HRC Seminar - Caste and Contemporary Indian Feminism
Seminar
The early 1990s was a socially turbulent time in India. The liberalisation of the economy, explosive Hindu-Muslim relations, and the introduction of caste-based affirmative action policies are issues that broke into public discourse at this time, and continue to resonate today. The challenges posed…
HRC Seminar - Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: Culture, Heritage and Politics
Seminar
Leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia have often claimed that their two countries are “blood brothers” anchored by the same racial and ethnic “stock” (serumpun). They share a similar language, culture and religion, and historically both countries have drawn on a common cultural heritage as a means of…
HRC Seminar - (Inter)nationalism and hybridised artistic identity: Germans and Australian visual culture, 1850-1950
Seminar
National identity is an important factor for the writing of Australian history of the decades around Federation. While Britishness has understandably played a prominent role in explorations of these cultural negotiations, multiculturalism was just as important. ‘Teutonic’ culture was a significant…
Centre for Native Title Anthropology Seminar Series - Native Title Governance in the Post-Mabo Era: The Torres Strait Experience
Seminar
Since 1999 there have been over twenty consent determinations in Torres Strait. This seminar examines the establishment and operation of the region’s Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate (RNTBCs) – the bodies that hold in trust or manage native title on behalf of the native title holders. Like…
HRC Seminar - Trauma and Haunting: The Irish Language as Ruin/Revenant
Seminar
The ambiguous and often contested position of the Irish language was attested to as recently as the 2011 Irish general election, where a debate on the compulsory status of the language in the educational system became a central political issue. Brief use of the language by both the British Queen…
HRC Seminar - The Adelaide District in 1836
Seminar
Using 14 illustrations, this talk describes the vegetation of the Adelaide district at the time of European settlement in 1836. Using a variety of fire and no fire regimes, Aboriginal people deliberately distributed this vegetation in patterns, to ensure that all life flourished, and to make…
HRC Seminar - Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Seminar
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel provides an alternative to the conventional wisdom produced by two staple texts for literary and cultural studies: Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel and Edward Said’s Orientalism. The talk is taken from a forthcoming book of the same…