School of History Seminar Series
School/Centre
School of History
Contacts
The School of History Seminar Series will be run in an in-person format.
Seminar details will be circulated to all School of History Members and those on the Seminar Mailing List before each session.
Non-members of the School of History who wish to be added to the mailing list can do so by contacting admin.rsss@anu.edu.au. To contact the convenors of the Seminar Series please email Aaron Pattison at aaron.pattison@anu.edu.au, and David Smith at DavidRomney.Smith@anu.edu.au
Past events
Robert Randolph Garran and the Australian Commonwealth: a study in public service.
1 May 2024
A seminar with Mr.Colin Milner This paper draws on a biographical study of the lawyer and public servant Robert Randolph Garran (1867–1957), an influential...The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalisation, 1850–1914.
24 Apr 2024
A seminar with Professor Adrian Shubert and Assoc. Professor Boyd Cothran It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary....Attempting totality: the making of an interdisciplinary
17 Apr 2024
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...Natalie Zemon Davis: Honouring a Life in History
27 Mar 2024
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...Psychiatry and the Arts
13 Mar 2024
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...The “Smiling Young Asian Student": Ending Asian Exclusion in the Transpacific, 1950s–1970s
6 Mar 2024
A seminar with Professor Tandee Wang This talk examines the social construction of Asians as a racial category (Asian racialisation) in the period leading...Challenging Colonialism: Australians who Helped the Nation to Embrace Human Equality
28 Feb 2024
A seminar with Professor Angela Woollacott In 1945 most in the nation accepted White Australia both as an immigration policy and for all the inequality it...Shannyn Palmer Unmaking Angas Downs: Remaking Colonial History
21 Feb 2024
Palmer’s book, Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station, winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for History in 2023, began...The Environment comes to Universities: Legacies of the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
8 Nov 2023
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment met in Stockholm in 1972, bringing together scientists, international governance specialists and...Forty Years since First Contact: Revisiting the classic documentary by Bob Connolly and the late Robin Anderson, in conversation with Professor Martin Thomas
25 Oct 2023
First Contact (1983) is the Oscar-nominated documentary about the Leahy brothers, gold-hungry Queenslanders who explored New Guinea in the 1930s. Armed with...
