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The School of History Seminar Series will be both in-person and via Zoom.
Seminar details will be circulated to all School of History Members and those on the Seminar Mailing List before each session.
Non-members of the 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 David Smith at DavidRomney.Smith@anu.edu.au
Contact
- RSSS Administration
Upcoming Events
Untamed affections: contested care in settler Australian women’s interactions with native animals, 1880-1950
Ruby Ekkel (Australian National University)
In an incomplete and uneven process between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonial disdain for ‘freakish’ Australian native…
Past Events
Cruelty, Coverture, and Colonial Women’s Writings: A Social and Cultural History of Domestic Violence in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, 1880-1914.
Zoe Smith
Domestic violence was arguably at its most visible in colonial society by the end of the nineteenth century. As a result of developments in law and…
Treating prejudice: Japanese doctors in a white Australia
John Lamb
Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration Restriction Act and formal establishment of the ‘White Australia policy’. At…
Watering the Forest: Beyond hydraulic developmentalism in the Murray Darling Basin
Associate Professor Ruth Morgan (Australian National University)
In the early 1980s a new danger faced the Barmah-Millewa Forest, just upstream of Echuca on the border of Victoria and New South Wales. Bordering an…