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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
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Upcoming Events
Menzies Memories
Professor Frank Bongiorno
This paper will focus on two historical junctures and two sets of sources, concerned with Australians’ construction of collective memory of Robert…
A Moving Sense of Place: Cinematic Geographies as Representations of the Korean Past
Professor Kyung Moon Hwang
In reflecting well-received historical understanding and perception, as well as in contributing to an evolving popular discourse about the nation’s…
The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Mass Death across Ukraine, Moldavia and Russia
Filip Slaveski
This talk explores the last famine in Soviet History, which killed around one million people in 1946/47, especially in Ukraine and Moldavia, but…
Past Events
‘Such sweet things out of such corruptions.’ On writing the history of a twentieth-century expedition.
Professor Martin Thomas (Australian National University)
June 2025 will see the publication of Martin Thomas’s Clever Men: How worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948, a project…
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…
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…