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21
May
2010
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Constructing the Self, Imagining the Other: Negotiating Visual Culture in Medieval Iberia
The invasion of Iberia in 711 and the establishment of the kingdom of al-Andalus inaugurated a Muslim presence on the peninsula that endured for almost eight...
14
May
2010
Friday Forum - Biography on the Edge
“Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process” wrote Lytton...
12
May
2010
Freilich Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance: Professor Penelope Mathew on 'Where to from here? Australia’s role in refugee protection'
Professor Penelope Mathew
Where to from here? Australia’s role in refugee protection
Outline of the lecture:
Australia’s handling of the asylum-seekers...
12
May
2010
Freilich Foundation - Inaugural Professorial lecture - Where to from here? Australia’s role in refugee protection
Australia’s handling of the asylum-seekers on board the Oceanic Viking has sparked vigorous and ongoing debate. In her inaugural lecture as the Freilich...
07
May
2010
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, G.M Trevelyan and the defence of literary history
In January 1903, the new Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, J.B. Bury, delivered a famous inaugural lecture on ‘the Science of History’, proclaiming the...
30
Apr
2010
Friday Forum - The Politics of Exhibitions
In what ways and to what extent are exhibitions shaped by implicit and explicit political forces? Censorship, national pride, geopolitics, cultural inclusion...
23
Apr
2010
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Art as a site of engagement: Indian Portraits
Encounters between Indians and foreigners from the late 18th century through to the present have produced a body of potent graphic images that reflect national...
