Sophie Scott-Brown, Life Writing
Workshop
The Workshop, led by Sophie Scott-Brown, aims to start some conversations on a range of contemporary issues significant to both life-writing and more generally to the humanities.
Rethinking Australia's 1980s
Seminar
School of History Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Frank Bongiorno, School of History, ANU The journalist and historian Paul Kelly characterised Australia’s 1980s as ‘the end of certainty’ but in some recent Australian political discourse, the decade has taken on many of the features of a golden age. This…
Thesis Proposal Presentation Day
Other
Thesis Proposal Presentation Day School of History 28 November 2014 9.30am - 3.00pm Coombs Extension Building, Room 1.04 The School of History's Thesis Proposal Review Day is the highlight of HDR students' first year of study. Students present conference-style papers…
A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Matthews’ Career
Other
Women’s Studies and Gender Studies @ANU: A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Matthews’ Career Thursday 20 November 2014 12:30 Welcome: Dr Fiona Jenkins (Convenor, Gender Institute, ANU) 12:35 p.m. to 3:30, Professor Matthews’ Activism, Scholarship, Teaching and Legacy, Hedley Bull 2 12:…
Annual History Colloquium Darwin 1st November 2014
Other
The Centre for Environmental History, The Australian National University with The School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University Professional Historians Association (NT) ANNUAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM Saturday 1st November 2014 The Theatrette, Museum and Art Gallery…
From Sudan to Samoa: Imperial Culture and Legacies in New Zealand’s Rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Patricia O’Brien, School of History, ANU The Black Saturday Massacre of December 1929 was the most notorious event in New Zealand’s rule of the Mandated Territory of Samoa. This seminar looks at this event anew by examining the impact of the Governor…
Colonies in the Slums: Toynbee Hall and Oxford House, 1884–1939
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Emily Duthie, PhD Candidate, School of History, ANU In 1884, two centres of reformist effort were established in London’s East End for male university graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Built in the heart of the city’s most notorious slum…