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Conferences and seminars

The School of Historical Studies runs its staff and graduate seminars on Fridays at 12.000pm throughout the year.

Seminar Series - Semester 1, 2007

   

9 March

Unity or Division: The Hidden Meaning of the 19th Century British Dividing Friendly Societies

 

Marc Brodie

   

16 March

Whiteness as Bureaucracy: Assimilation Policies and People of White/Indigenous Descent in Australia and the United States

 

Kat Ellinghaus

   

23 March

Contesting the historical narratives of 'third-wave' feminism: Toward a counter-history for the classroom

 

Leigh Boucher

   

20 April

The Teology of Nothing: Textuality and the Word in the twelfth century

 

Claire Monagle

   

4 May

Landscapes of loss: The melancholic history of Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005)

 

Sarah Pinto

   

11 May

'My right arm is well punctured': Letters between wounded Australian soldiers and their families during the First World War

 

Marina Larsson

   

18 May

Mediated learning: Questions of literacy and history

 

Marianne Hicks and Mia Treacey

   

25 May

Dr Monkhouse makes a sham retreat: A foundational moment in Australian history reconsidered

 

Maria Nugent

Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2007

   

27 July

"In the Age of Testimony: The Stolen Generations Narrative, 'Distance' and Public History"

 

Bain Attwood

   

3 August

"Web Work": A seminar on teaching with short presentations follwed by a general discussion on uses of MUSO for effective teaching

 

Peter Howard, Jodie Hodge, Jane Drakard, Katie Dyt and Marc Brodie

   

10 August

Israel's written constitution: plans, prospects and debates

 

Fania Oz-Salzberger and Eli Salzberger

   

24 August

"Quantification and the historian: Australian attitudes towards immigrants and indicators of social cohesion"

 

Andrew Markus

   

7 September

"A Peace worth having: post-war repatriation movements and the San Francisco Peace Treaty"

 

Beatrice Trefalt

   

21 September

"The uses of authority: citation practice and Christine de Pizan"

 

Jan Pinder

   

5 October

"Family snapshots as historical evidence: Life stories, family photographs and postwar Australian domestic life"

 

Al Thompson

   

12 October

"Empire and Prostitution"

 

Rae Frances

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