Past events
17
Apr
2024
Attempting totality: the making of an interdisciplinary
A seminar with Prof. Cameron Gordon
Roughly 250 years ago material output, income, and wealth took off, first in Europe, and then across the rest of the...
28
Mar
2024
Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled
Kate Fullagar will discuss the background, research, writing, and unusual methodology of her third monograph, Bennelong & Phillip (Simon & Schuster,...
27
Mar
2024
Natalie Zemon Davis: Honouring a Life in History
A seminar with Professor Carolyn Strange, Dr. Karo Moret Miranda and Dr. Tania Colwell
As an undergraduate, Carolyn Strange had the good fortune to be...
13
Mar
2024
Psychiatry and the Arts
A seminar with Professor Susan Hogan
Drawing on Hogan's longstanding interests in the history of the arts and health, this talk will give a tour through the...
07
Mar
2024
'In My Blood It Runs', book launch and panel
Please join us for the launch of the new children's book: In My Blood It Runs, written by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson and Carol Turner, with...
06
Mar
2024
The “Smiling Young Asian Student": Ending Asian Exclusion in the Transpacific, 1950s–1970s
A seminar with Professor Tandee Wang
This talk examines the social construction of Asians as a racial category (Asian racialisation) in the period leading...
29
Feb
2024
Subjects of Time: Australian lives at the fin de siècle
The fin de siècle c1890-1914 reflected a tension between movement and stasis, degeneration and progress. Historical actors caught between acting in the world...
