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<span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: var(--white);">Members of this list may be interested in the Australian Academy of the Humanities’
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– </span><a href="https://www.humanities.org.au/symposia/50thsymposium/program-speakers/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color:purple">Humanising the Future</span></a><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: var(--white);"> –
to be held 13-15 November 2019 in Brisbane. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: var(--white);">This year’s programme includes Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell FTSE (ANU) as well as Professor McKenzie Wark (Eugene Lang College, The New School), giving
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30)">Please note that<span> </span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">registrations are closing soon. Full details follow below.</span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Humanising the Future Symposium, 13-15 November 2019 Brisbane</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: var(--white);">Powerful versions of what the future holds have excited, reassured and terrified people for centuries. Driven as much by quackery as informed by genuine insight,
talk of robots, artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution is framed both in terms of existential threat and revolutionary transformation. The Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 50th Symposium – Humanising the Future – asks: </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">What will it take to stabilise and reform knowledge in the 21st century? A keynote address by Genevieve Bell – cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist best known
for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technological development. </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Does the past have a future? Views from leading historical scholars in Indigenous, Asian and Classical studies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">How can we create culturally smart cities? A roundtable forum with representatives from galleries, museums and libraries, urban planning and the Queensland State Architect.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">How can we enhance workforce development when faced with the technological challenges of surveillance and discrimination? Explored by experts in creative and blockchain
economies and digital media.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Do we need to ‘futurise the human’ in order to better understand the challenges of technologies, other species, and the future of the earth? Discussed by emerging and world-renowned
researchers in philosophy, AI, cultural studies and AI. </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">What does the future have in store for the humanities, and what can the humanities offer the future? A presentation on the humanities cause and a discussion panel with the
Vice-Chancellors of Griffith University, QUT and the University of Queensland.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Program highlights include two free public lectures:</span></p>
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<li><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Maaya Waabiny: Mobilising song archives to nourish an endangered language</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"> by
Indigenous early career researcher Clint Bracknell.</span></li><li><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Being Humane: A contested history</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"> by Academy president and eminent historian
Joy Damousi.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">This a public event, open to all. The Symposium will be held at The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane from 13-15 November 2019. Standard registration is $100 per person
per day and $30 per person per day for secondary and university students. See the Academy’s website for the full program and to register: <a href="http://www.humanities.org.au/symposia/50thsymposium%20" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">www.humanities.org.au/symposia/50thsymposium</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">The 50th Symposium is being convened by Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland), Professor Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology’s Digital
Media Research Centre), Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham (Queensland University of Technology) and Professor Mark Finnane (Griffith University).</span></p>
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