Prof Gillian Whitlock (UQ) and Dr Zhila Gholami (Griffith University)

Wed 6 August 2025 5-6pm, Room 501, GP North (Building 39a)

Discussion of Whitlock’s new book Refugee Lives in the Archives (Bloomsbury 2024) and Gholami’s work in the Fryer Collection

A/Prof William Clapton (UNSW) and Dr Simon Philpott (formerly Newcastle University)

Wed 3 September 2025 5-6pm, Room 501, GP North (Building 39a)

Discussion of Clapton’s new book Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity (Routledge 2024) and Philpott’s ongoing work on local imaginaries and conflict transformation

Prof Marguerite La Caze (UQ)

Wed 8 October 2025 5-6pm, Room 501, GP North (Building 39a)

Discussion of La Caze’s new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Dr Eliza Garnsey and Dr Caitlin Hamilton

Wed 5 November 2025 5-6pm, Room 501, GP North (Building 39a)

Discussion of Garnsey and Hamilton’s new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman Littlefield, 2025)

Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) with comments by Prof Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (formerly ICRC)

Thursday 4 December 2025, 4-5.30pm, followed by reception

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Terrace Room