SOH Seminar Week 7: Discourses of Democracy: The Seizure of Speech in 1968
Seminar
School of History Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Ben Mercer, School of History Contemporary observers of the student protests of 1968 in Western Europe invariably remarked upon the enormous outpouring of speech that characterised the revolt. Endless discussion in student assemblies, the demand for…
Estelle BlackBurn, Eric Cooke
Workshop
Estelle Blackburn speaks about her experiences of writing the biography Broken Lives: the complete life and crimes of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke (1998).
The Confectionery Kings: Robertson, Allen and Hoadley
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Jacqui Donegan, PhD Candidate, School of History Mainstream Australian historiography tends to regard confectionery as trivial and irrelevant. Yet, in the early to mid-20th century, Australia’s richest entrepreneur and one of the country’s most…
Exploring self, subjectivity and emotion in the social science archive
Other
This Masterclass, led by Jon Lawrence, will entail prior readings, seminar discussion and workshop exercises. Description: This Masterclass will explore the strengths and weaknesses of conducting secondary analysis of social science field notes. It draws on Ray Pahl’s Sheppey interviews with the…
Reconstructing the Politics of Everyday Life, 1945–1990
Seminar
Reconstructing the Politics of Everyday Life, 1945–1990 This paper turns to the surviving field-notes of English community studies from the mid-1940s to the late 1980s to ask how people understood the social and cultural changes of the post-war era as they were happening. It explores the…
Before the Astonished Gaze of Chooks: J.G. Crawford and a View of the World through Agriculture
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Before the Astonished Gaze of Chooks: J.G. Crawford and a View of the World through Agriculture Speaker: Nicholas Brown, School of History, ANU The politics, economics, culture and myths of agriculture have played a vital part in Australian development, in the ways…
History in Public: Manning Clark Centenary, 1915-2015
Other
History in Public: Manning Clark Centenary, 1915-2015 (School of History, Research School of Social Sciences in partnership with Manning Clark House) Confirmed panellists: Nicholas Brown (ANU), Catherine Freyne (City of Sydney), Mark McKenna (University of Sydney), Anna Clark (UTS) This year sees…