Sounds of Summer: Slip! Slop! Slap! and the history of anti-skin cancer campaigns in Australia
Seminar
Australians suffer and die from skin cancer more than citizens of any other country - a sad fact recognised since the 19th century. Skin cancer is intimately tied with our national values, characteristics, and behaviours: it has been called “Australia’s Cancer”. However, in spite of the causal…
Deep History of Two Australian Aboriginal Groups, Quantum Entanglement of Spacetime, and a Series of Fortunate Events
Seminar
The ancient history of Aboriginal Australia is mostly presented as a linear narrative by archaeologists with scientific evidence seen as the go-to dependable source. Indigenous perspectives of their deep past have usually been marginalised in this story or offered as a colourful backdrop to the…
Our stories: Biography Book Group - Our Mothers with Robbie Henderson & Louise Moran.
Seminar
Robbie Henderson has worked as a teacher, a biochemist, a political activist and a feminist activist in Australia and the United Kingdom culminating in her election as a member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly. She spent thirty years working in both government…
Indigenous Sovereignties, Pacific Mobilities and Mediterranean Diasporas: Towards a Transcultural History of Queensland’s Sugar Districts
Seminar
Studies of migration from the Mediterranean region to Australia have often been framed within a national frame of analysis. That is, the story of Greek, Italian, Maltese, and Lebanese migrations to Australian shores have been considered as central to nation building narratives that centre migration…
Environmental Exchanges - Belinda Smaill
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
Parliamentary Library seminar: the art of writing political biographies
Seminar
With a history that goes back to Plutarch, the political biography is an enduring genre and a favourite for those interested in political leadership but also as a frame to understand the history and society of a particular time. In this seminar, we look inside the art of writing these biographies…
What is the use of an international perspective?
Seminar
In several highly influential publications—from articles, to edited volumes, to books—and through innovative collaborative research programs, Professor Glenda Sluga has enriched an appreciation of the ‘the international’ as a framework for historical research. Her work has deepened an appreciation…