Simon Haines

Professor Simon Haines is a scholar, prizewinning author and teacher who has held many public advocacy roles in the Humanities in Australia and internationally.

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Achievements

Simon Haines has held positions as Reader in English, Head of English and Head of the School of Humanities at the Australian National University (1990-2008); and as Chair Professor of English and Director of the Research Centre for Human Values at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2017).

Simon is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities and is currently Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University.
From 2017 to 2024 he was the inaugural CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation in Sydney. 

He led the Centre into three successful and pathbreaking university partnerships, introducing a new degree model into the Australian tertiary landscape in the Humanities by merging a US-style ‘great books’ degree with the existing discipline-based model. 

Simon set up what is already one of Australia’s most prestigious overseas postgraduate scholarship programmes.

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Books

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European Romanticism

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Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy

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Shelley’s Poetry

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Only the most polymathic of readers will fail to find something here to surprise, enlighten and occasionally, entertain… this ought to mark a watershed in Anglophone perceptions of European Romanticism.

Review of European Romanticism by theTimes Literary Supplement
Speaking Event

London Oxford Cambridge National Alumni Summit 2024

Simon Haines is speaking at the upcoming London Oxford Cambridge National Alumni Summit. This year’s theme, ‘Change is the Only Constant,’ promises to inspire and engage.

18 Oct 2024

Location
The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne

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Consilium – The Centre for Independent Studies Conference 2024

Simon Haines is a panellist at Consilium’s 2024 Conference. He will be speaking on Day 2, Plenary 3, focusing on The Decline of Institutions and the Fall of Empires. Fellow panellists include Sir Niall Ferguson (Hoover Institution, Stanford), Prof. Nigel Biggar CBE (Regius Professor Emeritus, Oxford) and Helen Dale (Senior Writer, Liberty Fund).

25 Oct 2024

Location
Centre for Independent Studies Consilium, Gold Coast

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Australian Catholic University Forum – What constitutes a worthwhile education

Simon Haines 2024 Keynote speech: A classical education: reality, freedom and the ends of life. The forum follows two previously held in Melbourne and Sydney involving parents, teachers, academics and supporters having established or in the process of establishing schools dedicated to a classical/liberal education. An education that is intellectually rigorous, morally grounded and spiritually enlightening.

Oct 2024

Location
Australian Catholic University, Brisbane

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