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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
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…
‘My handsome, kind, gentle, treasure of a son - and yours too’: Anne Deveson, motherhood and mental health advocacy in late twentieth century Australia
Professor Michelle Arrow (Macquarie University)
Released in 1991, Anne Deveson’s powerful memoir Tell Me I’m Here remains a landmark examination of the experience of mental illness in Australia.…
Unmuting the Past: Sound-led Creative Practice and the Colonial Legacy of the Silent Expeditionary Film
Senior Lecturer Rob Hardcastle (University of Canberra)
Between the birth of cinema and the post WWII era, expedition (or ‘travel’) films made in the Australian colonies were shot silent and are missing an…