Last week saw The Australian Academy of the Humanities hold its 40th annual symposium on 19 -20 November at the National Library of Australia, Parkes, Canberra. This year's theme was The Humanities in Australia: Taking Stock, and syposium convener Prof. Mark Finnane (Griffith University) saw this theme as befitting a retrospective on both the Academy and the state of Humanities in Australia. Papers focussed on both the development and changes in the last 40 years as well as looking to future trends which might impact upon the Academy and the humanities themselves.
A stellar cast of academics presented a diverse series of papers that provoked lively questions from the floor. Including but not limited to Catriona Elder, Genevieve Lloyd, Graeme Davison, John Frow, Mark Byron, Ian Hunter, Ien Ang, Glenda Sluga, and Ian Donaldson. The symposium was attended by Jane Mummery and Marnie Nolton.
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