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» Kate Crawford » Graeme Davison » Humanities AustraliaNUMBER 1, 2010 » KATE CRAWFORD » GRAEME DAVISON » ANTONIA FINNANE » MAJELLA FRANZMANN » TOM GRIFFITHS » PETER HØJ » MICHAEL KIRBY » IAIN MCCALMAN » JOHN TRANTER THE JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES THE ACADEMY COUNCIL President Joseph Lo Bianco Honorary Secretary Graeme Clarke Treasurer Mark Finnane Vice-Presidents Lesley Johnson Tim Murray Editor Elizabeth Webby Welcome We are delighted to introduce the very first International Secretary issue of Humanities Australia, the new Marilyn Lake annual journal of the Australian Academy Immediate Past President Ian Donaldson W of the Humanities. The journal aims to Ordinary Members showcase some of the most exciting current Stephen Garton Huw Price work of researchers in the humanities Stephanie Trigg throughout Australia, and to provide a forum for scholarly discussion and debate. CONTACT DETAILS For further information about the The Australian Academy of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Humanities was founded by Royal Charter contact us: in 1969. It is one of Australia’s four Learned Email [email protected] Academies — the other three are the Web Academies of Science, Technological www.humanities.org.au Sciences and Engineering, and Social Telephone (+61 2) 6125 9860 Sciences — which advise Government on national research needs and activities. EDITORIAL/PRODUCTION The Academy of the Humanities now has Academy Editor Stephen Garton (2007-2009), nearly five hundred Fellows elected for the Elizabeth Webby (2009-) distinction of their work in the domains Designer of human and cultural knowledge. Nicole White Humanities Australia draws on the ideas Printed by CanPrint Communications and inspiration of these Academicians and Cover illustration others in the community with interests Steels Creek Valley, Victoria, three months after the ‘Black Saturday’ fires (2009). in the broad field of the humanities. (photo: tom griffiths) We hope you will enjoy the discussion © 2010 The Australian Academy of the Humanities and individual contributors presented here, which offers a brief ISSN 1837-8064 glimpse of the range and quality of The Australian Academy of the Humanities current research in the humanities is grateful for the ongoing support for its in Australia, and why it deserves your activities from the Australian Government, through the Department of Innovation, encouragement and support. ¶ Industry, Science and Research, including the production of this publication. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Government, the Minister IAN DONALDSON JOSEph LO BIANCO or the Department. President, Australian President, Australian The illustrations and certain identified inclusions in the text are held under separate Academy of the Academy of the copyright and may not be reproduced Humanities, 2007-9 Humanities, 2009- in any form without the permission of the respective copyright holders. Every reasonable effort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders for illustrative material in this journal. Where this has not proved possible, the copyright holders are invited to contact the publisher. 2 } Humanities Australia Humanities Australia 04 STEPHEN GARTON & ELIZABETH WEBBY Editors' Introduction GRAEME DAVISON 06 Phoenix Rising: The Academy and the Humanities in 1969 15 IAIN McCALMAN A Laboratory of Islands: Charles Darwin’s Pacific Project 23 TOM GRIFFITHS We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough: Black Friday and Black Saturday 33 ANTONIA FINNANE Barbarian and Chinese: Dress as Difference in Chinese Art 44 PETER HØJ Can We Afford to be Without Multilingualism? A Scientist’s Lay Perspective 54 JOHN TRANTER Albatross MAJELLA FRANZMANN 56 Mothers, Virgins and Demons: Reading Beyond the Female Stereotypes in Manichaean Cosmology and Story KATE CRAWFORD 64 ‘What’s Happening?’ Banality and Intimacy in Mobile and Social Media 1 MICHAEL KIRBY 7 Adaptation and Variation in Appointments to National Courts Editors’ Introduction » STEPHEN GARTON & ELIZABETH WEBBY Humanities Australia provides a snapshot interdisciplinary teams to tackle the pressing of the richness and variety of current work questions of the day. Doctors and scientists Hin a range of humanities disciplines, with a talk of translational research that will create focus on the ways in which such scholarship a chain of inquiry and experiment going from can open up new avenues for investigating the ‘bench top to bedside’. But we know that the human condition and the complex cultural translation research chain actually extends forms through which we come to understand much further – out into the wider society, ourselves and the world around us. It is not a negotiating human habits and behaviours, and formal academic journal (in the sense of being on through social and cultural practices into HUMANITIES AUSTRALIA PROVIDES A SNapSHOT OF THE RICHNESS AND VARIETY OF CURRENT WORK IN A RANGE OF HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES. peer reviewed and refereed) but rather offers legislative chambers, and back again in the form both Fellows of the Academy, and members of of policies, laws and regulations. The history of the wider community, a selection of interesting technological and scientific advance is littered essays — many published elsewhere in more with inventions, therapies and innovations extended forms — which illuminate the that were stillborn because they ran counter to exciting research being undertaken in many how people in particular cultures and regions areas of the humanities. We hope that these understood the world. If our innovation samples of what humanists offer will encourage culture is to prosper, it needs to be embedded readers to engage further with fields that are in a deep understanding of humanity and new to them. cultural differences. This is why the humanities The journal also seeks to demonstrate are fundamental to human progress. } the importance of the humanities in In this first issue of Humanities Australia (above) understanding human culture, past and we bring together articles of remarkable Academy Secretariat, present. Contemporary discussion in research breadth and depth, on topics ranging all the Canberra, Australia. policy holds that the big breakthroughs of way from ancient Manichaean iconography to SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN the future will be produced by researchers Twitter and contemporary social networking. AcADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES ARCHIVES. from diverse fields coming together in large This new journal is timely. In 2009, the 04 } Humanities Australia Academy celebrated its fortieth anniversary the law adapt to changing circumstances. and Graeme Davison provides an insightful Majella Franzmann’s essay on women account of the debates and efforts that led in Manichaean iconography, a shortened to its establishment. The year 2009 was also version of her Trendall Lecture (delivered in noteworthy as the bicentenary of the birth of 2007), challenges conventional stereotypes Charles Darwin, and the sesquicentenary of of women in ancient religions. Through a the publication of his On the Origin of Species. sensitive analysis of a range of Manichaean So we include an article by Iain McCalman texts, Franzmann uncovers complex and exploring the importance of voyages to contradictory representations of women, some Australia in the evolution of the theory of of which situate female spirituality in a far natural selection. Last year was also marked more positive light than previously imagined. IF OUR INNOVatION CULTURE IS TO PROSPER IT NEEDS TO BE EMBEDDED IN A DEEP UNDERStaNDING OF HUMANITY AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. by the tragedy of the devastating Victorian In a similar vein, although on a vastly different bushfires. Tom Griffiths places these events subject, Kate Crawford, the Academy’s Crawford in a larger historical context, illuminating the Medallist for 2008, analyses contemporary broader environmental and human settlement social network media, in such sites as Twitter, patterns that have shaped such traumatic questioning some of the current stereotypes events over the last century. Moving into a very of users as socially alienated and the content different area of scholarship, Antonia Finnane as banal. Crawford investigates social media provides a fascinating insight into the ways as marking a fundamental cultural shift dress and custom came to represent cultural from talk to listening as the primary mode difference: a means of delineating the shifting of social bonding in contemporary culture. cultural borders between ‘barbarians’ and We are also delighted to feature a new poem ‘Chinese’ in China since the Han dynasty. by distinguished writer John Tranter, written Understanding other cultures is an integral during a recent residency in Italy. part of humanities research. Peter Høj, in his These brief summaries cannot, of course, 2009 Louis Triebel Lecture, outlines, with great do justice to the richness of the research and insight, the perils of monolingualism and the interpretation in these essays. Nor does this significance of multilingualism in ensuring selection of articles encompass the full range of that future generations of Australians can disciplines in the Academy or humanities more function effectively in a global world. Values generally. They do, however, offer excellent are also integral to understanding how cultures samples of humanities scholarship and the work, and Michael Kirby argues forcefully for profound insights such work can offer into the importance of a principle of diversity in human cultures.
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