School of History Seminar Series
School/Centre
School of History
Contacts
The School of History Seminar Series will be run in an in-person and 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
For the complete semester 2 schedule click here.
Past events
The Lost World of American Conservatism: Who is now the ‘Party of Order’?
30 Oct 2024
It is frequently argued that, for good or ill, American political culture is dominated by liberal values. In this talk I want to suggest that, contrary to...Bring Out Your Dead: The Impact of the 1630 Plague on Monteverdi and the Musical Communities of Venice
23 Oct 2024
‘The terror of death enters my soul and, forced to think of the events of my life, I think of many dear friends who died and their sweet words and faces that I...Apartheid’s Baboons: how the state weaponised animal bodies
16 Oct 2024
There is a forgotten archive of the dying days of a white supremacist regime. In 1997, the Apartheid-era covert bio-chemical warfare program was exposed, after...Self-Interest & Morality: Adam Smith and the Moral Problem of Selfishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
9 Oct 2024
The tension between self-interest and morality is one of the strongest and longest-running themes in Western philosophy. It rests on the question of how far,...Ancestor’s Words: Noongar letter writing in government archives, 1860-1960
2 Oct 2024
Colonial archives are being transformed into sites of Indigenous cultural revitalisation. The project ‘Ancestors’ Words: Noongar letter writing in government...‘My handsome, kind, gentle, treasure of a son - and yours too’: Anne Deveson, motherhood and mental health advocacy in late twentieth century Australia
25 Sep 2024
Released in 1991, Anne Deveson’s powerful memoir Tell Me I’m Here remains a landmark examination of the experience of mental illness in Australia. Deveson...Unmuting the Past: Sound-led Creative Practice and the Colonial Legacy of the Silent Expeditionary Film
21 Aug 2024
Between the birth of cinema and the post WWII era, expedition (or ‘travel’) films made in the Australian colonies were shot silent and are missing an important...Welsh Poetry and English Politics: Edward IV and William Herbert (d. 1469)
14 Aug 2024
Why is Wales important to historians of medieval England? Through a case study of the Welsh Marcher lord, Sir William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke, this...‘But Golden Dreams’: William Dampier’s Narrative of Depletion
31 Jul 2024
When we think about 17th and 18th-century pirates, we think about dynamics of accumulation: Plundered ships, colonial violence, commercial aggression, ruthless...The Beach as Archive: contemplating histories in landscape and culture.
25 Jul 2024
A seminar with Professor Anna Clark The beach figures in Indigenous archives: middens and rock art lacing Australia’s coastline reveal thousands of years of...
