The Road to Self-determination: Indigenous Policy in the United States and Australia, 1960-1993
Seminar
How, why, and to what extent have the governments of the United States and Australia responded to the demands of indigenous groups for self-determination? This lecture explores indigenous rights within the corridors of national power, from the White House and Capitol Hill to the Lodge and…
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
Lecture
Books That Changed Humanity #7 À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, or previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, is the most prominent work of French novelist Marcel Proust. James Grieve is a Visiting…
Before Race Mattered: Ethnic Prejudice in the French Empire, c. 1608-1767
Seminar
Seventeenth-century French commentators did not think of race as an immutable attribute in their early colonial encounters with non-Europeans. Instead, they generally considered difference to be fluid, and were convinced that non-Europeans could be “improved” through “civilizing” influences and…
Ad Hominem #4
Seminar
The second event in the 2017 Ad Hominem series features: Dr Chris Bishop (School of Literature, Languages and Lingustics) Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (School of Archaeology and Anthropology) Dr Shameem Black (South Asia Research Institute) An ad hominem argument…
Dangerous Romances: The Stranger in Guwang yan 姑妄言, Preposterous Words
Seminar
In April 2016 the Chinese government plastered posters of a 16-panel cartoon entitled "Dangerous Love” on subway carts and in Beijing neighborhoods, in order to warn Chinese female government workers that romancing handsome foreigner strangers can result not only in heartbreak for naïve young women…
'Whites, Blacks and Tawneys': Perceptions of Native Americans in the Early Modern Anglo-Atlantic
Seminar
It is widely accepted that the dominant medical paradigm in early modern England was humoral. On the basis of ancient authorities, indirectly Hippocrates and quintessentially Galen, human physiology was commonly believed to comprise four elemental fluids: the sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and…
Seminar | Between Hospitality and Asylum: Stranger as victim and agent – suppliant and guest
Lecture
Exceptional are the policies and the negotiations that accompany the political and moral dilemmas of how to address the stranger at the threshold. Some 3000 years ago the measure of society was encapsulated in what happened at the moment of reaching across that liminal space. The positioning…