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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
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…
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…