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Seminars and conferences

Public Forum: Shutting the Door?
Public forum on the proposed Migration Amendment Bill
15th June 2006

The Sheila Fitzpatrick and Katerina Clarke Melbourne Conferences on Soviet and Australian History and Culture
4th - 8th July 2006

The Power of Writing and Women - Public Lecture
Professor Cécile Dauphin (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
11th July 2006

Human Rights in West Papua
The University of Melbourne's new Human Rights Forum presented this seminar to discuss the Human Rights situation in West Papua.
1st August 2006

Brownbag Seminar Series 2006

Public lectures

The Strange Career of Whiteness: Assimilation, Miscegenation, Abdication
Louise Newman's talk, "The Strange Career of Whiteness: Assimilation, Miscegenation, Abdication," ranges over three centuries in an attempt to explore some of the contradictions and ironies in the history of whiteness in the United States - a history that has everything to do with folks of different ethnic/national origins claiming a racial commonality.
22nd November 2006

Future Melbourne Forum
Supported by a VC's Steering Committee grant, these sessions were the outcome of a collaboration between Architecture Building & Planning, the History Department, the Australian Centre and Medicine.
6th July - 7th September 2006

Royal Historical Society of Victoria - The Decade that Changed Melbourne
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria presents their October Talk Topic – ‘Melbourne in the Sixties: A time, a place and an idea’. This enlightening discussion explored life in Melbourne during this heady decade, in a one-hour talk by experts Dr Seamus O'Hanlon from Monash University and Dr Tanja Luckins from Latrobe University.
10th October 2006

Crisis in Darfour
Public Forum on the Genocide in Darfour
The ongoing crisis in the Darfur has displaced over 2 million people and has led to the deaths of an estimated 200,000. 3.4 million people are dependent upon humanitarian aid for health, food, shelter, water, protection and livelihood. The scale of the ongoing conflict makes it the most devastating crisis in the world today.

Speakers:
Dr David Dorward (La Trobe University)
Dr Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)
Dr Idris Abdulmolla (Secretary of Darfur Community Association of Australia).
Wednesday 04 October

Bush-bashing toward modernity: the Redex Trails of the 1950s
Speaker: Dr Georgine Clarsen (University of Wollongong)
This paper considers the Redex Trials as a nodal point for a cultural history of the early 1950s, in which the stories that surrounded them can tell us much about what it meant to live in Australia at that particular moment.
Monday 18 September 2006

Revolution for Beginners - Reflections on the History of Late Eighteenth Century France
By Professor Alison Patrick
Professor Patrick's book will be launched by Professor Peter McPhee, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), The University of Melbourne and Associate Professor David Garrioch, School of Historical Studies, Monash University.
Thursday 7th September 2006

Victorian Charter of Human Rights
Dr Carolyn Evans, University of Melbourne
This forum, organised by the University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum, will discuss the recently adopted Victorian Charter of Human Rights, arguing that it has the capacity to make a real difference to the way in which Victoria is governed.
Tuesday 5th September 2006

Fanaticism and Sound Learning: Primitive Methodist Revival in County Durham in 1851
David Bebbington, University of Stirling

Professor David Bebbington is a leading historian of evangelical Christianity and President of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He has published extensively, including Evangelicalism in Britain: 1730s to the 1980s and William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain. He is currently working on a history of global religious revivals in the Victorian period. His paper is derived from his current research, and addresses the long-running debate over the nature of nineteenth-century Methodism.

Prof. Bebbington's paper will be followed by a seminar on ‘Religion in the Modern World’, during which members of the History Department will present brief papers on their own research into the historical place of religion in the modern world.
Tuesday 29th August 2006

Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism
Public Symposium
What is the proper balance between protecting human rights and addressing security concerns?
Will the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities contribute to striking a good balance?
How can we ensure that the rights of minorities are also protected?

The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum invites you to participate in a discussion of these important and pressing issues.

Speakers include:

Tuesday August 22 2006 6-8pm

The Australian Early Medieval Association Seminar
Professor Máire Herbert, Head of the Department of Old and Middle Irish at University College Cork.

Professor Herbert will deliver a talk titled A look at early Irish Saints’ Lives.
16th August 2006

Book Launch - Camilla Russell's Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth Century Italy
To be launched by Professor Bill Kent
Thursday, 17 August 2006

Territory and State Power in Early Modern China
A Paper presented by Dr Ruth Mostern, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced
Ruth Mostern is Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced. Her areas of interest are Chinese history and humanities computing. She is the author of several articles including 'Geographical Information and Historical Research: Current Progress and Future Directions', and 'From Battlefields to Counties: War, Border and State Power in Southern Song Huainan'. She is currently completing a book entitled 'Apprehending the Realm: Territory and Authority in Early Modern China'.
Wednesday 9th August, 2006

Human Rights in West Papua
People interested in discussing the Human Rights situation in West Papua are invited to attend a seminar presented by The University of Melbourne's new Human Rights Forum.
This seminar, the first in a series planned by the HRF, will be presented by Richard Chauvel from Victoria University. Professor Chauvel has teaching and research interests in Indonesian history and politics, Australia-Indonesia relations and Australian foreign policy. He is writing a history of the West Papua dispute.
Tuesday 1 August 2006

A Shaft of Light Across the Land: Studies of Australian Peace Movements Since 1930
Ah! when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892
'The Golden Year' (1846) l.47

A Shaft of Light Across the Land: Studies of Australian Peace Movements since 1930 explores the history of groups and individuals who strove for peace throughout the 20 th century.

A collection of 11 essays, the not-for-profit, independently published book acknowledges and celebrates past contributions to the Australian peace movement, providing a history and context for today's anti-war agenda.
Thursday 27 July 2006

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture 2006
Thinking with History: A Resource for Citizens
Professor John Tosh

In this year’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick lecture, Professor John Tosh explored the role played by historical perspectives in helping shape a critical citizenry in recent British society, and the implications this has for public policy and school curricula. This is particularly relevant to recent public controversy in Australia, commonly referred to as ‘the history wars’, in which politicians periodically appeal to national traditions and values when confronted by either its indigenous or ethnic populations.

John Tosh is an eminent British historian whose distinguished survey on approaches and new directions in The Pursuit of History has gone through four editions since 1984 and has been translated into Italian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian and Chinese. He has also been a pioneer in the fields of Masculinity, the Family, and British Social History.
Thursday 18th May, 2006

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