The CHASS program, spanning from 27 November to 1 December, will showcase presentations and workshops from 15 participating HASS disciplines, including the Australian Historical Association, Australian Association of Philosophy, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, Australian Linguistic Society, Chinese Studies Association of Australia, and the Australian University Heads of English, among others.

In the true spirit of the Congress, a joint keynote with the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy and the Australian Political Studies Association, Professor Joanne Faulkner from Macquarie University will delve into the topic of “Representation, Settler Colonialism, and ‘the Aboriginal Child’: a politics of subalternity?”

Bestselling author Richard Glover will be delivering a public lecture on History as Inspiration. Professor Emeritus Carol Gigliotti, an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar, will speak about Why knowledge of animal cultures is critical. Professor Erich Round from the University of Queensland, a morphologist, phonologist, and modeller of language change and language diversity, will deliver a keynote about Inflection point: From a cognitive spark to astounding linguistic richness.