Calling All Historians! 2027 - 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?…
Biography as Justice: Recasting Cultural Legacies of Harm
Seminar
Content warning: This talk will reference experiences of childhood sexual abuse, framed by the voices and stories of survivors.This paper considers questions from a forthcoming biography of Dorothy Hewett that explore not just how her legacy can be reconsidered in the light of revelations about…
Unboxing the Historian: Sources and Surprises in the Neil Gunson Archive
Seminar
What remains of the scholar when the man is gone? A great mass of paper is one answer: paper with major potential for future researchers. To realise that potential, by turning an inchoate heap of material into a coherent historical resource, is the job of the archivist.The mandate of the ANU…
Queering Auto/Biography: The Many Lives of Alison Clark
Seminar
Please note that this presentation will discuss gender based violence and trauma associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.In life-writing by and about queer lives, there are few examples of auto/biography that reflect, in their presentation of both content and structure, the anti-normative experience…
History Day at ANU
Other
A one-day event for senior secondary school students, hosted by the School of History & Centre for Classical Studies ANU in partnership with the History Teachers' Association ACT.Welcome to History Day at ANU 2026! Come on a journey back thousands of years to discover the history and…
'My study is an archive of my mind': The making of Greg Dening
Seminar
Pacific historian and anthropologist Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008) was a man of many silences. Trawling through the large Dening archive in the State Library of Victoria, I am struck by the silences, the gaps and the stories left untold. In one of Greg’s many metaphors, that of…
Beyond Sheilaspeak: Recovering the hidden histories of women and slang and colloquial language in Australia
Lecture/seminar
Women are notably absent from the national story of Australian English, as well as from the broader history of the use of language by Australians, including slang and colloquial language. The national narrative, especially when it comes to Australians’ use of language, has been largely a masculine…