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…
In Conversation with Jessica Urwin and Ruth Morgan at Paperchain Bookstore
Book launch
You are warmly invited to the Canberra launch of Dr Jessica Urwin’s book, Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia. During the twentieth century, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear programs of numerous global powers. From…
Fashioning the biography of Australian women artists: Dress and the self-portraits of Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen
Seminar
What can a self-portrait tell us about an artist’s life, and what happens when we look closely at what she chose to wear? Taking self-portraits by Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen in the National Portrait Gallery collection as its starting point, my project considers dress as a form of biographical…
Cyclones and Cassowaries: Cyclone Winifred and its multi-species history
Seminar
Despite being often regarded as a human-centred disaster, cyclones are a meteorological phenomenon that affects multispecies communities. Using the case study of Cyclone Winifred in far north Queensland, Australia, in 1986, I demonstrate how a cyclone can be a more-than-human event in which humans,…
Writing Workshop with Professor Tom Griffiths
Workshop
This event is for postgraduate students studying history.If you wish to attend, RSVP to ruby.ekkel@anu.edu.au by 15 September 2026 In universities, the actual process of writing is rarely talked about, yet effective writing is integral to a creative life of words and ideas. Our aim in this…