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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
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…
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…