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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
Treating prejudice: Japanese doctors in a white Australia
John Lamb
Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration Restriction Act and formal establishment of the ‘White Australia policy’. At…
Past Events
Watering the Forest: Beyond hydraulic developmentalism in the Murray Darling Basin
Associate Professor Ruth Morgan (Australian National University)
In the early 1980s a new danger faced the Barmah-Millewa Forest, just upstream of Echuca on the border of Victoria and New South Wales. Bordering an…
India’s Eucalyptus Affair: Development, Environmental Management and Politics, c 1960-1990.
Dr Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University)
Between 1960 and 1990, India developed the world’s second largest area of Eucalyptus cover. Today, however, multiple states have banned its planting…
The historian in the mirror: writing first-person history, and other issues in contemporary historiography
Gary Humphries (Australian National University)
Responding to the impulse to provide an account of the birth of what was (probably) Australia’s last new polity – the ACT Legislative Assembly – has…