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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
What’s in a name? The inoculation of smallpox in early eighteenth-century Britain
Dr. Mark Dawson (Australian National University)
This paper questions the established narrative concerning the introduction of inoculation to Georgian Britain. Its arrival is typically attributed to…
Matthew Flinders: British Spy or the Victim of an unfortunate Chain of Events? Shedding light on the explorer’s imprisonment on Mauritius (1803-1810) and its disastrous consequences
Professor Emeritus Marc Serge Rivière, University of Limerick
Over 221 years ago, on 15 December 1803, having no charts of Mauritius and only information gleaned from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (lent by Sir…
Roundtable discussion: The End of Deep History? Where have we been and where to now?
Professor Jackie Huggins , Dr Amy Way , Dr Ben Silverstein , Dr Beth Marsden , Dr Mike Jones , Dr Laura Rademaker
This Roundtable brings together key researchers who shaped the seven-year ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program ‘Rediscovering the Deep Human…