Australian Book Review celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year. To mark this milestone, ABR, in association with the National Library of Australia, presented a free lecture by Emeritus Professor Ian Donaldson, Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, at the NLA on Tuesday 25 October.

Professor Donaldson's "definitive" biography of Ben Jonson, Ben Jonson: A Life, is reviewed in The Guardian. He is a General Editor, with David Bevington and Martin Butler, of the forthcoming seven-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.

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Registrations are now open for a major conference on humanities and climate change as part of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) which is being held 13-16 June, at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU. This is the first time in over a decade that the annual meeting of this global consortium is being held in the southern hemisphere.

The Academy is co-sponsoring the opening reception of the conference at the National Gallery of Australia. Registration is is open to all, via online form here.

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Registration is now open for a series of workshops to be held in conjunction with the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting. Facilitated by leading Australian and international scholars these workshops will take place on 27 March at ANU and include sessions on data management fundamentals for the humanities, document-based encoding, and mapping and spatial visualisation. Places are limited. To RSVP see workshop website.

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The Academy is delighted to announce that it has awarded 12 travel bursaries for early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to attend the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities (aaDH), Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting.

A draft conference programme is now available.

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Griffith Review and The Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers of the University of Melbourne recently announced a series of innovative master classes addressing the gap between the high quality of Australian academic research and the interests of the wider public, key policy-makers and international markets.

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Leading publishers, booksellers, academics and librarians discussed the future for the academic book in Australia at a forum organised by the National Scholarly Communication Forum under the auspices of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

More information about the forum, including presentations, is available on the website.

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities' 2011 Trendall Lecture in Classical Studies will be presented by Professor Han Baltussen FAHA, at the University of Adelaide, 19 October 2011 from 7.00pm-8.00pm. To attend, please RSVP by 12 October to Jennifer Payne

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The Academy welcomes the launch of the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) which aims to raise the profile of language educators and public awareness of the cultural, strategic and economic importance of language education for Australia.

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The Academy of the Humanities welcomes the establishment of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Association will act to support and extend links between digital humanities researchers, improve professional development opportunities and provide international leverage for local projects and initiatives.

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