. 4. Being among and working with the world’s best A fourth phase of the project – Assistive Health 5. Bringing industry and academia together Technologies – was approved by the ACOLA Council, with a report due in September 2014. 6. Expanding industry research 7. Investing in our best research and our best researchers

The Alliance issued a press release on 23 April 2014 which reiterated its central principles in the lead-up to the Federal Budget. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 19

PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Humanities Australia The fifth issue Humanitiesof Australia was produced and distributed in 2014 and featured contributions from 2013 Hancock lecturer Dr Thom van Dooren, Professor Anna Haebich faha fassa, Professor Peter Hiscock faha fsa, Professor Phillip Mead faha, Professor Tessa Morris- Suzuki faha, Professor Kim Scott faha, Professor Glenda Sluga faha, Professor Andrew Stewart faha and Mr Ian Templeman am faha. This edition featured several Academy lectures presented over the previous year. The opening essay was Dr van Dooren’s 2013 Sir Keith Hancock Lecture on the complex relationships between people and crows in modern Hawaii, accompanied by beautiful hand-carved woodblock prints by Hawaiian artist Margaret Barnaby (one of which featured on the cover). The 2013 Academy Lecture was included, with Professor Hiscock focusing on the question of human impact in ancient Aboriginal challenging (the) humanities Australia. Professor Stewart’s 2013 Trendall In late 2013 the publication Lecture on individuality and innovation in Greek Challenging (the) Humanities sculpture was also featured, with an impressive was released. This publication array of accompanying illustrations. comprises the papers from the A strong theme in the fifth issue was Indigenous 43rd Symposium which took languages, history and culture in Western place at the University of Western Australia, with Professor Haebich’s essay on the Sydney in 2012. It was edited by archive of the West Australian Department of Professor Tony Bennett FAHA acss Indigenous Affairs, and Professor Scott’s short and published by the Academy story on how the recovery of Noongar language in association with Australian and stories can help to heal damaged lives. Scholarly Publishing. Copies have been made available for purchase Other contributions included Professor Morris- through both the Academy and Suzuki’s essay on ‘informal life politics’, Professor Australian Scholarly Publishing. Sluga’s article on the need to recognise the contributions made by women in the arena of international politics, and Professor Mead’s piece Website on the fiftieth anniversary of the journal Australian The Academy is utilising the capacity of its website to Literary Studies. The Academy was delighted to include make more resources available online to Fellows and a first forHumanities Australia in this issue – poems the general public. The full archive of presentations illustrated by paintings by their author, Ian Templeman. from the National Scholarly Communications Forum This issue ofHumanities Australia was distributed to is now online. We are also working towards online the same wide audience as in previous years. We are registration facilities for the 2014 Annual Symposium. grateful for the continuing support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which distributes the journal to Australian Embassies and High Commissions, and to Qantas for displaying the journal in Qantas Club Lounges throughout Australia. An electronic version of the journal is available on the Academy’s website. 20 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Over the next two years the Academy is trialling the Publication Subsidy Scheme SmartyGrants online grant management system for The Academy’s Publication Subsidy Scheme provides all funded schemes and award nominations. While the support of up to $3,000 for the publication of scholarly initial conversion to the online system was labour- work of high quality in the humanities. Every four intensive, the overall experience for administrators, years, individuals seeking to publish books in the field assessors and applicants has been very positive. of archaeology may apply for additional funds from At the end of the successful trial the Academy decided the ‘Sir Frederick and Peter White Fund’. This year the to transition to the SmartyGrants system. subsidy was awarded to Emeritus Professor Vincent The Academy is grateful to the current members of Megaw am fAHA. The Academy is grateful to the White the Awards Committee – Professor Joy Damousi FAHA family for its ongoing contributions to this Fund. fassa, Professor John Sinclair FAHA and Dr Robert The Awards Committee granted nine publication Young FAHA – for their assessment of this year’s awards. subsidies in 2014. The Committee met at the University of Melbourne in May 2014 to review applications across three funded schemes: the Publication Subsidy Scheme, Humanities Travelling Fellowships, and the inaugural Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award. The Awards Committee also considered ten outstanding nominations for the 2014 Max Crawford Medal.

Publication Subsidies Awarded 2014

RECIPIENT AMOUNT TITLE PUBLISHER

Prof Jaynie Anderson FAHA $1,500 The Multiple Legacies of Bernard Smith Art Gallery NSW, University of Melbourne & Power Institute University of Sydney

Dr Simon Creak $1,500 Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos University of Hawaii Press

Dr Lachlan Grant $2,000 Australian Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific in WW2 NewSouth Publishing

Dr Julianna Grigg $3,000 The Philosopher King and the Pictish Nation Four Courts Press, Dublin

Dr David Henderson $3,000 Nazis in Our Midst? The Untold Story of the Internment of Germans Australian Scholarly Publishing in Australia during the Second World War

Dr Murray Johnson $2,000 Van Diemen’s Land: An Aboriginal History NewSouth Publishing

Emeritus Prof $3,500 Early Celtic Art: A Supplement (with M. Ruth Megaw) Clarendon Press Vincent Megaw am fAHA (Oxford University Press)

Dr Chris Owen $2,000 ‘Weather Hot, Flies Troublesome…’: University of Police in the Kimberley District 1882–1901 Western Australia Press

Dr Morgan Richards $3,000 Wild Visions: The BBC and the Rise of Wildlife Documentary Manchester University Press THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 21

Humanities Travelling Fellowship Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award The Academy’s Humanities Travelling Fellowships The Academy’s Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award has enable early-career researchers to undertake research been made possible by a generous gift from Rosemarie overseas, including accessing archives and other Keller to commemorate the distinguished career of research materials, and connecting with international her late husband, who was a Fellow of the Academy. researchers and networks. Fellowships of up to The award has been established to support the research $4,000 are available to permanent resident scholars activities of Australian scholars whose research is in Australia working in the humanities. The Awards concerned with either German history, literature, Committee granted nine Humanities Travelling language, politics or culture; or German contributions Fellowships in 2014. to the history, literature, languages, politics or culture of either Australia or the Asia-Pacific region. In 2014 the Awards Committee recommended that the award be split between two applicants. Grants of $3,500 were awarded to each recipient (drawing on $5,000 available for this Award and $2,000 of supplementary Academy funds).

humanities travelling fellowships Awarded 2014

RECIPIENT AMOUNT PROJECT

Dr Kate Bagnall $4,000 Transnational Chinese and White Australia

Dr Tania Colwell $3,000 Beyond wonder: Emotions of encounter in Jean le Long’s Fleurs des histoires d’Orient

Dr James Gourley $3,000 James Joyce's influence on Sylvia Plath's prose

Dr Vannessa Hearman $3,000 Bridging the gap: Indonesian and Timorese civil society activism during the late Suharto regime and thereafter (1992–2002)

Dr Claire Higgins $4,000 Canada's in-country refugee programme in Latin America: A history that will inform Australia's current policy debate

Dr Mei-fen Kuo $2,000 Philanthropy, political resistance, and mobility: Chinese-Australian connections with the Chinese- American diaspora in the interwar period

Dr Agnieszka Sobocinska $3,000 Concerning the world: Internationalism, sentimental humanitarianism and the Cold War

Dr Bridget Vincent $4,000 Poetry and public apology in the late twentieth century: Adrienne Rich and Geoffrey Hill (archival component)

Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge $3,000 Reading content and format in the Greek Magical Papyri from Roman Egypt

ERNST AND ROSEMARIE KELLER Award 2014

RECIPIENT AMOUNT PROJECT

Associate Professor $3,500 Heinrich von Treitschke: Editor of the Preußische Jahrbücher Matthew Fitzpatrick

Dr Dalia Nassar $3,500 Master class on German idealism and the philosophy of nature with Professor Eckart Förster 22 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

Max Crawford Medal INTERNATIONAL PRIZES AND COMMITTEES The Max Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities. The nomination of Academy candidates for It is presented biennially to an Australia-based, international prizes in the humanities is an important early-career scholar working and publishing in the ongoing role for the Academy and a means of drawing humanities, whose publications contribute towards an international attention to the exceptional work of understanding of their discipline by the general public. our Fellows. This year the Academy submitted nominations for Dr Tom Murray, several prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 Crawford Medal Recipient. and, for the first time, the British Academy’s Nayef photo: tom murray Al Rodhan Prize and the Balzan Foundation’s Balzan Prize. The Academy was also invited to recommend candidates for positions on the Holberg Prize Academic Committee.

The Academy warmly congratulates 2014 recipient Dr Tom Murray of the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. Dr Murray’s research utilises visual anthropology-based research techniques to investigate historical and contemporary representations of ‘otherness’, particularly with respect to Indigenous communities and individuals. His work has been authored in feature-length audiovisual forms, such as Love in Our Own Time (2013), In My Father’s Country (2008), Dhakiyarr vs the King (2004), and in short-screen forms in collaboration with Indigenous communities. Dr Murray will be awarded the Max Crawford Medal at the 2014 Fellows’ Dinner in Canberra. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 23

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

The Academy conveys its gratitude to outgoing The CASS delegation also visited the University of International Secretary, Professor Gillian Whitlock FAHA, Sydney where Professor Barbara Caine am FAHA fassa who completed her term on Council in November 2013, arranged a session of presentations by three early-career and welcomes Professor John Fitzgerald FAHA to the role. scholars of Chinese history – Dr Esther Klein, Dr David Brophy and Dr Andreas Rodriguez. During a day of International Strategy sightseeing in Sydney, Professor Alison Bashford FAHA guided the CASS delegation on a tour of the Chinese In October 2013 Fellows were invited to participate in rock inscriptions and other heritage features at the an online survey of their international collaborative Quarantine Station and gave an overview of the activities. The core purpose of the survey was to University of Sydney’s Quarantine Project. gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the connections between Fellows and their international In June 2014 the President of the Academy, Emeritus partners in order to inform the Academy’s International Professor Lesley Johnson am faha, led a delegation Strategy. In light of the results of the survey, Council of Australian philosophers to Beijing to participate is currently undertaking a review of its international in a one-day philosophy symposium, Philosophy programmes and redefining its formal partnerships and Contemporary Society, at the CASS Institute with international organisations. of Philosophy. The Australian delegation consisted of Professor John Makeham faha, Professor Alan This rich source of data will also inform the Academy’s Hájek faha, Associate Professor Karyn Lai (UNSW), and advice to government on the range and scale of Dr Norva Lo (La Trobe University). During the meeting international engagement in the humanities. the President signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CASS Vice-President Li Yang. Under this agreement International Collaboration the Academy has committed to a further three years of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences joint symposia with CASS. In 2013–14, the Academy continued to build on To build on the academic links between Australian and its partnership with the Chinese Academy of Chinese humanities scholars developed through the Social Sciences (CASS) through its joint annual joint meetings with CASS over recent years, plans are workshop programme. underway to publish a selection of papers in electronic format on the Academy website. In October 2013 the Academy hosted a four-day visit to Australia by a delegation led by Professor Wang Chaogung, Deputy Director of the CASS Institute of Modern History. Professor Antonia Finnane FAHA, together with co-organisers Professor Charles Sowerwine FAHA and Professor Diane Kirkby FAHA fassa, hosted a one-day history symposium at the University of Melbourne entitled: Innovation in History: A Symposium on ‘New Approaches’ to the Practice of History. Professor Pamela Sharpe FAHA welcomed the delegation on behalf of the Academy and delivered the closing address. Professor Stuart Macintyre ao fAHA FASSA and Emeritus Professor Trevor Bryce FAHA presented papers at the event, and Professor John Fitzgerald FAHA chaired one of the sessions. 24 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

1. Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson am faha (President, AAH) and Professor Li Yang (Vice President, CASS) signing a Memorandum of Understanding in Beijing on 19 June 2014. photo: cass 2. CASS and Academy delegates present at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 June 2014. photo: cass

3. Professor Alison Bashford FAHA and Yi Jianping (CASS) at the Quarantine Station in Sydney, 13 October 2013.

4. CASS delegation meeting with historians at the University of Sydney, 14 October 2013. 5. Participants at the AAH– CASS history symposium at the University of Melbourne, 11 October 2013. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 25

The Republic of Korea In March 2014 Academy President Lesley Johnson am faha met with Professor Sook-Il Kwun (President) and Professor Lee Song Mu (Vice-President) at the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, to discuss opportunities for collaboration between Australian and Korean humanities scholars. Council is currently considering formalising the growing connection between our two academies through a corresponding partnership agreement.

International Humanities Symposium in Melbourne The Academy was pleased to co-sponsor a two-day symposium held at the University of Melbourne in Left: Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson am faha (President of the Academy March 2014: The Future for the Humanities and Social of the Humanities) with, on the right Professor Sook-Il Kwun (President of the Sciences in a Global Era. The symposium brought National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea) and on the left Professor together leading Australian and international Lee Song Mu (Vice-President). photo: national academy of sciences, republic of korea humanities scholars to examine issues facing the future of the sector in Asia, North America and Australia. The event was attended by the President of the Academy and several presentations were delivered by Fellows, including Professor David Christian faha, Professor Ien Ang faha, Professor John Fitzgerald faha, Professor Joseph Lo Bianco AM faha, Professor Julianne Schultz AM faha, Professor Stuart Macintyre AO faha FASSA, Professor Tony Bennett FAHA acss and Emeritus Professor Wang Gungwu CBE faha.

Union Académique Internationale The Academy has renewed its annual membership with the Union Académique Internationale (UAI). At the 87th General Assembly of the UAI in Mainz (12–17 May 2013), the General Assembly gave its assent to a number Meeting at the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea in March 2014. of changes to its statutes, including that the General photo: national academy of sciences, republic of korea Assembly will from 2013 onwards meet only once every two years. The next update on the activities of Australian scholars involved in UAI-sponsored projects will be presented in the 2014–15 Annual Report, after the next General Assembly of the UAI in Brussels in 2015. 26 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

OBITUARIES

DAVID MALET ARMSTRONG ao 1926–2014

After a school career that included periods at the Dragon School in Oxford, and at Geelong Grammar, and after a short stint in the navy in the post-war occupation of Japan, he distinguished himself as a student of philosophy in John Anderson’s Department at the University of Sydney. In 1950 he married Madeleine Annette Haydon, a fellow student who was to become a librarian and theatrical critic. Soon after the marriage David was diagnosed with tuberculosis picked up in Japan, so he spent most of that year recuperating in the Concord Repatriation Hospital Having recovered, David went with Madeleine to Oxford, where he undertook the newly established and prestigious BPhil postgraduate degree. On account of his Exeter connection, that became his College, a matter perhaps a little tardily acknowledged by an Honorary Fellowship in 2006. On graduating, David held a temporary post at Birkbeck College in the University of London, and then in 1956 settled in Melbourne, where with great photo: jens maus (damato) [cc by-sa 3.0] via wikimedia commons energy he set about building a reputation and a career at the University of Melbourne, in what was at that avid Armstrong, the doyen of Australian time the premier philosophy department in Australia. Dphilosophers, and the most influential to date His first book,Berkeley’s Theory of Vision, appeared in on the international stage, has died in Sydney at the 1960. The following year he picked up a PhD, almost age of 87. He leaves a philosophical legacy of 16 books in passing, for work that appeared as Perception and and innumerable articles, principally in epistemology the Physical World. A third book, Bodily Sensations, and metaphysics, and several generations of students followed closely behind. deeply influenced by his teaching. He also leaves us In 1964 he was appointed to the Challis Chair at the laden with honours: AO, Foundation Fellow of this University of Sydney, where, apart from a string of Academy, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, visiting appointments, he spent the remainder of his Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of career, retiring in 1991, but continuing to be active as a Arts and Sciences, Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Professor Emeritus for many years afterwards. Indeed, Oxford, and Honorary D.Litt. from the University of with his second wife Jenny (Jennifer Mary de Bohun Nottingham, all of which attest to his standing among Clark), whom he had married in 1982, David spent a full his contemporaries. semester visiting the USA to teach and philosophise on His was a family of some distinction – his father rose an American campus almost every year until 2008. to the rank of Commodore in the Royal Australian Of the many ways in which he had an impact, Navy, retiring with both a CBE and a DSO; his indefatigable correspondence and conversation were mother belonged to an academic family from Jersey. important. An extensive body of letters exchanged One grandfather became Director-General of Public with David Lewis is being prepared for publication, and Health in New South Wales, while the other was an early lesser archives concerning Jack Smart, C. B. Martin and anthropologist who became Rector of Exeter College, Reinhardt Grossmann are among Armstrong’s papers in Oxford. David particularly valued the Jersey connection, the National Library in Canberra. and in retirement he and his wife Jenny (de Bohun) were much given to genealogy. THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 27

Outside philosophy, he was keen on intellectually possibility of philosophy itself, with a widespread demanding games – being good enough at chess in sense that philosophy would have to take a quite new his younger days to have been, I think just once, a direction. Armstrong had been inoculated against such member of the NSW state team. In middle life, go, the an outlook by his training under Anderson, and by his Korean game of strategy, afforded him much enjoyment. own sanguine attachment to earlier, more confident, When the Sudoku craze arrived, he was an early conceptions of the philosopher’s task. It is not the adopter. He loved bushwalking, Shakespeare, and the least of his services to have demonstrated – ab esse ad Sydney Swans. posse – that systematic epistemology is a proper study, and that metaphysics consists in tackling genuine He held conservative political and social views questions, not merely in unravelling tangles. that distinguished him from many of his academic colleagues – being, early and late, a supporter of the A naturalistic realism was, first and last, theleitmotif Quadrant element in Australia’s political and cultural of his work. It is there in the perception book, and still life. But in no way a starchy one. In Melbourne, he and more so in A Materialist Theory of the Mind (1968), Madeleine chose to live among the mildly Bohemian with its immensely influential division of intellectual inhabitants of Eltham – in a house designed and built labour – philosophical analysis to identify the mind as by Alistair Knox, pioneer of environmental correctness. responsible for mental activities, and scientific enquiry On moving to Sydney, it was in then still gentrifying to discover that the nervous system is indeed what does Paddington, and subsequently Glebe, that he dwelt the work. This book consolidated the emerging family among the chardonnay socialists. of identity and functionalist theories of mind which continue to dominate the field. Fairly early in his time at the University of Sydney, in an atmosphere already made tense by differences over the Armstrong then returned to epistemology, with his work Vietnam War, his convictions came into play as he led on causal theories of perception, a reliabilist theory the resistance to attempts to transform and radicalise of knowledge, and map theories of belief, in Belief, the content and the methods of teaching and assessing Truth and Knowledge (1973) – before embarking on courses in philosophy. By the early 1970s the conflict his largest and most original programme, in ontology had reached the point where only a dramatic move, the of a traditional stamp. Almost single-handedly, with ‘Split’ that created two reciprocally antagonistic Sydney Universals and Scientific Realism (1978), he revived philosophy departments, could provide any resolution. Realism about Universals in the midst of the prevailing Nominalism. This stunning reversal of a well- For a time all this resulted in David having to endure entrenched received view remains in place to this day. some vilification and notoriety, and the loss of some Then he developed an account of laws of nature (1983’s friends. But even in the most fraught circumstances, What Is a Law of Nature?), followed by accounts of his constitutional cheerfulness and collegiality, which A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility (1989), A World had enabled him to establish a wide circle of warm of States of Affairs (1997), and Truth and Truthmakers local and international friends and co-workers, now (2004), before finishing in 2010 with hisSketch for a enabled him to maintain it. And as one who did not Systematic Metaphysics. bear grudges, once political passions had subsided he became cordially reconciled to many of those In all these fields his tireless contributions made and who had been his opponents. Already those tumults continue to make their mark, setting or modifying the seem long ago, and there is no doubt that what he terms of the debate. The impact of all this has been will be remembered – and honoured – for will be his several generations of philosophers, following his lead contributions to philosophy. as much as that of any other single figure, engaged in the revival of metaphysical philosophy. A matchless It is not easy, after the passage of more than fifty years, achievement. to recapture the anti-metaphysical tone of British philosophy in the 1950s. There was a great deal of KEITH CAMPBELL faha late-Wittgensteinian discussion of the nature and 28 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

Max Charlesworth ao 1925–2014

overseas study, the first time this benefaction from the controversial Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne had been given. Max took the unusual path of travelling to the Catholic University of Louvain (or Leuven) in Belgium for postgraduate study instead of following the customary route to Cambridge or Oxford. This was no doubt partly influenced by his Catholic faith and the reputation of Louvain for advanced thought in both theology and contemporary Continental philosophy. Charlesworth gained his PhD from Louvain (‘avec la plus grande distinction’) in 1955 and was appointed to a lectureship at Auckland University in 1956. His first book, based on his PhD, and entitled Philosophy and Linguistic Analysis, was published in 1959 and aimed both to introduce the merits of linguistic philosophy to a European audience and to criticise what he saw as its limitations. In 1959 he was appointed to the Philosophy Department in Melbourne University and stayed there until 1976 when he was appointed Foundation Dean of Humanities at Deakin University. There he created a distinctive Philosophy Department with interests photo: courtesy of tony coady in Psychoanalytic Theory, Continental Philosophy, Religious Studies and Indian Philosophy. He retired meritus Professor Max Charlesworth, who died on from Deakin in 1990. 2 June 2014, at age 88, was an important Australian E While at Melbourne University, Charlesworth was philosopher and a remarkable man. He was part of responsible for or had a major part in creating a number the University of Melbourne Philosophy Department of teaching innovations that had powerful repercussions during the years that it exerted a profound influence elsewhere in Australia. The first was the introduction upon the sort of philosophy that was done in Australia, of a course on Medieval Philosophy, an area that had but his own considerable philosophical impact was been largely ignored throughout the country in the significantly different in direction and style from that of curious belief that it was all about theology or religious most of his colleagues in the department. In addition, he apologetics. The second was a course in Philosophy was an outstanding contributor to public debate about of Religion that was the work of several philosophers ethical, social and political issues, being, for instance, both religious and non-religious but was introduced to one of only two philosophers to have given the ABC the dismay of a substantial number in the department Boyer Lectures (the other was John Passmore). and indeed of others in the university community. Charlesworth graduated MA from the Melbourne Many believed that the teaching of anything to do with department in 1948 and although he had learned much religion was out of place in a secular university, and from Wittgensteinians such as Douglas Gasking and that the university’s statutes, or at least its traditions, Camo Jackson, he felt there was a certain narrowness expressly prohibited it. The course encountered similar in analytic philosophy that he hoped to move beyond. opposition at Professorial Board but was eventually But further academic work was interrupted when he allowed, and it may have helped that the Philosophy contracted tuberculosis in 1950 and was confined to Department introduced a rule that if the lecturer in a sanatorium for two years, suffering damage to a the subject was religious then the tutor(s) should be lung in the process. Recovering from the illness, he an unbeliever, and vice versa. When the skies failed to was awarded a Mannix Travelling Scholarship for collapse, the rule was gently abandoned. Later, Max THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 29

created an interdepartmental programme in Religious The Movement was a secretive, Catholic-dominated Studies that ran successfully for several years. Almost anti-communist organisation formed to fight as disturbing was his introduction of a course in communist power in the trade unions. The Movement’s Contemporary European Philosophy that worried many influence in the Labor Party created the famous split of of the analytic philosophers, who were a big majority of 1955 that produced the Democratic Labour Party and the department and thought that a dose of Sartre might kept the Australian Labor Party out of federal office be almost as damaging to the students’ intellectual for 17 more years. Charlesworth was concerned about health as a dose of religion. All three of these subjects the damaging effects of the Movement and its false subsequently became standard fare in most Australian understanding of the relation between Church and Philosophy departments, and have, to different State, having published widely on the philosophical degrees, become popular with students. Even those basis for this relation. His opposition, and that of other who were ill at ease with the wilder rhetorical flights Catholics (many involved in the Newman Societies at of Continental philosophers from Heidegger to Sartre Melbourne and Sydney Universities in particular), to and on to Derrida (and beyond!) should be pleased that Santamaria’s ideas were principally aired in the journal Max initiated a sober, academic examination of these the Catholic Worker with which Charlesworth had been theorists that stood in striking contrast to the way that associated since the mid-1950s and of which he was co- their ideas were sometimes deployed in less rigorous editor (with me) in the late 1960s and early ’70s. fashion in other areas of the humanities. In addition The journal (which Santamaria had ironically played a to these subjects in philosophy, on all of which he significant part in founding) was dedicated to bringing published books, he also taught and researched Catholic social teaching to bear upon contemporary bioethics, publishing several books in the area, most realities. It had a recognised position in the church notably Bioethics in a Liberal Society (Cambridge and a wide circulation until it admitted the existence University Press). of the Movement, a fact widely denied by Catholic But Charlesworth’s influence was not confined to authorities, and criticised its operation. TheWorker was the academy. Max was what is often called ‘a public then denounced by various clergy and its distribution intellectual’, a term I dislike, but which betokens a in church porches forbidden, so that its very healthy person who has wide intellectual skills and interests circulation immediately dropped by around 90 per cent. and brings them to bear publicly on a range of issues By the time Charlesworth and I were co-editors (with the that are of concern to thinking people everywhere in considerable unofficial support of the journalist Paul his or her community. As mentioned earlier, he gave Ormonde) the journal had become more politically and the Boyer Lectures in 1989; the topic ‘Life, Death, Genes doctrinally radical, publishing articles questioning or and Ethics’ arose from his increased interest in medical rejecting the moral case for the Vietnam War, and some ethics and bioethics in the 1980s, an interest that of the social policies of the major political parties, on united his philosophical and public concerns and saw the one hand, and sometimes critically scrutinising him serve from 1987 to 1990 as Chair of the Advisory some standard Catholic teachings, such as those on Committee for the Monash University Centre for Human contraception, abortion, and divorce, on the other. Bioethics. Further public recognition came in 1990 when Some of this intellectual activism in the Catholic he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia. Worker was inspired by developments in Vatican Charlesworth was a communicating Christian in the Council II; the Council’s more accommodating and Roman Catholic tradition to the end of his life, but in open attitudes to other religions and to the non- religion as in politics he was a genuine liberal (though religious led to Charlesworth’s being appointed in never a libertarian), an admirer of John Stuart Mill, 1970 to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Non-Believers. But and open to the intellectual and spiritual insights of a the nervousness of Vatican conservatives (and their wide variety of traditions. He also admired John Henry numerous followers amongst the Australian bishops) Newman, and the influence of both Newman and Mill meant that the promising vision of Vatican II was were at work in his strong commitment to the pivotal soon dimmed. Charlesworth, however, had begun an role of conscience in both religion and public life. This important, related initiative as early as 1962 with his emphasis often put him at odds with the official leaders founding of the academic journal Sophia, which aimed of his church and with various conservative political at encouraging broadly encompassing discussion of trends in Australia. The concern for conscience in the philosophy of religion. From its beginning, Sophia religion and public life was at work in the role he played published articles from distinguished international in minority Catholic opposition to B. A. Santamaria’s scholars; its hope was to move beyond philosophers famous (or infamous) anti-communist ‘Movement’ talking to each other and to advance discussion between during the 1950s and 1960s. the disciplines of philosophy and religious studies, as well as other relevant disciplines. In 2012 the journal 30 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

published a 50th anniversary commemorative issue Max had a dignified, courteous, slightly aristocratic dedicated to Charlesworth. For that issue Max wrote presence and was something of a gentlemanly European an essay entitled ‘Translating Religious Texts’, a wide- in manner, but he was born and spent his early years ranging discussion of the need for thoroughgoing in Numurkah in country Victoria and conveyed an interpretation not only of sacred written texts, such easy Australian friendliness and open warmth in his as the Bible or the Koran, but of all religious traditions personal relations. He was an excellent teacher and was and of religious authority and the teachings associated particularly keen to extend higher education to mature with it. The essay shows that, well into his eighties, his age students and others who might find access difficult. clarity, incisiveness and breadth of learning had not At Deakin, he enthusiastically endorsed and developed deserted him. His stress upon interpretation shows also the university’s aims of pursuing off-campus education that his early exposure to the hermeneutical tradition in with open entry for mature-age students. Europe had continued its influence, and that his lifelong He is survived and much missed by his wife Stephanie, opposition to fundamentalist attitudes in all spheres of children Sara, Hilary, Stephen, Lucy, Bruno, Anna and life was stronger than ever. Similar qualities are evident Esther, their partners, and eleven grandchildren. His in the booklet he published in 2008, A Democratic death has saddened his many friends in academia and Church: Reforming the Values and Institutions of the beyond. Catholic Church. To quote from the Sophia article: ‘Ultimately fundamentalism is animated by a profound Tony Coady faha fassa distrust or even fear of the human and by an impossible desire that the “divine” should be kept pure and untainted by anything as human as interpretation, especially critical-historical interpretation.’ THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 31

JOHN BASIL HENNESSY ao 1925–2013

Basil’s contributions to the archaeology of the ancient Near East were fittingly recognised in a Festschrift edited by Stephen Bourke and Jean-Paul Descoeudres, Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean (Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3, Sydney, 1995). The papers bore witness to the range and depth of his archaeological interests and professional relationships, and to the respect and affection in which he was held by his peers and pupils. National tributes to his stature came with his appointment as Officer in the Order of Australia in 1990 for service to archaeology and to international relations and the award of a Centenary Medal in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1982 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London but resigned from the latter on ANZAC Day, 2002. The University of Sydney conferred on him the title of Emeritus Professor upon his retirement in 1990 and the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) in 1993. Basil was born on 10 February 1925 in Horsham, north- photo: courtesy of robert s. merrillees western Victoria. When he was only ten years old, his father, Thomas Basil Hennessy, who ended his teaching he death of Emeritus Professor John Basil Hennessy career as headmaster of Natimuk State School in on 27 October 2013 in Goulburn, New South Wales, T Victoria, died from the after-effects of the mustard- at the age of 88, robbed Australia of the last of its gas poisoning and war wounds he sustained with post-war pioneers in the study of Old World prehistory. the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front. Though burdened by physical disabilities in his later The elder of the two sons of Thomas and his wife, Nell, years, not the least of which was becoming progressively née Poultney, who was also a teacher, Basil attended and officially blind, he remained lucid and buoyant a number of schools in Victoria before ending his right till the end. By the same token the period after secondary education at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat. his retirement from the University of Sydney was not Though brought up a Roman Catholic, religion did as active as he and his associates might have wished, not play a big part in his life. Sport, however, did, and and he left behind a substantial body of archaeological he excelled at athletics and Australian Rules football. work, especially from the southern Levant, for future He came to the archaeology of the Near East as did other generations to inherit and finish. Despite this, he Australians of his generation and mine, through his managed to dictate his own memoirs which the family reading and collecting activities as a boy. has been steadily editing. Though limited in number, his publications retain a permanent reference value as Before the Second World War there were no university they comprise reports on the excavations in Cyprus and courses in Old World prehistory in Australia and Jordan for which he was responsible or nobly took on almost no resident scholars specialising in this field. the responsibility, and syntheses embodying old and Few museums had antiquities from the ancient Levant, new data that had not previously been made accessible apart from Egypt, and little was on permanent show. or meaningful in this way. The imagination, and ambition, of someone like Basil, who was brought up in rural Victoria, was fired by the books, magazines and other items containing pictures and information about the remains of the past 32 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

in the eastern Mediterranean. In his particular case, December 1950 and mid-1952 was spent overseas. the introduction came through Arthur Mee’s Book of An approach by Stewart to a colleague, Winifred Lamb, Everlasting Things, the monthly serial, Home University a British archaeologist specialising in Anatolia, helped Library, which he was given to read while staying on his secure Basil the first student scholarship at the newly grandfather’s property in South Australia, and the cards established British School of Archaeology in Ankara. he gathered from chocolate bars and other food items. On his way there Basil spent three months in Cyprus, While holidaying in South Australia he also started a following in Stewart’s footsteps, as Stewart’s first collection of fossils. These influences predisposed him archaeological excursion in 1935–36 upon graduation to the antiquity of the Old World but not yet to any from Cambridge University had been to both countries. particular region or period. While in Cyprus, where Basil familiarised himself Before, however, he could take this interest any further, with the archaeological scene, as well as doing some the Second World War intervened. He had to wait of Stewart’s own business, he was joined by Trendall, until he was 17 in 1942 to enlist in the Royal Australian with whom he went travelling for a month in the Navy, where he served from February 1943 to April Levant. In Turkey, like Stewart, Basil did a combination 1946. His choice of this branch of the armed services, of recording archaeological material, exploration and for which no reason has been given, may have been excavation, before returning to Cyprus where he took due to his reaction against the army because of his part in fieldwork at various sites, including Myrtou father’s wartime injuries. It was not to prove the best Stephania and Sphagion, on the latter of which he of decisions as he found himself prone to seasickness, published a definitive report. Cyprus was not, however, and having trained in naval communications, was destined to become the main focus of his academic transferred on duty successively to Melbourne, pursuits. In early 1952 he joined Kathleen Kenyon’s Canberra, Port Moresby, Sydney and Darwin. After being historic dig at Jericho in Palestine, where he spent four discharged, he was granted War Matriculation Status months, and there developed a life-long commitment at the University of Sydney in 1946 and embarked on to the antiquity of the southern Levant. He also became the study of history and psychology, to which he added Kenyon’s protégé and owed much to her subsequent ancient Greek the following year. sponsorship of his research and activities. By happenstance a course on Ancient Art and Upon returning to Australia Basil became engaged Archaeology came into existence in 1947 under the to Ruth Shannon and they were married in 1954 at direction of Professor A. D. Trendall, subsequently ‘Mount Pleasant’, the Stewart family residence outside a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy Bathurst, New South Wales. The same year he joined the of the Humanities. Trendall was later joined by Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney James R. Stewart, subsequently Edwin Cuthbert as a lecturer, where, together with Stewart, he taught me Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the in 1957–58. In 1961 Basil decided to leave the university university. Basil was one of their earliest students. and Australia and commenced a Doctorate in the In 1948 he took up anthropology, at the suggestion of Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University under V. G. Childe, fellow Australian and renowned European the supervision of Kathleen Kenyon. His thesis on The prehistorian, and the following year gained a credit Foreign Relations of Palestine During the Early Bronze in anthropology and high distinction in prehistoric Age was successfully defended in 1964 and published in archaeology. He graduated in 1950 with second class 1967 by Quaritch in London for the Colt Archaeological honours in anthropology and was awarded the degree Institute. In 1964 he was appointed Assistant Director of Bachelor of Arts in 1951. His abiding memory of his of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, since undergraduate days was the maturity and feistiness of renamed the Kenyon Institute, and then on 1 April 1966 his fellow students who, as ex-servicemen and women, its Director. Just prior to the outbreak of the Israeli- expected to make up for lost time and demanded Arab war in mid-1967 Basil evacuated the British School much of their teachers. This put great pressure on their and took his family to Cyprus. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, lecturers, not all of whom lasted the distance. then Chairman of the British School’s Council, was not amused by Basil’s actions, and left him in no doubt that Basil’s academic orientation towards the ancient Levant he should have stuck it out in Jerusalem, regardless of was by then definitively set, under the influence of the fighting and the reasons for his return to England. Stewart’s example and guidance. Despite his exposure to Trendall’s brilliance, he was clearly not drawn to Despite all the tension and disruptions, Basil’s period a career in Classical art and archaeology, preferring in Jerusalem was archaeologically productive, with digs something more muscular and out-of-doors than the at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, the Amman airport study of South Italian Greek pottery. He was, after all, temple, Teleilat Ghassul and lastly at Samaria-Sebaste a prize-winning sportsman as well. The period between in 1968. 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in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney, the ancient Near East to capture the public imagination. the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Ian It was to overcoming this indifference that Basil devoted Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, his extramural efforts. the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and Archaeologists like Basil who had made their careers in the Australian Institute of Archaeology at La Trobe this region could build on no traditional constituency University, Melbourne. Basil resigned from the British for interest and support in Australia and so had to School in 1970 and took up what was then called the work extra hard to make an impact on the public. Edwin Cuthbert Hall Visiting Professorship of Middle The Foundation and its sponsorship programme have Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. made a major contribution not only to producing This was in fact the endowed Chair which Stewart had a cadre of professionals equipped to carry out the occupied until his premature death in 1962 but which objectives of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation had been inexcusably suspended by the University but to enhancing Australian appreciation of the until 1972 when it was finally advertised once more on importance of the ancient Near East, the source of the a permanent, full-time basis. alphabet, Arabic numerals and the three monotheistic Basil was a formal and obvious candidate but faced Semitic religions, to the development of Western strong competition from an eminent American civilisation. It has also helped bring foreign scholars and archaeologist, Helene Kantor, Edwin Cuthbert Hall students to Australia, and draw attention to antiquities Visiting Professor in 1970, a measure of the standing from this part of the world housed but often overlooked of the position internationally. He was, nevertheless, in Australia’s museums. Basil’s name will forever be eventually successful. During the 17 years of his associated with this facility now happily ensconced at tenure, Basil undertook a full teaching load, organised the University of Sydney in the Centre for Classical and archaeological expeditions to Jordan, beginning in 1979 Near Eastern Studies of Australia. the long-term excavation of Pella in the north Jordan If there was one quality for which Basil will always Valley with Tony McNicoll, and initiated an outreach be remembered, at least by me, it was his mastery of programme to the Australian community. Though he no the spoken word. As lecturer, conversationalist and longer specialised in the antiquity of Cyprus, he fully raconteur, Basil was a born communicator. When he accepted the role this field had played in the formation gave his courses at the university, he needed no notes. of the Department of Archaeology in the 1950s and did He not only had complete command and recall of the what he could to maintain the connection. In addition subject matter but a fluency of delivery that sounded to helping sort out Stewart’s legacy, he handled Ethel like neither a written article nor an oral reminiscence. Hunter’s generous gift to the University of Sydney and All he needed in those days were the slides. When arranged for the distribution of her archaeological engaged in conversation, with friend or stranger alike, papers. In the accompanying photograph Basil is he instantly put them at their ease as his manner was shown holding a Base-ring I jug of the Late Cypriote familiar and unthreatening, and it was hard to avoid the Bronze Age. impression that you had known him forever. Basil could One of Basil’s most enduring institutional achievements also tell a good story at the drop of a hat. His multiple was the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation, of and varied experiences had provided him with a fund which he was the Director until 1991. Originally set up of anecdotes, none of them malicious, which, when in 1973 as the Australasian Research Foundation for recounted, merely demonstrated the frailty of human Cypriot and Near Eastern Archaeology Limited at the behaviour. I shall always remember his description University of New England, it was, on Basil’s initiative, of a bender he went on with a group of naval ratings transferred to the University of Sydney in 1985 and while stationed Up North during the Second World War. began operations the following year. Intended to help They consumed an alcoholic brew illicitly distilled out Australian students take part in fieldwork overseas and of boot polish, fruit juice and other unlikely ingredients, acquaint the public about Australian archaeological and the following morning nearly all woke up paralysed, pursuits in the eastern Mediterranean, it served a wider unable to move anything except their eyeballs. They purpose that can only be properly understood in the were lucky to have survived. Thankfully for us, Basil did. context of Western perceptions of the ancient Near East. Basil was no armchair archaeologist but a down-to- Like it or not, the past in Mesopotamia and the Levant earth practitioner of the art. He much preferred the dig has had less of an impact on Australia’s culture than house to the ivory tower and was most in his element Pharaonic Egypt, a constant reminder of which are its on site in the field. For him archaeology was not a obelisks, pyramids and sphinxes. Despite the potent solitary pursuit but a permanent joint venture with Biblical connections, including the Tower of Babel, no partners, seen and unseen, of all ages, nationalities and comparable monuments have come down to us from 34 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

backgrounds. He saw it as his role to share his activities, plans and enjoyment in things past, on equal terms with anyone similarly inclined, and in this respect drew no distinction between his archaeological colleagues and members of the public. As a result he didn’t have to make a special effort at reaching out for support beyond the confines of the university campus. It all came to him quite naturally. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the field, Basil had no outsize ego, ulterior motives or proprietorial feelings, and found it hard to accept that others had hidden agendas or unworthy intentions. His experiences may have disillusioned him but they never embittered him. The greatest professional loss to him and the community of Levantine specialists was the untimely death of Tony McNicoll, on whom many hopes had been pinned. Above all Basil had an inbuilt sense of comradeliness that made him a collegial archaeologist, excellent company and a loyal friend. Of all the personal relationships he had, the most constructive was the one he enjoyed with Kathleen Kenyon and the most complicated, the one he had with Stewart, to whom he owed his archaeological formation. It was a measure of the man that he surmounted all the professional challenges which fate put in his way. To Ruth he owed an immeasurable debt for having supported and stood by him throughout his married life and career. His greatest legacy are his students, generations of whom have gone on to carve out for themselves careers in a variety of professions, not only prehistory, and will forever be grateful for the opportunity to have fallen under the spell of his enthusiasm and charm. I am privileged to have been amongst them.

Robert S. Merrillees FAHA Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques fsa THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 35 james R. LAWLER 1929–2013

by that combination of simplicity and depth that marks the greatest poetry: as a twelve-year-old in Melbourne, he wandered into a bookshop and bought a copy of Paradise Lost and poetry remained central to his teaching and research interests throughout his life. Born in 1929, Jim was fortunate enough to have been an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne at one of its finest hours, especially for students of French. At that time the chair of French was held by A. R. Chisholm, whose impact on French studies in Melbourne and in Australia generally was both profound and lasting. A student and life-long friend of the poet Christopher Brennan, one of the first Australians to appreciate the beauty of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry, Chisholm went on to publish studies on Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Valéry, all three of whom would be central to Jim’s research. After graduating, Jim went to Paris to prepare a doctorat de l’université on the then little-known poet, Guillaume Apollinaire. Speaking about that choice of poet, he remarked: ‘Apollinaire had died in 1918, and his widow and many of his friends photo: aah were still alive. I was able to talk with them, to hear his voice on records, to visit places he had visited. He any of my generation discovered the beauty and had come to Paris as a foreigner, as I did, and so he variety of French verse through an anthology M loved French with a freshness that I felt I had as well.’ published by Oxford University Press in 1960, which He was awarded the doctorate in 1954 and returned to sported unforgettably on its cover a fountain, its water Australia. After teaching at the University of Melbourne, enthusiastically spurting up only to fall neatly back into he was appointed Professor of French Studies at the its vase. The fountain was symbolic of the exuberance University of Western Australia in 1963, a position he of much great poetry, however strictly contained it held until 1971. During his time at the University of may be. In addition to the breadth of poetry included Western Australia he founded the highly-respected in this slim volume, it is remarkable for placing the periodical, Essays in French Literature. From there he explanatory paragraph about each poem after the piece moved to the United States, where he was appointed itself, thus generously allowing the reader to reach his to a post at the University of California (Los Angeles), or her own appreciation first. That approach was typical and then to Nova Scotia, Canada, where he took up a of the anthology’s compiler, James R. Lawler – typical position at Dalhousie University. In 1979, he founded of his openness of mind and of the respect with which another prestigious review, Dalhousie French Studies. he treated his students. It is also characteristic of his In that year, too, he made his last professional move, openness of mind about poetry itself. ‘Poetry’, he once to the University of Chicago, where he became Edward remarked, ‘is very meaningful to us – it is not meant Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in for museums and libraries, but should be brought into Romance Languages and Literatures. After retirement our lives. There are plenty of lessons in poetry that are he returned to France, a country he loved and whose there to be read and discussed in their diversity. There language he spoke with exceptional beauty and felicity. is joy in reading and thinking through things in the Even in ‘retirement’ he was still active, becoming company of poets. They use the simplest words – bread, Président of both the Association internationale des trees, sky – yet these little words go to the heart of études Françaises and the Association des amis de consciousness.’ From an early age, Jim was fascinated 36 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

Rimbaud, further proof of the standing in which he was which is called here, in Valéry’s own terminology, held by the French. The French government recognised ‘a decisive spiritual conquest’. his considerable contribution by making him an Jim was also a translator, leaving for example a fine Officier des palmes académiques and awarding him version of Paul Claudel’s Connaissance de l’est, in a the Prix international des amitiés françaises. In 1999 2004 Princeton University Press publication entitled the extremely prestigious Académie française chose Knowing the East. The introduction to this work opens him as the recipient of the Prix du rayonnement de la with a sentence that is typically Jim in being succinctly langue française. powerful, beautifully balanced and intriguing enough Jim was a foundation member of the Australian to draw the reader irresistibly in: ‘The East that Claudel Academy of the Humanities, and enjoyed a reputation came to know was not a passing fancy.’ as one of the finest scholars of French poetry from Despite his considerable erudition, Jim remained one Charles Baudelaire to Yves Bonnefoy. Among his many of the most straight-forward and unpretentious of remarkable publications, he will be remembered for men, a fine human being with a wonderful sense of the 1963 Lecture de Valery: une etude de Charmes; humour. I remember sharing a taxi with him during the The Language of French Symbolism which he published Melbourne Mallarmé conference in 1998. The taxi driver in 1969 and which reveals his considerable powers of was loudly and jingoistically scandalised on learning synthesis; Rene Char: The Myth and the Poem of 1978; that Jim lived in France. ‘Why ever would you want to Rimbaud’s Theatre of the Self (1992), his fine reading of live there, mate?’ he asked incredulously. ‘My wife is the work of Arthur Rimbaud as defined by the masks French’ replied Jim, mildly. ‘If my wife was French I’d and personas the poet adopted; and in 1997 Poetry bloody well make her live here’ was the truculent reply. and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire’s ‘secret architecture’. Ever diplomatic, Jim calmly turned the conversation, In addition, Jim contributed many valuable journal to my considerable astonishment, to football. ‘Poetry’, articles on writers as diverse as Poe and Bonnefoy, Jim had once said, ‘has many different aspects. It is not Apollinaire and Claudel. One of the finest of these just language – it is psychology, philosophy, history.’ is an article he wrote in 1984 for Yale French Studies In this case it clearly had provided him with sufficient in a number edited by Sima Godfrey on the theme psychology and philosophy to deal with a Melbourne of the anxiety of anticipation. Jim’s article takes its taxi driver. title, ‘An Ever Future Hollow in the Soul’, from lines by Paul Valéry. While Valéry is the main focus of the article, He is survived by his twin children, Jérôme and Ariane. it ranges with ease and eloquence over a wide field of Rosemary Lloyd faha poets – Mallarmé, Baudelaire, Hugo, Poe – to explore what others might term the anxiety of influence, but THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 37 mike morwood 1950–2013

In the mid-1990s he undertook a multidisciplinary study in Cape York Peninsula involving many experts from other fields (some of whom became his colleagues at Wollongong) and very large numbers of students. The resulting volume (with illustrations by Doug Hobbs) is one of the most detailed reports of an archaeological field project in Australia: M. J. Morwood and D. R. Hobbs, eds., Quinkan Prehistory: The Archaeology of Aboriginal Art in S.E. Cape York Peninsula, Australia (1995). After the Cape York book appeared, Mike began research in Indonesia. As his head of department, I advised him that this was premature and that he should instead write a synthesis of his book as a journal article so that people could take in the many innovations it represented. It turned out I was wrong. He continued working in Indonesia, becoming the foreign archaeologist who had worked there longer than any other. Initially, Mike took over some Dutch work undertaken with Fachroel Aziz, of the Indonesian Geological photo: david elkins Research and Development Centre, on the island of Flores. The Dutch had demonstrated that stone tools ike Morwood died peacefully in Darwin on 23 July made by human ancestors, known for some time from M2013, in the company of his wife, Francine, and amateur excavations, were older than the Brunhes- daughter Catherine, after a long battle with cancer. Matuyama palaeomagnetic boundary, and so older The day before, in typical fashion, he was still talking than about 800,000 years. This was unprecedented. about plans for further research. Mike worked with Paul O’Sullivan to provide a numerical age for these stone tools of 880,000 years ago. Mike joined the University of New England (UNE) in Subsequent research in the same formations has taken 1981 from a position in the Queensland Department the dating of human ancestors on Flores back beyond of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement. He worked one million years. Mike, in characteristic recognition of at UNE until the late 2000s and then moved to the the importance of involving students in his research, University of Wollongong from where he retired, though passed that work on to PhD students and also to Mark they re‑employed him until his death. Moore of UNE. The happy coincidence that UNE In his PhD thesis, Mike pioneered the inclusion of employed a geologist, Ian Metcalfe, who had unravelled rock art studies into other archaeological studies. much of the movement of the continental elements John Mulvaney described it as the best he had ever read. that now make up the islands of Indonesia, led to a Mike continued to work on projects that sought such an highly successful conference and book: I. Metcalfe, integration until his death, aside from a period when he J. M. B. Smith, M. J. Morwood and I. Davidson, eds., was principally occupied with his research in Indonesia. Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia- He turned his UNE course on the Archaeology of Rock Australia (2001). Art into a successful book: Visions From the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art (2002). 38 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

But Mike Morwood’s name will always be associated the find was remarkable as it seemed to suggest that the with his other project on Flores, undertaken with Hobbits were in Flores long after the arrival of modern Randen Pandji Soejono of the Indonesian ARKENAS humans in Australia, and yet there were no remains research institute, at the cave of Liang Bua. of modern humans in Flores until after the Hobbits The Australian-Indonesian team of which Mike was became extinct. one of the leaders found a diminutive skull of what he Mike subsequently worked on Sulawesi (the dating of subsequently called ‘A New Human’ in the southern rock art there at about 40,000 years ago was published spring of 2003. Mike called on his UNE colleague in October 2014). He had also just completed a research Peter Brown to make the initial description of these project in the Kimberley sparked by his interest in the skeletal remains and they decided that it was a new archaeology of the Macassans who visited northern species, Homo floresiensis. The initial description was Australia and his initial project to attempt to date the published in 2004 as P. Brown, T. Sutikna, M. J. Morwood, early images in the Kimberley. R. P. Soejono, Jatmiko, E. Wayhu Saptomo and R. A. Due, ‘A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene Mike’s work at UNE was characterised by a single- of Flores, Indonesia’, Nature 451: 1055–61, and minded pursuit of interesting research questions and M. J. Morwood, R. P. Soejono, R. G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, by his engagement of students in that research. He often C. S. Turney, K. E. Westaway, W. J. Rink, J. X. Zhao, G. D. van spoke of teaching as being principally about inspiring den Bergh, R. A. Due, D. R. Hobbs, M. W. Moore, M. I. Bird people with the wonder of the archaeological story. and L. K. Fifield, ‘Archaeology and age of a new hominin By pursuing these objectives, he inspired devotion from Flores in eastern Indonesia’, Nature 431: 1043–44. among many students, both those of the highest quality and those less gifted. He embodied what archaeology Mike insisted the find be nicknamed ‘the Hobbit’ in a university department should be about – both and the name stuck. Controversy has dogged the creating and passing on knowledge about the past. find for a variety of reasons, many of which were It is typical, also, that he understood that that past, in described in a popular book published in New York this part of the world, is the past of indigenous peoples, in 2007: M. J. Morwood and P. van Oosterzee, A New both in Australia and Indonesia. His ability to work Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of with them and with Indonesian scholars is testament to the ‘Hobbits’ of Flores, Indonesia. In many ways, the his humanity. controversy exposed the weak foundations of physical anthropology and archaeology. Recent definitive He will be sorely missed. publications, however, have disposed of many of the Iain Davidson FAHA stupidities published after the initial announcement, vindicating both Morwood and Brown. The dating of THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 39

TREASURER’S STATEMENT

The Abridged Audited Financial Statements for 2014 Expenditure appear on the following pages. An overall surplus for The overall increase in expenditure in the period the period of $100,658 is reported on the Statement of reflects the rise in activities carried out during the year. Income and Expenditure, which includes unrealised Council also recognised that the low staffing levels gains of $174,677 from the Academy’s investment of the Secretariat were not sustainable and approved portfolio, and an operating deficit of $74,018. the appointment of an extra (part-time) staff member to assist with the publications and communications Income role. This appointment has allowed the Academy to The Academy’s grant-in-aid payment under the transition to electronic voting, improve the website Higher Education Support Act (2003) was received and assist with other communications. The accounting in January. Income received in June 2012 from the treatment of the ACOLA Asia Literacy project means then Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate that some of the Secretariat salary costs associated Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education with the project appear as an expenditure to the for international activities was brought forward to project rather than offset against employment costs. support the international programme, in particular The increase in expenditure is also a result of accruing to develop the Memorandum of Understanding with funding to offset a backlog of publication subsidies. the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to contribute It is expected that the backlog will be cleared in the next to employment costs and the survey of Fellows’ financial year. International Participation and Collaboration. Support The balance sheet continues to improve after the losses was received from the Office of the Chief Scientist, the of the global financial crisis, with a year-end position Department of Industry and the Academy of the Social of $1,081,900. This allows the Academy to be in a good Sciences in Australia for the Mapping the Humanities, position for the year ahead enabling it to continue Arts and Social Sciences in Australia project. Income with activities which fulfil the Charter obligations to was also received from the Australian Council of advance scholarship in the humanities for the benefit of Learned Academies for the management of one of the nation. the projects under the Securing Australia’s Future programme, Asia Literacy: Language and Beyond. Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse faha fassa Honorary Treasurer Academy Investments The Academy investment portfolio continued to increase in value over the year. Income from the investments holds steady, allowing the Academy to continue to fund programmes and research such as the Publication Subsidy Scheme, the Humanities Travelling Fellowships and the oral history project with the National Library of Australia. The Council continued to work closely with JBWere advisors on the best approach to grow the investments with a diversified portfolio. 40 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14

ABRIDGED FINANCIAL REPORT THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 41 42 THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013–14 The swampland beyond the coastal sandhills was mapped with a patchwork quilt of blue. By Ian Templeman am faha. Oil on canvas. 71 x 71cm. Painted 2013.

On 19 May 2014 Mr Ian Templeman am fAHA, poet, artist and contributor to the fifth issue of Humanities Australia, generously donated one of his paintings to the Academy. We were delighted to accept this beautiful artwork which will be hung in the Council Room at the Academy’s offices in Canberra. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES annual report 2013–14