Congratulations to Future Fellow Amanda Harris

Congratulations go to the University of Sydney’s Dr Amanda Harris who has been recently awarded a Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council for a project aiming to understand Australia’s cultural past by studying musical encounters. According to the ARC, the project is “Underpinned by multi-sensory conceptual frameworks (and) it aims to apply collaborative, intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches drawing on historical, musicological and ethnographic methods to reveal musical encounters as sites for understanding Australian history. Focusing on a formational period, 1888–1988, the project expects to generate new knowledge about Australian musical institutions, sites and intercultural encounters and aims to have benefits for the diversification of curricula, and implications for Australian cultural policy.”