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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
India’s Eucalyptus Affair: Development, Environmental Management and Politics, c 1960-1990.
Dr Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University)
Between 1960 and 1990, India developed the world’s second largest area of Eucalyptus cover. Today, however, multiple states have banned its planting…
The historian in the mirror: writing first-person history, and other issues in contemporary historiography
Gary Humphries (Australian National University)
Responding to the impulse to provide an account of the birth of what was (probably) Australia’s last new polity – the ACT Legislative Assembly – has…
Do Sydney’s disease histories challenge pathogen avoidance theory?
Philippa Barr (Australian National University)
For the past two decades there have been various theses and antitheses regarding the idea that the disgust reaction evolved to support pathogen…