Past events
27
Nov
2020
Book Launch & SPICE Hub Launch with Sci-Fi Theremin Jukebox Performance
Join the CPAS Double Launch Lunch Event on Zoom for Circus, Science & Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), an edited collection...
10
Nov
2020
HRC Seminar: The Power and the Glory: The US Presidential Election 2020
Every US presidential election looms as decisive for the future of the nation's well being and for geopolitical stability and predictability. Why does this...
03
Nov
2020
HRC SEMINAR: Don Dunstan's Political Legacy Now
Political leadership was a focal point of public discussion in Australia early this year, and it has resurfaced again lately. In August last year, Angela...
27
Oct
2020
HRC Seminar: Comets, Dynasts, Immensities: Thomas Hardy, Space and Time, 1880-1930
In this lecture, Prof Stevenson will explore ways that the bright comet of 1881, one of several Thomas Hardy might have witnessed, encouraged interests in...
23
Oct
2020
Books that Changed Humanity: Sophie Cottin's Claire D'Albe
In the period 1816-20, Claire d’Albe was in fact the best selling novel in France, followed closely by Cottin's Élisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie (1806)....
20
Oct
2020
HRC Seminar: 1788 Fire and 2020 Vision
This talk looks at how we confront fire today, how people confronted it in 1788, and what we might learn from the contrast.
Bill Gammage, AM, is Adjunct...
16
Oct
2020
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...