Centre for 21st Century Humanities No Images? Click here New Centre Director Outgoing Centre Director Professor Ros Smith has handed over the reins to incoming Centre Director Professor Victoria Haskins. Professor Haskins is cultural and social historian whose research interest is the history of colonialism and domestic labour. She has recently co-authored a book Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific. The book explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Read more. Fulbright Scholarship for Prof Dwyer and Dr McIntyreTwo Centre for 21st Century Humanities members have been recognised for their potential to create global impact in their fields and will receive prestigious Australian-American Fulbright Scholarships. Professor Philip Dwyer and Dr Julie McIntyre will spend up to six months in the USA sharing their knowledge, collaborating with academic colleagues and engaging broader USA communities through workshops, seminars and public lectures. Read more. Anthropologist Dr Hedda Askland plays part in unprecedented anti coalmine case winCentre for 21st Century Humanities Deputy Director, Dr Hedda Askland, has played a significant part in an unprecedented court case that has put a stop to the proposed Rocky Hill Coal Mine in the Gloucester Valley (pictured). The Rocky Hill case was heard in in the NSW Land and Environment, where Chief Judge Brian Preston delivered a landmark judgement refusing to approve the Rocky Hill coal mine because of the impacts the proposed green-field mine would have on climate change. Dr Askland was the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) of NSW’s social expert witness in the court case and says climate change was only one of the reasons why the mine was refused. Dr Askland has published an opinion piece regarding the case in the Newcastle Herald. Read more. Public lecture by internationally renowned scholar Professor Rosalind Gill In December the Centre, in conjunction with the School of Humanities and Social Science, hosted a public lecture by internationally renowned scholar Professor Ros Gill. A Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Newcastle, Professor Gill is known for her work that traverses sociology, media and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies and psychosocial studies. The lecture theatre at NewSpace was packed with listeners for the talk called Love your body but hate it too: Postfeminism and Selling Confidence to Women. During the talk Professor Gill highlighted the strategies advertisers use to sell to women, including femvertising and body hate speech. "I’ve called my talk love your body but hate it too and the reason for that is although ostensibly advertisers tell us we should love our body and feel comfortable in our own skin, in a way the advertisers rely on us also hating our body or believing we have lots of problems. One of the things I’m quite critical of is the way advertisers recycle a lot of body hate speech in their ostensibly positive adverts," Professor Gill said. Watch the video above for a recap of the public lecture event. Prof Haskins gives Eric Richards Memorial Lecture at Flinders University
Director of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Professor Victoria Haskins recently gave the inaugural Eric Richards Memorial Lecture at Flinders University. Her talk was titled "The Domestic Diaspora: Domestic service and colonial mobility”. Professor Haskins was a lecturer at Flinders from 2000 to 2006 and worked with Emeritus Professor Eric Richards. He was an eminent historian of British and Australian migration history. Dr McIntyre contributes Penfold biography to Australian Dictionary of Biography
Wine historian with the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Julie McIntyre has contributed the biography of winemaker Mary Penfolds to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The ADB is Australia’s pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Founded in 1966, and published by the Australian National University, it tells the story of Australia through the lives of the dynamic, engaging, eccentric and sometimes notorious individuals who have shaped it. In an effort to boost its representation of women, 1500 new entries on women who flourished during the colonial period have been added to the ADB. Mary Penfold's entry by Dr McIntyre is one of these. Dr McIntyre also recently gave a talk at the NSW State Library on William Macarthur and the empire of science. The Scholar Talk was part of her State Library of NSW 2018 Merewether Fellowship. Masterclass: The Digitisation of the archive and its impact on the research process The School of Humanities and Social Science and the Centre for 21st Century Humanities invite you to attend a Masterclass with Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart on Thursday 28th March, 2019, 2pm-3.30pm at NewSpace, X803. Topic: 'The Digitisation of the Archive and Its Impact on the Research Process' This talk will explore recent unease about the ways in which digitisation has impacted upon the research process. Indiscriminate mining of data can be particularly problematic. Seminar by German literature scholarsThe Centre For 21st Century Humanities invites you to attend our seminar series for 2019. The first seminar will be held on Thursday 14th March at 2pm at The Treehouse and is supported by the Universities Australia Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme. The seminar will feature two talks by German literature scholars: 1. Title: ‘Distant reading German pulp fiction’ by Fotis Jannidis, Professor of Digital Literary Studies, University of Würzburg, Germany. 2. Title: ‘Burrows' Zeta for Contrastive Analyses into the Popular French Novel by Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany, and Co-Director of the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities. Staff giving - support the Centre for 21st Century Humanities Would you like to help support important research conducted by the Centre for 21st Century Humanities? Support a cause that you care about and donate here. If you are a University staff member you can sign up as a staff payroll giver and give as little as $2 per fortnight, pre-tax, to your chosen cause. It takes one minute to sign up here and 100% of your funds go to the Centre. Just select 'other' and type 'Centre for 21st Century Humanities' to select your donation recipient. Your support is appreciated! |