FEAR IN HISTORY
This lecture explores the meanings of fear in past societies and compares these meanings to current global preoccupations. It deals with fear and group action from Medieval terror to revolutionary mobs. It explores the uses of fear by governments and institutions like the Church and explores how these organisations have, through time, used fear as a way of moulding the actions of 'the people'. It will isolate the objects of fear -demons, heretics and infidel - focussing particularly on interactions between Christians and Muslims since the Crusades.
Monday 7.30-9pm May 8 $27
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About the lecturer: Dr Chris Wood is the founder and director of Australians Studying Abroad. He is an associate of the Fine Arts Dept, University of Melbourne and the History Department, Monash University. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash and LaTrobe Universities, and for the Rhode Island School of Design. He has published two books, on Australian architectural history and on travel, has contributed to two collections of essays on travel theory, and co-scripted and narrated two documentary films on Tuscan history. His photographs are published in many Lonely Planet guide books. Since he founded ASA in 1976 he has led over 90 tours to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the USA and Asia for both Australians and Americans.
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