Photo Credit: Eivind Senneset via Holberg Prize When I set out to write a history of the Peasants’ War, I was sure that I would find the women my colleagues had failed to find. But I didn’t. Instead I had to take seriously that this revolution was held together by ideals of masculinity and brotherhood.
Brotherhood: Gender and the German Peasants’ War 1524-26 Read More »
Remaking reproduction: gender, artifice and population futures While in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, has been commonplace since the 1980s, new technologies such as uterus transplants, artificial wombs, and lab-grown sperm and eggs take reproduction beyond the limits of what we think the body can do. These technologies promise to solve the population “crisis” of falling
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Photo Credit: John Cairns via the Holberg Prize About Professor Lyndal Roper Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. She was the first woman to hold the Regius Chair in History, and the first Australian. Roper’s most recent publication, Summer of Fire and Blood: A History of the German Peasants’ War
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Chair & Speaker Registration Form Thank you for accepting the Academy’s invitation to speak at an upcoming event. We kindly ask you complete the below registration form. Please contact events@humanities.org.au with any questions or concerns.
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The Italian verb disegnare meaning to mark out, point out, devise, choose, designate, is said to be where the word design originates. While design is a universal human act, the processes behind how we make decisions cannot be separated from culture and its values. These choices have organised societies, devised laws, and built and destroyed empires in many different
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Earnest discussions about academic freedom are often prompted by events outside the academy. The McCarthy era “loyalty oaths” imposed in some 1950s US universities provide one example. More recently, there have been some high-profile cases of alleged deplatforming accompanied by persistent populist anxieties about speech codes, cancel culture, and safe spaces. As Robert French AC
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This event was delivered on 12 November 2025, in Sydney, Australia. When Universities Mattered Universities have existed in Australia for 175 years, but the Commonwealth has only been funding and setting the policy frameworks for 82 of these. Today, the Commonwealth is the dominant player in shaping the system. The history of how and why
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Event Details When: During the Symposium lunch break – Thursday 13 November, 12.30-1.30pm and Friday 14 November, 12.30-1.30pm Where: Meeting point: Chau Chak Wing Auditorium. The group will walk over to the UTS Data Arena, CB.11.02.101, 81–117 Broadway, Ultimo. Register: Places are limited – register for free tickets via the Symposium registration page. This prototype demo
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Event Details When: 2:45 – 4:15pm Wednesday 12 November Meeting Point: Chau Chak Wing Auditorium, Business School, Building 8, UTS campus (14–28 Ultimo Road, Ultimo) Cost: Free & open to the public (registration required) Register: https://events.humanitix.com/follow-the-creek Follow the Creek is an interactive place-activation project exploring the water narratives of the UTS precinct. This short walk with
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