Katherine Aigner: Writing Uncomfortable Stories
Workshop
Katherine Aigner, a PhD student in the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the ANU, will discuss 'How do you write uncomfortable stories?' Says Katherine: Through a biographical study of Lorraine Mafi-Williams (1940-2001), an Indigenous filmmaker, writer, actress, activist, and educator, an…
Into the maelstrom: historicising the Southern Ocean
Seminar
The Southern Ocean is the most remote, physically challenging, and least known of the world’s oceans. Its surface winds, ice and fog frame heroic narratives of maritime and Antarctic exploration, and its depths are the domain of the ocean sciences, yet there has been little detailed examination of…
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Other
The private papers of Australia’s second prime minister reveal a solitary, religious character who found distasteful much of the business of politics, with its unabashed self-interest, double-dealing and mediocre intellectual levels. And yet politics is where Deakin chose to do his life’s work. In…
Feminist utopias: past, present, and imagined
Conference
Presented by ANU Gender Institute & ANU School of History What does it take to maintain optimism in a time of anger, fear and division? How can we revive hope in the midst of despair? And what can feminist thinking and mobilisation offer in our search for answers to these questions? Feminist…
Peter Rees: Charles Bean and Len Waters
Workshop
Peter Rees published his biography of Charles Bean in 2015 (Bearing Witness, Allen & Unwin, 2015), a study which, for the first time, captured the essence of this giant in Australian military history. Years of research into the vast Bean archive allowed Rees to produce a warm and deeply moving…
ANU Open Day 2017
Activity
Come and see us at the ANU Open Day 2017 event this Saturday 26 August! History Academics will be available to chat to throughout the day, and you can grab a selfie in one of our 'Hats of History' to participate in the CASS Instagram Scavenger Hunt. Neat prizes up for grabs!
Seminar Wk 5: Problematic Nationalism: When did Australia discover its Australianness?
Seminar
Australian nationalism is a riddle. While 1 January 1901 serves as a neat starting point for an etiological myth, the historical record is clear, Federation was a celebration of Britishness. It did not mark Australia’s emotional separation from Britishness but elevation to dominion status. The dual…