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News

28
Nov
2024

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
18
Jan
2024

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

Freilich Research Seminar: Rebel Sistah Cypher: Research, activism and creative practice
14
Oct
2024

Freilich Research Seminar: Rebel Sistah Cypher: Research, activism and creative practice

Seminar

This research project collaboratively investigates how women in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, are using hip-hop to address issues of racism, sexism, economic oppression and the lasting effects of colonialism and apartheid. Since 2015 the activist hip-hop crew, Soundz…

Does Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Change Across Time? Results of 14 Person-Centered Latent Trajectory Models
15
Aug
2024

Does Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Change Across Time? Results of 14 Person-Centered Latent Trajectory Models

Seminar

Recent high-quality investigations of intergroup contact have failed to detect a temporal and potentially causal association between intergroup contact and attitudes. In turn, scholars have attempted to reconcile why longitudinal effects rarely emerge despite the strong and well replicated cross-…

Blogs

Pandemic and Prejudice: Exploring Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Australia and the United States in mid-2021 and mid-2022

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

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…