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2016 Conferences

2015 Conferences

2014 Conferences

2013 Conferences

• Public Space and Commemoration
• An Artist in Archive
• Cities, Imaginaries and New Politics in Digital World
• Sculpture: Place and Space
• Crisis, Civility, Imaginaries and Revolt: New politics for the Global City?
• Operatic Ensembles in South Africa: Figaro south of Zambezi
• Shaping Canberra: The Lived experience of Place, Home and Capital
• The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives

2012 Conferences

• Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting
• The Future of the Disciplines-HRC Roundtable Series 2012
• The 2012 CHCI Annual Meeting. Anthropocene Humanities
• Framing Lives. 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association
• Stanford / ANU Collaboration Symposium: Creating Countries: Comparative Wests in Australia and the US
• Historians at Work
• The Cultural History of Climate Change Conference
• Visible Evidence XIX Conference

2011 Conferences

• Opening the World: Literature in a Global Age (Conference)
• Subaltern Studies: Historical World-making Thirty Years On (Conference)
• The World and World-Making in Art (Conference)
• War's Affects: Mediating Conflict and Emotion, 1700-1900 (Symposium)

2010 Conferences

• Never the Twain?: East and West Cultural Sel-Images in Auto/Biography (Conference)
• In the Image of Asia: Moving Across and Between Locations (Conference)
• Thinking the Human in the Era of Enlightenment (Conference)
• Imaging Identity: Media and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present (Symposium)
• Facing Asia: Histories and Legacies of Asian Studio Photography (Symposium)

2009 Conferences

• Summer School on the Theme of Religion and Bigotry (Summer School)
• Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability (Conference / Workshop)
• Testimony, Trauma and Social Suffering: New Contexts/New Framings (Conference)
• Cosmopolitanism Workshop (Workshop)
• Violent Ends: The Arts of Environmental Anxiety (Symposium)
• Reflecting on War Art (Conference)
• Limits of the Human: Philosophical, Historical and Ecological Perspectives (Conference)
• Reworking the Regency (Conference)
• Out from Underground: Censorship and the Arts (Symposium)

2008 Conferences

• Summer School in Australian History (Summer School)
• Passing: A Multi-disciplinary Symposium (Symposium)
• Recovering Lives (Conference)
• Rethinking Late Style (Conference)
• Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds (Conference)
• Using Lives: A Postgraduate Workshop in Biography (Workshop)
• Collective Biography (Conference

2007 Conferences

• Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century: David Nichol Smith Seminar in 18th-Century Studies XIII (conference)
• Visualising Childhoods a two-day interdisciplinary (symposium)
• Thresholds of Tolerance (exhibition and workshop)
• Drawn Together: The Production and Collection of Indigenous Drawings (conference)
• Art and Re-enactment (conference)
• Re-enactment: Fiction and Realism (workshop)
• Indigenous Biography and Autobiography (conference)
• Wandering Islands: A.D. Hope Centenary Conference (conference)
• Visual Cultures and Global Vernacularisms: The Case of Bollywood (conference)
• Negotiating the Sacred IV: Toleration, education and the Curriculum (conference)
• Using Lives: Postgraduate Workshop in Biography
• Australasian Modern British History Association conference: 'Visual Cultures of the British World’
• Philanthropy and the Humanities (symposium)
• Living Wage and National Values: Remember Harvester? 1907-2007 (conference)

2006 Conferences

• Using Lives: Postgraduate Workshop in Biography (Closed Workshop) Report
• Testimony and Witness: from the Local to the Transnational (Conference) Report
• Scandal (Symposium) Report
• Edward Said: Debating the Legacy of a Public Intellectual (Symposium) Report
• The End of Human Rights (Symposium) Report
• Breaking the News: The Humanities Writing Project (Conference) Report
• Shakespeare and Political Thought (Conference) Report
• Transnational Lives/Biography Across Boundaries (Conference) Report
• The Seymour Annual Lecture in Biography by Dr Lawrence Goldman
• Biography and Technology (Conference) Report

2005 Conferences

• Art Museums and Australian Society (Graduate Workshop)
• Desert Gardens: Waterlands and the Problems of Adaptation (Conference) Report
• Asian Cities and Cultural Change (Conference) Report
• Art and Commemoration (Symposium) Report
• Commemoration, Monuments and Public Memory (Conference) Report
• Re-enactment and the Question of Realism (Canberra) Report
• Re-enactment and the Question of Realism (Melbourne) Report
• Indigenous Art in Austrllian Art Museums
• David Cannadine Public Lecture / Seminar
• Linda Colley Public Lecture / Seminar
• Re-enactment and the Question of Realism (Pasadena, USA) Report
• Future Tense Exhibition and (On-Line Exhibition)
• Partisan Histories: Conflicted Pasts and Public Life
• Pissarro: The First Impressionist (Exhibition and Conference) Report
• The Seymour Annual Lecture in Biography by Dr Brenda Niall
• Thesis-in-Progress Seminar
• Frielich Lectures

2004 Conferences

• Transformations: Asia Pacific Museums in the Twenty First Century
• Australian Art, Craft and New Media Now: Aesthetics, National and Politics
• The Edwardians
• Cultures, Nations, Identities and Migrations
• Urban Imaginaries "A small closed symposium with invited speakers"
• Britishness and Otherness: Locating Marginal White Identities in the Empire
• XII David Nichol Smith Conference in Eighteenth Century Studies
• Museums and the Public Sphere
• Gandhi, Non-violence and Modernity
• Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda
• Trans-National History SymposiumE-Press Publication
• Knowledge, Culture, Power: The Politics of Cultural Studies in the Asian Region

2003 Conferences

• The Archaeology and Environmental History of Southern Deserts
• Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries
• Frankenstein's Science: Theories of Human Nature in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• Forest, Desert and Sea
• Histories of Heresy
• Genocide and Colonialism
• Envisaging the Future: Digital Research and Scholarship in the Humanities
• Biophilosophy and Politics of Life—Visiting Scholars Program
• Towards an Ecology of Practices
• Art and Human Rights
• The Art of the Documentary—National Institute of the Humanities
• Fusion

2002 Conferences

• Enlightenment World Workshop
• Telenovelas & Soap Opera: Negotiating Reality
• Landscape and Symbol in the Inka State
• The Dialectic Interpretation of Religious Phenomena
• New Feminist Histories of Gender and Colonialism Colloquium
• Art and Human Rights Workshop
• Diaspora of the Latin Americasn Imagination
• National Narratives and Identities in a Global World: The Latin American Case
• New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule
• Locations of Spirituality: 'Experiences' and 'Writings' of the Sacred
• The Theory and Practice of Early Modern Autobiography (Symposium)

2001 Conferences

• Australian Association for Caribbean Studies
• The Exotic During the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830)
• Adventures of Dialogue: Bakhtin and Benjamin
• Libertine Enlightenment
• The Importance of Italy
• Law and the Enlightenment: The British Imperial State at Law,1689-1832
• Foreign Bodies: Oceania and Racial Science (1750-1940)
• Postcolonialism and Beyond
• Spies and Surveillance in the 18th Century

2000 Conferences

• Romancing the Tomes: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture
• Chinese Art: The Future
• Women and Property in Early Modern England
• Those Lasting Alliances of Habits
• Natural Law and Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe
• Feminist Explorations of International Law
• Cyberhate: Bigotry and Prejudice on the Internet
• Human Rights Human Wrongs
• Lost in the Whitewash
• Constructing Law and Disability
• Landprints over Boundaries - Celebrating the Work of George Seddon
• Law in Chinese Culture

1999 Conferences

• Martha Nussbaum
• Meeting of Australian Humanities Institutes with US Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes
• Richard Rorty
• History of Daoism
• Max Weber, Religion and Social Action
• Who's Centric Now? The Present State of Post-Colonial Englishes
• Belonging Conference

1998 Conferences

• Scatterlings of Empire: Anglo-Celtic Migrations and Exchanges
• Tenth Irish-Australia Conference : Ireland and Australia (1798-1998 )
• Public Good : A Conference in Honour of Patrick Troy
• Electronic Identities in East Asia
• Sir Keith Hancock Symposium
• Black Diasporas in the Western Hemisphere
• Re-Orienting Romanticism
• Adventures of Identity: Constructing the Multicultural Subject
• Stephen Greenblatt Colloquium

1997 Conferences

• Emotion In Social Life and Social Theory
• Indigenous Rights, Political Theory and the Re-shaping of Institutions
• Fergus Millar Seminar : Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity

1996 Conferences

• Nationalism and National Identity
• Transcultural Exchanges: The Asia-Australia Art Collection
• Mad Cows and Modernity: The Crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• The Xth David Nichol Smith Seminar: 'Margins and Metropolis: Literature, Culture and Science 1660-1830'
• Reimagining the Pacific: A Conference on Art History and Anthropology in Honour of Bernard Smith
• Science and Other Knowledge Traditions
• Colloquium on 'Enlightenment, Religion and the Science in the Long Eighteenth Century'
• The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
• The Discovery of European Resources in Australian Libraries

1995 Conferences

• National Biographies and National Identity: A Critical Approach to Theory and Editorial Practice
• Africa-Precolonial Achievement
• Out of Africa: Texts for Understanding the African Past
• Diasporic and Multicultural approaches to South Asian Studies
• Programme Development through Research Workshop
• What is Happening in Africa Today?
• The Making of a Public Intellectual John Mulvaney, The Humanities and Public Policy

1994 Conferences

• The 4Rs: wRriting, Repairing, Re-presenting, Re-creating the Text
• Ideas of Liberty
• Ideas of Freedom in Asia
• The Republican Conception of Freedom
• Roman Family III: Status, Sentiment, Space
• Representation and Freedom