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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
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…
Matthew Flinders: British Spy or the Victim of an unfortunate Chain of Events? Shedding light on the explorer’s imprisonment on Mauritius (1803-1810) and its disastrous consequences
Professor Emeritus Marc Serge Rivière, University of Limerick
Over 221 years ago, on 15 December 1803, having no charts of Mauritius and only information gleaned from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (lent by Sir…