Zoe Smith wins the Kelly Award and NLA Scholarship
HDR Student Zoe Smith has received the 2023 Max Kelly Award for a work of excellence in any aspect of Australian history. She received the award for her essay, ‘A prisoner on the rack’: Marital rape…
ANU Historian Frank Bongiorno Wins ACT Book of the Year Award for Political History of Australia
Frank Bongiorno, professor of history at the Australian National University (ANU), has won the 2023 ACT Book of the Year award for his book Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia.…
Winner of the Ken Inglis Prize
A big congratulations to one of the Centre's environmental history postgraduate students, Ruby Ekkel, who has won the 2023 Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize. The Ken Inglis Prize is awarded by the…
Exploring Women's Roles and Authority in the Medieval World
On Friday 17 November 2023, a one-day workshop titled "Women, Gender and Authority in the Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval World" was organised by Dr. Meaghan McEvoy and her medievalist…
Tom Griffiths presents "The world after John Curtin: Geopolitics and the planet"
The Centre's Founding Director, Emeritus Professor Tom Griffiths, was recently invited to deliver the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Anniversary Lecture at Curtin University. His lecture,…
Academy of Social Sciences Awards Ruth Morgan and Angela Woollacott
The Academy of the Social Science in Australia has just announced it has awarded one quarter of its funded workshops to Assoc. Prof. Ruth Morgan and Prof. Angela Woollacott. This funding will…
Associate Professor Maria Nugent had a stunning October
One outcome of Maria’s Discovery Project, “Mobilising Aboriginal Objects: Indigenous History in International Museums”, based on collaborative partnerships with The British Museum, the Museum of…