Emerging Scholars, New Research: Labour History in Canberra
Seminar
Following on from the success of last year’s event, we will be holding a second Emerging Scholars, New Research: Labour History in Canberra seminar in conjunction with the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences, at the Australian National…
Professor Ira B. Nadel: Russian Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Russia
Seminar
A presentation on Woolf’s involvement with Russian culture and ideas in her life and writing. Notably, her attempt at Russian translations with an émigré translator, later published by the Hogarth Press. Professor Ira B. Nadel specializes in biography, the Victorians and such Modernists as…
What was eugenics and why does it still matter? Professor Philippa Levine
Other
Presenter: Professor Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin Australia's National Sorry Day offers an appropriate and important moment for reflecting on this question. In the early twentieth century research on intelligence, hereditary disease, behaviours regarded as anti-social, family life…
What was Eugenics and why does it still matter? Professor Philippa Levine
Other
Professor Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin Australia's National Sorry Day offers an appropriate and important moment for reflecting on this question. In the early twentieth century research on intelligence, hereditary disease, behaviours regarded as anti-social, family life and…
Paul Pickering: Understanding Prosopography
Workshop
Paul Pickering will speak on the subject ‘Understanding Prosopography: a discussion about using collective lives’.
Wild Science: Conservation Biology in South Africa’s National Parks, 1900–2000
Seminar
A School of History Seminar presented in conjunction with the Fenner School of Environment & Society (CMBE) Speaker: Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa After a broad overview of the changing directions in conservation science in South Africa’s national parks during the twentieth…
‘Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia’
Seminar
Discussion of New Book - followed by a reception concluding at 6 pm. Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath…