Past events
29
Aug
2024
Shanghai Demimondaine: From Sex Worker to Society Matron
In this Biography Workshop Nick Hordern explores the hitherto unknown life of Australian woman Lorraine Murray (1910–2000).
Arriving in Shanghai in 1933,...
28
Aug
2024
Calling All Historians! History Honours Info Session
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...
21
Aug
2024
Unmuting the Past: Sound-led Creative Practice and the Colonial Legacy of the Silent Expeditionary Film
Between the birth of cinema and the post WWII era, expedition (or ‘travel’) films made in the Australian colonies were shot silent and are missing an important...
14
Aug
2024
Welsh Poetry and English Politics: Edward IV and William Herbert (d. 1469)
Why is Wales important to historians of medieval England? Through a case study of the Welsh Marcher lord, Sir William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke, this...
09
Aug
2024
EP Thompson at 100: History, Law, Politics
EP Thompson (1924-1993) was one of the great British historians of the past century. His work reshaped our thinking about the relationship between law and...
31
Jul
2024
‘But Golden Dreams’: William Dampier’s Narrative of Depletion
When we think about 17th and 18th-century pirates, we think about dynamics of accumulation: Plundered ships, colonial violence, commercial aggression, ruthless...
25
Jul
2024
The Beach as Archive: contemplating histories in landscape and culture.
A seminar with Professor Anna Clark
The beach figures in Indigenous archives: middens and rock art lacing Australia’s coastline reveal thousands of years of...
