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…
In Memory of Mawalan
Book launch
Film screening and director's talk Director Ian Dunlop will introduce a rare screening on In Memory of Mawalan, an ealry 1970s film featuring the elaborate rituals that took place at the memorial of Aboriginal clan leader Mawalan. Presented in association with the Yalangbara exhibition of artworks…
HRC Seminar - Affecting Politics: Points for Future Living in Postapartheid Narrative
Seminar
Can there be history in affect? Is affect historical? This paper explores the study of affect in relation to the powerful plots of trauma and memory that have shaped discourse on post-apartheid remembering. While frequently cast as an ahistorical, atemporal shock to the system, be it…
HRC Seminar - War and Peace and Nigeria: Modernity, Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel
Seminar
Postcolonial approaches to historical fiction typically focus on questions of representation, epistemology, and discursive struggles over the right to narrate. While these are often illuminating, they tend to privilege a ‘resistance’ model that sees novelists as pitting themselves against…
HRC - Special Seminar Event - Britain, Written Constitutions and the World, 1780-2000
Seminar
After the American and French Revolutions, new-style written constitutions came progressively to be viewed as an essential symbol and component of a modern state. Britain however both fiercely resisted these revolutions at the time, and has also retained its un-codified constitution…
HRC - Special Seminar Event - THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASS IN BRITAIN
Seminar
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 Class in Britain, Ornamentalism and most recently a celebrated biography of Andrew Mellon. He is also noted as a regular public commentator on…