In a Big Country: Size and Canadian Identity
Seminar
Like Australia, Canada is known for being big. But whereas there are extensive literatures examining how Northernness, wilderness, and frontier have shaped Canadian national identity, surprisingly little has been written expressly on its size. This paper will explore how size has informed Canada’s…
Environmental History PhD Workshop
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY PhD WORKSHOP Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 26–30 May, 2014 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD…
Painting War: Memory making and Australia’s official war art scheme, 1916 – 1922
Seminar
The Australian War Memorial’s collection of official paintings has played an important role in articulating and perpetuating memories of the Great War for almost a century. Yet despite this, there has been little analysis of how or by whom the collection was created. My thesis seeks to address…
Allan Martin 2014 Public Lecture
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“When the War Comes Home”: Recovering the Forgotten Stories of 1914-1919 One hundred years on, is our country prepared to confront the cost of war – or will the Anzac Centenary be more an act of forgetting than remembering? In the lead up to the Centenary, the National Archives of…
School of History Seminar Series: Corporations and Settler Colonialism in the South Pacific, 1642-1860
Seminar
Corporations changed the early modern world. Adopting a number of roles – diplomat, government, interlocutor, monopolist, jurisdiction establisher, war machine, and property rights arbiter – they were pivotal in the establishment of imperial order. This is true of exploitative colonies, where big…
Raphael Samuel: Portrait of a People’s Historian
Seminar
The British radical historian Raphael Samuel (1934-1996) was best known as a founding member of the first British New Left (1956-1962) and later as the moving spirit behind the History Workshop movement (1967-1991) and the History Workshop Journal (1976-). Samuel was closely associated with…
Peter Fitzpatrick: Outwitting Your Biographer
Workshop
Peter Fitzpatrick will talk about outwitting your biographer - a study of the contrasting challenges of misleading evidence in his two dual biographies, Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson and The Two Frank Thrings.