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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
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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
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…
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…