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12
Apr
2011
HRC Seminar - W. E. Adams, Chartism and Republicanism in Nineteenth Century Britain
A printer by trade and one of Chartism’s key lieutenants, William Edwin Adams (1832-1906) became well known in radical circles on both sides of the Atlantic as...
06
Apr
2011
HRC Seminar - Art, History, and Future – Reflections of Modern and Contemporary Art in Indonesia
As a researcher and lecturer of modern & contemporary Asian art, one frequently considers the making of art, history, and its future – including in...
05
Apr
2011
Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights: Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC on 'Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons and Challenges'
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC
Chancellor of The Australian National University
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons and Challenges...
30
Mar
2011
HRC Seminar - Fossils: Age, World, Relation
What do fossils have to do with the world? This talk tries to outline their importance in two registers. The first concerns debates on the implications of...
23
Mar
2011
HRC Seminar - Slavery, Evil Deeds, and Re-thinking the Past: A Basis for Discussion
In 1781 a British slave ship, the Zong, left West Africa carrying 442 Africans, arriving in Jamaica with only 208. Many had died in the crossing, but 132 had...
22
Mar
2011
Digital humanities: Project Bamboo and the ANU
This seminar aims to introduce Project Bamboo and to initiate discussion about the possibilities this project, and digital scholarship generally, offers for...
18
Mar
2011
Humanities Research Centre Workshop, ‘Hannah Arendt: Creating and Maintaining a World’
In this workshop we will discuss Hannah Arendt’s conception of the ‘world’, what it means to have an orientation to the world and to care for the world. In her...
