This international panel of key Humanities leaders will both reflect on recent challenges and innovations in Arts faculties around the world and envisage possible futures for such faculties in a world where understandings of what it means to be human are being radically transformed. The panel will suggest some of the untapped potential the Humanities have to enable invention, creation and discovery and so to meet existing and emerging needs in society that even the most sophisticated AI cannot – and there will be plenty of opportunity for audience participation.

Convened by Reverend Professor Russell Goulbourne, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Participants:
Professor Nick Bisley

Professor Vanessa Lemm (by Zoom)

Professor Katie Stevenson