This month marks the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
What happened on the morning of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington—and above rural Pennsylvania—is well known. Nineteen men, affiliated with a Sunni Islamist group, the ‘International…
Stockholm Archipelago Lectures: Quest for the Unity of Knowledge
Lecture series with humanist scholar David Lowenthal 3-19 September 2012 We are recording the lectures and linking to the audio files below as they become available: Monday 3 September, 5-6 pm:…
Seminar on Interdisciplinary Indigenous History
The seminar 'Interdisciplinary Indigenous History' was held in the Hedley Bull Building at the ANU on Wednesday, 22nd August, 2012. It was organised principally by Dr Shino Konishi of the…
Bishop secures Kluge Fellowship
Dr Chris Bishop, lecturer with the School of History, has been awarded a presitgious Kluge Fellowship to to further his research toward an upcoming publication on ‘Medievalism and…
Cook recounts his high-seas tales
The School of History's Dr Alex Cook recently embarked upon a voyage from Sydney to Lord Howe Island to recreate Captain James Cook’s famed 1769 journey to see the Transit of Venus. Cook shares…
Our Music Performing Place, Listening to Sydney
Our Music, Performing Place, Listening to Sydney, was hosted on the 30 June 2012. This premier event of Aboriginal storytelling and musical exploration was hosted by the Sydney Conservatorium, The…
Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin
By Emily O’Gorman Available now: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/21/pid/6650.htm Flood Country examines changing understandings of the rivers, floods and floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin…