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Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural traditions, has had a formative influence on society and humanity. The series aims to highlight and revisit those books which have informed the way we understand ourselves, both individually and collectively, as human beings.
The series brings together readers from all backgrounds and vocations. Individuals from beyond and within the university community are warmly invited to come, listen, and share their thoughts about some great works of literature.
Past discussions are listed below.
Past events
Books that Changed Humanity: Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
22 Oct 2021
How did a relatively obscure study of manners and mores in mid 20th century Shetland Islands turn into one of the most influential texts within the social...Books that Changed Humanity: Oxford English Dictionary
6 Aug 2021
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is one of the foremost English-language reference works in the world. First conceived of as a project in 1857, the first...Books that Changed Humanity: The Qur’an
23 Jul 2021
Few books have changed humanity as much as the Qur’an, the sacred scripture of Muslims. In this public lecture, Dr Hakan Çoruh of Charles Sturt University will...Books that Changed Humanity: “Govardhanram Tripathi’s Saraswatichandra”
28 May 2021
Published in serialised form between 1887 and 1901, Govardhanram Tripathi’s four-volume text was written during a transformative period in colonial India when...Books that Changed Humanity: Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
16 Apr 2021
Youth culture, pop art, cultural studies, style – Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style was an influential early text in the march of cultural...Books that Changed Humanity: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
19 Mar 2021
Dr Ibrahim Abraham explores this controversial masterpiece of post-apartheid South Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. Disgrace is the novel that ...Books that Changed Humanity: The Quiet American
25 Sep 2020
The world may yearn for a ‘quiet’ American in 2020, but 65 years ago, the English novelist, Graham Greene presaged its dangers in The Quiet American. In an...Books that Changed Humanity | Aristotle’s Metaphysics
25 Oct 2019
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to...Books that Changed Humanity | Gulliver's Travels
27 Sep 2019
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to...Books that Changed Humanity | The History of the Peloponnesian War
26 Apr 2019
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to...
