Participants & Partners  190+ individual researchers  State Library of New South Wales  State Library of Victoria  Australians Studying Abroad  St George’s Cathedral  Western Australian Maritime Museum  University of Western Australia Press  Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group  Woodside Valley Foundation  Universities (Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney)

Governance Convenor Pam Sharpe (UWA) Management CommitteeConvenor Research Theme leaders (5) Publications coordinator Industry Partner representative Postgraduate representative ECR representative Coopted members Staff (UWA)Digital Services Director Coordinator

Research Themes  Cultural Memory: Australian reception of early European culture  Social Fabric: social structures, war and peace, poverty  Intellectual Formations: science, medicine and philosophy  Early European / Australasian Connections  Religion and Spirituality

Activities  Collaborative Grant Programs  Symposia  International conferences  Co-sponsored events  Postgraduate/ECR  Digital agenda Programmes and Activities  Collaborative grant programmes  Symposia & conferences  Co-sponsored events  Postgraduate/ECR programme  Publications  Digital agenda

Collaborative Grant Programmes  Research Clusters scheme  Travel funding to collaborate on grant applications between institutions  Assistance for developing collaborative grant applications  Funding for travel around Australia for overseas visitors

Symposia & Conferences  ‘Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in European and Australian Society’, Sydney, 2005  ‘Cultural Translations: Remaking the Early European Past in Australasia’, Melbourne, 2006  ‘Inventing Europe : Image, Knowledge, Communication’, UWA, 2007  Monash Prato Centre, Italy, 2008?

Co-Sponsored Events  ‘Houses, Households and Families in Medieval and Early Modern Europe’, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group symposium, August 2005, University of Western Australia  ‘Moral Panics, the Media and the Law’, September 2005, University of Newcastle  ‘Shakespeare and the history of political thought’, July 2006, Humanities Research Centre, ANU  ‘Communities of Learning: Religious Diversity and the Written Record, ’, August 2006, Monash University

Postgraduate & Early Career Programmes  Postgraduate and Advanced Training Seminars (PATS)  E-consult scheme  Funding to attend events  Internships

Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars (PATS)  ‘Cultural Memory’, University of Melbourne, May 20 – 21, 2005  ‘Manuscripts and Records of Medieval England’, University of Tasmania, June 2005  ‘Art History and Material Culture’, UWA, April 2006  ‘Theory and Interpretation in Editing Early Modern Literary Texts’, University of Queensland, July 2006

Publications  Brepols (Belgium): ‘Early European Research’, refereed book series  UWA Press: ‘Europe and Australia: the Long History’, book series  Parergon: Australian refereed journal, electronic publication

Digital Agenda  Access to specialist commercial databases: ProQuest (EEBO), Brepols (5 databases)  Communication: Web site, lists  Electronic publication: Parergon on Project Muse  Collaborative working tools and workspaces: Confluence  Research repository  Australian Collections portal

Priorities  Increasing formal international linkages  Increasing involvement by a wider range of participants  Developing a culture of more structured collaboration in the humanities  Identifying opportunities for further funding, e.g. digitization  Dealing with the long-range future: laying the foundations for post-2009

Benefits  Increase recognition for Australian research in the international arena  Enrich cultural understanding of contemporary Australians – enthusiasm for cultural heritage  Bring the holdings of Australian galleries, museums, libraries to a global audience  Long histories, long perspectives on present-day social and cultural policy issues