Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present
Conference
Imaging Identity Lecture Series Lecture Series Booking Form Keynote Speakers WJT Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History,…
Friday Forum - Dance and Life: Art as a tool for social transformation
Seminar
Jacqueline Lo is the Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. Her talk will centre on a four-minute video about 'In Repose', a dance-ritual performance by Japanese-Australian artists to honour early Japanese sojourners and their relations with…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - ‘Making up People’: biography and the sensory turn in Humanities
Seminar
This seminar explores how biographers might utilise the new research in the senses which first understands the visual trace as a particular way of knowing the subject. Since all of the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) are essential to human experience it is little wonder that…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Constructing the Self, Imagining the Other: Negotiating Visual Culture in Medieval Iberia
Seminar
The invasion of Iberia in 711 and the establishment of the kingdom of al-Andalus inaugurated a Muslim presence on the peninsula that endured for almost eight centuries, and still resonates in Spanish culture today. Under Islamic, and later Christian, political domination, Iberian Muslims,…
Friday Forum - Biography on the Edge
Seminar
“Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process” wrote Lytton Strachey in 1918. Although biography had long been dismissed by academics as a dubious undertaking, its position within the university has more…
Freilich Foundation - Inaugural Professorial lecture - Where to from here? Australia’s role in refugee protection
Lecture
Australia’s handling of the asylum-seekers on board the Oceanic Viking has sparked vigorous and ongoing debate. In her inaugural lecture as the Freilich Foundation professor, Penelope Mathew will take a look at Australia’s past and present policies against the backdrop of global refugee…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, G.M Trevelyan and the defence of literary history
Seminar
In January 1903, the new Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, J.B. Bury, delivered a famous inaugural lecture on ‘the Science of History’, proclaiming the virtues of collective research and scholarship over the traditional belletristic qualities of English historical writing, reaching back to…