School of History Seminar Series: Semester 1, 2015

Wednesdays 4.155.30pm
McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Fellows Road, ANU
Week
2

25 February

Frank Bongiorno (ANU)

Rethinking Australias 1980s

4 March

Manning Clark Centenary, 19152015: History in Public

Manning Clark Centenary Panel
Confirmed Panellists: Nicholas Brown (ANU), Mark McKenna (University of Sydney)
Co-sponsored by the School of History (CASS) and Manning Clark House
Note special time and venue
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Manning Clark Centre (Bldg 26A), Theatre 5
The event will be followed by a reception and registration will be necessary to attend.

11 March

18 March

Nicholas Brown (ANU)

Before the Astonished Gaze of Chooks: J. G. Crawford and a View of the World through
Agriculture
Jon Lawrence (University of Cambridge)
Reconstructing the Politics of Everyday Life, 19451990

25 March

Jacqui Donegan (PhD Candidate, ANU)

The Confectionery Kings: Robertson, Allen, and Hoadley

1 April

Ben Mercer (ANU)

Discourses of Democracy: The Seizure of Speech in 1968

Break
Break
8

8 April
15 April
22 April

NO SEMINAR NON-TEACHING PERIOD

29 April

10

6 May

11

13 May
14 May

12

20 May

13

27 May

NO SEMINAR NON-TEACHING PERIOD

Jonathon Israel (Princeton University)

Enlightenment and Revolution: The Role of Enlightenment Ideas in Shaping the French
Revolutionary Factions (17801830)
The Hon. Justice Richard Button (NSW Supreme Court)
What Lawyers can Learn from Historians and what Historians can Learn from Lawyers
Allan Martin week visitor: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College, University of London)
The Social Life of Weapons (19141945)
Carolyn Strange (ANU)
From Pardoning to Parole? Discretionary Justice in Progressive Era New York
Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
A Film Never Made
Co-sponsored by the Fenner School of Environment & Society (CMBE) and the School of History
(CASS)
Note special time and venue
th
Time: Thursday 14 May, 1pm
Venue: Fenner Seminar Room (Bldg 141)
Melanie Nolan (ANU)
Channelling George?: George Lansburys Australian Experience and Coral Lansburys Arcady in
Australia
Sophie Scott-Brown (ANU)
The Histories of Raphael Samuel: Reflecting on the Politics of Biographical Narrative
End of Program for Semester

ALL WELCOME

Please direct enquiries to tania.colwell@anu.edu.au