Future Directions in Indigenous Research: Digital Life
Other
Public Lecture followed by light refreshments The College of Arts and Social Sciences is hosting the 2013 Future Directions in Indigenous Research Public Lecture 5.30 arrival for 6 pm start Despite the ubiquity of smart phones in northeast Arnhem Land, Yolngu have not acquiesced to the idea…
Independents' Day - School of History Weekly Seminar
Seminar
--- Independents’ Day: How independent grocers dominated the introduction of barcode, point-of-sale technology into Australian supermarkets --- Barcodes are mundane: a deceptively simple pattern of lines that we see and ignore every day. It is what lies behind them that is important,…
The Politics of National Recognition, Australia c.1970-1990
Seminar
By examining two distinct but related national symbols – the Australian honours system, and the Australian of the Year award – this paper will explore what we are calling ‘the politics of national recognition’ in Australia from the 1970s to the 1990s. We will consider both the politics involved in…
Humoralism and the Decline of Astrology in Seventeenth-Century England
Seminar
Perhaps because of the current concern over global warming, recent scholarship has focused attention on early modern English understandings of the environment, especially climatic change and its apparent consequences for bodily health and somatic variation. Some scholars have argued for a pervasive…
Cameron Hazlehurst: An Australian Tragedy
Workshop
Professor Cameron Hazlehurst is an adjunct professor at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is a foundation principal of The Ethicos Group and principal of Flaxton Mill House, and was previously foundation professor and head of the School of Humanities at…
Buying British? Patriotic buying and networks in the Empire/Commonwealth, c.1923-68
Seminar
During recent years there has been a significant growth of interest in the links between consumer movements, nationalism and imperialism. This paper explores the popular movement in support of imperial protectionism in inter-war Britain, Australia, and Canada and its replacement after 1945…
School of History Seminar Series
Seminar
Taking Liberty: How British settlers in the Australian colonies gained self-government and Indigenous peoples lost it This paper arises from a project entitled “Indigenous People, the British Empire, and Self Government for the Australian Colonies”, conducted jointly by Jessie Mitchell and myself…