Books that Changed Humanity | Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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***Tickets for this event have sold out. Registered attendees are asked to bring their Eventbrite ticket with them to ensure they get a seat in the theatre*** Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University.…
Books that Changed Humanity: Theological Political Treatise
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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…
Public Lecture | The Wedge Collection and the Conundrum of Humane Colonisation
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Surveyor John Helder Wedge collected Indigenous artefacts at the close of the Van Diemen's Land 'Black War' and the first months of settlement in Port Phillip in 1835. They remain in Saffron Walden Museum in Essex. It has been suggested that Wedge sought the artefacts out of a rare ‘…
Public Lecture | Identity and Transnationalism in Australian and Global Art
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Artist John Young in conversation with Dr Christopher Chapman and Christine Clark from the National Portrait Gallery and Professor Jacqueline Lo, The Australian National University John Young discusses his figurative, abstract and textual projects which have been realised in the last decade. While…
The Making of Jane Austen
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Public Lecture How did Jane Austen, a no-name author in her own day, become an international literary icon? It started long before Colin Firth’s wet-white-shirt Darcy. Devoney Looser’s lecture will introduce you to some of the unsung innovators who first turned ‘Miss Austen’ into a household name…
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
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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…