The Holocaust as an Australian Story: Family networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
Lecture
Dr Jan Láníček (UNSW) presents the HRC/Freilich Project Distinguished Annual Lecture Focusing on family connections between Australia and Europe, this lecture offers a novel perspective on Australians’ responses to the Holocaust. Around 9,000 Jewish refugees arrived in Australia before the war,…
Cultural Conversations: September 2022
Meeting
Research collaborations across the lake What makes a successful collaboration between university researchers and GLAM practitioners? How do you get started? Where can you meet collaborators and build networks? How to bridge the theory vs practice divide? What does success look like for researchers…
Twenty-first century genders and sexualities: Implications for policy, education, representation and health
Lecture
Professor Rob Cover (RMIT) presents the HRC/Gender Institute Annual Lecture on Gender Twenty-first century genders and sexualities: Implications for policy, education, representation and health The HRC/Gender Institute Annual Lecture on Gender What does the twenty-first century emergence of new…
The Mobility of Presidential Reputation: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Political Legacy-Building
Seminar
The Mobility of Presidential Reputation: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Political Legacy-Building Presidential reputations have gone up or down or remained the same with little predictability or consistency. Dwight Eisenhower's standing with historians has grown, as has Theodore Roosevelt's…
Works that Shaped the World: The Gospel of Thomas
Seminar
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. Since the first fragment was found in 1897, followed by the recovery of the complete text in the famous Nag Hamadi library in 1945, the Gospel of Thomas has been one of the most intriguing modern religious…
A History of the Economics of International Trade
Seminar
A History of the Economics of International Trade International trade can be seen through many disciplinary lenses. For economists the standard account remains that of the greatest historian of the discipline Jacob Viner, published in 1937, supplemented by work on more recent developments…
Conversations Across the Creek: Increasing Understandings of Maternal Health Threats through Cross-disciplinary Research
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek has been running for several years to provide a space for continuing dialogue among ANU scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. It recognises that despite the physical separation of the sciences from the humanities on our campus (separated by Sullivan’…