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02
Jun
2011
HRC - Special Seminar Event - THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASS IN BRITAIN
Sir David Cannadine, FBA is a known for a number of ground-breaking books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, The Rise and Fall of...
31
May
2011
HRC Seminar - The “All-Clear” Incarnate? Helmut Kohl’s Nationalism and the Quest for Normalcy
This paper is about the nationalism of Helmut Kohl, the so-called Chancellor of Unity. Biography helps to understand the formation of personal nationalism,...
24
May
2011
HRC Seminar - Archive Fever: The Salman Rushdie Papers
‘What is this compared with what I shall tell you tomorrow night
if the king spares me and lets me live.’
–The Arabian Nights
The Salman Rushdie papers are...
17
May
2011
HRC Seminar - What is the ‘World’ in World Literature?
This seminar is a reflection on what it means to talk about a ‘world’ in literature that is not simply co-extensive with an ever-expanding sense of our...
10
May
2011
HRC Seminar - Instruments as Mediators: “Social Agencies” of Australia’s Chinese Musical Instrument Collections - The Case of Bendigo’s Golden Dragon Museum
Most scholars would agree that musical instruments serve not only as passive tools for artistic performance but also as active agents of transformation within...
03
May
2011
HRC Seminar - The Anthropocentric Waiting Room: A Diagram for (In)Humanity
To a large extent, scholarly interest in the inhuman condition has been concerned with examining how boundaries have come to be drawn around the human and how...
19
Apr
2011
HRC Seminar - Restocking the British World: Empire Migration and Anglo-Canadian Relations, 1919-1930
Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants...
