Archive of past events
Annual Lecture on Bigotry and Tolerance
Each year the Foundation has an annual Freilich Foundation Lecture
on Bigotry and Tolerance.
1997, Phillip Adams, "Bigotry and the Bunyip".
1998, Fr Frank Brennan, "The Wik Debate - A Legitimate Quest for
Workability and Certainty or Just Downright Intolerance? "
1999, David Marr, "Bigotry in Australia Today: The Role of the
Churches".
2000, Les Murray, "Countermeasures".
2001, Dr Evelyn Scott, "On
the Evil of Tolerance and the Virtue of Intolerance".
2002, Archbishop Peter Carnley, "Beyond
Mere Tolerance: The Vocation of the Three Abrahamic Faiths in Creating
the Conditions for World Peace".
2003, Professor Ben Kiernan, "Genocide and Resistance in Cambodia
and East Timor".
2004, Stephen Crittenden, "Defending the Enlightenment: Liberalism
and Religious Intolerance".
2005, Rev Dorothy McRae-McMahon, "What
Price Bigotry? Undermining the Rich Foundation of Humanity."
2006, Morris Gleitzman, 'Small Bodies Big Hearts: Why I write children's
books.'
2007, Professor Raymond A Winbush, 'The 3Rs: Racism, Reparations and Reconciliation in the 21st Century?'Listen to
the Lecture here (mp3 67mb)
2008, Dr Marion Maddox 'The Elusive Inclusive Republic' listen to the lecture here
Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights
Most recently the Foundation has inaugurated a new series of lectures
in memory of Professor Alice Tay, fomer Board member of the Foundation
and President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on
the theme of "Human Rights and Law". The first lecture was
co-sponsored by the Foundation and HREOC and took place in Parliament
House on May 25, 2005.
2005, Jim Ife, "A
Culture of Human Rights and Responsibilities"
Listen to this lecture here
2006, Larissa Behrendt 'AS
GOOD AS IT GETS OR AS GOOD AS IT COULD BE? Benchmarking Human Rights
in Australia'.
2007, Professor John McMillan, 'Human Rights Charters - how important to improving government?' Listen to
the lecture here (mp3 17 mb)
2008, Dr Penelope Mathew 'Where is our Place? Seeking a Home in Time of Insecurity' Listen to this lecture here
Eminent Lecturer Series
Every two years, the Foundation invites an internationally recognosed
scholar to be its Eminent Lecturer and to deliver four thematic lectures
over a month.
1999, Professor Henry Reynolds, "Sovereignty, Indigenous Australia
and Human Rights".
2001, Professor John C. Turner, "Rethinking the Nature of Prejudice:
From Psychological Distortion to Socially Structured Meaning".
2003, Professor Donald Harman Akenson, "Intolerance: the E.Coli
of the Human Mind". Professor Akenson's lectures are available
as a book published by the Foundation and available free. Please contact
the Foundation to be sent a copy.
2005, Dr Carmen Lawrence, "Fear and Public
Policy". These lectures are now availiable in hard copy. If
you would like a free copy of Fear and Politics please contact
the Foundation.
2007, Professor Susan Mendus, 'Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism'
Follow this
link for more information on this lecture series and to
listen to the lectures
Occassional Lecture
Occasionally, the Foundation invites specific people to deliver
a public lecture on an important topic.
2000, Professor Marilyn Lake, "No Distinction of Any Kind: Modern
Definitions of Human Rights," in association with the "Human
Rights, Human Wrongs" conference.
2001, Sir Tipene O'Regan, "The Evolution of The Tribe : The Challenge
for an Old Culture in a New Century," in association with the
Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes of Australia meeting.
2002, Dr Paul Connolly, "Growing Up in Bigotry: Northern Ireland,"
Professor Mapule Ramashala, "Growing Up in Bigotry - South Africa",
in association with the "International Perspectives on Reconciliation"
conference.
2007, Dr Paul Collins, 'Negotating a Most Difficult Relationship:
Christianity & Islam' This lecture can be heard in the following
ways:
To Listen using Real Player audio click here
To Listen using MP3 click here
Activities for Schools
The Freilich Foundation is committed to working with school students
and their teachers to exploring ways that bigotry, prejudice and discrimination
can be fought.
Our programmes have included:
2001, a weekend workshop on the Aboriginal history of the Canberra
region for teachers of Indigenous Studies and teachers with responsibilities
for mentoring Indigenous students.
2002, a two-day workshop for high school history teachers called
, "Teaching the Holocaust and other Genocides".
2002, an afternoon professional development programme for pre-school
teachers on discrimination amongst four- to six-year olds.
2003, a series of visits to pre-primary, primary and high schools
by Mbulelo Mzamane, an eminent South African writer, teacher and story-teller
to speak on issues of racism.
2007, the inagural biennial summer school for teachers
on the theme 'Understanding Islam'. Forty teachers from over 90 applicants
Australia wide were chosen to attend a three day summer school in Canberra. See Summer school.
2009, The summer school for teachers on the theme of 'Religion and Bigotry'. See Summer school.
Conferences Seminars and Workshops
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.
Workshop Renewing the Critique of Violence
Wokshop Civil Unions Gay Marriage What's the Problem?
2008
Visiting Fellows Work in Progress Seminars
Professor Marcello Sorce Keller
'From Melbourne to Canberra: Comparing Musical Behaviour among Immigrant Communities in Australia'
A/Professor Arlene Stein
'Telling Holocaust Stories in Postwar America'
Postgraduate workshops
Music
and Ideology
Postgraduate Workshop with Professor Marcello Sorce Keller