Upcoming events
22
Jul
2025
Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society
Lecture
What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…
23
Jul
2025
Past and future histories of Gender and Colonialism: In celebration of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott
Lecture/seminar
Join us to celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott in this special event. This multi-generational panel of leading historians will consider why looking at gender and colonisation together has been especially productive, what it means to write ‘feminist’ history, and what’s…
