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.
2023 Works In Progress Seminar Program
Semester 1
Tuesday 28th February
Professor Anna Greenwood, University of Nottingham, UK
History for Health: Pasts Repairing Futures
Tuesday 7th March
Professor Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne
Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson in revolutionary Samoa, 1888-1894
Tuesday 14th March
Assoc. Professor Carsten Wergin, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany
Repatriation and After? Challenges and Potentials
Tuesday 21st March
Professor Julia Horne, University of Sydney
Repairing a way for post-war Australia
Tuesday 28th March
Dr Joel Barnes, University of Queensland
The Humanities in Australia: policy, politics and public value
Tuesday 4th April
Professor Jean McNeil, The University of East Anglia
Anthropocene Diary – The aesthetics and politics of writing about the environment in the Anthropocene
Friday 21st April
Dr Basia Sliwinska, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Caring to notice: Sera Waters’ arts activist practice towards attentive and reparative futures
Tuesday 18th April
Dr Michael Robinson, University of Liverpool
Repair: The ‘Prematurely Aged’ and ‘Burnt Out’ veteran debate, 1929-1939
Tuesday 9th May
Dr Bill Balaskas, Kingston University
Cultures of collaboration: Research in/between higher education and the cultural sector
Past and upcoming HRC WIPS Seminars are listed below.
Older seminars are archived here.
Past events
Cultures of collaboration: Research in/between higher education and the cultural sector
9 May 2023
Cultural practices are significant and rapidly expanding generators of new knowledge across a range of disciplines. However, many of the academic research and...Caring to notice: Sera Waters’ arts activist practice towards attentive and reparative futures
21 Apr 2023
Caring to notice: Sera Waters’ arts activist practice towards attentive and reparative futures Sera Waters, an Adelaide-based textile artist, in her activist...Repair: The ‘Prematurely Aged’ and ‘Burnt Out’ veteran debate, 1929-1939
18 Apr 2023
Repair: The ‘Prematurely Aged’ and ‘Burnt Out’ veteran debate, 1929-1939 This talk will analyse how and why British and Australian welfare policy and medical...Anthropocene Diary – The aesthetics and politics of writing about the environment in the Anthropocene
4 Apr 2023
Anthropocene Diary – the aesthetics and politics of writing about the environment in the Anthropocene This seminar explores the relationship between creative...The Humanities in Australia: policy, politics and public value
28 Mar 2023
The Humanities in Australia: policy, politics and public value Debates about the humanities disciplines in Australia today often oscillate between defences of...Repairing a way for post-war Australia
21 Mar 2023
The Architect’s Vision: Repairing a way for post-war Australia In 1944, the University of Tasmania commissioned the famed Australian architect, Leslie...Repatriation and After? Challenges and Potentials
14 Mar 2023
Repatriation and After? Challenges and Potentials European museum and university collections (including botanical gardens) have large stocks of cultural...Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson in revolutionary Samoa, 1888-1894
7 Mar 2023
Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson in revolutionary Samoa, 1888-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson gives us an eye-witness account of the workings of German...History for Health: Pasts Repairing Futures
28 Feb 2023
History for Health: Pasts Repairing Futures There is increasing recognition that the visual and performative Arts can have positive therapeutic value....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...