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HRC Visiting Fellows, whilst at the Centre, participate in the Centre’s programs and meet regularly with other fellows and ANU scholars to present their research. Until further notice, however, because of COVID-19, the Humanities Research Centre will be holding its seminar series online.
Members of the University and the general public are welcome to participate in these Zoom seminars, and we encourage all undergraduate and higher degree research students to join us. Normally, the seminars would be followed by informal discussion and light refreshments, but that will have to wait until the effective uptake of the vaccine.
Each seminar is held at 4.30pm on a Tuesday (unless otherwise indicated).
Semester 1 2021
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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20 April |
Dr Sarah Collins (University of Western Australia) |
England's Green and Useful Land: Vaughan Williams, Music and the Land Question |
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27 April
11 May |
Leigh Boucher (Macquarie University)
Assoc Prof Claire Roberts (University of Melbourne) |
The Limits of Liberalism in a Nineteenth-Cenury Settler Colony
Pierre Ryckmans: Artist and Art Historian |
| 25 May | Dr Morgan Thomas (University of Cincinnati) |
Noir/horror: Reconsidering the “woman question” in mid-twentieth-century American popular fiction and cinema |
| 8 June | Dr Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin) | Mechanics’ Institutes as Agents of Liberalism on the Goldfields of Australia |
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Upcoming events
Noir/horror: Reconsidering the “woman question” in mid-twentieth-century American popular fiction and cinema
4.30pm 25 May 2021
In ‘Hollywood’s Terror Films’, published in Commentary in 1946, Frankfurt School critic Siegfried Kracauer expressed disquiet about a new vogue in the United...‘Every Station Open to All’? Mechanics’ Institutes on the Victorian Goldfields
4.30pm 8 Jun 2021
During his speech at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute’s soirée in 1862, Richard Heales captured the sense of the mechanics’ institute as a symbol of home...Past events
Pierre Ryckmans: Artist and Art Historian
11 May 2021
Pierre Ryckmans is best known for the writing on contemporary Chinese politics under the pen name Simon Leys in which he exposed the inhumanity of...Racial Difference, Political Liberalism and the Proliferation of Mechanics Institutes in Mid 19th Century Victoria
27 Apr 2021
In the nineteenth century, the Australian colonies witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Mechanics Institutes. By the opening decade of the 20th century,...England’s Green & Useful Land: Vaughan Williams, music & the land question
20 Apr 2021
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ use of pastoral idioms, together with his folksong collecting, his advocacy for ‘national music’ and his interest in amateur music-...HRC Seminar: The Power and the Glory: The US Presidential Election 2020
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...HRC SEMINAR: Don Dunstan's Political Legacy Now
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: 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
How are we to understand the political roles that habit has played in the exercise of different forms of power? I develop two lines of argument in relation to...CANCELLED Settler Colonial Liberalism and the Effect of Sovereignty: Notes from Nineteenth-Century Victoria
24 Mar 2020
ABOUT THE LECTURE In normative theories and histories of liberalism both, the question of sovereignty is usually understood to precede determinations of...
