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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
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…
Past Events
Apartheid’s Baboons: how the state weaponised animal bodies
Professor Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University)
There is a forgotten archive of the dying days of a white supremacist regime. In 1997, the Apartheid-era covert bio-chemical warfare program was…
Self-Interest & Morality: Adam Smith and the Moral Problem of Selfishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Philip Argenio (Australian National University)
The tension between self-interest and morality is one of the strongest and longest-running themes in Western philosophy. It rests on the question of…
Ancestor’s Words: Noongar letter writing in government archives, 1860-1960
Professor Elfie Shiosaki (ANU)
Colonial archives are being transformed into sites of Indigenous cultural revitalisation. The project ‘Ancestors’ Words: Noongar letter writing in…