Shannyn Palmer Unmaking Angas Downs: Remaking Colonial History
Seminar
Palmer’s book, Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station, winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for History in 2023, began life as a doctoral thesis in the School of History at ANU. The prize judges commended the book for “offer[ing] a model of engaged listening…
Kevin Windle: Alexander Zuzenko, the Communist International and the Workers’ Republic of Australia
Workshop
Alexander Zuzenko, a sailor and veteran of the 1905 Russian revolution, arrived in Australia in 1911 and embarked upon a career of industrial and political agitation and radical journalism. He went on to head the Union of Russian Workers in Brisbane and lead the red flag demonstration in 1919.…
Alexander Zuzenko, the Communist International and the Workers’ Republic of Australia
Seminar
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.
Women, Gender and Authority Workshop
Workshop
The one-day event will explore the relationship between gender and authority, and how the exercise of power affected the daily lives of women. Investigating the experiences of secular and monastic women, papers will focus on a range of themes, including marriage and widowhood, marital sex, mobility…
The Environment comes to Universities: Legacies of the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
Seminar
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment met in Stockholm in 1972, bringing together scientists, international governance specialists and environmental activists in ways that redefined the environment itself. It continued earlier concerns about biological diversity, but that diversity…
TPR Presentation Day
Workshop
The TPR Presentation Day is an annual event in the School of History for the first year HDR student presentations of their thesis proposals. Panel members should attend their students' sessions, but all members of the School of History are strongly encouraged to support these students at this…
Katherine Sanders: F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43
Workshop
F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43: Innovative Legal Judgments on Native Title and the Treaty of Waitangi F.O.V. Acheson, a Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court from 1919 to 1943, was a man of lively intellect and broad interests. As a young law student, Acheson…