HRC Seminar: 1788 Fire and 2020 Vision
Seminar
This talk looks at how we confront fire today, how people confronted it in 1788, and what we might learn from the contrast. Bill Gammage, AM, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the HRC, mainly researching 1788 land management. He is the author of The Broken Years: Australian…
Conversations across the Creek: Bushfire Summer
Panel discussion
Three scholars studying bushfires from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives will share their research and reflections on the nation's Bushfire summer with interested colleagues from across the university.
Works that Shaped the World: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Seminar
“MR WORDSWORTH’S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age”, wrote the critic and journalist, William Hazlitt: “It is one of the innovations of the time. It partakes of, and is carried along with, the revolutionary movement of our age”. William Wordsworth has gone down in literary…
Seeking Elizabeth Sims: Gender, opportunity and risk in an emigration story
Seminar
For women of the vulnerable ‘middling sort’ in nineteenth-century England and Australia, family was the first defence against destitution or ruin. But the net of family could prove fragile indeed, leaving them to navigate dangerous waters of emigration, male support, and a chancy…
Conversations across the Creek: Decolonizing the University
Seminar
Arguing that the institution of the university has been broadly complicit with colonialism, the call to “decolonize” universities and academic practices has been heard across the world, from Cape Town to Oxford to Canberra. But what exactly does it mean to “decolonize” the university or to “…
Works that Shaped the World: The “Gweagal” shield: Cook at Kamay (Botany Bay) 1770
Seminar
A recording of this event is now available to listen to as a Works that Shaped the World Podcast. Violence marred the encounter between the British and Gweagal at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770. Approaching the shore, Lieutenant James Cook shot at two indigenous men. Although wounded, one man went to…
Seminar: Habit's Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct
Seminar
How are we to understand the political roles that habit has played in the exercise of different forms of power? I develop two lines of argument in relation to this question. The first considers how conceptions of habit as a form of repetition following the course of a pathway have informed the…