Past events
Holocaust Memory as a Global Language: The Case of Indigenous Australian Suffering
Seminar
In this talk, Dr Fischer positions Holocaust memory as a global language and applies it to ongoing debates concerning Australia’s race relations and genocidal history. In a discourse analysis drawing on a wide corpus of life writing, scholarly discourse, the Bringing them Home report, Sorry…
The art of anthropology
Exhibition
OPENING: 6pm Wednesday 3 June 2015 The Art of Anthropology showcases the photographs of 26 ANU anthropologists taken during their time "in the field". It is a visual exploration of some of the themes and destinations that ANU anthropologists explore during the course of their research. The…
Monseñor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero
Film
The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies and the Embassy of the Republic of El Salvador present: Monseñor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero (2011 – Documentary, 97 mins) Directors: Ana Carrigan, Juliet Weber. In El Salvador in the late Seventies, one man was the voice of the poor…
Latinity among the Visigoths (and why it matters)
Seminar
Our free Classics Seminar Series 2015 continues on 28 May. Chris Bishop will present ‘Latinity Among the Visigoths (and why it matters)’. As usual, after the talk discussion will continue over light refreshments in the ANU Classics Museum. All most welcome!
The other Saudis: Shiism, dissent and sectarianism
Lecture
In this lecture, Dr Matthiesen outlines the difficult experiences of being Shi’a in a Wahhabi state and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position. The Shia have petitioned the rulers, joined secular opposition parties, and founded Islamist movements. Most…
The hero and the organiser: E P Thompson, Raphael Samuel, and the uses of biography
Seminar
The histories of Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) and Raphael Elkan Samuel (1934–1996) can be said to run in close parallel with each another, in more ways than one. Both former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, the two men subsequently made substantial and pioneering…
How to do things with Anglobalisation: towards linguistic justice
Seminar
Dr Keohane examines the consequences of living in the age of ‘Anglobalisation’ for philosophy and the world at large. Central to this is the problem that English linguistic hegemony can serve,on the one hand, as a potentially useful vehicle for the universal diffusion of philosophical discourse…