Culture and Humanitarian Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Workshop
With the rise in civil wars and natural disasters in the 1990s and 2000s, refugee camps, extreme poverty, and chronic violence are now the norm for millions. New global genres representing humanitarian crisis are emerging within fiction, memoir, film, art, theatre, and the internet, while…
Relics of Contact: The Early Portraits of the Aborigines of New South Wales
Seminar
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Framing Children: School Photos and Their Afterlives
Lecture
It focuses on two cases that illustrate their ideological deployment and their transformation in contemporary artistic practices: 19th and early 20th century class images from several educational establishments intended for the “civilization” of indigenous children in North America, and images…
Public Finances in the EU: Situation and Outlook
Lecture
Peter Bekx, a Belgian national, is the Director of International Economic and Financial Affairs in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Prior to that, Peter has been the director of Business Statistics in Eurostat. Peter Bekx graduated in Economics from…
Framing Lives: The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association
Conference
About Framing Lives The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association. The field of auto/…
Postgraduate Workshop: The Graphic Narrative
Workshop
Dr Hillary Chute is a renowned scholar of the graphic novel. Her book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics argues that the medium of comics has opened up new spaces for nonfiction narrative—particularly for expressing certain kinds of stories typically relegated to the realm of…
The story of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's visit to Chicago in 1913
Lecture
Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished ServiceProfessor, Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. He holds a visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University…