Channelling George? Coral Lansbury, the Australian Ethos, The Legend and Arcady
Seminar
School of History Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Melanie Nolan, National Centre of Biography, School of History Coral Lansbury was among the early critics of Russel Ward for his concentration upon bush virtues and male “mateship” in his classic The Australian Legend (1958). Lansbury has differed from most…
From Pardoning to Parole? Discretionary Justice in Progressive Era New York
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Carolyn Strange, School of History By the turn of the twentieth century New York State led the world in introducing two hallmarks of modern penal administration: the indeterminate sentence and parole. Progressive penologists championed these tools as…
School of History Seminar: ‘Unnatural’: Pain and Childbirth, 1840s to the Present
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, University of London & ANU School of History Allan Martin Visitor 2015 This paper explores the rhetoric, performance, and practice of childbirth in the long-twentieth century. In modern history, there have been two…
2015 Allan Martin Lecture: "Going Ballistic": A New History of Aggression
Other
The 2015 Allan Martin Lecturer is Professor Joanna Bourke Her Public Lecture "Going Ballistic": A New History of Aggression is on Tuesday 5th May, 2015 from 6.00pm - 7.30pm followed by a reception. Abstract: Aggression is an essentially contested concept. What is meant by “aggression”…
Sheila Fitzpatrick, My Father's Daughter
Workshop
Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses her My Father’s Daughter (2010), a memoir of her father, the radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick, and her own childhood in Melbourne in the 1940s and ‘50s and A Spy in the Archives (2013) which told of her experiences as a young historian researching her dissertation in…
Historians and Lawyers—What Can We Learn from Each Other?
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Justice Richard Button, NSW Supreme Court Wednesday 29 April 2015 4:15–5:30 pm It is not common for lawyers or judicial officers to think of themselves as historians. Nor is it common for jurors in criminal trials to be characterised in that way.…
Enlightenment and Revolution
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Enlightenment and Revolution: The Role of Enlightenment Ideas in Shaping the French Revolutionary Factions (1780–1830) Speaker: Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton The democratic republican theories and the world-changing doctrine of…