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June 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 23rd June |
Book launch |
Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England |
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May 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 30th May |
Special seminar in American History |
Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black Americans |
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| 29th May |
Brownbag seminar |
Weapons of Mass Communication: The censorship and surveillance of Australian reporters during war |
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| 22th May |
Brownbag seminar |
Witchcraft and European History: Changing perspectives over thirty years |
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| 22th May |
Kathleen Fitzpatrick lecture |
New Explorations in Imperial History |
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| 15th May |
Brownbag seminar |
For Love of Mankind: Women Philanthropists in Australian History |
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| 8th May |
Brownbag seminar |
'At the Point he always wished for': William Blackstone as judge |
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| 1st May |
Brownbag seminar |
Poppaedius Silo: Dux et auctor of the social war |
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April 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 29th April |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Jonathan Swift and his Publisher John Harding: A Question of Money? |
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| 24th April |
Brownbag seminar |
“Each time I'm reminded of it, I feel as though I need therapy”: Footy tragedies and the question of catharsis |
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| 17th April |
Brownbag seminar |
'Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination |
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| 16th April |
Public lecture |
The City as Encyclopedia: Lessons from Melbourne’s urban past |
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| 10th April |
Brownbag seminar |
“Now we ask, not for protection, but for education”: Aboriginal assimilation, education and citizenship in 1930s Australia |
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| 8th April |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Ethnic Contribution Histories and the 'Double Colonization' Thesis: What's so special about the Irish? |
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| 3rd April |
Brownbag seminar |
Convict Culture and the Land: The Van Diemen’s Land experience 1803-1823 |
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March 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 20th March |
Brownbag seminar |
An Inch of Rain and What it Means: Landscapes of the northern plains of Victoria 1836-1930 |
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| 19th March |
Seminar |
Layers of Meaning: Towards a World Heritage Listing of the Central Victorian Gold Fields |
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| 18th March |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Irish Poets and Islam from the Union to the Famine, 1801-45 |
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| 13th March |
Brownbag seminar |
Covered Writing: The Wesley Brothers’ Personal Memoirs |
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| 6th March |
Brownbag seminar |
Eisenhower and the Red Menace |
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February 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 28th February |
Workshop |
Heritage Tourism and Sustainable Development in Laos |
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| 22nd February |
2008 Macgeorge lecture |
Paul Montford and Bertram Mackennal:
Making sculpture in 1920s Melbourne |
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| 8th February |
Symposium |
1968: Forty Years On |
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