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Dr Heba Batainah, Dr Melissa Lovell, Dr Raihan Ismail, Dr Sam Kosari at The Cost of Discrimination film screening, 2018.
The Freilich Project is committed to encouraging and facilitating a network of researchers at all stages in their careers that are interested in the history, impacts, and causes of bigotry. Freilich Project Research Network members have participated in and initiated a wide range of research activities over the years, including master classes, scholarly conferences and seminars.
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13
Oct
2022
Democratic Resilience: Public Sphere Responses to Violent Extremism Report Launch and Panel Discussion
Violent extremism threatens human life and safety. Often overlooked is how violent extremists endanger the public sphere, which is comprised of the practices, institutions and actors that sustain communication about matters of common concern. Violent extremists seek to undermine the public sphere...
14
Sep
2022
The HRC/Freilich Project Distinguished Annual Lecture: The Holocaust as an Australian Story: Family networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust
The Holocaust as an Australian Story: Family networks between Australia and Europe during the Holocaust. The HRC/Freilich Project Distinguished Annual Lecture.
Focusing on family connections between Australia and Europe, this lecture offers a novel perspective on Australians’ responses to the...
15
Jul
2021
Countering Religious Bullying in the Playground
The Freilich Project is pleased to invite you to a Freilich Network Webinar with Professors Zehavit Gross and Suzanne D. Rutland. The session will be chaired by Emeritus Professor Terry Lovat.
Abstract: This webinar will examine the problem of schoolyard religious bullying in Australian government...
08
Apr
2021
Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa and Victoria
The Freilich Project is pleased to invite you to a Freilich Network Seminar with Dr Ibrahim Abraham.
Abstract:
Victoria's recently announced Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draws inspiration from the famous TRC initiated in South Africa in 1995. Both initiatives endeavour to reveal...
09
Mar
2021
Foreign’ and ‘Unpatriotic’: Discriminations against Chinese International Students amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Freilich Project is pleased to invite you to a Freilich Network Seminar with Dr Yu Tao, one of the recipients of the 2021 Freilich Small Grants.
Abstract:
Many countries have chosen to close their borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To the approximately 1.5 million Chinese...
01
Oct
2020
The Far Right Online
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the presence of far-right politics online, in Australia and overseas, with misogynistic, racist and antisemitic content in open circulation, and far-right conspiracy theories gaining traction. Twenty years after hosting the conference Cyberhate:...
09
Dec
2019
Ian Iqbal Rashid and Omar Sakr
The Humanities Research Centre and the Freilich Project are honoured to host an evening of poetry and short films exploring the complexities of sexuality, culture, faith and identity. Ian Iqbal Rashid will be reading selections from his poetry collections as well as new writing, and screening two...
