Jun 4, 2020 | Arts & Culture
Following the death of George Floyd in police custody, calls are growing for people to do the work to truly understand the history of how the United States got to this point. Lillian Hanly spoke with American history associate professor Jennifer Frost about the...
May 13, 2020 | Arts & Culture
By Nancy November The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth would surely be loud, public, monumental, teleological, triumphant, heroic—like the music of the man himself. Right? Wrong, on both counts. Along with other Beethoven scholars, students, performers and fans,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
How important is historical memory in politics? What can we learn about how our past memories are manipulated to change current and future politics? What can we learn from memory entrepreneurs in places like the former Yugoslavia? How did they try to change...
Oct 7, 2019 | Arts & Culture
In this history masterclass series, three historians – Paul Taillon, Malcolm Campbell, and Linda Bryder – come together from different specialist areas in the history discipline to address the role of populism as a historical force. In this series, you will hear about...
Oct 2, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
In this history masterclass series, three historians – Paul Taillon, Malcolm Campbell, and Linda Bryder – come together from different specialist areas in the history discipline to address the role of populism as a historical force. In this series, you will hear about...
Oct 1, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
In this history masterclass series, three historians – Paul Taillon, Malcolm Campbell, and Linda Bryder – come together from different specialist areas in the history discipline to address the role of populism as a historical force. In this series, you will hear about...
Aug 14, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Is ‘Latin America’ part of ‘the West’? Why ask this question and what do these terms mean for understanding the world today? In this lecture, Professor Walter Mignolo will ask what role the Americas played in forming the colonial matrix of...
Jul 29, 2019 | Arts & Culture
Janet M Davis is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas at Austin and is the 2019 Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland. She has written extensively in the areas of United States cultural, social, and...
Apr 4, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
What are the fault lines that have fractured politics in America? Julian Zelizer has analysed the historical roots of the present-day political turmoil, divisions, and partisanship in the US for his new book Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since...
Feb 28, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
The political spectrum is often a model that puts political ideologies on a scale of left to right – hence why we hear the term ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’. The terms date back to 1789 and the French Revolution, when radicals sat on the left side of the...