The A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture is held annually in commemoration of A.R. Davis, the Professor of Oriental Studies at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

and a key figure in post-war Asian Studies in Australia. It is organised by the

Australian Society for Asian Humanities The Australian Society for Asian Humanities is the oldest academic society in Australasia dedicated to the study of Asia and to the promotion of "the knowledge of Asia in Australia by providing a meeting-place where scholars could present their w ...

(formerly the Oriental Society of Australia) and published in the ''

Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

'' (formerly the ''Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia'').

Speakers and topics

Speakers and topics have included: *1995, S.N. Mukherjee, “Orientalism and History” *1998,

Adrian Snodgrass Adrian Bousfield Snodgrass (2 April 1931 – 22 January 2025) was an Australian architect and scholar in Buddhist studies and Buddhist art. He developed theories in the area of hermeneutical philosophy and its application to knowledge productio ...

, “Language, Rules and Ritual: Semantics and the Indo-Japanese Fire Ceremony” *2000, Roland Fletcher, “Seeing Angkor, New Views of an Old City.” *2001,

Joseph Jordens Joseph ('Jos') Teresa Florent Jordens (1925-2008) was a Belgian-born Indologist, based in Australia for most of his career. Jordens entered the Jesuit Order (1943). In 1952, he earned a doctorate from the University of Louvain, writing his disser ...

, “Gandhi’s Non-Violence Revisited.” *2002, Michael G. Carter, “‘The Scholar as Dragoman” *2004,

Alison Broinowski Alison Elizabeth Broinowski, ( Woodroffe; born 25 October 1941) is an Australian academic, journalist, writer and former Australian public servant. Biography Alison Woodroffe was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 25 October 1941. She atte ...

, “The Outbreak of Occidentalism” *2005, Leith Morton, “Shamans Make History in Okinawa: A reading of Oshiro Tatsuhiro’s Novel Noro (Mantic Woman, 1985) *2006,

Frits Staal Johan Frederik "Frits" Staal (3 November 1930 – 19 February 2012) was the department founder and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and South/Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Staal specialized in the study of Ved ...

, “Secrets behind Walls” *2007,

Colin Mackerras Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, ...

, “China's Islamic Minorities--Contemporary Perspectives” *2009,

Neville Meaney Neville Meaney (July 2, 1932, Adelaide – May 30, 2021) was a noted historian of Australia, considered among the "foremost thinkers in the field of foreign and defence policy history" with a special focus on the early twentieth century and quest ...

, “The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II” *2010, Michael Walsh, "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia" *2011, Bonnie McDougall, “Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships” *2012, Jocelyn Chey, “Laughing down the ages: A brief history of humour in China” *2013, Jamila Hussain, “Reflections on Islamic thought over the ages” *2015, Carol Hayes, “Women writing women: 'A woman's place' in modern Japanese women's poetry” *2016, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, “Caste, nation and modernity: Indian nationalism's unresolved Dilemma” *2017, Jon von Kowallis, “Takeuchi's Lu Xun / China's Takeuchi” *2018,

Mabel Lee Mabel Lee ( zh, 陳順妍, b. 1939) is a translator, best-known for her English renditions of fiction and essays by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian. A third-generation Chinese-Australian born in Warialda, she taught Chinese literature and ...

, “On the creative aesthetics of nobel laureate Gao Xingjian” *2019, Adrian Vickers, “From Orientalism to Inter-Asia Referencing” *2020, Devleena Ghosh, “The bones of our mothers”: Coal, climate and resistance in a Chhattisgarh District” *2021, Vera Mackie, "Asia in Australia: History on the Streets" *2022, Barbara Hendrischke, "Daoist Plans for a Millennium of Great Peace" *2023, Ari Heinrich, "Contaminated Art in Contaminated Times: Jes Fan at 2020 Sydney Biennale" *2024, Mina Roces, "When Home is an Empty Italian Villa in the Philippines: The Semiotics of Consumption of Filipino Domestic Workers in Italy, 1980s-2018"

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis Memorial Lecture, A.R. Asian studies University of Sydney University and college lecture series Annual events in Australia 1995 establishments in Australia Recurring events established in 1995

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