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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
Cruelty, Coverture, and Colonial Women’s Writings: A Social and Cultural History of Domestic Violence in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, 1880-1914.
Zoe Smith
Domestic violence was arguably at its most visible in colonial society by the end of the nineteenth century. As a result of developments in law and…
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…
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…