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Seminars

HRC Seminar Series

Semester 2, 2017

HRC Visiting Fellows, whilst at the Centre, participate in the Centre’s programs and meet regularly with other fellows to make a public presentation of their research.

Members of the University and the general public are welcome to attend seminars for free. They are followed by informal discussion and light refreshments, and we encourage all students to attend and for tutors to advise their students of this opportunity.

Each seminar is held in the Theatrette (unless otherwise indicated), on the 2nd floor (entry level) of the Sir Roland Wilson Building.

Date	Presenter	Topic
25 July	Dr Nadia Atia Queen Mary University of London	Australian Nursing Narratives in the Middle East (1914-1921)
1 August	Dr Liang Luo University of Kentucky	Strange New Women: The White Snake in Three Keys
8 August	Prof Karen Redrobe University of Pennsylvania	Temporal Strangers: Postcards from Tora Bora, Animation, and the Contemporary Art of War
15 August	Assoc Prof Paul Magee University of Canberra	The Strange Nationality of Contemporary Poets
22 August	Dr Vanessa Agnew Universitat Duisburg-Essen	Songs of Flight: Sonic Reenactments of Genocide on the Refugee Route
24 August	Prof Kader Konuk Universitat Duisburg-Essen	Scholars at Risk: Populism, Islamism, and the Current Flight of Academics to Europe
5 September	Prof Rajiswari Sunder Rajan New York University	Cast Out: Women and the Politics of Impiety
		Mid-Semester Break
26 September	Prof Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland	Salvage: British Child Migrants in the Migration Museum
28 September	Prof Robert Phiddian Flinders University	Satire and the Public Emotions, or What Does Satire Actually Do?
3 October	Prof Amy Smith University of Reading	Encountering Strangers in Classical Athenian Art: The Case of the Pan Painter
10 October	Prof David De Roure University of Oxford	The Imagination of Ada Lovelace: an Experimental Humanities Approach
17 October	Prof May O. Lwin Nanyang Technological University	Social Media, Civic Engagements and Public Health: Experiences from a Mobile Initiative in Asia
24 October	Assoc Prof Duncan Sayer University of Central Lancashire	Adventus Saxonum: Material Culture, DNA and Identity in the Migration Period
26 October Seminar Room 2/3	Prof Peter Kitson University of East Anglia	“Two millions of De Quinceys created in China”: Thomas De Quincey, the Opium and China Case, and Debate on the First Opium War 1840-42
31 October Seminar Room 1	Prof Margaret Ferguson University of California, Davis	Myths of Hymen
2 November 6.00pm	Dr Benjamin T. Jones Australian National University	An Australian Republic and the Politics of Hope
7 November	Dr Rachel Hurst St Francis Xavier University	Unsettling Colonial/Modern Gender at the Point Barrow, Alaska Expedition of the First International Polar Year, 1882-1883
14 November	Prof David Simpson University of California, Davis	States of Terror: History, Literature, Theory
16 November	Dr Susy Macqueen School of Literature, Languages and Lingustics, ANU	Language Tests as Social Sorting Mechanisms for the Professional Workplace

Details of papers are updated as they are finalised by the presenters.

When further event details are made available, seminar titles will be linked to the relevant webpage.

Past Seminar Series