Information on the Move: Networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
Seminar
Information on the Move: Networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust Approximately 9,000 Jewish migrants reached Australia during the refugee crisis in the 1930s. The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 led to family separations between Jewish refugees who arrived in…
Works that Shaped the World: Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is esteemed by economists, even economists unencumbered by historical interests, as the foundation text of their discipline. Hardly a distinguished lecture or presidential…
Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in “alternative” archaeologies
Seminar
Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in “alternative” archaeologies Around the world, archaeological orthodoxies are crumbling, and with them some of the just-so stories about the emergence of human civilizations. Painstakingly gathered evidence has revealed…
Works that Shaped the World: The Gülen Movement – Past, Present and Future
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. The Gülen Movement is one of the world’s largest transnational Islamic organisations. It emerged in the 1960s in Izmir, Turkey, through the efforts of the now retired Imam Fethullah Gülen. Inspired by the…
Mobilizing Queer Desire and Transnational Quebec in Xavier Dolan’s Film
Lecture
Associate Professor Loïc Bourdeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) presents The HRC/SLLL Lecture in Transnational Cinema Mobilizing Queer Desire and Transnational Quebec in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime. Watch the film first: "Matthias & Maxime" can be veiwed for free…
Works that Shaped the World: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. In his 2015 speech for the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis singled out four Americans who exemplified the best of the American tradition, including Dorothy Day (1897-1980). Day, whose cause of Catholic sainthood…
Cultural Conversations: July 2022
Meeting
Museums of the Future? Speakers from the National Museum of Australia and the Australian National University introduce some of the key issues facing national cultural organisations and the people who work within these. We explore the institutional and personal histories, politics, and cultures of…