Launch of Carolyn Strange's 'Discretionary Justice'
Book launch
Please join the School of History, ANU, in the launching of Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression authored by Carolyn Strange. This is the first book to analyze the histories of mercy and parole through the same lens, as related but distinct…
Libby Connors: Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life
Workshop
Libby Connors will discuss her recent book Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.In the 1840s, colonial settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of…
Utopias: Retrospective and Prospective
Seminar
The 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia in December 1516 has provided scholars with a fitting opportunity to revisit this classic work. Social critique, biting satire, or political philosophy: however one interprets More’s original text, concepts of utopia as both no-place…
The mysteries of Mademoiselle de Botidoux
Seminar
When Thomas Jefferson arrived in Paris in 1784, he placed his daughter Martha in the boarding school of the prestigious abbey of Panthemont, where she became friends with a young Frenchwoman called Marie-Hyacinthe de Botidoux. Following the Jeffersons’ return to the United States in 1789, Marie…
How the Personal Became Political: Re-Assessing Australia’s Revolutions in Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s
Other
This interdisciplinary 2-day symposium is the ANU Gender Institute Signature Event for 2017 and will celebrate both International Women’s Day and the Institute’s 6th anniversary. See below for full program. This symposium explores events, transformations, policy changes and watershed developments…
“A Peace of Sorts”: A Cultural History of the Belfast Agreement, 1998-2007
Seminar
Eamonn McNamara will present his MPhil thesis on the 1998 Belfast or Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a political agreement in Northern Ireland which offered the chance to end the thirty year conflict in Northern Ireland known as ‘the Troubles.’ While many scholars have studied the political, economic…
Dr Sue Taffe: ‘A White Hot Flame,’ a life of Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Workshop
Dr Sue Taffe will discuss her recently completed book 'A White Hot Flame' which examines the early private life of Mary Bennett, and provides insights into Bennett's later public life of intense single-minded dedication to the cause of Indigenous rights and justice.