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Welcome to the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation

The Freilich Foundation exists for the study of all kinds of bigotry and the promotion of diversity and inclusion.

Registrations are now open
2013 Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation Biennial Winter School:

'Indigenous Issues: Past, Present and Future'
A professional opportunity for school teachers and others working in education in Australian schools

1pm, Sunday July 7th -  1pm, Wednesday July 10
Sir Roland Wilson building, Mc Coy circuit, Australian National University

Keynote speakers:
Professor Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
Professor William Gammage, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Professor Desmond Manderson, ARC future Fellow, ANU
Professor Nicolas Peterson, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU
Professor Peter Read, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow University of Sydney


Postgraduate Studies at the Freilich Foundation:
Would you like to pursue a research degree in an area which comes under the rubric of the Freilich Foundation? If so contact Professor Penelope Mathew or Dr Renata Grossi. 
See their research profiles HERE

 

2013 Eminent Lecturer Series

'Prejudice, Reason and Understanding'


Raimond Gaita
Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London
Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Lunchtime Lecture Series 12.30pm-1.30pm
Wednesdays July 24th, July 31st, August 7th, and August 14th.
Theatrette of the Sir Roland Wilson Building, ANU.

No Reservations Required

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Friends of the Freilich Foundation

Raimond Gaita

Raimond Gaita

Our humanity is not something given to us, fixed, but is something we are called upon always to rise to.

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Phillip Adams

Phillip Adams

Better to have appalling ideas out in the open so that they can be confronted and countered.

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Gareth Evans

Gareth Evans

But we also know, from long, hard, depressing experience, that mobilising that good will and actually producing the necessary action are not things that just happen. They have to be made to happen.

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Carmen Lawrence

Carmen Lawrence

Every time a shock-jock or a politician depicts Indigenous Australians as violent drunks or Muslims as hostile to Australian values, and no one disagrees, these ideas gain credibility.

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Mary Kostakidis

Mary Kostakidis

Without a doubt we need to harness, I believe, our collective imagination as a civilized nation. Those of us who are complacent because our own lives are not affected, need to imagine ourselves in...

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Hilary Charlesworth

Hilary Charlesworth

If we try to identify and destabilize the unspoken gendered assumptions of international law and politics, we will begin to be able to imagine broader and more durable solutions to our most pressing problems...

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John Hewson

John Hewson

We should be embarrassed as a nation that our original inhabitants, to which we have all been added as migrants or descendants thereof, remain in economic, social and personal disadvantage both in absolute...

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Our uncertain economic future can foster bigotry, prejudice & a lack of compassion. That is why the work of the Freilich Foundation has never been more essential, to provide a beacon of sense to light our way forward.

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Updated: 19 June 2013/ Responsible Officer:  Freilich Foundation / Page Contact:  Freilich Foundation