The Freilich Project organises a range of events including public lectures, conferences and seminars, many of which are free and open to the public. These events draw on the expertise of some of Australia—and the world’s—most prominent intellectuals and public figures on subjects related to bigotry.
Alice Tay Lecture: Human Rights in Australia’s International Relations
Lecture
Human Rights in Australia’s International Relations Human rights occupy a curiously uncomfortable place in Australia’s international relations. Like liberal democracies the world over, Australia sees itself as a human rights leader, noting with pride its role in drafting the Universal Declaration…
Research Seminar: Towards Hetero-Optimism
Seminar
This research project presents a six-episode podcast series exploring the cultural logic of Asa Seresin’s concept "heteropessimism". We are carefully and critically exploring how to build alternative visions for sexualities that do not reinscribe the hierarchical binary opposition of heterosexual…
Pacific Mobilities and Mediterranean Diasporas on First Nations Lands: towards a transcultural history of Queensland’s sugar districts
Seminar
Studies of migration from the Mediterranean region to Australia have often been framed within a national frame of analysis. That is, the story of Greek, Italian, Maltese, and Lebanese migrations to Australian shores have been considered as central to nation building narratives that centre migration…
Workshop on the Role of Arts and Creative Practice in Addressing Bigotry.
Workshop
The Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry invites contributions for a one-day workshop focused on the role of arts and creative practice in addressing bigotry. The term bigotry is varied, complex, and changes over time, but has seen a resurgence in recent political debates (McClain 2020). It…
We Bleed the Same at Woollahra Library
Exhibition
Proudly presented in partnership with Freilich Project, "We Bleed The Same" is an anti-racism exhibition and documentary by creator and producer Liz Deep-Jones, photographer Tim Bauer and Art Director, Brenda Dwyer. This exhibition will be open to the public at Woollahra Library from 10 June - 25…
We Need to Talk: Peacebuilders Rami and Bassam in conversation at ANU
Panel discussion
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin are from ‘enemy’ sides but are self-proclaimed ‘brothers’. Rami is a Jewish Israeli from Jerusalem who lost his daughter Smadar in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1997, the same year Bassam’s daughter Abir was born. Bassam, who grew up in Hebron, was a former…
Seminar: The Art of Justice in the Western Balkans
Seminar
Iva Glisic examines contemporary political art that engages with the legacy of ethnonationalist violence in the Western Balkans. Specific focus is placed upon the ways in which war crimes committed along ethnic, national, and religious lines during the conflict that followed the dissolution of…