HRC Seminar - Art, History, and Future – Reflections of Modern and Contemporary Art in Indonesia
Seminar
As a researcher and lecturer of modern & contemporary Asian art, one frequently considers the making of art, history, and its future – including in relation to the world and world-making, as well as in the recent claims that are being made producing a global history of contemporary art…
HRC Seminar - Slavery, Evil Deeds, and Re-thinking the Past: A Basis for Discussion
Seminar
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 been thrown overboard by the crew, whose aim was to claim for the Africans on the ship’s insurance. But why should the crew deliberately kill…
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…