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 seminar.
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 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)
For Semester 2 Preliminary Program, see attached program.
Past and upcoming HRC WIPS Seminars are listed below.
Older seminars are archived here.
Past events
Contested Rights: Debating Australia’s Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
24 May 2022
Contested Rights: Debating Australia’s Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) The almost universal ratification of the UN...Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Restricting Women's Mobility Under the League of Nations
17 May 2022
Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Restricting Women's Mobility Under the League of Nations In the 1920s the League of Nations extended its investigation of the...Engendering Hope: Youth and the Gendering of Development Discourse
10 May 2022
Engendering Hope: Youth and the Gendering of Development Discourse On 12 July 2013 then sixteen year-old Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations...Circulating Goods, Circuits of Caste: Cargo-cycling in Urban India
26 Apr 2022
Set against distinct visions of the city shaped by developmental logics of globalization, air pollution and environmental ideas, this paper explores the...Thinking through (im)mobilities: A research agenda in investigating a migrant’s digital lifeworld
19 Apr 2022
This provocation offers a critical approach to investigate the diverse impacts of modern communication technologies on the personal, familial and social lives...The Tension of Movement: Stanisław Chlebowski’s Istanbul years
29 Mar 2022
This paper analyses Polish artist Stanisław Chlebowski’s fraught relationship with his own mobility. Nineteenth-century Istanbul was a refuge for Polish...Mobilizing Papal History
22 Mar 2022
The papacy can seem like a static fixture in world history. It is Europe’s most enduring political and religious institution, with continuity of activity since...Signs on screen: deafness and sign language in contemporary film
9 Nov 2021
The screen is a privileged site for representing sign languages, and for translating them to hearing audiences via subtitles. The auditory nature of cinema –...Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud? Musicological Responses to Psychobiography
5 Oct 2021
Psychobiography has often held an uneasy position in the writing of musical biography. Ernest Newman’s: The Man Liszt: A Study of a Tragi-comedy of a Soul...‘Every Station Open to All’? Mechanics’ Institutes on the Victorian Goldfields
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...