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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. Throughout COVID-19, however, the Humanities Research Centre will be holding its seminar series online and has asked its Friends and Affiliates to contribute.
Members of the University and the general public are welcome to participate in these Zoom seminars, and we encourage all students to join us, and tutors to advise their students of this opportunity. Normally, they would be followed by informal discussion and light refreshments but that will have to wait until we have a vaccine.
Each seminar is held at 4.30pm on a Tuesday (unless otherwise indicated).
Semester 2 2020
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6 October |
Prof Tony Bennett (Western Sydney University and ANU) | |
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13 October
20 October |
Prof Penny Russell (University of Sydney)
Prof Bill Gammage (ANU) |
Seeking Elizabeth Sims: Gender, opportunity and risk in an emigration story
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| 27 October | Prof Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) | Comets, Dynasts, Immensities: Thomas Hardy, Space and Time, 1880-1930 |
| 3 November | Prof Angela Woollacott (ANU) | Don Dunstan’s Political Legacy Now: Political Leadership and Reactions to Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia |
| 10 November | PANEL: Prof Dean Kotlowski (Salisbury University, Maryland US) | US ELECTION DEBRIEF |
| Assoc Prof Jana von Stein (ANU) | ||
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Prof Zoe Robinson (ANU)
Assoc Prof Tim Lynch (University of Melbourne) |
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Upcoming events
HRC SEMINAR: Don Dunstan's Political Legacy Now
4.30–5.30pm 3 Nov 2020
Political leadership was a focal point of public discussion in Australia early this year, and it has resurfaced again lately. In August last year, Angela...HRC Seminar: The Power and the Glory: The US Presidential Election 2020
4.30–6pm 10 Nov 2020
Every US presidential election looms as decisive for the future of the nation's well being and for geopolitical stability and predictability. Why does this...Past events
HRC Seminar: Comets, Dynasts, Immensities: Thomas Hardy, Space and Time, 1880-1930
27 Oct 2020
In this lecture, Prof Stevenson will explore ways that the bright comet of 1881, one of several Thomas Hardy might have witnessed, encouraged interests in...HRC Seminar: 1788 Fire and 2020 Vision
20 Oct 2020
This talk looks at how we confront fire today, how people confronted it in 1788, and what we might learn from the contrast. Bill Gammage, AM, is Adjunct...Seeking Elizabeth Sims: Gender, opportunity and risk in an emigration story
13 Oct 2020
For women of the vulnerable ‘middling sort’ in nineteenth-century England and Australia, family was the first defence against destitution or ruin. But the net...Seminar: Habit's Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct
6 Oct 2020
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24 Mar 2020
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17 Mar 2020
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10 Mar 2020
HRC SEMINAR It is frequently assumed that liberalism had a short-lived springtime in 19th century Russia as an integral aspect of the thought of a remarkable...A Quaker-Chartist, free trader and Australian Liberal: the free-thinking career of Joseph ‘Coffee’ Jones, 1824–87
3 Mar 2020
HRC SEMINAR Among the unsung figures of Australia’s Liberal political history, Joseph Jones (1824–1887), a Welsh Quaker emigrant, does not figure highly....A Quaker-Chartist
3 Mar 2020
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29 Oct 2019
1859 marked the start of a profound cultural crisis in Britain. Of the various triggers of this crisis, none was more significant than the publication of...
