Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts
The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...
Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it.
While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn
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2025 humanities awards and grants
The Australian Academy of the Humanities offers several grants and awards for early mid-career researchers each year.
📣 Calling all Australian EMCRs, publishers, researchers & universities! Our 2025 awards & grants are open.
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Nominations close 28 March 2025. More info & apply: bit.ly/3TozalK
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Melissa Crouch researches how the military threatens democracy
Melissa Crouch FAHA is an expert in constitutional law, and law and religion, with a special interest in Southeast Asia.
@melissacrouch.bsky.social on the value of the humanities in her work to expose how the military of one of Australia's nearest neighbours is using law and constitution to advance its interests. See @humanitiesau.bsky.social latest profile here humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
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Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
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👀🖼️🤳 Researches visual communication & digital media
✍️📃🌏 Vice Chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division
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Head of the School of Modern Languages & Professor of Literature in French at University of Bristol. Researching multilingual, transnational & migrant writing.
Retired, and a bit tired.
Academic, Asia-China-Australia
We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
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