School of History Seminar Series

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School of History

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The School of History Seminar Series will be run in a Live/Zoom Hybrid Delivery format.

Zoom details are included in each event, and will also be circulated to all School of History Members and those on the Seminar Mailing List prior to each session.

Non-members of School of History who wish to be added to the mailing list can do so by contacting admin.rsss@anu.edu.au. To contact the convenors of the Seminar Series please email Kathryn Wells at Kathryn.Wells@anu.edu.au, and Filip Slaveski at filip.slaveski@anu.edu.au.

Upcoming events

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Where from and Where to now?

4.15–5.30pm 22 Mar 2023

It is now over a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and there is little indication that the fighting is subsiding. Indeed, with increasing...

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Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South

4.15–5.30pm 29 Mar 2023

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Australia, the Imperial War Graves Commission, and WW1: Money No Object?

4.15–5.30pm 19 Apr 2023

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You May Get Away With it in Tasmania, But Do Not Try It in Victoria! Bigamy in Australia 1812-1959

4.15–5.30pm 26 Apr 2023

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‘Much Self-denial’: Sir Frederick Wheeler’s Power

4.15–5.30pm 3 May 2023

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Song, Swing and The Struggle: First Australian Musicians and Political Protest Movements, 1920s-1980s

4.15–5.30pm 10 May 2023

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Murlawarni: A Deep History of the Pilbara Told Using Myth as Primary Data

4.15–5.30pm 17 May 2023

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Decolonisation and the Law: The Necessity of History?

4.15–5.30pm 24 May 2023

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Past events

A South Asian Neutral Power in the United Nations: India’s Peacekeeping Mission on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)

15 Mar 2023

The end of World War II by Germany’s and Japan’s surrender brought a major socio-political transformation in the colonialised nations of Asia. The independence...

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The Revolution Will Be Advertised: Consumerism and Political Revolt in Western Europe after 1968

8 Mar 2023

Historians have often struggled to interpret the relation of the political revolts of 1968 to the consumer revolutions of the era. Was ‘1968’ the product of...

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Over the Global Counter: Boots the Chemists in New Zealand and Fiji, 1936-1964

1 Mar 2023

From the 1920s Boots The Chemists was Britain's largest retail chain pharmacy. A common feature of every British high street, Boots was a popular distributor...

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'Struggling to Replace It With Something Else': The End of Britain as Global History

22 Feb 2023

Please note that the History Seminar Series will run in the Lectorial 1 (RSSS Building, Ground Floor) in Semester 1, 2023. Right until his death last month at...

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