Conferences

The Freilich Foundation has either convened conferences in its own right, or funded conferences convened by scholars elsewhere since 2000.

 

2000

Cyberhate: Prejudice and Bigotry on the Internet; in association with AIJAC.

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Bigotry, Government and Social Change in Australia 1949-2000.

 

2001

Bigotry and Religion in Australia, 1865-1950, an international conference.

The papers from this conference have been published in the journal Humanities Research vol xxii, no1, 2005. A hard copy of this edition can be obtasined by contacting the Foundation.

 

2002

Flows of People, Waves of Bigotry: a community conference; in association with the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation and the Australian National Maritime Museum.

International Perspectives on Reconciliation, an international conference; in association with Reconciliation Australia and the National Library of Australia. Trancripts of the conference papers are available here.

Our Fear of Strangers: wogs, refos and illegals in the popular imagination; in association with the Hawke Research Institute of the University of South Australia.

 

2003

Genocide and Colonialism: an international conference; in association with the University of Sydney and the Humanities Research Centre. The papers from this conference will be published in Dirk Moses, Genocide and Colonialism (Berghahn Books, in the series "Studies in War and Genocide," to be published in 2005. )

 

2007

Negotiating the Sacred IV: Tolerance, Education and the Cuuriculum.
This conference was partially funded by the Freilich Foundation and was held in Canberra 1-2 September 2007. The papers from this conference will be published in a book. Further details of this publication will be available on this website when available.

National Conference on Racism in a Global Context.
This Conference was partially funded by the Freilich Foundation and was held at Murdoch Univeristy 9-11 November 2007.