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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
14
Oct
2024
Freilich Research Seminar: Rebel Sistah Cypher: Research, activism and creative practice
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 of the South, have hosted a regular event called Rebel...
15
Aug
2024
Does Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Change Across Time? Results of 14 Person-Centered Latent Trajectory Models
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-sectional association between contact and attitudes...
Blog
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”, which unjustly scapegoat Chinese communities for the...
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...
