Vulnerable Life Writing: A conversation about the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories
Seminar
In this special seminar Dr Kim Huynh (ANU) will discuss the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories in a conversation with Emeritus Professor Christine Helliwell about Kim's latest book, My Old Man and Me: A story of escape, survival and caring.Kim Huynh is an author, senior…
Licinia Eudoxia: Writing the Life of a Fifth-Century Empress
Seminar
Content warning: this talk includes references to incidents of sexual violence.The Empress Licinia Eudoxia (c. 422–470CE) lived an extraordinary life. Born the daughter of an east Roman emperor at Constantinople, as a teenager she travelled to Italy to marry her cousin, the west Roman emperor, and…
Holy Ground? A conversation about religion in environmental history
Lecture
God, and gods, tend to play a muted role in Australian environmental histories. The diverse religious experiences of First Nations and settler peoples grappling with a land once denounced as the ‘most godless place under heaven’ are yet to be fully explored or historicised. Yet religious beliefs…
A Critique of Human Supremacism: Towards a New Sense of Reverence for the Planet.
Lecture
The Third Biennial Robin-Griffiths Lecture in Environmental History, ANU Centre for Environmental HistoryReception: 5.30–6.30pm | Lecture: 6.30–8pmFrom the seventeenth century on, European thinkers developed - often from religious principles - theories of human supremacism that eventually…
Calling All Historians! 2027 - History Honours Follow-up Session
Other
Do you wish to undertake independent research in history with some of Australia’s finest scholars? Do you wish to learn how to blitz through dense texts and compose flowing, argumentative prose? Want to improve your presentation and speaking skills, as well as enhance your critical thinking?…
Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments
Seminar
In the first half of the twentieth century, the new science of controlled heredity, “eugenics,” was shaped from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century by another new science of controlled environments, the science of “euthenics.” Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments…
The State Library of NSW as historian: it started in 1869...
Seminar
The State Library of NSW (and especially the Mitchell Library) has been an integral part of the writing of the history of NSW since 1869, when the NSW Government bought the private Australian Subscription Library. While the opening of the Mitchell Library in 1910 is often seen as the progenitor of…