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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
Contact
- RSSS Administration
Upcoming Events
Past and future histories of Gender and Colonialism: In celebration of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott
Join us to celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott in this special event. This multi-generational panel of leading…
Past Events
Self-Interest & Morality: Adam Smith and the Moral Problem of Selfishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Philip Argenio (Australian National University)
The tension between self-interest and morality is one of the strongest and longest-running themes in Western philosophy. It rests on the question of…
Ancestor’s Words: Noongar letter writing in government archives, 1860-1960
Professor Elfie Shiosaki (ANU)
Colonial archives are being transformed into sites of Indigenous cultural revitalisation. The project ‘Ancestors’ Words: Noongar letter writing in…
‘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.…