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December 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 11th December |
Conference |
The Greg Dening Inaugural Conference |
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| 11th December |
Public lecture |
The Greg Dening Inaugural Lecture: History and the Creative Imagination |
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| 3rd - 5th December |
Conference |
Re-Orienting Whiteness |
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November 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 26th - 28th November |
Conference |
Identity and Its Discontents |
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| 7th November |
Postgraduate workshop |
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships |
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| 6th November |
Seminar |
Postgraduate work in progress day |
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October 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 31st October |
Postgraduate workshop |
Building a Publications Track Record |
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| 30th October |
Brownbag seminar |
In the Abode of Clouds: Missionary Encounters in the Khasi Hills |
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| 23rd October |
Brownbag seminar |
Trade Cards Daguerreotype, Telegraph and "Myspace": Oscar Wilde and the Use of Communication Technologies |
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| 17th October |
Postgraduate workshop |
Life after the Thesis |
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| 16th October |
Brownbag seminar |
The Bombing of German Cities in World War II: The Moral Issue |
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| 9th October |
Brownbag seminar |
Playing with Gender, Sexuality and Sport: The History and Promise of the Gay Games |
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| 3rd October |
Seminar |
Consumption, Collectivism and Conservatism: Food in the Mobilisation of Housewives in Interwar Southeastern Australia |
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September 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 25th September |
Seminar |
Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Antigüedades árabes de España |
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| 18th September |
Brownbag seminar |
The Multiple Meanings of the Headscarf in France |
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| 18th September |
Miegunyah lecture |
The First Terrorists: The French Revolution and the Origins of a Political Culture of Violence |
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| 11th September |
Brownbag seminar |
A Rosicrucian in Terra Australis Incognita? |
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| 4th September |
Brownbag seminar |
History, Agency and Efforts to Re-examine the 1965 Killings in Indonesia |
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| 3rd September |
Seminar |
Widowhood and woman’s position in late-medieval society |
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| 2nd September |
Seminar |
Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History: Knowledge in the Postcolony |
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August 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 21st August |
Brownbag seminar |
“Jesus was in the Parlour”: Faith, Space and Gender in British Methodism, 1740-1840 |
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| 14th August |
Brownbag seminar |
The Bridge, The Door, Culture and the Economy |
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| 7th August |
Brownbag seminar |
Geisha Girls and GI Johns: Marketing Sex in the Aftermath of the Pacific War |
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July 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 31st July |
Brownbag seminar |
Imagining the Magdalen: From Renaissance Italy to Missionary New Zealand |
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| 25th July |
Seminar |
School of Historical Studies Research Day |
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| 15th July |
Conference |
150 Years of Australian Football |
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| 7th - 10th July |
Conference |
Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference: 'Locating History' |
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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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