The Australian Academy of the Humanities

Memories, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present
Edited by Marilyn Lake, Memories, Monuments and Museums is a collection of Australia's leading writers and scholars, including Nicholas Shakespeare, Henry Reynolds, Dawn Casey, Iain McCalman, Ien Ang and Graeme Davison, discuss the ways in which we record, preserve and sometimes re-create our histories, and how the power of memory and the past shapes the present and our identity.

In the past, attitudes to history and its preservation were clearly defined: public statues and monuments were erected to prevent the failure of collective memory, and historical museums and cultural institutions were charged simply to 'collect, study and display'. Now the way in which we defend and remember the past is not so straightforward. Our national museums, archives and libraries are forced to meet an ever-changing list of imperatives to satisfy investors, curators and governments, as well as a marketing-focused public. Our shifting attitudes to memory and history have implications for our landscape, as a precious site of public memory, and in our literature, which is important in re-imaging our past. Establishing a single, true historical account has never been more difficult.

Edited by Marilyn Lake, published by Melbourne University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006, RRP $34.95 inc. GST. Available from MUP.

Proof and Truth: The Humanist as Expert
Lawyers, historians, anthropologists and literary scholars draw heavily on the concepts of 'evidence', 'proof' and 'truth' but these crucial terms generally carry distinct and incommensurate meanings for each discipline or professional practice. The consequences of these differences are more than academic. Divergent understandings of 'proof and truth' have serious practical implications when humanists present themselves as expert witnesses in court cases involving vital contemporary issues such as indigenous land ownership, cultural heritage, social policy and legal administration. With reference to controversial and landmark legal cases, this collection of cross disciplinary essays probes the convergences and incompatibilities between legal and humanistic understanding, and opens the way for a more constructive and informed courtroom role for experts of all kinds.

Edited by Iain McCalman and Anne McGrath, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2003, RRP $22 inc. GST.

First Peoples - Second Chance How have the humanities disciplines contributed towards mutual understanding between black and white Australians? What have these disciplines to say about the nature of the interface between indigenous and non indigenous Australians? Can Australian scholarship be distinctively Australian without addressing questions of aboriginality? How active have Aboriginal people been as scholars in the humanities?

These questions were actively debated at the 29th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Outstanding scholars interrogated their own disciplines.

Contributors include Marcia Langton, Henry Reynolds, Paul Patton, Margaret Clunies-Ross, Ian Mclean and Terry Smith. Illustrations by Michael Fitzjames, poem by Michelle Blanchard.

Edited by Terry Smith, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999, RRP $18 inc. GST.

Our Cultural Heritage
Our Cultural Heritage presents papers from the 1997 Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held in Canberra. This volume contains the annual Public lecture, given by Sir David Smith. It also contains papers given for sessions on 'Humanities Old and New', 'Schools and Scholars' and 'The Politics of Creativity'.

Also included are papers for Specialist Sessions at which five of the ten disciplinary areas of the Academy have showcased recent work at the cutting edge in their areas.

Contributors include Tony Coady, Terry Threadgold, Meaghan Morris, Virginia Nightingale, Wayne Hudson and Malcolm Gillies.

Edited by John Bigelow, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1998, RRP $25 inc. GST.

Creative Investigations: Redefining Research in the Arts and Humanities
These papers presented at the 1995 Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities discuss matters of particular concern to the Arts and Humanities, how research in these fields is being defined, in the context of far-reaching changes both in the structure of academic institutions and in the communication of advances of knowledge.

This volume contains the 1995 Annual Lecture by David Malouf on 'The Uses of the Past'.

Contributors include Roger Smalley, Shirley McKechnie, Gay McAuley, Michael Greenhalgh, Nerida Newbigin, Wallace Kirsop and Raoul Mortley.

Edited by Margaret Mahoney Stoljar, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1996, RRP $12.50 inc. GST.

Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts
Masks of Time brings together a number of outstanding researchers in Australia who contribute to the understanding of drama in its social, political and intellectual contexts from ancient to modern times.

The papers, presented at the 1993 Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, focus on the ways in which drama varies as a social activity in different times and places, the ways in which it interacts with its contemporary milieux, and on theoretical questions which arise in the process of relating drama to its contexts.

Contributors include Linda Barwick, Tony Gibbs, John Gillies, Jane Goodall, Richard Green, David Holm, John Jory, Harold Love and Stephen Wild.

Edited by A.M. Gibbs, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1994, RRP $20 inc. GST.

Beyond the Disciplines: The New Humanities
In the recent 'Theory Wars', the traditional Humanities have taken a battering from radical critiques of their methods and policies. In their place new types of knowledge are emerging as the New Humanities.

Beyond the Disciplines is a stimulating and informative introduction to some of the New Humanities by some of the people who are pioneering them.

Contributors include Judith A. Allen, Tony Bennett, Paul Carter, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Hilary Charlesworth, Simon During, John Frow, Sneja Gunew, Lesley Johnson, Michael Meehan, Meaghan Morris and Maila Stevens.

Edited by K.K. Ruthven, published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1992, RRP $9.95 inc. GST.

Who Owns the Past
The papers in this volume were originally presented to the Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held in Canberra in May 1983. The contributors explore aspects of the above issues, with differing perspectives offered from the fields of Aboriginal history and archaeology, North American Indian anthropology, Papua New Guinean prehistory, art history, Byzantium, Chinese history, museums and legal studies. The restitution of cultural property is discussed by, amongst others, Sir David Wilson, Director of the British Museum and present custodian of the Parthenon sculptures.

Contributors include Les Groube, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Isabel McBryde, John Mulvaney, Bernard Smith, Sharon Sullivan, Alice Tay, Bruce Trigger, Wang Gungwu, Eric Willmot, and David Wilson.

Edited by Isabel McBryde, published by Oxford University Press, 1985. No longer available.

Self and Biography: Essays on the Individual and Society in Asia
The literary and historical essays by nine distinguished scholars which comprise this volume are concerned with how biographical writing in its broadest sense reveals ideas about the place of the individual in society in three regions, Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. They suggest that individuality was never the theme in traditional Asian biography but what was more relevant was how the Self was portrayed, for example, the inner and outer self, the quiescent and creative self, the private and public self. The tendency in Asia was for biographies to stress the public roles their subjects played. What was important was merely the type, the model or the negative type.

These essays were presented as lectures at a symposium on Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne in 1974 sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Contributors include H.H.E. Loofs, A.H. Johns, S.N. Ray, O.B. van der Sprenkel, S.A.A. Rizvi, Harold Bolitho, D.A. Low, J.D. Legge and Wang Gungwu.

Edited by Wang Gungwu, published by Sydney University Press for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1975. No longer available.