News
Standing Together comes to the University
The New Israel Fund brought speakers from the grassroots organisation, Standing Together to the Australian National University on Tuesday 19 November 2024. The event was hosted by the College of Arts…
Announcing: 2024 HRC/Freilich Visiting Fellow
Congratulations to Christopher Ewing, Assistant Professor from Purdue University's Department of History and the 2024 HRC/Freilich Project Visiting Fellow. Christopher's research takes a…
Events
First Nations Peace Poetics
Lecture
Despite the unsettling advancement of weapons technology in the 21st century, storytelling remains one of the most powerful technologies for promoting conflict resolution and peace. This lecture explores the power and potential of First Nations poetry in Australia to contribute to conflict…
Inaugural 'Beyond The Book' Book Club
Seminar
Join us for the inaugural Beyond the Book Book Club. This book group is for you if you love reading and want to go deeper into some of the social questions you encounter when you read. We welcome the perspectives of anyone working in related policy and research areas or engaged in activism on…
Blogs
Pandemic and Prejudice: Exploring Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Australia and the United States in mid-2021 and mid-2022
27 May 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic has notably intensified anti-Chinese sentiment in the West. This upsurge can be attributed to pandemic-driven fear among some. In contrast, others see it as an exacerbation of racial prejudices deeply rooted in historical narratives such as the “Yellow Peril”,…
The Terrible Gaza War and its Consequences
23 April 2024 On the 7th of October, 2023, a constitutive event took place that shook the world, the Middle East, and especially Israel. On that morning a surprising attack occurred on twenty Israeli kibbutzim and towns near the Gaza Strip by thousands of Hamas terrorists and Gaza citizens. They…
