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The Friday Forum is a monthly panel discussion hosted by the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and the National School of Arts and Humanities, and involving colleagues from within 糖心原创 and beyond.

We hope you enjoy the discussions, debates and dialogue each month as we explore a topical issue of the day. The programme is sure to generate lively conversation about contemporary questions of our time.

All forums to be held via video link. Subscribe to IHSS events via . For any enquiries or for links to events, contact: IHSS@acu.edu.au


2025 Program

Greenland and Empire

10 October 2025

3.00pm - 4.30pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Kristie Flannery (IHSS, 糖心原创)

Speakers: Associate Professor Clare Corbould (Deakin University), Dr Alessandro Antonelli (University of Tasmania), Dr Prudence Flowers (Flinders University)

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Post-Traumatic Growth: 50 Years since the Vietnam War

11 April 2025

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Dr Mary Tomsic (IHSS, 糖心原创)

Speakers: Dr Anh Nguyen Austen (糖心原创), Dr Mia Martin Hobbs (Deakin University), Dr Indigo Willing (University of Sydney)

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Past forums

The US Presidential Election, 2024

22 November 2024

9am AEST / 10am AEDT / 6pm EST

Chair: Professor Debjani Ganguly (IHSS, 糖心原创)

Speakers: Dr Killian Quigley (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Brendon O'Connor (University of Sydney), Professor Andrew Kahrl (University of Virginia)

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The Future of AUKUS: Transpacific Security and the Anglosphere

25 October 2024

1.30pm - 3.00pm AEDT

Chair: Professor Paul Giles (IHSS, 糖心原创)

Speakers: Professor John Blaxland (Australian National University), Professor Maria Rost Rublee (University of Melbourne), Professor Brendon O'Connor (University of Sydney)

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Accords, now and then

24 May 2024

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Dr Jon Piccini (National School of Arts, 糖心原创)

Speakers: Prof Frank Bongiorno (ANU), Dr Elizabeth Humphrys (UTS), Dr Alison Barnes (National President of the NTEU)

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Autofiction: The politics of creative writing

26 April 2024

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Paul Giles (糖心原创)

Speakers: Associate Professor Emmett Stinson (University of Tasmania), Caoimhe Higgins (PhD student at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland), Dr Saskia Beudel (author of Borrowed Eyes: A Novel), Dr Anh Nguyen Austen (糖心原创).

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100 Years Since the Death of Lenin

22 March 2024

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Ebony Nilsson (糖心原创)

Speakers: Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (糖心原创), Professor Emeritus Graeme Gill (University of Sydney), Professor Roger Markwick (University of Newcastle), Professor Mark Edele (University of Melbourne)

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2023 Program

Building Community and Bushfire Resilience

24 November 2023

10.30am - 12.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Anh Nguyen Austen (糖心原创)

Speakers: Ms Celeste Young (Victoria University), Ms Rhonda Ayliffe (University of Canberra), Associate Professor Jessica K. Weir (Western Sydney University)

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In-person venue: room 11, level 7, building 421, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy


Remembrance Day: Who and How We Remember in 2023

27 October 2023

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Professor Andrew Condon (糖心原创)

Speakers: Dr Margaret Hutchison (UNSW), Dr Anthea Gunn (Australian War Memorial), Dr Alex Little (糖心原创)

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In-person venue: room 11, level 7, building 421, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy


Teach Well, Be Well: Education and Mental Health since the Pandemic

1 September 2023

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Amanda Telford (糖心原创)

Speakers: Associate Professor Theresa Dicke (糖心原创), Dr Matthew Morgan (糖心原创). Dr Debra Philips (糖心原创)

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Digital Humanities: Global South Perspectives Post Pandemic

4 August 2023

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Dr Anh Nguyen Austen (糖心原创)

Speakers: Professor Haiqing Yu (RMIT), Associate Professor Adrian Athique (UQ), Dr Dang Nguyen (RMIT)

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Shakespeare's First Folio-Four Centuries On

26 May 2023

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Co-chairs: Peter Holbrook and Lisa O'Connell (糖心原创).

Speakers: (University of Melbourne), (糖心原创), (University of Auckland), (Newcastle University).

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Voice. Treaty. Truth. A First Nations Voice to Parliament

28 April 2023

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Guest chair: (UNSW)

Speakers: (Griffith University); Kate Fullagar (糖心原创); Amanda Nettelbeck (糖心原创); (UTS)

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Prospects for a credibility revolution in Australian policymaking: A conversation with the Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP

31 March 2023

3.30pm - 4.30pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Kyle Peyton

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2022 Program 

Cruelty, desertion and the family: Converging histories of marriage and domestic violence

25 November 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Ellen Warne, 糖心原创.

Speakers: Professor Ann Curthoys AM, FASSA, FAHA; Associate Professor Catherine Kevin, Flinders University; Dr Zora Simic, UNSW.

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The violent state: From surveillance to mass atrocity

28 October 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Margaret Hutchison, 糖心原创.

Speakers: Professor Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle; Professor Mark Edele, University of Melbourne; Dr Ebony Nilsson, 糖心原创.

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An Amazon effect? How new technologies, new markets and new management are changing the world of work

30 September 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Dr. Hannah Forsyth (National School of Arts, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Dr Jim Stanford (Centre for Future Work, The Australia Institute), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), Dr Lutfun Nahar Lata (University of Queensland), Dr Alex Veen (University of Sydney).

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India—75 years after independence: Past, present, future

26 August 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Moderator/Chair: Dr Tom Barnes (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Dr Priya Chacko (University of Adelaide), Professor Devleena Ghosh (University of Technology), Professor Ernesto Noronha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Professor Jeemol Unni (Ahmedabad University).

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James Joyce’s Ulysses: 1922 to 2022

27 May 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Peter Holbrook (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Paul Giles (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Ronan McDonald (University of Melbourne), Dr Sascha Morell (Monash University).

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Have we seen ‘peak democracy’?

25 March 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Professor Paul Kenny (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor John Dyrzek (Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra), Dr Adele Webb (School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology), Professor Vedi Hadiz (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne), Professor Carolyn Hendriks (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University).

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Public broadcasting: Impacts, legacies, future directions

4 March 2022

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Rachel Stevens (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley (Centre for Media History, Macquarie University), Associate Professor Daniel Ryan Morse (Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno), Associate Professor Emma Robertson (Department of History, LaTrobe University), Associate Professor Anna Potter (School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast).

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2021 Program

Speaking up about sex and gender: Histories/futures

26 March 2021

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST
 
Chair: Prof. Susan Broomhall (Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Dr Jessica Lake, (Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Jenny Morgan (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne), Dr Zora Simic (History and Gender Studies, UNSW), Professor Noah Riseman (National School of Arts and Humanities, 糖心原创).

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Trust in government in the era of COVID

30 April 2021

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Paul Kenny (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Dr Kyle Peyton (Yale University [joining 糖心原创 in mid-2021]), Dr Annika Werner (Australian National University), Dr Sarah Cameron (University of Sydney), Dr Jill Sheppard (Australian National University).

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Disasters, pandemics, and social turbulence: The study of uncertain times

21 May 2021

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Dr Michael Thompson (National School of Arts and Humanities, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Angus Cook (School of Population and Global Health, UWA), Associate Professor Shino Konishi (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Charles Green (School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne), Professor Joy Damousi (IHSS, 糖心原创).

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Racism in sport

25 June 2021

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Michael Ondaatje (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Karen Farquharson (University of Melbourne), Associate Professor Gary Osmond (University of Queensland), Dr Matthew Klugman (Victoria University), Dr Demelza Marlin (University of Sydney).

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Historical lessons for post-COVID capitalism

16 July 2021, 9.30am AEST / 15 July 2021, 7.30pm EDT, 6.30pm CDT

Chair: Dr Hannah Forsyth (National School of Arts and Humanities, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Shermer (Loyola University, Chicago), Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University), Dr Yves Rees (La Trobe University), Professor Paul Kenny (IHSS, 糖心原创).

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2020 Program

Bushfires a year on: Environmental humanities and the future of the planet

11 December 2020

3.30pm - 5.00pm

Chair: Associate Professor Ruth Morgan (ANU).

Speakers: Professor Lesley Head (University of Melbourne), Associate Professor Andrea Gaynor (UWA), Dr Mike Thompson (School of Arts, 糖心原创), Professor Iain McCalman (IHSS, 糖心原创).

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Black Lives Matter: Monuments and memories of the racial past

27 November 2020

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Associate Professor Nick Carter (School of Arts, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Associate Professor Shino Konishi (UWA), Professor Kate Fullagar (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Amanda Nettelbeck (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Barry Judd (University of Melbourne).

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Looking back, looking forward: The US presidential election in perspective

30 October 2020

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEDT

Chair: Dr. Rachel Busbridge (School of Arts, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Paul Kenny (IHSS, 糖心原创), Professor Michael Ondaatje (IHSS, 糖心原创), Associate Professor Clare Corbould (Deakin University), Professor James Curran (University of Sydney).

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75 years on: Legacies and aftermaths of World War II

25 September 2020

3.30pm - 5.00pm AEST

Chair: Professor Joy Damousi (IHSS, 糖心原创).

Speakers: Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (IHSS, 糖心原创), Dr Jon Piccini (School of Arts, 糖心原创), Dr Reto Hofmann (UWA), Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell (UQ).

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