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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
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…
What’s in a name? The inoculation of smallpox in early eighteenth-century Britain
Dr. Mark Dawson (Australian National University)
This paper questions the established narrative concerning the introduction of inoculation to Georgian Britain. Its arrival is typically attributed to…