Our Quad Intellectual History seminar continues with: @aejelacic “Charles Poulett Thomson: restrained radical?” & @kern_em “Alternate Edens: History, Evolution & the Politics of Universalism in UNESCO’s Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind”, 21 October, 4-6 pm. @USydHistory
Our next Quad IH seminar with 2 papers: Tamson Pietsch (@cap_and_gown) “The Floating University: The Politics of Knowledge in the Age of American Empire”& Jarrah Sastrawan (@infiniteteeth) “The Precarious Past: Historical Practices in Indic Java”. 30 September 4-6 pm @USydHistory
2020 Australian History Prize is awarded to ‘Bedlam at Botany Bay’ by James Dunk (@newsouthpub). @JamesHDunk #NSWPHA#HistoryWeek2020
Read judges’ comments: https://t.co/446ljyyusl
Academy's 2020 #Humanities Travelling Fellowship recipient @benhuf of @Sydney_Uni & @statelibrarynsw will do first sustained inquiry in 50 years of history of money & banking in 19th century Australia to inform current debates on financial institutions.
https://t.co/hbFZK79kWt
Our next seminar w 2 papers: Rohan Howitt ‘"A Monroe Doctrine of Our Own": Oceanic Visions of an Australian Empire' & @SarahABendall ‘Feminine Personification & Masculine Forms: Armour, Gender & Power in the Valois-Habsburg Conflicts of 16th-c. Europe’. 9 Sept 4-6 pm @USydHistory
Free during your lunch break this Thursday? Why not tune into my talk on farthingale-makers and body-makers and the garment trades of 17th-century London!
History on Wednesday is back! Join us this semester on Zoom as cutting edge researchers take us from China to Memphis to West Papua to postwar Australia to New Caledonia and back again. All are welcome. #HoW@ebonynilsson@EmmaKluge1@Hollie_Pich@Briony_Neilson
Others have tweeted this book already but my copies arrived only today, 8 yrs (?) since @MarcoLDuranti 's conference @ArtSS_Sydney. The cover is of officials arriving at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, July 30, 1972. Thanks to all. @CUPAcademic
Who gets a say in the story of Australia? Please sign and share this important petition concerning maintaining funding for the Arts, Humanities, the Social Sciences at Australian universities .https://t.co/uXVJbeJgDI via
If you missed the announcement late last week, New Earth Histories is hosting an roundtable on 'Decolonizing Geology' on the 3rd of July.
Speakers will discuss deep time, geology & archaeology. Panellists: @CinTyLee1 @WaterThe_Planet & Christopher Wilson
https://t.co/IEtq6CiE5v
The Australian Academy of the Humanities today expressed deep concern about the Government’s changes to university fee structures, which disproportionally affect the #humanities and call into question the very role of the 21st century university.
https://t.co/Ay7ySCDbRu
Click to read the interview about my research with Forum @ArtsUnimelb ! Such a pleasure to be part of the SHAPS school. Looking forward to seeing what my research on baleen & fashion uncovers!
https://t.co/e0lz3G19ZT