The Red Cross’s Public Health Turn. The Cannes Medical Conference of 1919 and the Origins of the League of Red Cross Societies
Lecture/seminar
This seminar paper is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impact on the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards peacetime and public…
Heterogeneity in Population Ageing: A Formal Demographic Analysis of the Impact of Variation in Mortality, Measurement and Subpopulations
Lecture/seminar
Affected by increasing life expectancies, falling fertility rates and changing migration patterns, population ageing is the culmination of demographic changes that have been underway since the start of the demographic transition. Population ageing is powerful and unrelenting, affecting healthcare…
The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Mass Death across Ukraine, Moldavia and Russia
Lecture/seminar
This talk explores the last famine in Soviet History, which killed around one million people in 1946/47, especially in Ukraine and Moldavia, but about which we know very little. The Soviet state repressed news of the 1946/47 famine at the time, and it remains understudied in English-language…
In Conversation with Sita Sargeant
Book launch
A collaboration between the National Centre of Biography and Harry Hartog (ANU)Founder of tour company She Shapes History Sita Sargeant will be in conversation with Michelle Staff about her latest book She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women (Hardie Grant, 2025),…
Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community
Lecture/seminar
Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature reserves, surrounded by a built environment. In this seminar, Dr Peerson will discuss other ways of viewing urban ecology. By considering diverse…
A Moving Sense of Place: Cinematic Geographies as Representations of the Korean Past
Lecture/seminar
In reflecting well-received historical understanding and perception, as well as in contributing to an evolving popular discourse about the nation’s past, Korean historical films released over the past quarter-century—the so-called “Korean Wave” period—have done a masterful job of using the country’…
Menzies Memories
Seminar
This paper will focus on two historical junctures and two sets of sources, concerned with Australians’ construction of collective memory of Robert Menzies (1894-1978; Prime Minister 1939-41, 1949-66). The first part will explore responses to Menzies’ retirement in 1966, focussing on letters written…