Featured speakers
Professor Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Health and leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre. From 2012-17 Warwick Anderson was ARC Laureate Fellow in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Additionally, he has an affiliation with History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. In 2018-19 he was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, based in the Department of the History of Science.
Dr Matthew Keynes
Matthew is a non-Indigenous scholar working on unceded and sovereign Wurundjeri land. His research investigates the ways that education contributes to justice, peace, and social transformation by repairing historical injustices and legacies of violence. Matthew’s current major project is titled ‘Can schools reckon with historical injustice? An international, comparative study of education and truth commissions’ - and it examines how school communities in Australia and the Nordic states are negotiating expectations for truth-telling about their colonial pasts. In 2024, Matthew is the Humanities Research Centre Fellow in Australian Studies at the Australian National University.
Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch
Tamson is Associate Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History. Her work centres on the history and politics of knowledge and she is the author of Empire of Scholars: academic networks and the British academic world (Manchester 2013) and The Floating University: experience, empire and the politics of knowledge (Chicago, 2023).