Centres & networks

Bringing together great minds to understand and progress humanity – past, present, and future

UNSW School of Humanities & Languages is home to unique and world-leading research centres, networks, and initiatives that bring together researchers, practitioners, students and diverse communities from across the humanities, languages, and beyond.

The Laureate Centre for History & Population

The Laureate Centre for History & Population asks how, where and why population policies emerged over the 19th and 20th centuries, and what their present legacies are, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

New Earth Histories research program

New Earth Histories brings the history of geosciences and the history of select world cosmologies together. Our aim is to produce a fresh and cosmopolitan history of environmental sciences, analysing the significance of geological time and multiple cosmologies for global modernity itself.

Silk Road @ UNSW

The Silk Roads @ UNSW initiative brings together experts from across UNSW in a program of interdisciplinary projects exploring the ancient and contemporary human connections and material exchanges across Eurasia and the seas.

Critique Network

Critique-A Network in Social, Political and Legal thought, was inaugurated in November 2019 and brings together academics and students at UNSW working in critical theorizing or applications thereof in the humanities, social sciences, law or any other discipline.