A Quaker-Chartist
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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…
Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence
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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…
Books that Changed Humanity | Gulliver's Travels
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Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
Digging Where We Stand: Social Movement Activists and The ‘‘Inevitably Political Craft” of Archiving and History-Making
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This talk will draw on the speaker’s experience of working with and research into the establishment and use by social movement activists of independent archives, libraries and museums for history-making practices which directly inform and impact their struggles. Activists in the UK (and elsewhere)…
FX Harsono: Indonesian Contemporary Art
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In this public lecture distinguished Indonesian artist FX Harsono discusses his art and the inspirations behind his art. Harsono’s work has been acclaimed in his own country and internationally. In the mid-1970s Harsono, then a student, was a founder of the New Art Movement (Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru…
Books that Changed Humanity | The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
Books that Changed Humanity | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…