William Edward Hanley Stanner - ANU Conference in 2005

ANU Conference in 2005

In 2005, the Australian National University commemorated the centenary of the birth of W. E. H. (Bill) Stanner, one of its late professors of anthropology, with a conference discussing his lifetime achievements. Keith Windschuttle described this in Quadrant magazine as "an uncommon honour for an Australian academic who died 24 years earlier in 1981."

Speakers at the conference were as follows:

• Professor Jon Altman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
• Emeritus Associate Professor Jeremy Beckett, Honorary Research Associate, Sydney University
• Max Charlesworth, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University
• Professor Ann Curthoys, School of Social Sciences, the ANU, Manning Clark Professor of History at ANU.
• Mark Crocombe, Kanamkek—Yile Ngala Museum, Wadeye
• Barry Dexter, Member of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, Diplomat
• Professor Mick Dodson AM, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the ANU and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Alberto Furlan, Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Sydney).
• Geoffrey Gray, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Melinda Hinkson, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, the ANU
• Bill Ivory, Charles Darwin University
• Ian Keen, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, the ANU
• Professor Marcia Langton A.M., B.A. (Hons) ANU, PhD, Macq., F.A.S.S.A., Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne
• Professor Howard Morphy, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, the ANU
• Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney, Emeritus Professor of Pre-History, the ANU
• David Nash, Honorary Visiting Fellow, ANU and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Professor Nicolas Peterson, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, the ANU
• Professor Peter Sutton, ARC Professorial Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
• John Taylor, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, the ANU
• Graeme Ward, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Nancy Williams, Honorary Reader in Anthropology, University of Queensland

A volume of the conference papers was published in 2008, An Appreciation of Difference: W. E. H. Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett.