Art of Time Travel wins 2017 Ernest Scott Prize
The History Program at The University of Melbourne has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. The prize is awarded to work based upon original research which is, in…
Seminar: Gathering histories for ecological restoration: Restoring with not to the past
Lilian Pearce 22 March 2017 11:30am-12:30pm Fenner Seminar Room, Building #141 Linnaeus Way, ANU Responding to the changing use of history in ecological restoration, this work attends to…
Seminar: Plagues and Players
An environmental and scientific history of Australia’s southern locusts Ted Deveson 22 March 2017 9.30–10.30am Fenner Seminar Room, Building #141 Linnaeus Way, ANU Digitised…
Breakfast to mark the start of the academic year
We recently marked the beginning of the academic year at the Centre for Environmental History with a backyard breakfast. The social gathering presented us with the opportunity to welcome…
National Landscapes: The Australian Literary Community and Environmental Thought, 1934–1948
Jayne Reagan School of History Seminar Series Wednesday 15 March, 4.15–5.30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Fellows Road, ANU Through a fusion of historical, literary, and environmental…
Afterburn screening on Nat Geo TV
“Afterburn: In the Tiger’s Jaws†follows the stories of three families over three years in one small Victorian community in the aftermath of 2009’s devastating Black Saturday bushfires.…
Launch of Climate Change and the Health of Nations by Tony McMichael
Tony McMichael’s last book, completed by Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir, and published by Oxford University Press, was launched at the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian…