The Red Cross’s Public Health Turn. The Cannes Medical Conference of 1919 and the Origins of the League of Red Cross Societies
Lecture/seminar
This seminar paper is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impact on the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards peacetime and public…
The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Mass Death across Ukraine, Moldavia and Russia
Lecture/seminar
This talk explores the last famine in Soviet History, which killed around one million people in 1946/47, especially in Ukraine and Moldavia, but about which we know very little. The Soviet state repressed news of the 1946/47 famine at the time, and it remains understudied in English-language…
Calling All Historians! 2026 - History Honours Info 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? …
In Conversation with Sita Sargeant
Book launch
A collaboration between the National Centre of Biography and Harry Hartog (ANU)Founder of tour company She Shapes History Sita Sargeant will be in conversation with Michelle Staff about her latest book She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women (Hardie Grant, 2025),…
A Moving Sense of Place: Cinematic Geographies as Representations of the Korean Past
Lecture/seminar
In reflecting well-received historical understanding and perception, as well as in contributing to an evolving popular discourse about the nation’s past, Korean historical films released over the past quarter-century—the so-called “Korean Wave” period—have done a masterful job of using the country’…
Menzies Memories
Seminar
This paper will focus on two historical junctures and two sets of sources, concerned with Australians’ construction of collective memory of Robert Menzies (1894-1978; Prime Minister 1939-41, 1949-66). The first part will explore responses to Menzies’ retirement in 1966, focussing on letters written…
Searching for Harold Holt
Seminar
My interest in Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, began in my childhood. I understood little about his politics but I was charmed by his smile and personality. After he died in December 1967, I had an intimation that he would somehow play a part in my life. And so it proved to be when I…