2016 Annual Meeting

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ACHRC Annual Meeting – 11 and 12 November 2016, Adelaide, South Australia

Theme: The Public Humanities

The 2016 Annual Meeting for the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres takes place in Adelaide, hosted by Flinders University and the Centre for the History of Emotions.

 

Registration for the event is free.  To register, please use the EventBrite page

To register for the meeting dinner at Ayers House, which costs $80, please pay here

Date Event Location
Thursday 10 November  Pre-meetings and Workshop  Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia, corner of North Terrace and Kintore Ave
Friday 11 November Day 1 Annual Meeting Full day Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia, corner of North Terrace and Kintore Ave
Friday 11 November Meeting Dinner Ayers House, North Terrace
Saturday 12 November Day 2 Annual Meeting Full day AGM Flinders in the City, 182 Victoria Square, Adelaide. Corner Flinders St and Victoria Square. Level 10.

 

For more information please contact Tully Barnett

The 2016 ACHRC Annual Meeting “The Public Humanities” will be held in Adelaide on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November, with a workshop and pre-meetings on Thursday 10 November.  The meeting will be hosted by the ACHRC, The Centre for the History of Emotions and Flinders University and will take place at the State Library of South Australia’s Hetzel Theatre in the Institute Building on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue and Flinders in the City, Victoria Square.

The ACHRC conference on the Public Humanities focuses on a core aspect of humanities research that is particularly germane to research centres in universities and collecting institutions: the integral role of engagement with publics. This is really how the impact of our sector needs to be understood: in the long and dynamic threads of dialogue between researchers and publics on issues such as justice, creativity, decolonization, and heritage. The capacity of the humanities to deal with qualitative emotion as well as the quantitative facts of history and culture is crucial here. Any understanding of a cultures past, present, and future requires an articulation of feelings as well as of facts.

Our aim is to bring together speakers with practical experience of programs that work so that our discussions are grounded in the pragmatics of public humanities. In Australia and New Zealand, government-led discussions of innovation and impact are mired in metrics that traduce the real public values of the sciences almost as completely as they ignore the HASS disciplines as a whole. We know about public value – its impact over time and in the lives of individuals – so this conference will be a opportunity build our case as a sector.

Thursday 10 November – Workshops, Pre-meetings, and Public Lecture 1
Friday 11 November- The Public Humanities conference Day 1
Saturday 12 November – The Public Humanities conference Day 2, and Public Lecture 2
Sunday 13 November – Wine, heritage and art tour

 

Register for the dinner here!

 

Thursday 10 November 2016 – Workshop, Pre-meeting & Public Lecture
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia
9.30-12.30

Workshop

Navigating Objects and Archives: Humanities Scholarship and Material Culture
Dr Bronwyn Labrum, Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Honorary Research Fellow, Massey University, New ZealandFiona Salmon, Director, Flinders University Art Museum

Dr Sara King, Curator, National Archives of Australia

Chairs: Dr Tully Barnett and Dr Pamela Graham

1.00-4.00

Parallel

pre-meetings

Measuring Research Excellence and Impact

Professor Richard Maltby, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law, Flinders University

Professor Kerry London, Dean: Research and Innovation for the Division of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, University of South Australia

Associate Professor Malcolm Choat, Director of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University

 

 

Early Career Researcher Workshop

Chair: Dr Wendy Van Duivenvoorde, Deputy Director ACHRC Early Career Researchers and Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University

Presenters:

Professor Tara Brabazon, Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University

Dr Emma Maguire, Recent graduate, and Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University

Dr Will Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama at Flinders University

Professor Rachel Ankeny, History Department, University of Adelaide

Dr Nicholas Godfrey, alumnus Screen and Media, and 2016 recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, Flinders University

5.00-6.00 Drinks
6.00– 7.00

Public Lecture/Panel

Public Lecture: Professor Julianne Schultz – “Culture in the Age of Innovation”

 

Friday 11 November 2016 – Conference Day One
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia
8.30am Registration
9.00 Kaurna Welcome to Country
9.10-9.30 Welcomes

Professor Diana Glenn, Dean of the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, host institution for the ACHRC

Professor Andrew Lynch, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Associate Professor Robert Phiddian, Director of the ACHRC

9.30-1.00 Panel: The Humanities and Creative Arts in the Innovation Agenda

Professor Julian Meyrick, Strategic Professor of Creative Arts at Flinders University

Professor Jane Davidson, Professor of Creative and Performing Arts (Music) at the University of Melbourne

Professor Denise Meredyth, Pro Vice Chancellor for the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences at University of South Australia

Professor Julianne Schultz, founding editor of Griffith Review, and Member of the Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research

 

Chair: Professor Robert Saint, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Flinders University

11.00-11.30 Morning tea
11.30-1.00 Panel: Public History Projects

Dr Kiera Lindsey, Lecturer in Australian History and Australian Studies, University of South Australia

Dr Bronwyn Labrum, Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Honorary Research Fellow, Massey University, New Zealand

Dr Darren Peacock, Chief Executive Officer, National Trust of South Australia

Dr Peter Meihana, Lecturer in Maori History, School of Humanities,
Massey University, New Zealand

Chair: Dr Katie Barclay, Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

1.00-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.15 Panel: Academics and the Public Face of Collecting and Cultural Institutions (Collaborating with Collecting and Cultural Institutions)

Dr Rachel Franks, Coordinator, Education & Scholarship at the State Library of NSW

Kylie Percival, University Archivist, University of Adelaide

Allison Russell, Director, History Festival and Community Programs, History SA

Participating chairs: Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Professor in Media at Macquarie University and Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Professor of Australian Studies and History, Chair of History, and Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne

3.15-3.45 Afternoon tea
3.45-4.45 Panel: Humanities Outreach; Case Studies from the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions“My Life as a Playlist” Professor Jane Davidson, Professor of Creative and Performing Arts (Music) at the University of Melbourne

“The Zest Festival” Ms Bec Millar, Director of Zest Festival

“The Treasured Possessions Exhibition”, Dr Kimberley-Joy Knight, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Chair: Professor Andrew Lynch, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

4.45-5.45 Panel: Platforms for the Public Humanities: Beyond the Public Lecture

Dr Amrita Malhi, Visiting Research Fellow, Asian Studies, Adelaide University

Dr Alice Gorman, @drspacejunk Department of Archaeology, Flinders University

Professor Thomas Dixon, Reader in History and Director, Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Dr Jane Mummery, Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University

5.45-6.30 Drinks and networking
7.00 Dinner, Ayers House

288 North Terrace, Adelaide

(Please note: separate registration for dinner is required)

 

Saturday 12 November 2016 – Conference Day Two
Flinders in the City, 182 Victoria Square, Level 10
(corner of Flinders Street and Victoria Square)
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00-11.00 Public Lecture:

Professor Thomas Dixon, Reader in History and Director, Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London

“Unfriending and Weeping in Public”

Chair: Professor Peter Harrison, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at The University of Queensland

11.00 – 11.30 Morning tea
11.30 – 1.00 Roundtable: Public Value and Humanities Engagement Participating Chairs: Associate Professor Craig Taylor, Director of Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, and Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Dean, School of History and International Studies, Flinders University
1.00-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.00 What’s next? Peak bodies and humanities advocacy

(Incorporating the  ACHRC AGM)

3.00-4.00 Board meeting and join us for an informal historical walk through Adelaide to the Belgian Beer Café   Ebenezer Place, Adelaide

 

Registration is free with the support of the Centre for the History of Emotions https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-public-humanities-tickets-28751394194

Event dinner – Friday 11 November at Ayers House, North Terrace, Adelaide =$80.

 

Accommodation Suggestions

North Terrace (West) Precinct:

Stamford Plaza
150 North Terrace
$189 – 270 per night
Large hotel opposite the Railway Station, near the corner of King William Street
State Library: 5 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Mercure Grosvenor
125 North Terrace
$200 per night
Large hotel opposite the Railway Station, near the corner of King William Street
State Library: 5 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Intercontinental Hotel
North Terrace, next to the Convention Centre
$270 – 400 per night
Large, high-rise hotel, next to the Railway Station
State Library: 5 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Oaks Horizons
104 North Terrace
$140 – 220 per night
Apartment-style hotel
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Flinders in the City (Victoria Square) Precinct:

Hilton Hotel
Victoria Square
$250 – 280 per night
Large hotel next to the Central Market, overlooking Victoria Square
State Library: 15 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 5 minute walk

Adina Apartment Hotel
2 Flinders Street
A hotel in the former 19th century State Treasury building, on the corner of King William and Flinders Streets, directly opposite Flinders in the City.
$200 – 286 per night (No availability Wed 9, Thurs 10)
State Library: 15 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 2 minute walk

Quest on King William South
379 King William Street
Studio apartments, 190 – 230 per night
New (2015), high-rise, apartment-style hotel, south of Victoria Square, near the corner of Sturt and King William Street.
State Library: 20 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 10 minute walk

Quest on King William
82 King William Street
Studio apartments, 180 – 250 per night
High-rise, apartment-style hotel, near the corner of Grenfell and King William Streets, in the heart of the CBD
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 5 minute walk

East End Precinct:

Majestic Roof Garden Hotel
55 Frome Street
$170 – 270 per night
Large hotel near the corner of Frome and Rundle Streets
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Crowne Plaza Adelaide
16 Hindmarsh Square
$170-230 per night
Large hotel near the corner of Pulteney and Rundle Street
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Ibis Hotel Adelaide
222 Grenfell Street
Queen Room, $150 – 180 per night
Large hotel, behind Rundle Mall
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk

Mantra on Frome
88 Frome Street
Studio Room, 3 nights – $486. (No single night booking)
Apartments on the corner of Frome and Pirie Streets
State Library: 10 minute walk
Flinders in the City: 15 minute walk