Collaboration and Methods: Behind the Scenes in Researching the Long History of Drought Assistance in Australia
School of History Seminar Series Wednesday 6 August 2014, 4:15-5:30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU Rebecca Jones, Karen Downing and Blake Singley will pull the curtain on their recent…
School of History professor new president of AHA
The Australian Historical Association elected ANU Manning Clark Professor of History, Dr Angela Woollacott, as new president at their Annual General Meeting in July. Professor Woollacott feels…
ANU PhD scholars to participate in global humanities collaboration
CASS PhD students Emily Soper and Annemarie McLaren have been chosen to participate in a new project aimed at increasing collaboration in the humanities. The project, Integrating the Humanities…
Swiss Centre for Environmental Humanities inaugural symposium and summer school
In June 2014 the new Swiss Centre for Environmental Humanities held its inaugural symposium and summer school at the Botanical Gardens in Zürich. The Centre for Environmental History's Alison…
ICEHO Bulletin, from incoming President Libby Robin
At the World Congress of Environmental History conference in Portugal in July, Jane Carruthers retired as President of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO), and…
'A History of Canberra' by Nicholas Brown reviewed by SMH
'A History of Canberra' opens with an anecdote concerning 19-year-old James Brown, convicted of assault and theft in Edinburgh in 1834, being assigned as a convict labourer to the owner of Lanyon.…
Joan of Arc: Leadership, Transvestism, and Gender Anxiety – Not Just Medieval Concerns?
After several years of deliberations, on 7 July 1456 Joan of Arc was pronounced ‘freed and cleansed’ of the charge of idolatry that had seen her burned at the stake in Rouen in 1431. As…