Humanities Seminars
The weekly research seminar is usually held at 9.30 – 10.30am on Fridays in Oorala Lecture Theatre followed by morning tea in the Humanities tea room. It is best to confirm this by checking the weekly advertisement in Events on the UNE home page.
ALL WELCOME
For further details contact Karin von Strokirch.
Trimester Two, 2018 (July - October)
| 13 July | Anneke Van Mosseveld, UNE Science and the Australian Army: Innovations in camouflage, machinery, anthropometrics and flower power |
| 20 July | Tim Causer, University College London The evacuation of that scene of wickedness and wretchedness’: Jeremy Bentham, the panopticon prison & New South Wales, 1802–3 |
| 27 July | Matthew Longo, Leiden University The politics of borders: Sovereignty, security & the citizen after 9/11 |
| 3 August | Lesley McLean, Martin Gibbs, Jenny Wise & Tristan Taylor, UNE Dark Tourism: Four Cases in Time and Space |
| 10 August | David Kent, UNE The Insolvent Debtors' Courts and a spotlight on early 19th century working-class business practices |
| 17 August | Antonios Kotsonas, University of Cincinnati The Cretan Labyrinth: Monument & Memory from Prehistory to the Present |
| 24 August | Paul Barratt AO, UNE Public sector outsourcing: Can we afford it? |
| 14 September | Felicity Joseph, UNE ‘Mute Life’ and Poetry: Philosophy at the limits of language |
| 21 September | Francois Soyer, UNE Performing gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The extraordinary life and inquisitorial trial of Maria Duran |
| 28 September | Lloyd Weeks, UNE Three years on at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai: Piecing together the late prehistoric societies of southeastern Arabia |
| 5 October | Sandy Boucher, UNE There is no (longer any) problem of biological teleology |
| 12 October | Lorina Barker, UNE - title to be advised |
Trimester One, 2018 (March - June)
9 March | Professor Hans Taeuber, Daily life in ancient Ephesos: The evidence from the graffiti |
16 March | Peter J Crawford, How seriously does Australia take water security? Political assertion versus reality |
23 March | Bronwyn Hopwood The Good Wife: Fate, fortune, & familia in Augustan Rome |
13 April | Jim Belshaw, New England travels: Journeys through space and time |
4 May | Thomas Kehoe, 'Homicide was committed frequently by our soldiers': The problem for US military government during the World Wars |
11 May | Alan Scott, Populism and neo-nationalism in Europe: A tale of two countries |
18 May | Iain Davidson, Signs, pictures, art, marks |
25 May | Thomas Fudge, Where are all the women in the Hussite Revolution? |
1 June | Mal Ridges, Caring for culture: The science of supporting Aboriginal culture in the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage |
15 June | Johanna Garnett, Myanmar and China: Economic allies in development or destruction? |
22 June | Wendy Beck, The archaeology of Northeast NSW: Wetlands and cave excavations 1986-2016 |
29 June | Adrian Walsh, Desperate exchange and injustice |
Trimester Two, 2017 (June - September)
30 Jun | Matthew Allen, The spectacle of disciplinary authority: The meaning of flogging in convict NSW |
7 Jul | Edith Ziegler, Darling Mother, Darling Son: The correspondence of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929-1972 |
14 Jul | Jerusha Hackworth (Skype), Empowerment through education? Female university students in post-conflict Sierra Leone Sam Angulo Onapa, Dealing with estranged political relationships: A pre- requisite for sustainable peace in South Sudan Debarchana Chakrabarty, What can social media deliver? Anna Hazare and India against corruption |
21 Jul | Jayne Persian, Cold War Warrior: Vladimir Ležák Borin |
28 Jul | Randall Albury and George Weisz, What the Madonna's elbow tells us about the health of manual labourers in Renaissance Italy |
4 Aug | John Idriss Lahai, The Imagery of humanitarianism: Identity politics and the Ebola pandemic |
11 Aug | Paul Barratt, Post-Traumatic Stress in Australian first responders This is followed by UNE Museum of Antiquities unveiling two engravings (1500s) of Roman winged figures by Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri |
1 Sep | Mosmi Bhim, Comparing electoral autocracies in small island developing states |
8 Sep | Jo Coghlan, The politics of fashion: Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama |
15 Sep | Lachlan Grant, The challenges of interpreting the Holocaust in the Australian War Memorial’s Second World War gallery |
22 Sep | James Wright, Bringing the dead to life: Scientific excavations of a Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece |
tba | Humanities Research Day – presentations by academic staff |
Trimester One, 2017 (February - May)
24 February | Greg Horsley, Early Christianity in Pisidia: Assessing some problematic evidence |
3 March | Thomas Fudge, The USS Liberty after 50 years: An unsolved mystery? |
10 March | Marty Branagan, The Franklin River blockade: A case study of nonviolent direct action |
17 March | Bronywn Hopwood, Licinia: A counterfactual inheritance and the ethics of empire |
24 March | Declan Humphreys, The pleasure illusion: An analytic of how pleasure can be false |
31 March | Jayne Persian, Cold War Warrior: Vladimir Ležák Borin |
21 April | Sandy Boucher, Conceptual broadening, meaning change, and conventionalism |
28 April | Thomas Kehoe, Built on tradition: The American vision for military government in Germany |
5 May | Luke Godwin, A cluttered field: Issues associated with ‘best practice’ in Aboriginal cultural heritage management |
12 May | Vanessa Bible, Love in an anthropogenic climate: Biophilia and environmental action |
19 May | Graham Maddox, Republicanism in the interregnum |
26 May | Confirmation of PhD candidature: John Ahere, Kenyan politics and political violence Neneh Bah, Gender responsiveness of Sierra Leone governance Anita Wanki, Regional response to violence in Central African Republic |
9.30 to 10.30am, Oorala lecture theatre, UNE followed by morning tea in the Humanities tea room
