School of History Seminar Week 8: Expeditionary Anthropology: Travel, Teamwork and the ‘Science of Man’
Seminar
Members of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land at Fish Creek, Arnhem Land, in October 1948. Those in the photo are Jiramul, Namirki, Tjerapu, Meraitji, Wilira, Wundu-lu-unga, Gunuwulma, Miriri, Militj, Joshua, Dorcus, John Bray, Margaret McArthur and Fred McCarthy…
History Seminar Week 7: 'These are just a few examples of our daily oppressions’: Speaking and Listening to Homosexuality in Australian’s Royal Commission on Human Relationships, 1974–1977
Seminar
Mike Clohesy and Peter de Waal, CAMP NSW demonstration at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 19 October 1975 (Peter de Waal papers, State Library of NSW, MLMSS 6089) The Royal Commission on Human Relationships was an initiative of the Whitlam government, instigated in 1974 to investigate ‘the…
Connecting Indigenous Histories Conference
Conference
This one-day conference in honour of Professor Philip Deloria's (University of Michigan) Fulbright-sponsored visit to Melbourne will bring together scholars working in the field of Indigenous history of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Centre for Indigenous…
Chris Wallace: Memoirs of Sheila Fitzpatrick and Biff Ward
Workshop
Chris Wallace, will consider doctoral studies as a crucible for change in the memoirs of historian Sheila Fitzpatrick and writer Biff Ward. Doctoral studies led each to move from Australia to Britain in the early 1960s. Fitzpatrick undertook a DPhil in Soviet History at the University of Oxford.…
History Seminar Week 6: Development Volunteering and the Making of the Third World
Other
VGS ‘pioneer’ Herb Feith with his adopted family in Indonesia, 1952 Every year, thousands of young people leave the relative comfort of the so-called First World to volunteer in less-developed countries. Perhaps the best-known program is the United States Peace Corps, but the first…
School of History Seminar Week 5: ‘British to the core’: Australian Commodities and the Cultural Economy of the ‘White’ Empire, 1926–1939
Seminar
After World War One, Australia embarked on a series of marketing campaigns to sell more of their produce to the British. In metropolitan store windows, in newspapers, and on streamers fluttering from the sides of London buses, British consumers were urged to ‘Buy Australian: British and Best’. The…
Fulbright Seminar with Philip Deloria
Seminar
The Australian Centre for Indigenous History and the School of History is proud to present a special Fulbright seminar with Philip Deloria, University of Michigan, USA. Tuesday, 15 March 2016, 12-2pm. Room 3.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building, ANU American Indians in the American…