Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Seminar
Discussion of New Book - followed by a reception concluding at 6pm 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…
A Secular State? Church, State and the Early Colonial Australian Polity
Seminar
St Matthew's Anglican Church Samuel Marsden's parish in Windsor Drawing on recent theorists and critics of the notion of ‘secularisation’, such as Charles Taylor, this paper seeks to delineate the ways in which the relations between Church and State were understood in early colonial Australia.…
School of History Seminar: Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia
Seminar
Mulching prickly pear to feed to cattle in NSW during drought in the 1930s. (National Library of Australia, Fairfax glass plate negatives, obj-161051760) Climate and weather, both in their consistency and their variability are important players in history. Droughts are slow catastrophes…
School of History Seminar Week 10: Panel Discussion: The Work of Professor Joy Damousi
Seminar
Speakers Frank Bongiorno: Labour, Social History and Psychoanalysis Angela Woollacott: Gender Joan Beaumont: War Amanda Laugesen: Language and Sound Nicholas Brown: Immigration Professor Joy Damousi Joy Damousi, the Allan Martin Lecturer for 2016, is one of Australia’s…
ALLAN MARTIN 2016 PUBLIC LECTURE Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: Past, Present, Future
Other
The issue of child refugees is a timely, relevant and highly significant one. The treatment and experience of child refugees continues to be an ongoing concern and the focus of national and international debates. Australia has played a major role internationally in offering humanitarian assistance…
Gabrielle Carey: Randolph Stow
Workshop
Gabrielle Carey will talk about Randolph Stow as self-exile and the challenges of writing about an Australian writer who appeared to reject the country that was the source of so much of his inspiration. She will also talk briefly about the genre of bibliomemoir in relation to her work-in-progress…
School of History Seminar Week 9: English Women and the Late Nineteenth-Century Open Spaces Movement
Seminar
During the second half of the nineteenth century, England became the most industrialised and urbanised nation on earth. It was also land-hungry, with an expanding population driving housing developments on any available space. Beginning in 1865 with the establishment of the Commons Preservation…