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20 years of DASSH: Retrospect and strategy for our disciplines.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of DASSH in 2022, this roundtable will offer a retrospective on two decades of transformations in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. A range of national and international perspectives will act as a form of provocation, a departure point from which participants will be invited to discuss and imagine the next twenty years in the life of our disciplines.
What will the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities look like in 2042? How might these disciplines evolve to meet the growing challenges of the 21st century, both at home and abroad? How might our own understanding of epochs and eras, of social, political and cultural transformation, help us negotiate the educational landscape of the coming decades?
The Roundtable event will be preceded by an exploration and analysis of the last 20 years in the humanities, arts and social scientists by Vice Chancellor of Victoria University Professor Adam Shoemaker.
Professor Adam Shoemaker
Professor Adam Shoemaker is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University. He is one of Australia’s leading researchers in the area of Indigenous literature and culture.
Prior to his current appointment, he was Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University, and he has held senior leadership roles at a number of other Australian universities including Academic Provost at Griffith University, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Monash University and Dean of Arts at the Australian National University.
Canadian by birth, Professor Shoemaker holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s University and a PhD from the Australian National University. Professor Shoemaker is the author or editor of nine books in the area of Indigenous Australian Literature and Culture, including Black Words, White Page and Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent.
Professor Shoemaker is a Commonwealth Scholar. He also has received a number of literary awards, including being highly commended for the Human Rights Awards, and winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award
Leadership Forum
The Goals of a 21st Century Engaged University
Join sector leaders and practitioners for Engagement Australia’s signature EA Leadership Forum The Goals of a 21st Century Engaged University
Engagement has never been more important to Australian Universities. Universities engagement now extends far and wide and reaches into schools, colleges, industries, commerce, research and development and employment of almost every kind. Universities are ubiquitous throughout communities in every land. The challenges of reconstructing a university mission for the 21st century, the problematic nature of community engagement, developing local regional and metropolitan-wide provision simultaneously, achieving social justice through educational interventions and the role played by cultural knowledge for individuals are all issues currently under consideration, with no obvious consensus emerging.
In the developing 21st century we need universities which exist for a social purpose where learning can transform lives in a world of uncertainty and instability. Our current education system requires a university curriculum where programs of study, methods of learning and teaching, critical thinking and analysis, methods of assessment and frameworks of dialogue and critique are designed for specific sets of social purposes to meet the challenge of change which modernity inevitably brings. This challenge is ever more urgent and contested for civically engaged universities.
Engagement Australia’s Leadership Forum will explore how the cultural and social goals of a 21st century engaged university will need to change if the social determinants of university life are to be translated into the lived contingencies of people’s experience. Join us to hear from our national panel of experts about how engaged universities can provide a powerful voice to government(s), industry and the communities they serve through deep, collaborative and sustainable partnerships. Speakers will include:
Professor John Dewar AO Chair of Universities Australia and Vice-Chancellor La Trobe University who will make the case that addressing societal challenges are the hallmarks of a post-pandemic University.
Professor Sharon Bell AM Emeritus Professor, School of Culture History and Language, Australian National University will remind us that the pandemic and post-pandemic evolution of our institutional values and scholarly and professional practices represent a pinnacle of civic achievement.
The Hon. Verity Firth Pro Vice-Chancellor (Social Justice and Inclusion), University of Technology Sydney will argue that community engagement assists higher education institutions in fulfilling their civic purpose through socially useful knowledge creation and dissemination, and through democratic practice.
Chair of the Session
Professor Jim Nyland, Chair of Engagement Australia and Associate Vice Chancellor, Australian Catholic University
The latest edition of Transform: the Journal of Engaged Scholarship will be launched at the Leadership Forum and the article below from this Issue provides a 'think-piece' designed to stimulate discussion and debate about the progress of our modern civic engaged universities:
Civic Washing? Really? By Professor Sharon Bell AM
The Leadership Forum will also launch this year’s Engagement Australia Awards and the new Australian Carnegie Community Engagement Classification system now in place under the auspices of Engagement Australia.
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