Writing Liberalism in Russia's Obituary?
Seminar
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 generation of the country’s intelligentsia. So the argument goes, since that time its fate has been as an ineffectual voice on the…
A Quaker-Chartist, free trader and Australian Liberal: the free-thinking career of Joseph ‘Coffee’ Jones, 1824–87
Seminar
HRC SEMINAR Among the unsung figures of Australia’s Liberal political history, Joseph Jones (1824–1887), a Welsh Quaker emigrant, does not figure highly. Indeed, the Australian Dictionary of Biography provides only a brief insight into his life. And yet Jones was a…
A Quaker-Chartist
Lecture
HRC SEMINAR Among the unsung figures of Australia’s Liberal political history, Joseph Jones (1824–1887), a Welsh Quaker emigrant, does not figure highly. Indeed, the Australian Dictionary of Biography provides only a brief insight into his life. And yet Jones was a colourful…
National Graduate Student Workshop: Representing Belief
Workshop
Humanities Research Centre National Graduate Workshop Representing Belief 4 - 6 February 2020 This workshop will be held again, online, on 7-8 December 2021, applications are due by 30 September 2021. Follow this link for more information. The accurate and respectful…
Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence
Lecture
This lecture draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as bullying and harassment. Making a complaint requires becoming an institutional mechanic: you…
Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration & Exile
Conference
Presented by the Humanities Research Centre and supported by the ANU Gender Institute, the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the ACT Government Office for LGBTIQ+ Affairs. Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration & Exile 14-15 November 2019 The Australian National…
Book Launch | Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street
Book launch
Please join us in celebrating the release of Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street, the final book in The Disobedient Museum trilogy by Professor Kylie Message, which will be launched by Professor Paul Pickering, Director of the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. The…