QHTA STUDENT SEMINARS– 2018
BOOKING FORM
Date / Time / Presenters / Modern or Ancient / VenueFriday 4 May / 10.00 am – 12.30 pm / Presenters:
Tom Stevenson
Libertas: Caesar’s Dictatorship as Tyranny, 49-44
Amelia Brown
Portraits of Ancient Greek women / Ancient / Harristown SHS
School contact:
Sall’ee Ryman
Thursday 10 May / 9.00 – 11.30 am / Presenters:
Dr Andrew Bonnell
Life in Nazi Germany
Dr Brian Hoepper
Terrorism / Modern / Somerset College
Stephen Walther
Friday 11 May 2018 / 10.00 am – 12.30 pm / Presenters:
Tom Stevenson
Libertas: Caesar’s Dictatorship as Tyranny, 49-44
Amelia Brown
Portraits of Ancient Greek women / Ancient / St Paul’s School Bald Hills
School contact:
Kerry Daud
Monday 14 May / 9.30 am – 12.00 pm / Presenters:
Tom Stevenson
Libertas: Caesar’s Dictatorship as Tyranny, 49-44
Amelia Brown
Portraits of Ancient Greek women / Ancient / Gold Coast- Coomera Anglican College
School contact:
Pip Macdonald
Friday 18 May / 9.00 – 11.30 am / Presenters:
Dr Andrew Bonnell
Life in Nazi Germany
Dr Brian Hoepper
Terrorism / Modern / Immanuel Lutheran College
School contact:
Kirsten Zweck
Friday 25 May 2018 / 9.00- 11.30 am / Presenters:
Dr Andrew Bonnell
Life in Nazi Germany
Dr Brian Hoepper
Terrorism / Modern / Calamvale Community College
(off Beaudesert Road)
School contact:
Matthew Butterworth
Thursday 31 May / 9.00 – 11.30 am / Presenters:
Dr Andrew Bonnell
Life in Nazi Germany
Dr Brian Hoepper
Terrorism / Modern / Harristown SHS
School contact:
Sall’ee Ryman
QHTA plans to include many more venues in 2019 including Far North Queensland down to the SE corner Qld and other regional centres.
Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
‘Life in Nazi Germany’
Andrew's presentation will focus on the historical conditions and human factors that made Nazism possible. He will consider the question of to what extent the Nazi regime maintained its rule by terror (e.g. use of the Gestapo, concentration camps) and to what extent it enjoyed mass popular support from Germans. This will lead to reflections on how people behave in what we see as extreme conditions and what kind of decisions “ordinary people” make under these circumstances.
Dr Andrew Bonnell is currently Associate Professor in History at UQ. Assoc. His research interests include: Modern German and European history. German cultural and intellectual history in social and political context. History of German Social Democracy.
Dr Brian Hoepper
‘Terrorism’
Today, terrorism is producing fear and uncertainty in societies around the world. But terrorism is not new historically. Brian will highlight dramatic episodes in the history of terrorism, stretching back over two thousand years. A brief treatment of research into the ‘psychology of terrorism’ will lead into a major focus on radical Islamist activity, ranging from the aspirations of ‘Islamic State’ to the local activities of ‘lone wolf’ terrorists.
Brian has taught history and history curriculum at secondary and tertiary levels, published textbooks in both fields and worked on curriculum development at state and national levels. Brian’s most recent publication is ‘Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences’ (Cengage 2017), co-edited with Prof. Rob Gilbert.
Dr. Amelia Brown
‘Portraits of Ancient Greek women’
The ancient Greeks developed the practice of making portraits of specific, identifiable people in the context of family commemoration, polytheistic religion, the rising city-state and artistic influence from ancient Egypt. Though ancient Greek women had little role in politics, they played an important role in the family and in religious festivals and cults, from agricultural Mysteries to public civic festivals at Athens, Sparta and Corinth. Greek women made valuable dedications to the gods, sometimes of their own portraits, served as priestesses, and even received public portraits from the city-state. However, they could never vote, and civic ideals praised them for never appearing in public. From Sappho to Cleopatra, Lysimache to Theodora, this talk explores the artistic and textual evidence for portraits of ancient Greek women.
Dr. Amelia Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Language at the University of Queensland. Her current research focuses on Late Antiquity, Greek religion and Mediterranean maritime history. She has published a book on Corinth in Late Antiquity (IB Tauris 2018). She is a historian and archaeologist who has excavated at Halasarna (Kos), Polis (Cyprus), Ancient Messene and Corinth, and she is currently completing a book on Ancient Greek Maritime Religion.
Associate Professor Tom Stevenson
‘Libertas: Caesar’s Dictatorship as Tyranny, 49-44 BC’
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides (15th) of March 44 BC was a major shock to the Roman world. Surely he was too powerful, in command of too many troops, to be murdered as he was. Surely too he had won so many friends through his welcome and largely unexpected policy of clementia (clemency / mercy) that the possibility of assassination had been extinguished. Clearly such assumptions were wrong. In this paper, the major aims are to analyse the reasons for Caesar’s assassination and the means by which it was achieved. Was it a move always doomed to failure?
Dr Tom Stevenson an Associate Professor at UQ. He is an Executive member of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association and has written numerous publications in ancient, especially Roman, history, most recently the book Julius Caesar and the transformation of the Roman Republic (2015).
QHTA Student Seminars 2018
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