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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...
15
Oct
2020
Works that Shaped the World: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
“MR WORDSWORTH’S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age”, wrote the critic and journalist, William Hazlitt: “It is one of the innovations of...
13
Oct
2020
Seeking Elizabeth Sims: Gender, opportunity and risk in an emigration story
For women of the vulnerable ‘middling sort’ in nineteenth-century England and Australia, family was the first defence against destitution or ruin. But the net...
09
Oct
2020
Conversations across the Creek: Decolonizing the University
Arguing that the institution of the university has been broadly complicit with colonialism, the call to “decolonize” universities and academic practices has...
