Celebrating three graduations!
Three members of the Centre for Environmental History celebrated their graduations at the Australian National University's Conferring of Awards ceremonies in December. Ted Deveson, for his…
Tom Griffiths on the power of nature
How Harold Holt was Lost Tom Griffiths A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister fifty years ago. I foresaw the death of Harold Holt. It was three years before…
Art of Time Travel shortlisted for PM's and ACT lit prizes
Tom Griffiths' book, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft has been shortlisted in the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Prize money of $100,000 is awarded in each…
Daniel May wins Endeavour Research Fellowship
Daniel will spend four months in the United States from March - July 2018, based at California State University (Chico, California) and the Forest History Society archives (Durham, North Carolina).…
New paper: Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for ‘the environment’ and ‘the Anthropocene’
The Anthropocene Review Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin First Published November 7, 2017 This article examines the short history of scientific decision-…
Rebecca Jones wins NLA Fellowship
Rebecca Jones, researcher at Monash University and fellow at the ANU Centre for Environmental History, has won a National Library of Australia Fellowship, to pursue her project, 'Crazy Weather: the…
Into the maelstrom: historicising the Southern Ocean
Wednesday 27 September 2017 4:15-5:30pm School of History Seminar Series McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU The Southern Ocean is the most remote, physically challenging, and least known of the…