HRC Seminar Series 2016, Assoc. Prof. Samantha Bennett, 8 November
Seminar
Drawing on research to be published in a forthcoming 33⅓ Series book, this paper considers some of the cinematic influence imbued in post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ninth studio album Peepshow. Throughout the record, explicit references to films including Nicholas Roeg’s Eureka (1983) and…
HRC Seminar Series 2016, Prof Ann Heilmann, 1 November
Seminar
This lecture examines the representational choices made in neo-Victorian life-writing in reconstructing and re-imagining a historical case of transgender: James Barry, senior colonial medical officer of the British army from 1813 to 1859 and a pioneer of medical reform. Known for his pugnacious,…
HRC Seminar Series 2016, Prof Maria M Delgado, 25 October
Seminar
In this paper I examine a decade of collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar, exploring ways in which a direct engagement with those who ‘make’ culture can assist in understanding how that culture is constructed and consumed. Exploring the interview as a methodology, I hope to delineate how it opens up…
Book Launch & HRC Seminar Series 2016, Prof Sheila Fitzpatrick, 21 October
Other
Book Launch From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807-1912 6.00pm HRC Conference Room, A.D Hope Building, ANU Prof. Fitzpatrick will launch Kevin Windle, Elena Govor, and Alexander Massov’s From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’…
On the Origin of Species
Seminar
In our third event, Professor Iain McCalman (Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney; Director of the HRC from 1995-2002) will introduce and discuss On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, written by Charles Darwin--the father of evolutionary biology--and…
HRC Seminar Series 2016, Prof Cynthia Neville, 11 October
Seminar
In the early years of the thirteenth century the rulers of Scotland and their advisors developed a sophisticated theory of kingship that gave new expression to the closely related notions of princely justice and royal mercy. Historians have long been aware of the influence of English common-law…
HRC Seminar Series 2016, Dr Katherine Barnes, 16 August
Seminar
There's nothing like a good diary record for putting you on the ground with the person who wrote it, experiencing things through their eyes. And when the diary-keeper has been caught up in events that change the future of the country he’s working in, events that threaten his own life too and those…