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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 Ananyo Chakraborty or Ruth Morgan.
Contact
- RSSS Administration
Upcoming Events
Reading for pleasure: Australian girls, intimate knowledge and print culture, 1970–2010
Saskia Roberts
A condom placed on a banana; a dated video explaining puberty to teenagers who had already experienced it; a teacher’s voice drowned out by awkward…
Past Events
Protesting School Access for First Nations Communities, 1900s-1950s
Dr. Beth Marsden
Schooling today, as in the past, is a central site of protest and struggle for First Nations self-determination and justice. First Nations’ leaders…
Fibro Modernity: Life and Death in an Asbestos Australia
James Watson
In the first few decades after World War II, Australia embraced asbestos as an essential ingredient of Post-War Reconstruction and suburban modernity…
Making religion legalistic and the law religious: Australia’s Marriage Act 1961
Deborah Nance
Australia’s Marriage Act has had a role in the lives of many, if not most, Australians since its enactment in 1961. But how much is really known…