The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW is pleased to announce the launch of So, what? Public Lectures in contemporary humanities and social sciences
This progressive new public lecture series showcases the work of leading UNSW researchers and research collaborators. The series aims to challenge and inform public debate and understanding by pushing the boundaries of academic discourse.
The lectures are open and free to the public, but do require an RSVP as numbers are limited.
Is the United States an inherently expansionist state? What are the conditions, internal and external that have produced increased American engagement in the wider world?
The lecture will explore the nature of American empire, the curious amnesia over that empire, and how American empire has changed over time. The lecture will give some attention to the role of “soft” and “hard” power, evangelical religion, non-territorial forms of empire, and the prospects for the future in the context of the current American election.
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Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he has taught for more than thirty years. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, he was educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Best known for his studies of the history of women and temperance in the United States, he has been a pioneer in the teaching of historiography as the study of historical practice. Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal in 2003, and has served as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was the editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies from 1991 to 1996, and President of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association from 2002 to 2006. Ian Tyrrell is presently engaged on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2005-08) on American Cultural Expansion and American Empire, covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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