Digital humanities: Project Bamboo and the ANU
Seminar
This seminar aims to introduce Project Bamboo and to initiate discussion about the possibilities this project, and digital scholarship generally, offers for individual and collaborative research in the humanities. Project Bamboo is a major international consortium of universities that…
Humanities Research Centre Workshop, ‘Hannah Arendt: Creating and Maintaining a World’
Workshop
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 famous interview with the journalist Gunter Gaus Arendt defined the world as something that lies in-between human beings, a space of…
Freilich Foundation - Multiculturalism – Success or Failure? - Dr John Hewson
Lecture
Australia’s multicultural agenda has been under the spotlight. While migrants became an election issue, recent comments by European politicians about the failure of multiculturalism seemed to resonate with Australians. Economist and Former Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson, will talk about…
HRC Seminar - Writing History Across Generations
Seminar
In my recently published book A Private Empire, I explore the British empire through the eyes and experiences of a single Scottish family. Beginning in 1757, successive generations of the Macphersons of Blairgowrie travelled the world, with lengthy stays in India, Guyana and Australia, leaving a…
HRC Seminar - The Two Meanings of 'World' in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Seminar
The concept of "World" is central in Hannah Arendt's thought but it is nowhere very clearly defined. In general, the concept refers to that which has to do with specifically human affairs and thus encompasses neither the natural world or a possible, transcendent spiritual world as such. Yet…
HRC Seminar - Landscape and Meaning: Context for a global discourse on cultural landscapes and intangible values with some thoughts on Asia
Seminar
‘Our human landscape is our unwitting biography, reflecting our tastes, our values, our aspirations, and even our fears in tangible visible form.’ (Lewis) Cultural landscapes categories for World Heritage purposes were (still are) intended to increase awareness that heritage places (sites)…
HRC Seminar - The Rovers’ Return: the books of travel and the ways of worldmaking
Seminar
This paper will sketch a brief dramatis personae of the public drama of travel, and go on to offer an even sketchier account of the making of the ardent sensibility which even the armchair traveller spontaneously acquires from history , art and their narratives. It will reject the too-…