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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 transnational approach to queer history and the history of race, investigating the integration of social movements and policy during the late twentieth and early...
13
Dec
2023

Announcing 2024 ECR Small Grant Recipients

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Early Career Researcher Small Grant Scheme! The ECR Small Grants offers up to $5000 to assist research projects into the causes, histories and effects of ethnic, cultural, religious and sexual bigotry and animosity, and to explore how such intolerance can be combatted, and co-existence promoted....

Events

13
Jun
2024

We Bleed the Same: Unity

Celebrate the diversity and strength of our community during challenging times. This upcoming exhibition is hosted by Jozo's in Paddington, Sydney. Features photography by Tim Bauer.  Speakers include: Liz Deep-Jones - co-curator of the We Bleed the Same exhibition  Craig Foster Cocoa the Conscious will perform didgeridoo and his poetry
23
May
2024

2024 Alice Tay Lecture: Panel on Human Rights and the NDIS

The 2024 Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights will be taking place Thursday 23rd May. This year we are hosting a panel discussion considering the NDIS and its intersection with human rights. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr Melissa Lovell (Australian National University). Our panelists include Australian Disability Commissioner Ms....

Blog

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 murdered, wounded, and kidnapped children, women...

Great adaptations: The positive impact of rewriting stories

7 November 2023   If I asked you to think about the last five or so movies you’ve watched, how many of them were an adaptation of some type? A reboot? A remake? A retelling? There has been a recognisable trend, particularly in recent years, where a lot of the films and television we’ve been watching are derivative in some way. That’s not to...

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