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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
Bring Out Your Dead: The Impact of the 1630 Plague on Monteverdi and the Musical Communities of Venice
Brigette De Poi (University of Sydney)
‘The terror of death enters my soul and, forced to think of the events of my life, I think of many dear friends who died and their sweet words and…
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…