Deep History Reading Group 2020
The Research Centre’s Deep History Reading Group recommenced via Zoom meetups on 17 April. The Reading Group is chaired by PhD scholar, Josh Newham, and began last year. Previously it was a…
Visiting Scholar Bruce Buchan’s latest publication
Associate Professor Bruce Buchan, the Research Centre’s recent visitor, has been published in Arena. A captivating examination of the notion of time in the Anthropocene, Bruce eloquently captures…
Research Centre Activities: Before and during COVID-19
Visiting Scholars Professor Annie Clarke arrived for the first half of her visit in early February. During her visit, Annie mentored Research Centre team members and attended the team retreat,…
Insight into Professor Angela Woollacott's Interest in History
Manning Clark Professor of History, Angela Woollacott, was recently interviewed by the History News Network of America on her interests in History and how she became the successful Professor she is…
'Season of reckoning' by Tom Griffiths in ABR
Tom Griffiths reflects on names given to bushfires – all those Black Sundays and Mondays, etc. – and wonders if they truly capture what is new about this savage summer. "What do we…
Etched in Bone goes to Washington
Etched in Bone, the acclaimed documentary film by Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon, will premiere in the United States on 14 March 2020. The film examines the theft in 1948 of Indigenous human…
Wild Sea shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year
Joy McCann's Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean was shortlisted and highly commended for the 2019 ACT Book of the Year awards. Dr Joy McCann is an environmental and cultural historian.…