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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
Historians, Bodies and Visual Culture
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)
A seminar with Professor Ludmilla Jordanova In many ways, history is a field that cleaves to central themes over substantial periods of time, as is…
‘It’s life Jim, but not as we know it’: exploring Theophrastos’ conception of the environment through his writings on plants.
Mr.Rodney Harvey (Australian National University)
A seminar with Professor Jay Winter As modern ideas about the environment evolved, some scholars became enthusiastic about citing Greek…
Robert Randolph Garran and the Australian Commonwealth: a study in public service.
Mr.Colin Milner (Australian National University)
A seminar with Mr.Colin Milner This paper draws on a biographical study of the lawyer and public servant Robert Randolph Garran (1867–1957), an…