The Australian National University
Freilich Foundation
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
document location: http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/freilich/index.php

Welcome to the Freilich Foundation


Freilich Foundation's Incoming Professor:

Read Penelope Mathew's opinion piece on 'The Myth of Border Control' on ABC Unleashed.


Events:

 

 

Currently Running Eminent Lecturer Series,

Women and War

Every Wednseday lunchtime during the month of November Professor Hilary Charlesworth and other eminent scholars will deliver a series of lectures on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as the effect of conflict on women

Please Note all lectures are free and open to the public
Reservations are not required
Further information can be obtained by contacting the Freilich FoundationTelephone: 02 6125 5527
Email: Freilich.Foundation@anu.edu.au

This week's lecture:

Professor J Ann Tickner

School of International Relations, University of Southern California

Gendering War and National Security

November 11, 12.30-1.30
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1

This building is located in ANU map CD2 at grid reference D2

More details below

The Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights 2009

 

Mary Kostakidis
Member of the National Human Rights Consultation Committee &
Chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation

 

The Protection of Human Rights in Australia - A Way Forward

 

Tuesday Nov 24, 5.30-6.30pm

The Finkel Theatre John Curtin School of Medical Research

Garran road, ANU building 131 (ANU map reference CD54 grid ref C4)

 

This lecture is free and open to the public, reservation are not required

Equiries E: freilich.foundation@anu.edu.au, T: 6125 5527

Professor Hilary Charlesworth

ARC Federation Fellow
Director Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet ANU

Eyeless in Gaza: Women in the Invasion of Gaza 2008-09

November 4, 12.30-1.30
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1

This building is located in ANU Map CD2 at grid reference D2

 

Professor J Ann Tickner

School of International Relations, University of Southern California

Gendering War and National Security

November 11, 12.30-1.30
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1

This building is located in ANU map CD2 at grid reference D2

Dr Bina D'Costa

Research Fellow, Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet ANU

Veiling Gender Justice: Religion and Reconstruction

November 18, 12.30-1.30
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1

This building is located in ANU map CD2 at grid reference D2

Professor Penelope Andrews

School Law, LaTrobe University

Cultural Terrorism: The War Against Women in South Africa and the Law's Limitations

November 25, 12.30-1.30
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1

This building is located in ANU map CD2 at grid reference D2

 

Past Events

 

Seminar:

Dr Dibyesh Anand
Visiting Fellow Freilich Foundation, 2009
Reader in International Relations
Centre for the Study of Democracy
Westminster University

Gave two seminars:

Personal Bigotry and Politics of
Public Violence in India

China’s Tibet Problem

Lecture:
Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance 2009
Antisemitism: medieval and modern (Download event PDF)
March 12 2009

Professor Steven T Katz
Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, Boston, Ma.,
Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. 

Listen to this lecture here (20 Mb)


Watch this lecture on SlowTV

 

Summer School:
Summer School in Bigotry and Tolerance 'Religion and Bigotry'
January 18-21st 2009

Lecture:
Summer School Public Lecture

The New Crusade? Militant Secularism, Strident Atheism and Social Harmony in Australia (Download event PDF)
The Right Reverend Professor Tom Frame

Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre
Professor of Theology at Charles Sturt University

Listen to this lecture here

Exhibition:

A Brighter Day
by Ursula Frederick and Katie Hayne

The Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation presents: “A Brighter Day”
an exhibition held as part of the Freilich Foundation summer school in Religion and Bigotry 2009.

view some of the images form this exhibition by clicking on the image below.

Lantern