HRC Work in Progress Seminar Series
Contacts

Our longest-running seminar series, the annual WIPS (Work in Progress Seminar) series provides a regular opportunity for our whole community to gather to listen and provide feedback to our Visiting Fellows who all present the research they are working on during their stay.
HRC affiliates and visiting fellows are expected to attend on a regular basis. Members of the University and the general public are welcome to participate in these seminars, and we particularly encourage all undergraduate and higher degree research students to join us.
Seminars are followed by informal discussion.
Each seminar is held at 4.30pm on a Tuesday.
2022 Works in Progress Seminar Program
Semester 2
Tuesday 2 August
Dr James L. Flexner, University of Sydney.
Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in “alternative” archaeologies
Tuesday 16 August
Associate Professor Jan Láníček, UNSW, Freilich Project Visiting Fellow.
Information on the Move: Networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
Tuesday 23 August
Professor Paul Oslington, Alphacrucis University College.
A History of the Economics of International Trade
Tuesday 30 August
Professor Dean J. Kotlowski, Salisbury University, Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Mobility of Presidential Reputation: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Political Legacy Building
Tuesday 4 October
Associate Professor Kent Fedorowich, formerly University of the West of England, Bristol.
‘Writing Home about Mother’: Dominion Soldiers in the United Kingdom, 1914-1919
Tuesday 11 October
Professor Rob Cover, RMIT University
COVID-19, Mobility and Identity
Tuesday 18 October
Professor Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle.
Vagrant lives and colonial mobility, New Zealand and Australia, 1840s-1890s
Tuesday 25 October
Dr Irina Podgorny, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina.
Highland mermaids: Interwoven stories of a tapestry from the Victoria & Albert Museum
Thursday 17 November
Dr Kate Bagnall, University of Tasmania
Untangling the history of Chinese naturalisation in the British settler colonial world
Tuesday 22 November
Dr Claire Roberts, University of Melbourne.
Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian art histories
Past events: 2022 Works in Progress Seminar Program, Semester 1
Tuesday 22 March
Dr Miles Pattenden, Australian Catholic University. Mobilizing Papal History
Tuesday 29 March
Professor Mary Roberts, University of Sydney.
The Tension of Movement: Stanisław Chlebowski’s Istanbul Years
Tuesday 19 April
Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto, Deakin University.
Thinking through (im)mobilities: A research agenda in investigating a migrant’s digital lifeworld
Tuesday 26 April
Dr Malini Sur, Western Sydney University.
Circulating Goods, Circuits of Caste: Cargo-cycling in Urban India
Tuesday 10 May
Professor Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong.
Engendering Hope: Youth and the Gendering of Development Discourse
Tuesday 17 May
Associate Professor Julia T. Martínez, University of Wollongong.
Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Restricting Women's Mobility Under the League of Nations
Tuesday 24 May
Dr Isobelle Barrett Meyering, Macquarie University.
Contested Rights: Debating Australia’s Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Also see attached program.
Past and upcoming HRC WIPS Seminars are listed below.
Older seminars are archived here.
Past events
Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian art histories
22 Nov 2022
Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian Art Histories This talk will present some new work relating to a larger transcultural research project...Untangling the history of Chinese naturalisation in the British settler colonial world
17 Nov 2022
Untangling the history of Chinese naturalisation in the British settler colonial world From the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese migrants to the British...Highland Mermaids: Interwoven stories of a tapestry from the Victoria & Albert Museum
25 Oct 2022
Highland Mermaids: Interwoven stories of a tapestry from the Victoria & Albert Museum The Sheikha Amna Bint Mohammed Al Thani Gallery is devoted to...Vagrant Lives and Colonial Mobility, New Zealand and Australia, 1840s-1890s
18 Oct 2022
Vagrant lives and colonial mobility, New Zealand and Australia, 1840s-1890s My new book (Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia, 1840-1920) seeks to place the...COVID-19, Mobility and Identity
11 Oct 2022
Work in Progress Seminar – COVID-19, Mobility and Identity This seminar explores some of the ways in which the mobility restrictions as a population health...‘Writing Home about Mother’: Dominion Soldiers in the United Kingdom, 1914-1919
4 Oct 2022
‘Writing Home about Mother’: Dominion Soldiers in the United Kingdom, 1914-1919 The unprecedented number of dominion soldiers who found themselves in Europe,...The Mobility of Presidential Reputation: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Political Legacy-Building
30 Aug 2022
The Mobility of Presidential Reputation: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Political Legacy-Building Presidential reputations have gone up or down or...A History of the Economics of International Trade
23 Aug 2022
A History of the Economics of International Trade International trade can be seen through many disciplinary lenses. For economists the standard account...Information on the Move: Networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
16 Aug 2022
Information on the Move: Networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust Approximately 9,000 Jewish migrants reached Australia during the refugee...Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in “alternative” archaeologies
2 Aug 2022
Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in “alternative” archaeologies Around the world, archaeological orthodoxies are...