Work-in-Progress Seminar - The Jinrikisha through the Lens: Tourism and Modernity in Meiji Japan
Seminar
For nineteenth-century globetrotters, a jinrikisha ride was an almost mandatory experience of their visit to Japan. To commemorate their experiences, such tourists often had themselves photographed in simulated jinrikisha scenes in one of numerous commercial studios. This discussion examines the…
Roundtable on Digital Futures in Learning and Publishing
Workshop
Ken Wissoker is the Editorial Director of Duke University Press, acquiring books in anthropology, cultural studies, and literary theory; globalization and post-colonial theory; Asian, African, and American studies; music, film and television; race, gender and sexuality, and other areas in…
The Future of Thinking in an Information Age
Lecture
Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture will analyse what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these technologies and ‘thinking’ in a historical context. Professor Cathy Davidson argues that many of…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - The Politics of Adoption and the Ethical Architecture of Human Rights Cambodia
Seminar
Deciding what is best for a child poses a question no less ultimate than who decides on the ethical system that should inform the choice?” --Steven Parker, Faculty of Law, Griffin University, Australia, discussing the implementation of universal child rights cross-culturally (1994:30). …
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Maori, portraiture and the aesthetics of cross-cultural appropriation
Seminar
Landscape and portrait painting and photography were popular in late 19th and early 20th century European settler visual culture. Yet of the two, Maori avidly appropriated portraiture, incorporating it into displays of ancestry and genealogy that form the interiors of descent group meetinghouses.…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - The British Empire and the Birth of Historical Research in India, c. 1890-1950.
Seminar
Focusing on colonial India, this seminar tracks the use of the word “research” by historians and attempts to understand and contextualize the practices that constituted “research” in history before “research” as an activity assumed its present, professional university-related form. Dipesh…
Handing on/handing over the Classical Tradition?
Seminar
Drs Martha and Margaret Malamud will give short presentations on their own scholarly engagement with the Classical tradition in the American context. Other topics of discussion may include: who owns Classics and who should teach it? what is nature of the Classical tradition in Australasia and…