Global Universities, Global Challenges: Perspectives from the Humanities

The climate emergency, Covid-19 and Brexit are challenging existing models of academic partnership, mobility, financing and community. Adaptive ways of working are being sought, coopting the digital and the virtual, whilst purposefully articulating the value of face-to-face exchange and the physical experience of relocation. Effective new responses are required to the rise of authoritarian nationalism, the weakening of transnational organisations, shifting patterns of migration, and growing inequality. Simultaneously the Black Lives Matters movement is prompting radical change within academe: this requires honest appraisal of the colonial legacies that underpin globalisation agendas, and greater awareness of how, as scholars and students, we engage with the world and each other.

Times of uncertainty bring the opportunity to reset and rethink agendas. Seeking ways forward, the series explores intersections between humanities research, pedagogy, community-building, strategy, partnership and engagement.

Global University Lectures 

Tuesday October 13th (4:30pm) – Louise Lawrence, ‘Compassionate Research and Teaching? The Bible, Disability, and Cognitive [In-] Justice’
Tuesday November 17th - (6:30pm) – Clare Corbould (Deakin University) ‘Slavery and Public History inside and outside Australian Universities’.
Tuesday December 1st (4:30pm) – Joao Florencio, ‘COVID-19: Pandemics, Care and Communities’.

Register for any or all of the lectures by visiting the Eventbrite page and selecting your preferred event(s). You can also find more information on details of the individual events on that page.