The Triebel Lecture
Studies in Modern European Languages
The Louis Triebel Lecture, inaugurated in 1986, is presented approximately every three years. It honours Professor L.A. Triebel (1890-1985), a
Foundation Fellow, and is funded through a bequest to the Academy upon his death in 1985.
The Triebel Lectures are generally themed in the area of modern European languages (i.e., other than English), a field which reflects the expertise of Professor Triebel, who was Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Tasmania.
The Triebel Lectures are conventionally given at the time of the Academy's annual
Symposium. The lectures are normally published in the Academy's
Proceedings.
Previous Triebel Lectures
- 2009: Professor Peter Høj, Can we afford to be without without Multilingualism? (published in Humanities Australia)
- 2005: Professor Cary Nelson, Globalisation, Piecework and the Future of the Humanities
- 2001: Professor Anthony Stephens, From de Sade to Stephen King: The Literary Aesthetics of Evil
- 1996: Dr Marie Thérèse Barbaux-Couper, The Perfect Match? Information Technology and the Modern Language Curriculum
- 1993: Professor John Lindow, Interpreting Baldr, the Dying God
- 1990: Professor Gerhard Sauer, Europe Between the Languages
- 1986: Professor Keith V. Sinclair, Laplace at Hobart Town and Sydney Town in 1831: The Humanism of a French Naval Captain