Participants & Partners
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190+ individual researchers
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of Victoria
Australians Studying Abroad
St George’s Cathedral
Western Australian Maritime Museum
University of Western Australia Press
Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group
Woodside Valley Foundation
Universities (Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney)
Governance
Convenor
Pam Sharpe (UWA)
Management Committee
Convenor
Research Theme leaders (5)
Publications coordinator
Industry Partner representative
Postgraduate representative
ECR representative
Coopted members
Staff (UWA)
Digital Services Director
Coordinator
Research Themes
 Cultural Memory: Australian reception of early
European culture
 Social Fabric: social structures, war and peace,
poverty
 Intellectual Formations: science, medicine and
philosophy
 Early European / Australasian Connections
 Religion and Spirituality
Activities
Programmes and Activities
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Collaborative Grant Programs
 Collaborative grant programmes
Symposia
 Symposia
& conferences
International
conferences
Co-sponsored
events
 Co-sponsored
events
Postgraduate/ECR
 Postgraduate/ECR programme
Digital
agenda
 Publications
 Digital agenda
Collaborative Grant Programmes
 Research Clusters scheme
 Travel funding to collaborate on grant
applications between institutions
 Assistance for developing collaborative
grant applications
 Funding for travel around Australia for
overseas visitors
Symposia & Conferences
 ‘Sociability and its Discontents: Civil
Society, Social Capital, and their
Alternatives in European and Australian
Society’, Sydney, 2005
 ‘Cultural Translations: Remaking the Early
European Past in Australasia’, Melbourne,
2006
 ‘Inventing Europe 400-1800: Image,
Knowledge, Communication’, UWA, 2007
 Monash Prato Centre, Italy, 2008?
Co-Sponsored Events
 ‘Houses, Households and Families in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe’, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group symposium, 12-13
August 2005, University of Western Australia
 ‘Moral Panics, the Media and the Law’, 28-29 September 2005,
University of Newcastle
 ‘Shakespeare and the history of political thought’, July 2006,
Humanities Research Centre, ANU
 ‘Communities of Learning: Religious Diversity and the Written
Record, 1085-1453’, August 2006, Monash University
Postgraduate & Early Career
Programmes
 Postgraduate and Advanced
Training Seminars (PATS)
 E-consult scheme
 Funding to attend events
 Internships
Postgraduate Advanced
Training Seminars (PATS)
 ‘Cultural Memory’, University of
Melbourne, May 20 – 21, 2005
 ‘Manuscripts and Records of
Medieval England’, University
of Tasmania, 29-30 June 2005
 ‘Art History and Material
Culture’, UWA, 20-22 April
2006
 ‘Theory and Interpretation in
Editing Early Modern Literary
Texts’, University of
Queensland, July 2006
Publications
 Brepols (Belgium): ‘Early European Research’,
refereed book series
 UWA Press: ‘Europe and Australia: the Long History’,
book series
 Parergon: Australian refereed journal, electronic
publication
Digital Agenda
 Access to specialist commercial
databases: ProQuest (EEBO),
Brepols (5 databases)
 Communication: Web site, e-mail
lists
 Electronic publication: Parergon on
Project Muse
 Collaborative working tools and
workspaces: Confluence
 Research repository
 Australian Collections portal
Priorities
 Increasing formal international linkages
 Increasing involvement by a wider range of
participants
 Developing a culture of more structured
collaboration in the humanities
 Identifying opportunities for further funding,
e.g. digitization
 Dealing with the long-range future: laying the
foundations for post-2009
Benefits
 Increase recognition for
Australian research in the
international arena
 Enrich cultural understanding
of contemporary Australians –
enthusiasm for cultural
heritage
 Bring the holdings of Australian
galleries, museums, libraries to
a global audience
 Long histories, long
perspectives on present-day
social and cultural policy
issues