Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

In this issue:

1. Registrations for HASS on the Hill June 15-16
2. Advising appointments
3. Program
4. Sponsors for HASS on the Hill
5. HASS on the Hill - Accommodation
6. Business at the AGM
7. Foundation Members

1. Registrations for HASS on the Hill June 15-16

Your response to registering for "Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences on the Hill" has been so strong that we had to close registrations off a week early! 175 of your colleagues will be attending the event.

Registrations from MPs have also risen, with 109 parliamentarians accepting our invitation for 30 minute meetings with a pair of people from the sector.

2. Advising appointments

We hope to contact all registrants by email in about a week, to let them know which Parliamentarian they will be meeting, when and where the meeting is, and who their partner from the HASS sector will be.

3. Program

We begin with lunch at the National Library of Australia, at noon on Tuesday 15 June. Dinner that night is at the excellent Ottoman Restaurant.

The program ends about 4 pm on Wednesday June 16, after the National Press Club address and the inaugural AGM. Some people will have late afternoon appointments with MPs, and we will advise you of these meeting times soon.

Full program is up on our web site

4. Sponsors for HASS on the Hill

Eight groups have agreed to support the event so far, and we are very grateful to the following organisations:

Platinum sponsors

DASSH Deans

Innovative Research Universities

Gold sponsor

Australian Research Council

Silver sponsors

Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee

CSIRO

Group of Eight

National Library of Australia

National Tertiary Education Union

5. HASS on the Hill - Accommodation

If you did not manage to get one of the rooms we reserved at University House ((02) 6125 5111, and mention the CHASS event), we suggest going to the website: www.wotif.com.au

Bookings at Wotif only operate two weeks in advance, and will not be open yet.

6.Business at the AGM

The two matters to be decided are:

1. We need to adopt a constitution. Our draft constitution has been posted to our website, and this document will be put to the meeting.
2. We also need to elect the inaugural Board. The Steering Committee is identifying candidates for the Board of CHASS, and will put a recommended list to the AGM. This does not preclude further nominations from the floor.

7. Foundation Members

To date we have 37 Foundation Members (see list below). All groups and organisations interested in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are invited to join CHASS as Foundation Members. The application form is on our website: www.chass.org.au

Foundation Membership costs $100 and is for organisations rather than individuals. Only Foundation Members will be able to vote at the inaugural AGM on the constitution, and elect the new Board.

Founder Members so far are:

• Accounting and Finance Association of Australasia and New Zealand
• Arts Access Australia
• AusStage
• Australasian Association for Philosophy
• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS)
• Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
• Australian Association for the Study of Religions
• Australian Dance Council - AusDance
• Australian Film, Television and Radio School
• Australian Historical Association
• Australian New Zealand American Studies Association
• Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
• Australian Society of Archivists
• Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
• Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
• Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia
• Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations - CAPA
• Council of Heads of Australian University Theatre Studies Institutions (CHAUTSI)
• Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
• Design Institute of Australia
• Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of SA
• Division of Humanities, Macquarie University
• Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, James Cook University
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
• Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University
• Hawke Research Institute, University of SA
• Independent Media Foundation
• Lab 3000
• Live Events Research Network - LERN
• Manning Clark House
• National Tertiary Education Union - NTEU
• School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan Uni
• School of Indigenous Studies, UWA
• The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
• University of Newcastle
• Victorian College of Arts

 

Regards

Toss Gascoigne
30 May 2004

 

For more information, please contact:

Toss Gascoigne

Executive Director

Council of the Humanties, Arts and Social Sciences

Phone: +61 2 6249 1995

director@chass.org.au