Documenting Australia’s External Relations: Papua New Guinea and Nauru
Seminar
Studying the paths to independence of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru, as documented in the National Archives of Australia, offers a distinctive perspective on Australia’s role as administering power of external territories for which it had United Nations trusteeship responsibilities (though only…
Aboriginal Australians and the First World War Home Front
Seminar
Port Lincoln Aboriginal personality known as "Black Fanny" with members of the Armed Services and other local residents during the 1914–18 War (State Library of South Australia, B27552). In recent decades there has been an increased interest in and recognition of the wartime service of…
Floor Talk: Frank Bongiorno
Other
Join Frank Bongiorno, Associate Professor, School of History, Australian National University to delve into the lives of the Denmans and explore a fascinating period of Australian history. This public event is related to the Gallery's current exhibition Peace, Love and World War: The Denmans, 1910-…
Murder, Sex and the Death Penalty in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada: A Preliminary Inquiry
Seminar
Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 March 1927, report of the judgement of the Court of Appeal of Ontario that set aside the death sentence imposed on William McCathern for rape. The ‘sex criminal’, with the possible exception of ‘the terrorist’, is the most feared and reviled offender of our time, and…
Christian Complexions in Seventeenth-Century England
Seminar
E. Pagitt, Heresiography (1662 edition), p.244. I suggest the pulpit was a crucial medium for promoting understanding of physical difference. From it, divines routinely engaged with the Galenic paradigm, which reckoned that human physiology comprised four essential humours — the sanguine,…
Imogen Mathew, Anita Heiss and the 21st century public intellectual
Workshop
Imogen Mathew, a PhD candidate at the ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, will speak about her research on Anita Heiss as a public intellectual.
General Leonard Wood and the Politics of Empire, War and Peace in the United States
Seminar
Leonard Wood won fame at the sharp end of the American Empire – first with Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba during the Spanish American War and then in the Philippines as Governor of Moro Province, where he led the brutal suppression of an indigenous rebellion between 1903 and 1906. He then served…