Day 1: Tuesday, 27 October 2009

The value of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

09:30 - 10:40
Theatre
National Library of Australia

From the : 2009 HASS on the Hill program

CHASS has invited core member organisations, and sector leaders to open discussion on the issues and opportunities which will be priorities from 2010 to 2012 and the strategies required to promote and build recognition of the humanities, arts and social sciences.

The following people are participating in the The value of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences roundtable.

• Professor Ian Donaldson

President, The Australian Academy of the Humanities

• Professor Anthony Cahalan

President, The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

• Professor Stuart Macintyre

President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

• Professor Linda Rosenman

CHASS President, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Region), Victoria University in Melbourne

• Dr Julianne Schultz

Member of the Minister for the Arts' Creative Australia Advisory Group and Editor, Griffith Review

Professor Linda Rosenman

Professor Rosenman is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Region) at Victoria University in Melbourne. Professor Rosenman was Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri before returning to Australia in 1987 as Head of School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Queensland where she subsequently served as President of the University of Queensland Academic Board, and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Professor Rosenman has a PhD in Economics and Social Work from Washington University St Louis with extensive experience in research, both in the United States and Australia. Professor Rosenman has a long history of community engagement within and beyond the tertiary sector, and was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for her services to education and the community.

Professor Rosenman is the current President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), an organisation she has served since its foundation. Professor Rosenman is the former President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and of the Association for Social Work and Welfare Education, as well as a number of other Boards, Commissions and advisory councils in education and human and community services sectors.

Professor Rosenman has published and presented widely on economic security, superannuation and ageing with a particular focus upon older women.

Professor Ian Donaldson

Ian Donaldson is President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and of the National Academies Forum, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is an honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor of the ANU, where he was Professor of English and foundation Director of the Humanities Research Centre. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Wadham College, Oxford throughout the 1960s, and more recently worked in Edinburgh University as Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, and at Cambridge University as Fellow of King's College, Grace 1 Professor of English, and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. His principal research interests are in early modern English literature. He is a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, due for publication next year by Cambridge University Press, and is currently completing a life of Jonson for Oxford University Press.

Professor Anthony Cahalan

Professor Anthony Cahalan has twenty-five years of broad-ranging academic, professional and managerial experience in the design professions and university education. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University in 2007 and was elected President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) in 2009. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Design at Canada's largest university of art and design, the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, and remains an Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Design and Architecture at the University of Canberra.

His educational background includes a PhD in design from Curtin University of Technology, a Master of Design from the University of Technology Sydney and a BA (Visual Communication) from Sydney College of the Arts. Dr Cahalan's research interest within the broad area of visual communication is contemporary typography - his PhD was the first in Australia in the field - and the thesis, Type, trends and fashion, has been produced as a book by Mark Batty Publisher in New York.

Professor Cahalan has held professional positions in graphic design, marketing and public relations and worked for national and international clients in the private, intergovernmental and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and at the United Nations in Austria. He has a comprehensive publications record and is an accomplished public speaker, presenting regularly at national and international conferences. He has been the country delegate for Australia of Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and a state president and national councillor of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA).

He has planned and developed new academic courses, taught in and across disciplines in a variety of academic institutions at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervised and acted as external examiner for Masters and PhD candidates and been responsible for establishing and accrediting university programs at the University of Tasmania, the University of Canberra and the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Professor Stuart Macintyre FAHA FASSA

Stuart Macintyre was educated in Melbourne and undertook doctoral studies in history at Cambridge. He has held appointments at Cambridge, Murdoch, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. Since 1990 he has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History and in 2002 was made a Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1999 to 2006. He held the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University 2007-08. From 1996 to 1998 he was president of the Australian Historical Association and from 2002 to 2004 he chaired the Humanities and Creative Arts panel of the Australian Research Council. He served terms on the councils of the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria.

Dr Julianne Schultz

Dr Julianne Schultz AM is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW, the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly established by Griffith University in 2003 to provide a public intellectual leadership and a platform for long-form essays addressing topical issues beyond the daily news agenda.

She is a professor at Griffith's Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, and a member of the Arts Minister's Creative Australia Advisory Group. She is a board director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Grattan Institute; High Resolves Initiative; Foundation for Public Interest Journalism; a member of the leadership council of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Enterprise and an ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Julianne Schultz received her doctorate from the University of Sydney and is the author books including Reviving the Fourth Estate (Cambridge Uni Press); Steel City Blues (Penguin); Not Just Another Business (Pluto), co-author of The Phone Book (Penguin), the editor of more than 30 other books and collections, the author of numerous chapters on journalism and media practice and the librettos to two operas, Black River and Going into Shadows.

She began her career as a reporter with the ABC and Australian Financial Review. As an academic and journalism educator she was the founding director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and actively involved in research and discussion about the future of journalism and its role in public life.

She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009 for her services service to the community as a journalist, writer, editor and academic, for fostering debate on issues affecting society and for professional ethics and accountability.