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At the end of his session, Joe Zizek posed the question, “how important is remembering (or forgetting) revolutionary violence to our modern identities?” following his discussion of collective violence leading to revolution. This question connects directly to both how...
I must confess that when I sat down for our lecture on the French Revolution, I was confused. I felt determined to figure out how this idea of a revolution was impacting my everyday life. So, I began where most people would begin - by googling the definition of a...
To understand conflicts is to reach into a tumult of voices and take out something sensical. History has tended to focus on the loudest – those who could afford, or were interesting enough, to have their voices written and preserved. Until recently, the voice of the...
"This violence isn't random; it is purposive and has reasons and goals, even though it can be incredibly intense and extreme." This is a quote that Dr. Zizek gave about the French Revolution a few weeks ago, yet when trying to find a topic to draw on for this post, I...
In our lecture on the French revolution, one of the questions was why should we care about the history of revolutionary violence? This really resonated with me, as a white woman from South Africa and as a watcher of the protests in America. There has been no...
To what extent does popular rule achieve social justice? Modernist scholars romanticize the French Revolution, where the common people rose and overthrew a corrupt establishment. A social pinnacle, where the foundations of feudalism and old order were torn up to...
The last time I read Homer’s ‘Iliad’ was in my Year 11 Classics class, but it’s the text that first came to mind when Joe Zizek brought up the topic of how we should discuss past violence. The ‘Iliad’ may be of hotly-debated historical value, but it’s a story with a...
Hi Team. This came across my FB feed. One more of the travesties of colonialism. https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/288687948821354/
Jennifer Frost bought age into the spotlight. Specifically, the arbitrary nature of age in our society and how age is a social construct. In terms of politics, I have always thought about how strange it is that as young people, we are reprimanded for a lack of...
Jennifer Frost’s response to the predictably brilliant question posed by Antonia Grant about how the reasoning that fuelled support for the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – that citizens too young to vote were old enough to fight – applied to women – led me...
Dr Patrick Thomsen’s examination of sexual identity in the context of Saïd’s Orientalism led me to consider how while the East-West dynamic certainly penetrates sexual discourse*, we should also consider how perceptions of sexuality change over time. The covert...
In this seminar, Erin Griffey and Victoria Munn studied historical ideas of beauty, with a specific focus on the extensive beauty regiments performed by women during the European renaissance. Puzzling over categorizations and translations of these beauty recipes, both...