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2007 seminars


20 February

Dr Rick Kuhn
School of Social Sciences, ANU

The rise of anti-Muslim racism in Australia: who benefits?
27 February

Dr Susan Forsyth
Associate Fellow of the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

Oral tales and paper trails: James William Forsyth on the U.S. Indian Frontier
6 March

Dr Ann Vickery
Women’s Studies & Gender Research, Monash University

'Lives we love do not know': Reading Intimacy in the Work of Judith Wright
13 March

Dr Stephen Gapps
Sydney, NSW

Mobile monuments: historical re-enactment and commemoration
20 March

Dr Jonathan Walker
Sesqui Postdoctoral fellow, SOPHI, University of Sydney

How to illustrate a novel: collaborating with an artist
27 March

Dr Shady Cosgrove
University of Wollongong

'She Played Elvis' and storytelling the (auto)biographical - a journey to Graceland
3 April

Dr Fiona Jenkins
Philosophy Department, ANU

Ungrievable Lives
10 April

Dr Anne Brennan
The Art Theory Workshop, ANU

Remembering Proskurov
17 April

Professor Peter Putnis
University of Canberra

News, time and imagined community in colonial Australia
1 May

Mr William Fox
Independent Scholar

Aerial Photography and the Unmapping of the World
8 May

Professor Ihab Hassan
Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin

Fundamentalism and literature
15 May

Professor Ruth B. Phillips
Department of Art History, Carleton University, USA, HRC Visiting Fellow

Adoption, Re-clothing, and Aboriginal-settler Alliances: an Eighteenth-century North American Commerce of Identity
22 May

Dr Toby Haggith
Film Programmer, Film and Video Archive, Imperial War Museum, HRC Visiting Fellowl

The Heirs of Uncle Toby Shandy: Military Re-enactment in British Society and Culture
29 May

Professor Mark Phillips
Department of History, Carleton University, USA, HRC Visiting Fellow

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Sentimental History of Life
15 June

Professor Philip Payton
Director, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, HRC Visiting Fellow

Biography, Place and Identity: Writing South Australia's Cornish Heritage
19 June Professor Barbara Caine
Historical Studies, Monash University, HRC Visiting Fellow
Biography and History
26 June

Professor Patrick Manning
History and African-American Studies, Northeastern University, HRC Visiting Fellow

The Past in the Public Eye: Historical Writing and Human-Rights Debates
13 July

Dr Helena Hammond
School of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, HRC Visiting Fellow

‘A Museum of Props’: The 1890 Sleeping Beauty, Nineteenth-Century French Historiography and the Balletic Challenge to the Historical Text
24 July

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies, The University of Chicago and Visiting Fellow, Research School of Humanities, ANU

The Public Life of History: An Argument Out of India
3 August

Professor Luren Berlant
George M. Pullman Professor of English & Director of the Lesbian & Gay Studies Project, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago

Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta
14 September

Dr Catriona Elder
Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney

Australian Historical Television Mini-series of the 1970s and Nation Making
12 October

Professor Robert ROSS
African History, Leiden University

Why write a history of the Kat River Settlement? on the heuristic value of studying social and political borderlands
26 October

Dr Roxana WATERSON
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Comparative Perspectives on Reconciliation: South Africa, Indonesia and Timor Leste