The Hancock Lecture

Emeritus Professor Sir (William) Keith Hancock (1898-1988) was a Foundation Fellow and the first President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 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.

Previous Hancock Lectures

• 2009: Professor Glenda Sluga FAHA, Was the Twentieth Century the Great Age of Internationalism? [.pdf 116KB]
• 2005: Professor Meaghan Morris FAHA, Foreign Values; or, On English as a Chinese Language
• 2001: Dr Susan Lawrence, Representations of Their Lives: Archaeology and the Tangibility of the Past [.pdf 392KB]
• 1998: Dr Ian McLean, Being and Nothing: Figuring Aboriginality in Australian Art History [.pdf 752KB]
• 1994: Mr Noel Pearson, Mabo and the Humanities [.pdf 596KB]
• 1993: Associate Professor Christine Alexander, Charlotte Brontë’s Paintings: Victorian Women and the Visual Arts  [.pdf 812KB]