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Humanities Seminar Series

All seminars take place on Friday Mornings, 9.15 am, in A3 Lecture Theatre (Arts Building), followed by morning tea in the SHum tea room

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Humanities Seminar Series Podcasts

Trimester 1, 2013

22 February Greg Horsley, Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937): epigraphy, papyrology, lexicography
1 March Margaret Small, The Impact of Closer Settlement in the Armidale District between 1905 and 1910

8 March

Caroline Gaden, Pounding Along to Singapore
15 March Helen Ware, Australian Aid: A Positive Contribution to Peace?
22 March Thomas Fudge, Questioning the Confessions of a Medieval Serial Killer
10 May Melanie Oppenheimer, Red Crossing Australian Style: Working through a century of humanitarianism, 1914-2014
17 May Ken Fraser, What We’re Fighting For: war, evolution and Gonzo anthropology
24 May Sarah Lawrence, How to be Good: The language of virtue in Valerius Maximus
31 May DB Subedi, Social Reintegration of the Maoist Ex-combatants in Nepal

Trimester 2, 2012

6 July Peter Enlund, Captain George Rutledge at Fremantle, 1840-1845
13 July Mark Golden, Children in the Roman Family 
20 July Joanna Boileau, Tradition and innovation: Chinese market gardening technology in Australia and New Zealand
27 July Vincent Blokker, Somali piracy: What is to be done?
3 August D.B. Subedi, Maoists in Nepal: From civilian to combatant
10 August Catherine Morgan, Pindar and Corinth
24 August Karin von Strokirch, TBA
31 August Greg Stanton, Wealthier supporters of Jesus of Nazareth
7 September School Teaching & Learning Symposium
14 September Ignatius Udunuwara, Are we human, inhuman or non-human or simply divine?
21 September Bronwyn Hopwood, What's in a name? Appian and the nomenclature of Oktaouios Kaisar
5 October Tom Kehoe, US management of crime in postwar Germany, 1945-46
12 October Robert Mason & Anna Hayes, Displacement and loss: Two case studies in Australian migration
19 October Peter O'Donohue, Chinese brown glazed stoneware: an archaeological re-assessment of provenance and importance
26 October Richard Scully, The other Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon III, France, and making of the modern world, 1848-1870
2 November Andrew Piper, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp: 'a sad chapter in American history'

Trimester 1, 2012

17 February   Paul Geraghty, Pre-European contact betwween Australia and New Caledonia: linguistic and other evidence
24 February   Greg Horsley, One hundred years of the Loeb Classical Library 
2 March   David Kent, 'The real interests of 800,000 slaves': Thomas Fowell Buxton, the politics of an evangelical conscience and the parliamentary campaign to liberate the slaves 1823-34
9 March   John Kent, Five cold wars: the way they were fought by the US and the West
16 March   Richard Jones, Living arts: developing creativity programs in post-conflict Timor-Leste
30 March   Raed Alhargan, Human rights in Saudi Arabia
27 April   Pamela Gaber, Recent excavations at Idalion, Cyprus: new light on Levantine cult in the first millennium BCE
4 May   Mike Pepperday, The connection between role identity and social identity and their relation to ideology Identity and Ideology
11 May   Ray Fife, Pilbara archaeology: a cultural heritage management perspective
18 May   Karen Filewood, Who's buried in your backyard?
25 May   Steve Cunneen, The Major and the Methodist: an examination of the dispute between Grose and Johnson
1 June   Peter Jones, Are Muslim values incompatible with Australian values: What do Australian Muslim students think?
15 June   Angie Kahler, Voicing history: protest in Tibet since 1987
22 June   Lynda Garland, The Byzantine family - and other animals
29 June   Nigel Holman, The Germani

Semester 2, 2011

1 July    Kathy Moignard, Alexander of Abonoteichos and Apollonios of Tyana in liminal encounters: some comments on Lucian's Alexander and Philostratos' Vita Apollonii
8 July    Meg Vivers, Adventure Engineers of the Nineteenth Century: Sugar, Slavery, and the Sweet Taste of Success
29 July    Patrick Nunn, Climatic Disruption of Pacific Island Societies About AD 1300
5 August    Marty Branagan, Nonviolence: How Most Revolutions Really Occur
12 August    Jack Davis, Dateline 1180 BC: The Palace of Nestor after the Collapse of Mycenaean Society
19 August    John Idriss Lahai, Sierra Leone — A Poor Diamond Producer?
26 August    Chris Davey, Jim Stewart and Walter Beasley: The Beginnings of Near Eastern Archaeology in Australia
2 September           Mick Reed, Misconceptions, Myths and Maps: A Fresh Look at Early Armidale Town Plans
Powerpoint Presentation
9 September    Bronwyn Hopwood, Hortensia Speaks
14 October    Robin Lowry, An Arkansas Journey: Biography in Bill Clinton’s Territory
21 October    Matthew Dillon, Educating the Athenian Rita: Engendering the Scroll in Classical Greece
28 October    David Andrew Roberts, Resurrecting Thunderbolt: History, Fiction and Politics in an Age of Confusion
4 November    Erin Ihde, Biggles Sees Red: Saving Australia from the Communist Menace
11 November    Richard Jones, Creativity Programs With Disenfrachised Youth in Timor Leste
18 November    Graeme Bourke, Sophism and Philosophy in Pseudo-Plutarch: On the Training of Children
2 December    Richard Scully, The Rise of the Anglo-German Ambivalence, 1860-1914
9 December    Angell Harris, The Boys of Brauron: Artemis the Kourotrophic Goddess

Semester 1 2011

18  February    
  		   Peter Forrest, In Defense of Anthropomorphic Theism
25 February
 		   Randall Pogorzelski, Orbis Romanus: Lucan and the Limits of the Roman World
11 March
   Mun-keat Choong, A Comparison of the Pāli and Chinese Versions of the Brahma Saṃyutta, a Collection of Early Buddhist Discourses on Brahmās, the Exalted Gods
14 March
   Paul Geraghty, Where in the World is Ulimaroa? Or, How a Pacific Island Became the Australian Continent
18 March
    Karin von Strokirch, International Relations in the Pacific: Trends Past and Present
25 March
   Scott Harris, Roam’n Chickens: The Spread of Domestic Chickens Throughout the Roman Empire
1 April   Jim Belshaw, Social Change in New England, 1950-2000
8 April   John Ryan, Thomas Galloway, M.D., 1779-1852: And Did Those Feet in Convict Times Walk Upon New England’s Mountains Green?
14 April
   Ian Campbell, ‘Fatal Impact’ in Pacific Historiography
13 May
   Zahid Ahmed, South Asian Regionalism: Lessons to be Drawn From Other Regions
17 May
   Tim Harrison, The Madaba Plains Project in Jordan
20 May
   Anna Silvas, The Convergence of Greek, Latin and Syriac Christianity: The Career of Basil’s Small Asketikon
27 May
   Ken Fraser, Great-power competition, alternative visions and the transformation of world order: a global SitRep
3 June   Richard Jones, Timor Leste: Youth issues
10 June   Adrian Walsh, Economic Hurts and Millian Harms
17 June   Robert Haworth, Cartographic Evidence Against an Early Portuguese Discovery of Australia: The Need for Legends of Pre-Discovery in New Settler States
24 June   Tristan Taylor, Caesar’s Gallic Genocide? Mass Violence in the Roman World

Semester 2 2010

30 July   Iain Davidson, ‘Australian Archaeology as a Historical Science’
6 August   John Ryan, ‘A Passionate Conviction: The ‘Matter’ of Thunderbolt’
13 August   Alice Storey, ‘Great Places to Take Chicks: How Ancient Chickens have been used to Reconstruct Migration and Interaction in Pacific Prehistory’
20 August   Julie Marsh, ‘Always Reframing the Nation: Indian Film Responses to Terrorism’
27 August     Robert Laffineur, ‘Mycenaean Iconography as Symbolic Expression and Status Indicator’
3 September   Thomas Davis, ‘An Amateur’s Dream: George McFadden and the Excavation of Kourion on Cyprus’
24 September     Peter O’Donohue, ‘Chinese Mining Communities Lost in the Past: The Role of Historical Archaeology in Bringing the Itinerant into the Present’
1 October   Edith Zeigler, The Objectives, Import and Shortcomings of President Theodore Roosevelt's 1908 Commission for Country Life
8 October   Denise Phillips, ‘Wounded Memories of Hazara Refugees: Remembering and Forgetting Persecution.’
15 October   David Stoneman, 'The Religious and Social Beliefs of Richard Bourke'
22 October   Eric Acheson, ‘Late Medieval Funerals’
5 November   Richard Scully, ‘Sex, Art, and the Victorian Cartoonist: the Case of Matt Morgan’
12 November   Lynda Garland, ‘The Empress Zoe and her Court, 1028-1050’
19 November   Stephanie Lawson,  ‘Is the Future a Foreign Country?’

Semester 1, 2010

19 February   Greg Horsley, 'Affecting Language in Greek and Latin Literary texts'
26 February   Jennifer Clark, 'The Rough and Tumble: Displaying Complexity in the Motor Museum'
5 March   Paul Adams, 'The Battle of Broken Hill: Ghans and the Suicide Attack of the Turks on the Picnic Train'
12 March   Graig Collins, 'The Power of Words and Words of Power: A brief Historical Survey of Language, Law and Libel'
19 March   Jim Belshaw, 'Unrecognised and Now Almost Unknown: Explorations Through the History of the Broader New England'
26 March   Adeel Khan, 'The Rise and Fall of the Taliban’
7 May
    Ray Fife, 'Historical Archaeology at a French Colonial Hill Station in Central Vietnam: Bạch Mã 1930-1990’
14 May
   David Andrew Roberts, ‘Dwelling on the Edge of Empire: Religion and Buildings on a Frontier Mission
in Colonial New South Wales’
21 May   Lorina Barker, ‘Wayilmarrangkalku’s Ngarntu: Water Storylines of Country’
28 May   David Kent, ‘The Age of Equipoise Reconsidered - Containing Disorder in Britain 1850-1870: Troops, Trains and the Telegraph’
4 June   Adele Nye, Historical Thinking in Higher Education: A Discussion of the Findings of a National Scoping Study’ 

Semester 2 2009

31 July   Frank Bongiorno (King's College), 'Russel Ward's The Australian Legend: A Re-reading
7 August   Kathy Moignard (HDR), ''The motif of the journey to obtain life-direction from an oracle in the period of the Second Sophistic'.
14 August   Randall Albury, (Adjunct), 'Retrospective Diagnosis of Diseases in Historical Figures: Valid Tool or Anachronistic Blunder?'
21 August     Frances Windolf (HDR), 'Changed meanings? Monuments and memorials on Queensland's Sunshine Coast'
28 August    Tim Byrnes (indep. scholar), 'War, Reform and the Russian Government: an eyewitness account of the conflict in Georgia 
4 September   Ross Lamont (Adjunct), 'FitzRoy concealed:  less familiar features of the 'Beagle' voyage, 1831-1836'.
11 September   Shawn Rowlands (HDR), 'Iron for Stone: Indigenous artefact collection: science, sport, or trade?'
2 October   Graham Maddox, ' The Spell of Parmenides'
16 October
   Richard Scully, 'Wilhelm in Wonderland - British Cartoons of Wilhelm I and the German Wars of Unification, 1864-1871'
30 October   Lynda Garland (HofS), Public Lavatories, Mosquito Nets And Agathias’s Cat: The Humorous Epigram In Its Justinianic Context
6 November   Janice Burn (HDR), Joan de Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny (1375-1435):
Women and Power in Late Medieval England

 

Semester 1 2009

 

27 February    Greg Stanton (Adjunct), 'Early Christian and Contemporary Greek Ideas of Unity and Disunity'
6 March   Greg Horsley, 'Galen's Therapeutike Methodos: language and styles'
13 March   Alexander Weiss (University of Leipzig), 'The earliest Christian World Chronicle? A new Leipzig papyrus'
20 March      Oyedele Ogunmola, 'What happens to history when the participants say written history is wrong? The Case of the Civil Wars in Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone'.
27 March   Andrew Piper, '"Mind-forg'd Manacles": the mechanics of control inside late-nineteenth century Tasmanian charitable institutions'
3 April   Nathan Wise (Adjunct), '“The Chance of a Lifetime”: The transition of working class men from civilian to soldier (and back again)’.
15 May   Matthew Dillon, 'Getting a-head with ancient Greek divination: talking dead bodies, steaming entrails, and friendly lizards - but no beans with that please'
22 May   Mun-Keat Choong, 'A comparison of the Pali and Chinese versions of the Brahmana Samyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on the priestly Brahmanas'
29 May   Jennifer Lawless (HDR), '"It Ain't Necessarily So": Challenging preconceptions about the experiences of the Australian Gallipoli POWs in Turkey'
5 June   Rebecca Fleming (HDR), 'The Forgotten Women of the Forgotten War: Australian nurses in the Korean War'
12 June   Melanie Oppenheimer (Adjunct), 'Volunteering: the Australian Way'

 

Semester 2 2008

 

1 August  

Dr Alexander Weiss (University of Leipzig), 'Sergius Paullus, Dionysios the Areopagite and Erastus the City Councillor: three early Christian Roman elite'
8 August   Professor Francois Lissarrague (formerly Director, Centre Louis Gernet, Paris), 'Figuring the gods in Ancient Greece: the relations of anthropomorphism and aniconism'
15 August   Professor Helen Ware, 'Remembering the Nigerian Civil War'
22 August     Dr George Weisz, ''The Medical Response to Nazi Persecution in the Ghettos, a Way of Resistance'
3 October   Meg Vivers, 'Evangelism and Female Emigration to the British Colonies: The Spiritual and geographical Wanderings of Lucy Gray'
17 October   Randall Albury, 'The Golden Age Returns: Renaissance Appropriation (and Subversion) of Augustan Political Imagery'
24 October   Graeme Bourke, 'Sparta and Olympia: Sport, Religion and Politics in the Classical Peloponnese'
31 October   Derek Hamilton (HDR) 'Roman poetry and art: the motif of divine punishment'

Semester 1 2008

22 February   Greg Horsley, 'Cornford Mythistoricus'
29 February        Wendy Beck and John Appleton, 'Connecting the dots: building understandings of Indigenous heritage places in eastern Australia'
14 March    Erin Ihde, 'Do Not Panic: Hawkwind and the Cold War (An audio-visual extravaganza!)'
28 March      Andrew Piper, 'World's Best Practice?: heritage management at the Port Arthur Historic Site, 1987-1996'
2 May    Iain Spence, 'The Missing of Fromelles—A Search for Lost Australians from World War I'
9 May    Liz Noble, 'The Great Stonor Lawsuit'
16 May    David Kent: Charity in the English countryside 1800-1850; Prudence, Benevolence and Control'
23 May    David Andrew Roberts, 'Lt Oxley's "Second Vale of Tempe": Origin Myths and Public History at Wellington NSW'
30 May   Janis Wilton, 'Different sights in New England'

 

 

Semester 1 2007

23 February            

David Kent, ‘“Literate beyond all other nations”: Reading and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’
2 March       Erin Ihde, ‘“Liberty or Life!”: The Convict Pirates of the Wellington’
9 March     Graeme Bourke (PhD), ‘The Seers of Olympia: Destroyers or Preservers?’
16 March        Denis Wright, ‘Redefining Trafficking of Women in South Asia: new interpretations’
23 March     Edith Ziegler (PhD), ‘The Shaping of Alabama’s Education System: Localism, Community and Domain as Persistent Influences on the Development of Alabama’s Public schools 1865-1915’
4 May     Rob Knowles, ‘The Trials of Mikhail Bakunin: Past and Present’
11 May     Max Schmitz, ‘The Costs and Benefits of Trajan’s Dacian Annexation’
18 May     Grant Mansfield (PhD), ‘Australian Attitudes to the Outbreak of World War One: Practical Patriotism?’
25 May     Elizabeth Noble, “Web of Significance’: the Networks of the Late-Medieval Stonor Family
1 June     David Andrew Roberts, “Language to Save the Innocent’: Reverend Threlkeld and the Linguistic Mission’
8 June     Frank Bongiorno & Grant Mansfield (PhD), ‘Whose War Was It Anyway? Australian Historians and the Outbreak of the Great War’
15 June    

Paul Brown (PhD), ‘Par dispensation de Dieu: Divine Sanction in the Norman Histories of Eleventh-Century Italy’

Semester 2 2007

27 July   Paul Roche, ‘The Public Imagery of the Emperor Otho’
3 August   Lynda Garland, ‘Till Death Do Us Part? Family Life in the Byzantine Cloister’
10 August   Selena Williams (MA Hons), ‘Returned Nurses as Soldier Settlers after World War I’
17 August     Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier (Heidelberg/Director, German Archaeological Institute of Athens), ‘New Light on the Greek ‘Dark Age’: cult continuity in sanctuaries at Miletus and Kalapodi’
24 August   Kris McCabe (MA Hons), ‘The Colonial Constabulary’
31 August   Peter Jones (PhD), “Islamic Education in the Australian School System’
14 September          John Owen [Social Science], ‘John Bunyan’s Economy of Charity’
21 September     Henry Reynolds, (Uni of Tasmania) ‘Drawing the Global Colour Line’
5 October   Jan Holcombe (PhD), Management of Risk in the NSW Shipping Industry 1820–1850
12 October   Claire Parker [Education], ‘Improving the ‘Condition’ of the People: The Health of Britain and the Provision of Public Baths 1840-1870’
19 October   Julie Marsh, (Topic to be confirmed)
26 October   Peter Hammond (PhD), Convict labour (Title to be confirmed)
2 October   Alan Mugridge (PhD), Reading Writing in Early Christianity
9 November      Alan Atkinson The English Enlightenment: A View from Below, 1793 - 1795

Semester 1 2006

24 February         David Roberts, "The Valley of Swells: Educated Convicts at Wellington Valley in the 1820s"
3 March                  Richard Seaford (University of Exeter), "Money and the  Genesis of Philosophy in Ancient Greece"
10 March               Randall Albury, "Biomedical Contingencies Affecting the Montefeltro Dynasty and the Duchy of Urbino"
17 March      Howard Brasted, "A New World Disorder in Making: An  Historical Commentary"
24 March        Jennifer Clark, "The Closing of Churches in  Contemporary Australia: Lost Place, Same Place, Different Meanings"
31 March   Scott Charlesworth (PhD), "Nomina Sacra as Windows on Textual Authority and Comparative Transmission of Canonical and Non- canonical Gospels in the Second Century".
7 April        Elizabeth Noble, "The Stonors of Oxfordshire, a Late  Medieval Family"
5 May        Anna Silvas, "In Search of Basil's Ascetic Retreat: An  Expedition to Ancient Pontus"
12 May        Judy Redman, "The Parables of the Realm of God in the  Gospel of Thomas"
19 May     Dianne Relke (visitor), TBA
26 May         Frank Bongiorno, "'Cultural Freedom', Britishness and Americanisation: Tony Crosland and Australia's Cold War in the Early 1960s"
9 June        Lorina Barker (PhD), TBA
30 June   Josiah Ober (Princeton University), TBA

Semester 1 2005

4 March     Tamara Neal, "Wounding and Fate in the Iliad"
11 March          Randall Albury, "The Relationship between 'History' and 'Medicine' in the History of Medicine"
8 March      Alan Mugridge (PhD), "A Palaeographical and Codicological Examination of P.Bodmer 5, 7-13, 20, an early Christian Codex."
22 April     Matthew Jordan, "Rewriting Australia's Racial Past: A Historiographical Survey of Recent Literature on the 'White Australia' Policy, its Nature and Demise"
29 April     John Moorhead (University of Queensland), "How to Become Pope in Late Antiquity"
6 May     David Kent, "Power, Protest, Poaching and the Tweed Fisheries Acts of 1857 and 1859"
13 May     Albrecht Gerber (PhD), "Adolf Deissmann (1866 - 1937) and the Revival of Archaeological Investigations at Ephesus after the First World War"
20 May     Rob Knowles, "Tolstoy as a Christian Anarchist"
27 May     Alan Atkinson, "Commons and Commonwealth: Ideas about Shared Livelihood in LateNinetenth-Century Australia"
3 June     Janice Lally (NERAM), TBA
10 June     Meg Vivers, "Reading Women's Writing: Historical Source Material from the Colonies, an Interdisciplinary Approach"
17 June     Chris Mackie (University of Melbourne), TBA
 

Semester 2 2005

29 July    Anna Silvas, "A New Letter for Gregory of Nyssa? An Inquiry"
5 August       Professor Nota Kourou (University of Athens), "Early Iron Age Open Air Sanctuaries in the Aegean: Continuity and Break"
12 August     Elizabeth Rogers (PhD), "Some Australian Working-Class Poets, c. 1890-1950: Their Lives and Culture."
19 August    Max Schmitz (PhD), "The Costs and Benefits of Roman Imperialism"
26 August   Bronwyn Hopwood, "The Great Publicity Stunt: Women in Antiquity - Some Forays in Historiography"
2 September   John Moses (PhD), "The Anzac Job: Australasian Defence Consultation and Cooperation 1944-1972"
9 September   Sarah Lawrence (PhD), "Barbarous Cruelty? Valerius Maximus' De Crudelitate"
16 September   Leigh Beaton (Univesity of Sydney), "The Wee Group in the West: Writing a History of Scots in Colonial Western Australia"
7 October   Graduation Day: no seminar
14 October   Graeme Bourke (PhD), TBA
21 October   Russell McDougall (ECT), "The Sacking of Benin and Salvage Anthroplpgy"
28 October   Troy Duncan (University of Newcastle), " The Political and Social Views of Bishop Francis de Witt Batty"
4 November   Craig Collins (PhD), "Andrew Bent and the Birth of the Free Press in the Australian Colonies"
11 November   John Moses, "The Rise of Pacifism in Modern German Thinking: The Global Dimension in the Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)"
 

Semester 1 2004

5 March    Greg Horsley, "Three Unpublished Gladiator Monuments (plus One Other) from Pisidia"
12 March        Anna Silvas, "Adventures in Historical Geography: Late Antique Pontos"
26 March       Kerry Mills (PhD), "Law Making in New South Wales 1843-64"
2 April      Mun-Keat Choong, "The Importance of Pali-Chinese Comparisons in the Study of Pali Buddhist Suttas"
7 May     Matthew Jordan, TBA
14 May     Erik Eklund (University of Newcastle), "The Co-operative Movement in Australia and England: Comparative, Transnational and Postcolonial Histories"
21 May     Robin Lowry (PhD), "Clinton, Starr and the 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy'"
28 May     Iain Spence, "Analysing Leadership in War, Ancient and Modern"
4 June     Rob Knowles, "Anarchists and Anabaptists, from 1800 to the Early Twentieth Century"
11 June     Tony Wormall (PhD), "The After-Life in the Roman Lyric Poets"

Semester 2 2004

6 August       Toni Tidswell, "The Qur'an and Contemporary Muslim Understanding of Modesty: The Case of the Aziz's wife"
13 August          Andrew Piper (Heritage Futures Research Centre), "The Contagion of Immorality: Admission to Charitable Institutions in Colonial Tasmania"
20 August        Alan Millard (Rankin Professor of Hebrew & Ancient Semitic Languages, University of Liverpool), "History Writing before Herodotos"
8 October          Mark Lunney (Law), "Practical Jokes, Cricket, and Itchy Underpants: The Uses and Abuses of Law as Social History"
15 October      Joan Relke (PhD), "Interpreting the Bucranium of Çatalhoyuk:James Mellaart, Dorothy Mellaart, and Beyond"
22 October      Anatoly Ruvinsky (Animal Science), "Napoleon in Russia: Historic Parallels and Cultural Consequences"
29 October      Bronwyn Clarke (PhD), "The Consumption and Use of Domestic Textiles in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
5 November   Margaret Rodwell (PhD), "Paternalism and Assisted Immigration in Colonial Australia: The Case of Ollera and the Everetts"