Peter Tregear

Professor Peter Tregear is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne, and a former Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Cambridge. Active internationally as a scholar and performer, he held the post of Executive Director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University and more recently Professor and Head of the ANU School of Music from 2012–2015. Peter is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Charles Mackerras Conducting Scholarship, and a ‘Green Room’ award for ‘best conductor, opera’ (2008), and is the co-founder of The Consort of Melbourne, and IOpera. Academic interests include Weimar Republic music history, Australian music history, and contemporary cultural politics. Peter is a regular contributor to The Australian Book Review, among other journals, and is currently Chair of the AMF Australia Foundation.

Time to face the music?

Time to face the music?

By: Peter Tregear

Academic labour is grounded in long-established, and sometimes hard-won, scholarly traditions that help to shape and direct academic disciplines and secure the trust of the wider public in the results of that labour. It should be no surprise, then, to find that...

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Past Issues

PRECARITY

Precarity’s paradoxical force unites us in a condition of fragmentation and isolation.

CRISIS

The change and ruptures in our personal and collective lives, still lingers.

THE UNIVERSITY

Excessive managerialism, neoliberalisation and casualisation are some of the main challenges that are threatening the viability and the values of the university today. Lina, Amber and Scott kick off ‘The University’ issue, introducing the core themes and questions.

BODIES

This issue of Demos explores the ways in which the body moves through the world – how it labors and loves, how it treads the duplicitous thresholds of legality, how it is radicalised, and eternalised, how it is corralled and transgressed.

STUDENT ACTIVISM

Today’s student activists ask themselves: “how did we get here?”, “where are we going?” and “how are we going to get there?”. Issue 7 of Demos Journal concerns itself with these questions representing the history, practice and form of student activism.

FUTURES POSSIBLE

Introducing Demos issue 6: the editors take a look into what it means to imagine the future.

RESISTANCE

Introducing Demos issue 5: the editors take a look into what it means to resist and affect change.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Introducing Demos issue 4: the editors take a look into what boundaries mean to Australian identity today.

VOICES FROM THE GRASSROOTS

As a sneak peak into our latest edition, the Demos Editors bring together voices on grassroots organising and activism at ANU, in the Canberra community, and from beyond.

ARTICULATING SILENCE

The Demos editorial team bring you a preview of some of the exciting pieces to come with an exploration into the many meanings of silence.

CREATING DEMOS

To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itself.