Australia, Asia and cultural anxiety : inaugural AHA Anniversary Public Lecture, given at the Grand Hotel, Mildura on 29 September (2003).

My theme tonight is the recurrent idea that Australia could be expected to have an Asian future. From the 1880s there developed a speculative literature around the notion that Asia ('generic Asia' as I prefer to call it) would exert an increasing influence, possibly a determining influence, on the development and settlement of the Australian continent. There is a certain pathos about this story of a young, newly formed community on the threshold of nationhood finding Asia blocking its path. Would the ensuing contest be the making of white Australia; would the young nation define its national purpose and assert its right to exist or would it succumb to a force more powerful? Would white Australia become nothing more than a faint historical memory, a failed experiment in the complex and uncertain business of nation building? In short, would white Australia fail?

Racialized urban America and Holocaust film : negotiating the limits of representation

Sidney Lumet’s influential film The Pawnbroker (1964) is one of the earliest films to consider the encounter between Holocaust narratives and low-income, urban American racial minorities. As much concerned with contemporary ‘race relations’ in the United States as it is with the Nazis’ persecution of Europe’s Jews, the film intertwines the story of Holocaust survivor Sol Nazerman with the social tensions of 1960s America, represented in his relationship with the young Puerto Rican shop assistant Jesus Oritz. The film stylistically juxtaposes raw footage of concentration camp existence with dismal images of New York slum life. Against these backdrops, the protagonist’s climactic ‘silent scream’ emblematically merges the repressed trauma of the survivor with the filmmaker’s interest in race relations, a theme that has undergone various transformations in a number of films since. One film that contemporizes this encounter is Richard LaGravenese’s Freedom Writers (2007). As opposed to the tragic outcome of the pawnbroker’s induction into urban America, here the Holocaust is a redemptive tool that permits inner-city Black and Latino youth to contextualize their own suffering. After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, this group of ‘at-risk’ sophomores to inspired to collaborate on an ultimately successful effort to bring Miep Geis, the woman who sheltered Anne Frank, to speak at their high school. Foregrounded by the 1992 Los Angeles riots, gentiles teacher Erin Gruwell and savior Miep Geis transform the Holocaust from an amplified parallel of American slums into an event that permits the children of American postcoloniality to triumph in spite of their socio-economic circumstances. Underlining the tension between the Jewish specificity and unprecedented nature of the Holocaust, and the need to generate Holocaust narratives that intersect with intrinsically racialized American narratives, such films have significant implications for how collective memories of suffering are constructed and contested.

On 'imagined history'

Review of On Dangerous Ground: A Gallipoli Story, by Bruce Scates

Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi christmas

A trend in studies about National Socialism and religion in recent years argues for a deliberate distinction between the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and the antisemitic völkisch movement of nineteenth-century Germany. This article challenges that contention. Several researchers have published comprehensive studies on the heterogeneous nature of Christian responses to the Nazis, but a comparable approach looking at how the Nazis viewed religion has not yet been undertaken. A study of the latter type is certainly necessary, given that one of the consistent features of the völkisch movement was its diversity. As Roger Griffin has argued, a “striking feature of the sub-culture . . . was just how prolific and variegated it was . . . [T]he only denominator common to all was the myth of national rebirth.” In short, the völkisch movement contained a colorful, varied, and often bewildering range of religious beliefs.

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 1 - Korrespondenzen u.a. mit Franz Alexander (p. I 1, 1-205)

1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an Abel, 16.03.1936; 3 Briefe zwischen Hubert Abrahamsohn und Max Horkheimer, 1935-1936, 21.12.1936; 2 Briefe zwischen Emanuel Adler und Max Horkheimer, 12.04.1946, 26.04.1946; 2 Briefe zwischen Max Adler und Max Horkheimer, 16.03.1935, 29.03.1935; 1 Brief von Eva Ahamson an Max Horkheimer, 01.11.1944; 2 Briefe der Aircraft Warning Service Brentwood an Max Horkheimer, Mai 1942; 6 Briefe zwischen Librairie Félix Alcan und Max Horkheimer, 1935, 18.12.1935; 11 Briefe zwischen Franz Alexander und Max Horkheimer, 1938-1940; 2 Briefe zwischen der American Historical Review New York und Max Horkheimer, 01.04.1941, 07.04.1941; 1 Brief von Paul Reiwald an Max Horkheimer, 18.10.1940; 2 Briefe zwischen Helen Manice Alexander und Max Horkheimer, 1936; 2 Briefe zwischen Bernardine Allen und Max Horkheimer, 17.06.1938, 24.06.1938; 1 Brief der Alumni Federation of Columbia University an Max Horkheimer, 21.07.1942; 1 Brief der American Friends Service Comittee an Max Horkheimer, 10.12.1940; 3 Briefe zwischen der American Academy of Political and Social Science Philadelphia und Max Horkheimer, 1939,1940, 16.01.1939; 1 Brief der American Automobile Association Washington an Max Horkheimer, 22.03.1938; 1 Brief der American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington an Max Horkheimer, 16.08.1937; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an den American Consulate General Berlin, 1939; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an den American Consulate General Havana, 03.03.1941; 4 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an den American Consul London, 1939-1941; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an den American Consulate General Stuttgart, 1939-1941; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an den American Consul Zürich, 1939; 1 Brief von Friedrich Pollock an den American Council of Learned Society, Washington, 27.06.1941; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an die American Friends of German Freedom New York, 1941; 4 Briefe der American Historical Association Washington an Max Horkheimer, 1937-1938; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an den American Red Cross Westwood Office, 21.06.1943; 18 Briefe zwschen der American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New York und Max Horkheimer, 1936-1941; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an die American Women's Volunteer Service Pacific Palisades, 27.07.1942; 23 Briefe zwischen Eugene Anderson und Max Horkheimer, 1937-1941; 2 Briefe zwischen Norah Andreae und Max Horkheimer, 27.10.1944, 09.09.1946; 1 Brief von Rosa Nebel-Schenk, 04.03.1946; 1 Brief von der National Catholic Welfare Conference, 14.08.1944; 12 Briefe zwischen Werner Andreae und Max Horkheimer, 1945-1954; 1 Brief von Julius Marx an Werner Andreae, 10.05.1946, 11.05.1950; 2 Briefe von Josef Messinger an Werner Andreae, 23.10.1946, ohne Datum; 3 Briefe zwischen dem Advokatenbüro Hodler und Max Horkheimer, 1946, 09.05.1946;

Two Obstetrical Heresies

Dr. Silas F. Starley deplores what he considered errors generally taught and accepted in the late 19th century in Two Obstetrical Heresies . “The first is the part that membranes containing the amniotic fluid and the foetus play in effecting dilation of the os uteri in the first stage of labor.The second is the supposed necessity for waiting for their rupture and the escape of the waters before applying the forceps, in every case, without exception.” Silas F. Starley (1823-1887) was born in Alabama and moved to Texas with his family in 1837. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1854 and spent his professional career in Texas, ending his career in Corsicana. He was President of the State Medical Association of Texas (Texas Medical Association) in 1883 and wrote articles in Texas medical journals on various topics including obstetrics, vascular tumor, and pneumonia. Texas State Historical Association, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/sat05 , accessed 10/16/2012. Texas Physicians Historical Biographical Database, http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/library/doctors/doctors.cfm?DoctorID=16809 , accessed 10/16/12.

MEDICINE MAN IN TEXAS

The author George (Georgia?) Plunkett Red was the wife of Samuel Clark Red (1861-1940). Dr. Red was the son of Texas pioneer physician Dr. George Clark Red. Dr. Samuel Clark Red was “the county physician of Harris County, one of the organizers of the Harris County Medical Society, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and president of the Texas Medical Association.” Not much is known about the author, but given her husband’s position and family history, it can be surmised that she was interested in history and had access to some of the children of other pioneer medical families. There is a brief bibliography for each of the chapters. Part Two of the book consists of biographies of physicians from Texas Counties. Merle Weir, "RED, SAMUEL CLARK," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fre09), accessed December 10, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Local government in the Spanish colonies as provided by the Recopilación de leyes de los Reynos de las Indias,

"Reprint from the Southwestern historical quarterly, July, 1915, volume XIX, no. 1."

Post City, Texas.

Mode of access: Internet.