2005 Conferences


The HRC's Research Theme for 2005 is "CULTURAL LANDSCAPES"

Confirmed Conferences under this theme include:

16-21 January 2005
History, Civics and Law Summer School
 
11 March 2005
Art Museums and Australian Society (Graduate Workshop)
 

29, 30, 31 March 2005
Desert Gardens: Waterless Lands and the Problems of Adaptation (Conference)
Conference Report

 
9-10 May 2005
Re-enactment and Extreme History (Graduate Workshop)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Conference Report
 

1 July 2005
Asian Cities and Cultural Change (Conference)
Conference Report

 

2-3 July 2005
Urban Imaginaries Research Meeting with Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Meeting Report

 

1 August 2005
Art and Commemoration (Symposium)
Conference Report

 

2 - 4 August 2005
Commemoration, Monuments and Public Memory (Conference)
Conference Report

 

5 August 2005
Re-enactment and the Question of Realism -Canberra (Graduate Workshop)
Conference Report

 

8-9 August 2005
Re-enactment and the Question of Realism - Melbourne (Graduate Workshop)
Conference Report

 
12 August 2005
Indigenous Art in Australian Art Museums (Graduate Workshop)
 
15-16 August 2005
Andrew Mellon and Philanthropy David Cannadine Public Lecture
Followed by Seminar
 

17-18 August 2005
Problems of Empire: Present, Past and Future Linda Colley Public Lecture
Followed by Seminar

 

26 August - 11 September 2005
Future Tense Exhibition (On-Line Exhibition)

 
15 - 16 September 2005
CCR Conference sponsored by HRC
Partisan Histories: Conflicted Pasts and Public Life (Conference)
 
2 November 2005
The Seymour Annual Lecture in Biography by Dr Brenda Niall
Venue: National Library of Australia
 
19 November 2005
Pissarro: The First Impressionist
Conference Report
The Art Gallery of NSW
 

6 December 2005
Thesis-in-Progress Seminar (Graduate Workshop)

 

The Freilich Foundation Public Lecture and ninth Annual Lecture on Bigotry and Tolerance
First Alica Tay Lecture (co-sponsored by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission), Professor Jim Ife, 25 May

Eminent Lecturer, Hon. Carmen Lawrence MP: four lectures 7 and 14 September, 5 and 12 October. See website: http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/freilich/frontpage.php

The Ninth Annual Freilich Foundation Lecture on Bigotry and Tolerance
Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon
What Price Bigotry? Undermining The Rich Foundations of Humanity
8.00pm, Thursday 24 November 2005