Centre for 21st Century Humanities No Images? Click here Farewell to Outgoing Centre Director Professor Ros Smith who has led the Centre during 2018 is leaving the position to focus on her Future Fellowship project in 2019. She reflects on the many achievements of the Centre over the past year: "Thank you to everyone involved in our Centre for your help in what has been a busy and dynamic year! One of the aims of our Centre is to engage with the community and through our events we aim to bring our research into the community sphere. We hope you have enjoyed reading and participating in one of our events, from the Blacksmith's Repair Day, to the Surveilling Minds and Bodies Conference, to Pitchfest, and our recent startup workshop and public lecture by Professor Rosalind Gill. This year we have been successful in securing an amazing $2.1m in Category 1 external grant funding with some exciting projects to begin in 2019 including: $484,000 to Associate Professor Mark Harvey to investigate how listeners use cues from the way speech sounds are produced to break the speech stream into individual, recognisable words. $420,000 to Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig for a time-layered cultural map of Australia that will deliver researcher-driven national-scale infrastructure for the humanities, focused on mapping, time series, and data integration. It will enable increased accessibility to historical and cultural data through visualisation tools and open new perspectives on Australian culture and history. I leave the Centre in the very capable hands of my colleague Professor Victoria Haskinswho I am sure will carry the Centre from strength to strength. Merry Christmas and farewell, Professor Ros Smith Prestigious recognition for Professor Lyndall Ryan Recognised for her outstanding contribution to the humanities in Australia, Professor Lyndall Ryan has been elected to the Australian Academy of Humanities, which is the highest honour of achievement in this field. Specialising in Australian colonial and post-colonial history, massacre studies and Australian feminist history, Professor Ryan documented a highly-regarded digital map detailing records of nearly 250 Aboriginal massacre site locations. Professor Ryan, who is a University of Newcastle research academic, is one of just 19 researchers to be newly elected as Fellow. The Australian Academy of the Humanities is the national body for humanities in Australia, promoting excellence and leadership. Workshop encourages new startups with seed funding A humanities challenge for schools, educational podcasts, a poetry event and a social enterprise for times of crisis are some of the winning pitches delivered at the Humanities Startup Workshop held on November 9th at New Space. Watch the video above for a recap of the day. This is the third year that the Centre for 21st Century Humanities has hosted the popular workshop, with seed funding awarded to the most viable ideas pitched on the day. Director of the Centre for the 21st Century, Professor Ros Smith said “One of the most important things today, especially with the engagement and impact agenda that is part of the tertiary sector now, is to make our research have impact in the real world. Through these workshops we are taking researchers’ ideas, applying them to real world problems and creating solutions to those problems." Read more. Cuplet poetry night One of the recipients of the Centre's startup funding is local poet Claire Albrecht. Clare is behind the Cuplet Poetry Nights that have been held in 2018. She has been awarded $3000 funding to expand the event in 2019. The final Cuplet Poetry Night is on tonight Wednesday December 12th at The Beaumont, Hamilton from 7pm. Claire is also busy been putting together an anthology of the poets who have read at Cuplet over 2018, which will be released by Puncher & Wattmann and includes work by Michelle Cahill, Toby Fitch, Amelia Dale, A.J. Carruthers, Tim Tomlinson and more. |