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Discovery Projects Australian Professorial Fellows commencing 2008:
Prof R.S. White
Shakespeare and film genres
2008: 87,633; 2009: $87,801; 2010: 81,286; 2011: $81,389; 2012: 81,474
Administering Organisation: University of Western Australia
The monograph will enhance the reputation of Australian academicians as world experts in topical and important original research. It will also complement the flow of outstanding Australian films, by showing that the industry is supported by important and relevant academic scholarship. The research will also indirectly show that Australia, like all countries, is part of a global cultural community which is not only internationally diverse and plural but also a product of history which includes literary and dramatic history.
Discovery Projects commencing 2008:
Prof M. Bennett
The Global Vaccination Revolution
Administering Organisation: University of Tasmania
A study of first global immunization campaign will provide a historical dimension to contemporary concerns about pandemic disease, vaccination and bio terrorism, and generate new insights into the factors determining the success and failure of public health initiatives. The project relates directly to national research priorities in health and safeguarding Australia. It has more specific relevance to Australia. Smallpox decimated the Aboriginal population, and quarantine and vaccination have loomed large in Australian history. It builds on Australia's strong scholarship in the fields of virology and immunology and the history of disease and public health. ---
Dr M. Cassidy-Welch
Crusade, displacement and the aftermath of war in medieval France
2008: $30,398; 2009: 28,061; 2010: 56,885
Administering Organisation: University of Melbourne
This research project will benefit Australians by adding to our understanding of experiences of displacement, the personal and cultural consequences of war, and the ways in which past societies have dealt with those displaced as a result of conflict. The medieval war on heresy which precipitated experiences of displacement in southern France provides an insightful and informative parallel to current concerns about the aftermath of ideological conflict. ---
Prof H. Craig
Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599
2008: $64,000; 2009: $52,500; 2010: $56,486
Administering Organisation: University of Newcastle
The question of how differently each speaker or writer uses language is important in everything from plagiarism to the definition of artistic genius. The project makes Shakespearean drama before 1600 a definitive test case of this wider problem of individuality in language. Australians are inheritors of the Western tradition of individual self determination and self expression; the project will help clarify one of the main assumptions behind this tradition. Australia is also an inheritor of the English language culture of which Shakespeare is a key element, and the project will enrich the understanding of this culture through new light on his beginnings.
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Dr N. Eckstein
Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence
2008: $140,000; 2009: $65,000; 2010: $40,000
Administering Organisation: University of Sydney
This new project on Florentine society will advance the field of Renaissance social history, reinforce Australia's outstanding reputation in the area, promote international agreements like that with the Fondazione Cassamarca, and confer further major academic, cultural and economic benefits on Australian national culture.
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Dr J. Gascoigne
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
2008: $32,972; 2009: $57,998
Administering Organisation: University of New South Wales
Through a study of the interaction of the peoples of Europe and of the Pacific the project will explore the character of attitudes towards other peoples and human society more generally which helped to shape European Australia in its formative phase. The strong historical imprint of such attitudes means that they still have to be reckoned with in assessing our position in the increasingly troubled region of the Pacific. Since the project draws heavily on major collections here in Australia it will help to raise the profile of such cultural institutions and to promote their usage by others including postgraduates.
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Dr A. Modesti
Mapping Matrons: Women's Cultural Patronage Networks in Seventeenth Century
Northern Italy: from Maria Cristina of Savoy to Vittoria della Rovere
2008: 98,277; 2009: 81,647; 2010: $78,648
Administering Organisation: Latrobe University
This project adds an important historical dimension to contemporary debates concerning social capital and female leadership. It retrieves women's significant public engagement and community building in the realm of public taste. Historical precedents show how female networks and agency contribute to the community and public sector. Women's networks of taste shaped human creativity then...and now. This study will illuminate how our culture (and democracy) emerged in gendered networks of cultural exchange.
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Prof J. Moorhead
The Papacy in Late Antiquity
2008: $51,657; 2009: $56,657; 2010: 37,328
Administering Organisation: University of Queensland
The papacy, one of the oldest and most powerful institutions in the world, has recently been revitalized and gives every sign of retaining its authority in the immediate future. The research aims to explain how, across some three hundred years, it came to enjoy its position. In a world in which religious authority and allegiance is becoming more important, locally and internationally, a sound understanding of the foundations of a key institution will be of great benefit.
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Prof B. Muir
Nuanced recollection and representation: the political and rhetorical strategies of The Peterborough Chronicle
2008: 122,897; 2009: 55,459; 2010: 71,600
Administering Organisation: University of Melbourne
This study will enhance our understanding of essential aspects of historical writing in Anglo Saxon and early Norman England. The analysis, to be presented in a digital facsimile presentation of this invaluable historical document, will be published in Oxford University's new Bodleian Digital Texts Series. This series, produced at The University of Melbourne with The Bodleian Library as collaborator, sets the standard internationally for the digital analysis and presentation of materials preserved in manuscript form, and consequently is establishing the University as a centre of excellence for this kind of work.
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Dr J. Taliadoros
Sacred Rules, Secular Revelations the conceptions of rights in pre-modern Europe
2008: $92,000; 2009: 88,700, 2010: $88,000
Administering Organisation: Monash University
This project provides a deeper understanding of the origins of and background to contemporary debates on the role of religion in law, and vice versa. This is particularly relevant at a time when law and human rights face questions about their moral and normative qualities. It will contribute to debates about the origins of the humanities in higher learning by reminding us that such studies had their origins in resolving practical problems and conflicts, rather than esoteric ends. This project will further reinforce Australia's reputation for integrating sound scholarship with innovative methodology and inter disciplinarity in pre modern European studies.
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Prof S. Trigg; A/Prof A. Lynch; Dr. L. D’Arcens; Prof J.M. Ganim
Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory
2008: 94,747; 2009: 81,306; 2010: $75,086; 2011: 90,324
Administering Organisation: University of Melbourne
This project will provide the first long range analysis of Australian cultural responses to the medieval period, and the first comparative study of Australia's relationship with international medievalism. It will show how Australians have used reference to the medieval past, both favourable and hostile, to articulate our complex relation to European tradition and our aspirations to a distinctive national culture. The published research will offer an original perspective on the development of Australian cultural identity and will enhance public understanding of our British and European heritage.
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Prof R. Yeo
Memory, notebooks and archives: making early modern science
2008: 45,000; 2009: 40,000; 2010: 35,000
Administering Organisation: Griffith University
What information should be memorized? To what extent should we rely on looking things up? Striking the proper balance between what we retain in memory and what is best checked in books, databases or archives is a preoccupation in public discussion. The project gives this issue an historical perspective, showing how priorities have changed from an emphasis on memory and personal notebooks to an acceptance of retrieval from external sources. Focussing on the period of the Scientific Revolution, it contributes to the understanding of our early modern European heritage a field in which Australian scholars have a strong reputation.
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