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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
Welsh Poetry and English Politics: Edward IV and William Herbert (d. 1469)
Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
Why is Wales important to historians of medieval England? Through a case study of the Welsh Marcher lord, Sir William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke…
‘But Golden Dreams’: William Dampier’s Narrative of Depletion
Professor Anne M. Thell (National University of Singapore)
When we think about 17th and 18th-century pirates, we think about dynamics of accumulation: Plundered ships, colonial violence, commercial…
The Beach as Archive: contemplating histories in landscape and culture.
Professor Anna Clark
A seminar with Professor Anna Clark The beach figures in Indigenous archives: middens and rock art lacing Australia’s coastline reveal thousands of…