The Humanities and the Sciences: a conversation

• Professor Brian Schmidt

Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

• Professor Gary Tomlinson

John Hay Whitney Professor of Music & the Humanities; Director Whitney Humanities Centre, Yale University

• Professor Richard Arculus

Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, distinguished geologist, volcanologist and submarine geologist, and a leading scientist in the International Ocean Discovery Program.

• Professor Paul Griffiths

Academic Associate Director for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Chares Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney
 
With a panel featuring Assoc. Professor Jodie Bradby (Research School of Physics and Engineering), Professor Libby Robin (Fenner School of Environment and Society), Dr Glenn Roe (Research School of Humanities and the Arts), Dr Brad Tucker (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics), Assoc. Professor Susan West (Research School of Humanities and the Arts), Professor Catherine Waldby (Research School of Social Sciences).
 
A one-day colloquium to interrogate the common assumption that these two broad, competitive cultures operate divisively within our universities and our society. Four major thinkers – two scientists, two from the humanities – have been invited to address the question of the similarities and differences between the sciences and the humanities, and to tell us how the two sets of disciplines might relate better to each other, and what they could contribute to each other – and beyond that, of course, to society as a whole.
Built around these four keynote lectures, the colloquium will include an open session in which the audience is invited to interact with a panel of scholars from both the sciences and the humanities discussing ideas and methodologies practised and shared across both research cultures.
 
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