Events in the Department of History

History on Monday

Seminar Series for Postgraduates and Faculty

Held at 12.10-1.30
in Woolley Common Room, Woolley Building
(Enter Woolley through the entrance on Science Road and climb the stairs in front of you. Turn left down the corridor, and the WCR is the door at the end of the hall)

2013 Coordinator: Ivan Crozier

Semester 1, 2013

March 4

Mae Ngai (Columbia University),
Chinese Gold Miners and the Chinese Question in Pacific-World Settler Colonies

March 11
Simon Szreter (Cambridge University),
'Venereal disease and modern Britain's demographic history of immeasurable importance? (tbc)

March 18

March 25
Sheila Fitzpatrick (Sydney),
A Spy in the Archives: Research Adventures in Moscow in the 1960s.

April 8
Ted McCormick (Concordia University),
Political Arithmetic, Providence, and the Protestant Interest in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

April 15
Lawrence Peskin (Morgan State University),
Constructing a Nation from Afar: Robert Montgomery and the Early American Consulate

April 22
Miranda Johnson (Sydney),
Tribalizing race in settler states

April 29
Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne)
title tbc

May 6
Julie Ann Smith (Sydney),
title tbc

May 13
Steve Behrendt (Victoria University of Wellington),
Liverpool as a Trading Port, 1700-1850: An Online Relational Database Project

May 20
Nick Rasmussen (HPS, UNSW),
Goofball Panic: Addiction, Public Order and Health, and the Regulation of Medicine in the United States circa 1950

May 27
Mark McKenna (Sydney),
Walking into history. William Clark's epic journey of 1797 and the beginning of an Australian history told through place

June 3
John Wong (Sydney),
Sun Yatsen the Christian

Public Lectures

J.M. Ward Memorial Lecture

The Ward Lecture honours the late John Manning Ward AO. Professor Ward was a distinguished historian, serving as Challis Professor of History from 1948 to 1979. He steered the History Department through a period of scarce resources into an era of expansion. Today it is one of the largest and most productive in Australia. Professor Ward took office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1981 and retired from that position on 31 January 1990.

History Week

September 3-11 2011
The theme for History Council of New South Wales’ History Week 2011will be ‘EAT History’. Staff from the Department of History will be presenting a series of fascinating talks during this year’s History Week, which 'will bring to the table the Edible, Appetising and Tasty history of food. Who ate what and where in the past? How did we cook and where did our food come from? History Week 2011 will be a smorgasbord of delectable delights!'.

Information about the Department of History's History Week events is posted in July/August each year. See the History Council website for more information.

Conferences

Sea Stories: Maritime Landscapes, Cultures and Histories conference

12-14 June 2013

Maritime landscapes and communities are essential to understanding the historical, cultural and environmental trajectories that have configured the Asia-Pacific world. Oceans, seas and coastlines shaped, and were in turn shaped by, peoples and cultures. Indigenous/European engagements created sites of conflict, negotiation and compromise, and facilitated networks of trade and exchange, producing stories, objects and memories. How does attention to the maritime dimension help us to understand these relationships? The conference ‘Sea Stories: Maritime Landscapes, Cultures and Histories’ will provide a forum for examining the complex interactions of peoples, places, environments and cultures across the maritime landscapes of Australasia and the Pacific. The conference will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines (e.g. Archaeology, Anthropology, Heritage, History, Literature, Environmental Studies) who work on the landscapes and cultures of the sea. The conference aims to highlight the important interdisciplinary work being carried out on maritime cultures, societies, histories and landscapes across the region. As a key maritime centre for Indigenous peoples, settlers and visitors, and home to several major Australian institutions for maritime research (e.g. the Australian National Maritime Museum, the University of Sydney) Sydney is an ideal venue for this conference.

Click here for more information and to register