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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
‘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…
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…