HPI Research Seminar and Celebration 'Resistance'. Semester 1, 2024
'Resistance'
The School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Semester 1 Research Seminar and Celebration was a fantastic success! Thank you to our amazing speakers!
Professor Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy. Areas of Research: European Philosophy and Ethics.
Paper Title: ‘Film and Everyday Resistance’.
Marguerite La Caze is Professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland. Recent books include Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence (2018), the edited collections Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought (2022), with Daniel Brennan, Truth in Visual Media, with Ted Nannicelli (2021), Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch,with Magdalena Zolkos (2019) and Phenomenology and Forgiveness (2018).
Dr Janette McWilliam, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History (HPI). Areas of Research: Social and Cultural History of the Greco-Roman World.
Paper Title: Resisting Rome: Gender, Women, and Children in the Visual Language of Empire.
Janette's research interests include Ancient Material Culture, Greek and Roman Social, Cultural and Political History, Roman Children and Women, Roman Art, Roman Law, Ancient Medicine, Latin Epigraphy, Cultural Identities in the Ancient world, Pedagogical Approaches to teaching Classical Latin and Greek and Museum Studies.
Dr Debra Parish, Honorary Research Fellow in HPI.
Paper Title: There is no self in this thing" The Female Prophet and the Witch: Performing and Resisting Power in Revolutionary England 1640-1660.
Debra's research area is women’s religiosity, prophecy and witchcraft in early modern England and Europe. She was previously the course coordinator for HPI’s History of Witchcraft and Demonology course. She is currently working on a book for Routledge on the role of gender and politics in the seventeenth-century constructions of the female prophet and witch, in the context of the political and religious power conflicts of the English Civil War period 1640-1660. Debra’s paper demonstrates how women in this period exploited their roles as passive spiritual vessels to achieve visibility and agency, but also how their claims to religious authority met with resistance, including accusations of witchcraft.
Lily Elston-Leadbetter (HPI HDR Candidate)
Paper Title: Violent Resistance in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Useless Mouths
Lily Elston-Leadbetter is a first-year PhD student in the field of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Her work explores the shift from classical to critical phenomenology, the development of the modern self, and abortion accessibility in Australia. Her thesis is supervised by Professor Marguerite La Caze with the working title: “Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology of a Hidden Practice.” Lily has a Diploma in Languages with a major in German, a Bachelor of Arts with majors in French and Philosophy, and First Class Honours in Philosophy.
Chair: Dr Ryan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Studies in Religion.
Ryan Williams is a senior lecturer in Studies in Religion at the University of Queensland, Australia. Trained as an anthropologist and sociologist of religion, Ryan works on topics that include Islam, state, and society; new religious and interfaith movements; and the anthropologies of ethics and moralities. He holds a PhD in Divinity from the University of Cambridge and a MA and BA in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary.
Afternoon Tea and Research Celebration
The Seminar will be followed by an afternoon tea and the School Research Celebration in the East Corridor of Level 3 of the Forgan Smith Building, from 3–4 pm.
Everyone is invited to informal drinks (at own expense) from 4pm.
Venue: Saint Lucy Caffe e Cucina (#29), UQ St Lucia (view map)