HRC Distinguished Lecture Series
Contacts
Established in 2019, the HRC’s Annual Distinguished Lecture Series includes several major public lectures delivered by high profile or distinguished individuals annually. These lectures are all collaborations and intended for a public audience.
Recurring Lectures include the below:
- The HRC – Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture
- The HRC/Gender Institute Annual Lecture on Gender
- The HRC/Freilich Project Distinguished Annual Lecture
- The HRC Cultural Institutions Annual Lecture
- The Hans Mol Memorial Lecture in Religion and the Social Sciences
- The HRC/SLLL Lecture in Transnational Cinema
- The HRC Future of Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Lecture
See upcoming and past Distingushed lecture events listed below.
Past events
Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Spacetime
6 Aug 2024
The Humanities Research Centre in partnership with the Gender Institute present the 2024 HRC-GI Distinguished LectureCavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating...How to Withstand the Threats to our Shared Humanity
31 Jul 2024
Presenting the HRC 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, as part of the HRC 50th Anniversary Celebration How to Withstand the Threats to our Shared Humanity...Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism
15 May 2024
The 2024 HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism This talk will introduce key...Unsettling Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and the ancient Greek chorus
6 Mar 2024
Presenting an HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Unsettling Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and the ancient Greek chorus Many of us insist on an...On the Rise of Sign Languages in Contemporary Film and Television
19 Jul 2023
The 2023 HRC Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture On the Rise of Sign Languages in Contemporary Film and Television What can films and series...Hans Mol’s “The Faith of Australians”, Redux
11 Nov 2022
Professor Andrew Singleton (Deakin) presents the annual Hans Mol Memorial Lecture in Religion and the Social Sciences This public lecture revisits Hans Mol’s...Yolŋu at Heart: A model for intercultural collaboration
23 Sep 2022
Margot Smith AM presents The HRC Cultural Institutions Annual Lecture Kluge-Ruhe Director Margo Smith recounts the remarkable story of Madayin: Eight Decades...The Holocaust as an Australian Story: Family networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
14 Sep 2022
Dr Jan Láníček (UNSW) presents the HRC/Freilich Project Distinguished Annual Lecture Focusing on family connections between Australia and Europe, this lecture...Twenty-first century genders and sexualities: Implications for policy, education, representation and health
31 Aug 2022
Professor Rob Cover (RMIT) presents the HRC/Gender Institute Annual Lecture on Gender Twenty-first century genders and sexualities: Implications for policy,...Mobilizing Queer Desire and Transnational Quebec in Xavier Dolan’s Film
21 Jul 2022
Associate Professor Loïc Bourdeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) presents The HRC/SLLL Lecture in Transnational Cinema Mobilizing Queer Desire and...