You are here
» Past eventsPast events
19
Apr
2020
CANCELLED Why Portraits Matter
The HRC Annual Cultural Institutions Lecture 2020
In collaboration with the the National Portrait Gallery, the Humanities Research Centre welcomes Ludmilla...
27
Mar
2020
CANCELLED Books that Changed Humanity: The Australian Legend
BOOKS THAT CHANGED HUMANITY
Russel Ward’s The Australian Legend (1958) began life as a doctoral thesis in history at the Australian National University –...
24
Mar
2020
CANCELLED Settler Colonial Liberalism and the Effect of Sovereignty: Notes from Nineteenth-Century Victoria
ABOUT THE LECTURE
In normative theories and histories of liberalism both, the question of sovereignty is usually understood to precede determinations of...
20
Mar
2020
CANCELLED Conversations across the Creek: Bushfire Summer
Three scholars studying bushfires from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives will share their research and reflections on the nation's Bushfire...
17
Mar
2020
CANCELLED HRC Seminar: Atmospheric
ABOUT THE LECTURE
We speak, perhaps more often than we realize, of the “atmosphere” of an artwork. Unlike “sfumato,” “tierce de Picardie,” or “free...
12
Mar
2020
Works that Shaped the World: Beethoven
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
In 1794 Joseph Haydn wrote a sonata for the brilliant pianist Therese Jansen, a work of astonishing depth and complexity. A year later his...
10
Mar
2020
Writing Liberalism in Russia's Obituary?
HRC SEMINAR
It is frequently assumed that liberalism had a short-lived springtime in 19th century Russia as an integral aspect of the thought of a remarkable...
