‘Taking the Long Journey’: Australian Women who Served with Allied Countries and Para-military Organisations during World War One
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series ‘Taking the Long Journey’: Australian Women who Served with Allied Countries and Para-military Organisations during World War One Wednesday 15 Oct. 2014 4:15-5:30pm Speaker: Selena Williams, PhD Candidate, School of History, ANU After war was declared…
Book Launch: 'Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840' by Dr Karen Downing
Other
Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) By Dr Karen Downing Book to be launched by Professor Penny Russell, Bicentennial Professor of Australian History, The University of Sydney Friday 10 October 2014, 5.00pm for 5.30pm Refreshments will follow the…
Message from Mungo – a film viewing and discussion
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series, supported by the CASS Reconciliation Action Plan Sub-Committee Speakers: Ann McGrath, ANU, and Andrew Pike, Ronin Films Special Time and Venue: 4.00 – 5.30 pm Theatrette 1.02, Roland Wilson…
'Message from Mungo' Discussion and Film Screening
Other
School of History Seminar Series, supported by the ANU Reconciliation Action Plan Speakers: Ann McGrath, ANU, and Andrew Pike, Ronin Films Ann McGrath is Professor of History and Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at ANU. This film’s research is directly related to…
The Greek Civil War and Child Refugees to Australia: The Cold War and Australian Internationalism in the 1940s
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series The Greek Civil War and Child Refugees to Australia: The Cold War and Australian Internationalism in the 1940s Speaker: Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne This paper explores the history of child removal to Australia during the Greek Civil War — the…
Managing Political Imperatives in War Time: Strategic Responses of Philips in Australia, 1939–1945
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Pierre van der Eng, Research School of Management, CBE, ANU In 1926, the Dutch multi-national electronics enterprise Philips established a subsidiary company in Australia to sell imported Philips products. Philips Australia expanded quickly in the 1930s…
‘A very timid start’?: The Sydney French Club, 1885–1893
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Les Hetherington, PhD Candidate, School of History, ANU In March 1893 visiting author Robert Louis Stevenson said of Sydney’s Cosmopolitan Club, founded in January 1885 as the French Association, and later known as the French Club, or cercle française,…