Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled
Seminar
Kate Fullagar will discuss the background, research, writing, and unusual methodology of her third monograph, Bennelong & Phillip (Simon & Schuster, 2023). This book offers a dual biography of Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), the inaugural governor of New South Wales, and of Bennelong (c1764-…
Natalie Zemon Davis: Honouring a Life in History
Seminar
A seminar with Professor Carolyn Strange, Dr. Karo Moret Miranda and Dr. Tania Colwell As an undergraduate, Carolyn Strange had the good fortune to be taught by a professor who had studied with Natalie Davis. He introduced her work though her saucily titled, "Women on Top: Symbolic Sexual…
Psychiatry and the Arts
Seminar
A seminar with Professor Susan Hogan Drawing on Hogan's longstanding interests in the history of the arts and health, this talk will give a tour through the arts and psychiatry, starting with a focus on the therapeutic use of the arts in the nineteenth century. It will touch on the…
'In My Blood It Runs', book launch and panel
Book launch
Please join us for the launch of the new children's book: In My Blood It Runs, written by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson and Carol Turner, with illustrations by Blak Douglas. The book is based on the documentary of the same name and continues the argument for self-determined education…
The “Smiling Young Asian Student": Ending Asian Exclusion in the Transpacific, 1950s–1970s
Seminar
A seminar with Professor Tandee Wang This talk examines the social construction of Asians as a racial category (Asian racialisation) in the period leading up to the formal dismantlement of anti-Asian immigration laws, from the end of WWII to 1965 in the US and 1973 in Australia. Until…
Subjects of Time: Australian lives at the fin de siècle
Seminar
The fin de siècle c1890-1914 reflected a tension between movement and stasis, degeneration and progress. Historical actors caught between acting in the world as it was or finding ways of changing circumstance and perspective. Charles Conder’s painting While Daylight Lingers (1890) provided an…
Challenging Colonialism: Australians who Helped the Nation to Embrace Human Equality
Seminar
A seminar with Professor Angela Woollacott In 1945 most in the nation accepted White Australia both as an immigration policy and for all the inequality it represented. But by the mid-1970s, the White Australia policy was over, multi-culturalism was celebrated, and Indigenous…