Seminar Wk 4: Seeing the Wonder Trick in Histories of the Moving Image
Seminar
A train rushes towards you. Do you dodge in fear? Or do you dodge in knowing, performing an act of fear because that is what people do when they watch the film The Arrival of a Train at Le Ciotat Station (1895)? Whether the first film audiences were astonished or in on the act with what they saw is…
History Honours Information Session
Advisory session
Come to our honours information session to hear from current honours students and have your questions answered. For further details or to register your attendance, please contact Maria Nugent.
Peter Monteath: Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Frederick Rose
Workshop
Peter Monteath discusses his book Red Professor (Wakefield Press, 2015) a portrait of the life of the anthropologist, communist, and spy Fred Rose, which he co-wrote with Valerie Munt.
Nick Brodie: Telling Big History
Workshop
Nick Brodie discusses making methodological history accessible to a broad public audience – especially by using people to revise master narratives, rather than situating people in master narratives.
'History and the Present' David Armitage Workshop - Allan Martin
Seminar
Historians have traditionally had three ethical responsibilities--to the past, the present and the future. Since the nineteenth century, professional historians have increasingly abandoned their duty to the future, focused their attention on the distance and strangeness of the past and shunned…
2017 Allan Martin Lecture - Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
Lecture
From Afghanistan to Yemen, civil war is now humanity's most destructive, most widespread, and most characteristic form of collective organized violence. Yet civil war is not just a contemporary problem but one with a two-thousand-year history. This lecture places our current discontents in long-…
Garry Sturgess talks to Barry Jones
Workshop
Garry Sturgess and Barry Jones discuss Garry’s film about Barry and the use of film and oral history in political biography.