The Cultivation of Mussolini’s Image in Nazi Germany
Lecture
Abstract Dr Christian Goeschel examines textual and visual representations of the Duce in Weimar and Nazi Germany to shed new light on the intricate relationship between Italian Fascism and Nazism which was always characterised by tension and national stereotypes on both sides. The Nazi cult of…
Book Launch - A Good Life. Human Rights and Encounters with Modernity
Book launch
It’s also about being human; what it is to be human in a modernising and globalising world; how, in responding to the circumstances of their times, different groups define, redefine, and attempt to put into practice their understandings of the good and of what constitutes a good life. And it’s…
Recovering Selves: A Multi-Disciplinary Enterprise
Symposium
Carolyn Steedman Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, where she has taught since 1984. Among her many books are: Landscape for a Good Woman (1986) The Radical Soldier’s Tale (1988) Dust (2001), and Labours Lost. Domestic Service and the Making of…
The Fashion Studies Book
Seminar
The seminar will cover some of the global case studies from one chapter: Fashion and Politics. It will briefly look at the case studies: the APEC photo, possum skin cloaks and political recognition, Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, the safari suit and colonialism, the politics of subcultural…
Memory of the World: assessing the material records and links to other forms of heritage in international practice
Continuing education
Synopsis What do Cook’s Endeavour Journal and the Mabo case records have in common? Find out more at the one-day professional update, held in collaboration with the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program for the preservation of documentary…
Cities, Imaginaries and New Publics in a Digital World
Lecture
Audiences for both physical exhibitions and for digital scholarship are growing and developing. How are institutions such as the National Library responding to these changing publics? Join Professor Paul Pickering, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU, and the National Library of…
Russia Is All Right And We Are All Wrong (George Bernard Shaw and Russia)
Lecture
Abstract George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the ambiguity of his statements and seeming inconsistency of his views, one thing, nevertheless, remained constant throughout the life of the…