Research seminars

Dr Paige Donaghy (University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 10 September 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Dr Matthew Ryan (NSAH, ACU)
Time and Place in Sara Baume’s Seven Steeples

Tuesday 13 August 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Dr Jon Piccini (ACU)
"A visitor from another planet": Tom Mboya's Australia, 1964

Tuesday 13 August 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Dr Rohan Howitt (Monash)

Undiscovering Emerald Island: Phantom islands in the Southern ocean world

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Dr Alex Little (ACU)

Negotiating imperial unity: Colonial Australian contributions to British war, 1885-1902

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Gender and Women's History Research Centre Seminar: Dr Sarah Bendall

'Indian women' and 'Indian houses': East Indies goods and the rise of female retailers in early modern London

Monday 29 April 2024

Time: 2pm AEDT

Chair: Associate Professor Lisa O'Connell

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Dr Minerva Inwald (UNSW)

Creating amateur artists: Problems of skill in China's Great Leap Forward

Tuesday 9 April 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Rebecca Glenn, Professor Supriya Singh (La Trobe), Dr Farjana Mahbuba (ACU)

Promoting Women's Financial Autonomy, Combating Intimate Partner Violence

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Introduction: Dr Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Chair: Dr Rachel Busbridge

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2023 Program

Professor Debjani Ganguly (The University of Virginia/ACU)

Planetary realism, science studies, and climate fiction

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Killian Quigley

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Filippo Benedetti (LUMSA/ACU)

Questions for an institutional history of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Time: 2-3pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Kristie Flannery

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Associate Professor Maggie Nolan (The University of Queensland)

Structures of Feeling in Too Much Lip and The Yield

Tuesday 5 September 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chair: Dr Killian Quigley

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Dr Mark van de Logt (Texas A&M University of Qatar)

Between the Floods: A conversation

Tuesday 1 August 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Roland Zarzycki (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw)

Empty gestures in the public domain: Pretense, disguise, ignorance

Wednesday 28 June

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Professor Mélanie Méthot

Catholic one day, Catholic always: Jeanne Côté's dilemma

Wednesday 10 May

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi

Rethinking broken trust

Tuesday 2 May

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Claudia Jarzebowski (University of Bonn, Germany)

Emotion and experience. Dependent children in early modern societies

Thursday 13 April

Time: 4-5pm AEST

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Dr Rachel Busbridge

Postcolonial political theory: Tracing the contours of an emerging subfield

Tuesday 4 April

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Dr Linda Zampol D'Ortia

Failed missions and global circulation of emotions: Ippolito Desideri in eighteenth-century Tibet

Tuesday 7 March

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

Women's legal history in the Portuguese Empire: Gendering law from a global history perspective

Wednesday 8 February

Time: 2-3pm AEDT

Professor Haruko Nawata Ward (Columbia Theological Seminary)

Deciphering Kirishitan women, emotions, and persecution

Tuesday 7 February

Time: 9-10am AEDT

Co-presented with Gender and Emotion in Japanese Christianity (1549-1638), an international workshop made possible by funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement no. 101028277 and the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Grant scheme.

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2022 Program

Associate Professor Catherine Bell

Maker Unknown: Feminist interventions in the archive, a methodology for creative collaboration, and commemorating the achievement of pioneering women

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Associate Professor Lisa O’Connell

Secret springs’ and ‘intricate negotiations’: Richardson, Roe and the global order

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Paul Giles

Decadence’s spatiotemporal technologies: Thomas Hardy and Australian time

Tuesday 6 September 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Jason Smeaton

Nurse or not? Voluntary aids and the Australian Army medical women’s service during World War II

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Associate Professor Shino Konishi

‘Wolves about their prey’: Intimacy and violence in Eyre’s expeditions

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Felix Waldmann

Gianvincenzo Gravina, maternal dominium, and Thomas Hobbes in Rome, 1699-1714

Tuesday 5 April 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Kyle Peyton

Beliefs about minority representation in policing and preferences for increasing officer diversity

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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2021 Program

Dr Ebony Nilsson

Soviet 'enemy aliens' and early Cold War Australia

Tuesday 7 December 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Anh Nguyen Austen

Digital migrants: Vietnamese refugees curating histories on Facebook

Tuesday 9 November 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Kristie Flannery

Piracy and empire in the Spanish Pacific world

Tuesday 5 October 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Rachel Stevens

Refugees, relief and revolution: Australian humanitarian networks during the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

Tuesday 7 September 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Sarah Bendall

‘Wasteful, needless and unprofitable commodities’: Whalebone, fashion and the gendering of commodities and their value

Tuesday 3 August 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Peter Holbrook

D.H. Lawrence and 21st century socialism

Tuesday 6 July 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Associate Professor Shino Konishi

Encounters in indigenous history

Tuesday 1 June 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Mary Tomsic

Historical evidence and children drawing life in immigration detention in Australia

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Killian Quigley

Lively remains: Interpretive ecologies of imperial wrecks

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Jessica Lake

Revolutionary to regressive: Reforming the slander of women across the 19th century Common Law world

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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2020 Program

Professor Paul Kenny

Buying power: The economics of populism from Ancient Greece to the present

Tuesday 9 December 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Iain McCalman

A woman of many masks: Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree jr), feminist, cli-fi pioneer and Anthropocene prophet

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Amanda Nettelbeck

Aboriginal dispossession and imperial humanitarianism: Colonial Australia within a mobile empire

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Kate Fullagar

Three lives in an age of empire: Exploring Pacific and Atlantic worlds during the 18th century

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick

Displacement: Thoughts on the writing of migration history

Tuesday 24 August 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Susan Broomhall

Gender and the early modern English glove

Tuesday 20 July 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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