Works that Shaped the World in 2022

In 2022 the HRC’s public lecture series “Works that Shaped the World” will focus on religious books and works that shaped the world, facilitated by the HRC’s Dr Ibrahim Abraham, the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences.

The series will begin on Friday March 4, with Professor Halim Rane of Griffith University discussing the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, and conclude in late 2022 with Professor Andrew Singleton of Deakin University presenting the Hans Mol Memorial Lecture in Religion and the Social Sciences, re-examining Hans Mol’s sociological study The Faith of Australians.

From Buddhist devotionals to horror films, and from early heresies to contemporary theological debates, this eclectic series of lectures will be presented online (and in person, where possible), aimed at experts and non-experts alike.

The Works That Shaped the World public lecture series was established in 2019 by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre to showcase contemporary scholarship in the humanities. In our first year the theme was “The Moon”, in which the ANU's Vice Chancellor, the Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt discussed the 1969 moon landing, Dr Kate Flaherty discussed Shakespeare’s moon, Professor Will Christie discussed the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and Professor Tony Dreise discussed the moon and the stars in Aboriginal science and lore, amid many other lectures.

Recordings of most of the 2021 lecture series, focused on Science, can be found here on YouTube.

Recordings of most of the ongoing 2022 lecture series, focused on Religion, can be found here on YouTube.
 

Upcoming and Past lectures can be found below.