Europe Lecture Series
The Europe Lecture series is an annual event led and hosted by the History Research Initiative at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University.We are delighted to announce that the State Library of NSW has now joined us in sponsoring this event. Leading scholars engaging with the history and politics of Europe are invited to share their thoughts and knowledge with the academic and broader community on issues that lie at the heart of contemporary Europe. All lectures are recorded and aired on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas program.
Europe Lecture 2019
Presented by History @ Western Sydney University, in conjunction with the State Library of NSW
Joanna Bourke ‘Rapacious: Historical Reflections on Sexual Violence in Europe’
Professor Joanna Bourke gave a compelling presentation on the competing meanings of violence, a challenge which becomes far more complex when explored historically. What do we find when analysing the different meanings attached to sexual violence in Europe from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century? How did conceptions of such forms of violence change? The talk will be published in full in the upcoming issue of the Sydney Review of Books.
Pr Bourke and Dr Poulos
Professor Joanna Bourke
Front row audience
Professor Kevin Dunn
Europe Lecture 2016
The 2015 Europe Lecture was delivered by Professor Patrick Weil, a Visiting Professor of Law, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow, and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, and a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Europe Lecture 2015
The 2015 Europe Lecture was delivered by Professor Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College.
Europe Lecture 2014
The 2014 Europe Lecture was delivered by Professor Richard Bosworth, a renown scholar of Italian facism.
Europe Lecture 2013
The inaugural Europe Lecture was delivered by Yanis Varoufakis, former member of the new Greek government.
The Europe Lecture series is supported by the Research Infrastructure Program, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University.
Please contact Dr Margarite Poulos for more information.
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