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HRC Visiting Fellows, whilst at the Centre, participate in the Centre’s programs and meet regularly with other fellows to make a public presentation of their research.
Members of the University and the general public are welcome to attend seminars for free. They are followed by informal discussion and light refreshments, and we encourage all students to attend and for tutors to advise their students of this opportunity.
Each seminar is held at 4.30pm in the Theatrette (unless otherwise indicated), on the 2nd floor (entry level) of the Sir Roland Wilson Building.
Semester 1 2019
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Date |
Speaker |
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15 February |
Em Prof Gilli Bush-Bailey (University of London) |
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5 March |
Em Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) |
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12 March |
Assoc Prof Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Maquarie University) |
Latin Panegyric XII(9) and the Politics of New Jerusalem under Constantine the Great |
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19 March |
Prof Eckart Altenmüller (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media) |
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26 March |
Assoc Prof Cynthia Chris (City University of New York) |
A Cinema of Environmental Crisis: Virtual Life in the Sixth Extinction |
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16 April |
Em Prof Neville Kirk (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
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7 May |
Dr Jeremy Simpson (University of Sydney) |
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14 May |
Dr Jordana Silverstein (University of Melbourne) |
‘A Shock Through the System’: Histories of Crisis in Australian Child Refugee Policy |
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21 May |
Prof Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide) |
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28 May |
Dr Justin Tyler Clark (Nanyang Technological University) |
Mental Speed and the Crisis of Mass Communication in the Early 20th-Century United States |
Semester 2
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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16 July |
Dr Stuart Christie (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
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30 July |
Dr Gabriel Tusinski (Singapore University of Technology and Design) |
This is (not) Crisis: Chronotope, Crisis Narration, and the Metapragmatics of Historical Time |
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6 August |
Dr Alison Searle (University of Leeds) |
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13 August |
Prof Chris Whitehead (Newcastle University) |
Crisis, Europe, Heritage: The Politics of the Past in a Fragile Union |
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20 August |
Dr Sarah Moore (University of Bath) |
Crisis Diverted: A Sociological Study of the Handling of Public Crises |
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27 August |
Prof Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh) |
“O, they are firing squibs”: Responses to Assassination Attempts on British Royalty, 1800–1900 |
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3 September |
Dr Gonul Bozoglu (Newcastle University) |
TBA |
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10 September |
Dr Joseph Hardwick (Northumbria University) |
Communities of Prayer and Environmental Crisis in Australia and the British Empire, 1829-1919 |
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12 September (Thursday) |
Prof Stephen Bygrave (University of Southampton) |
Enlightenment as Crisis: Disciplines and Reactions, 1750-1815 |
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1 October |
Assoc Prof Nikki Hessell (Victoria University of Wellington) |
Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romanticism During the Removal Crisis |
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8 October |
Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) |
TBA |
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15 October |
Dr Yujie Zhu (RSHA Internal Fellow) |
TBA |
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30 October |
Prof Martin Hewitt (Anglia Ruskin University) |
Darwinism’s Generations: Responding to Evolution, 1859-1909 |
Upcoming events
“O, they are firing squibs”: Responses to Assassination Attempts on British Royalty, 1800 – 1900
4.30–5.45pm 27 Aug 2019
Assassinations or attempted assassinations are archetypal moments of crisis, but they have only rarely been given sustained and systematic attention by...Memory Mapping and the Historic Greek Communities of Istanbul
4.30–5.45pm 3 Sep 2019
In this talk, I present ongoing work with communities whose cultural memory fall outside of official heritage practice. The historic ‘Rum’ (Greek-speaking)...Past events
Crisis Diverted: A Sociological Study of the Handling of Public Crises
20 Aug 2019
This paper explores how contemporary UK public crises are framed and managed, paying particular attention to their tendency to calcify. The dominant...Crisis, Europe, Heritage: The Politics of the Past in a Fragile Union
13 Aug 2019
Over recent years, official bodies such as the European Commission have used ‘heritage’ to create a shared historical narrative and sense of belonging for...Exiles at Home: Crises, Letters and Pastoral Care
6 Aug 2019
Several forms of crisis in seventeenth-century Britain positioned protestant nonconformists and religious dissenters as exiles at home. Disestablishment of...“This is (Not) Crisis”: Chronotope, Crisis Narration, and the Metapragmatics of Historical Time
30 Jul 2019
In post-independence Timor-Leste, the spectre of crisis looms large. Since its troubled beginnings, the first new nation of the 21st century has been plagued...Pearl S. Buck, Intersectionality, and “China”, 1931-1941
16 Jul 2019
My presentation seeks to contribute meaningfully to the HRC’s 2019 theme, “intellectual history of crisis”. It cites the example of American author and...Mental Speed and the Crisis of Mass Communication in the Early 20th-Century United States
28 May 2019
Long before the invention of the 24/7 news cycle, interwar social critics warned that the speed of mass media, especially its new broadcast varieties,...Hunters and Collectors
21 May 2019
Life writing is particularly attuned to writing the uncanny and the improbable. Parsing the indecipherable elements of a life are its forte, as is its focus on...‘A Shock Through the System’: Histories of Crisis in Australian Child Refugee Policy
14 May 2019
This paper will explore how ‘crises’ around refugee and asylum-seeking children have been repeatedly produced and mobilised as an art and technique of...Kabul 2018: Twenty-five Responses to 'Crisis'
7 May 2019
Afghanistan is often largely forgotten now that international geo-strategic attention has moved elsewhere, but 2018 saw some of the highest incidences of...Modern Britain in Crisis
16 Apr 2019
This paper provides an overview of my current research project- a book-length study of modern Britain in crisis. The paper begins with a brief definition of...
