Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Panel discussion
An exhibition and panel discussion by Kaya Barry, Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand. The exhibition brings together images and stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia.Hosted by ABC Radio National's Natasha Mitchell, this public panel discussion will…
Do Sydney’s disease histories challenge pathogen avoidance theory?
Seminar
For the past two decades there have been various theses and antitheses regarding the idea that the disgust reaction evolved to support pathogen avoidance. Pathogen avoidance theory maintains that human self-preservation is dependent on avoiding, sublimating or destroying microbes. At first glance,…
What’s to know about politics? Positivism and tradition in Australian undergraduate program and course descriptions (William Howe, ANU)
Seminar
How do Australian universities today communicate to potential and new students what constitutes fundamental knowledge in the study of politics? In this talk I discuss results of research on required or core undergraduate course descriptions in political science; international relations; and,…
What’s in a name? The inoculation of smallpox in early eighteenth-century Britain
Seminar
This paper questions the established narrative concerning the introduction of inoculation to Georgian Britain. Its arrival is typically attributed to the account of Turkish practice by Emanuel Timoni, which first appeared in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions (June 1714), and the…
Matthew Flinders: British Spy or the Victim of an unfortunate Chain of Events? Shedding light on the explorer’s imprisonment on Mauritius (1803-1810) and its disastrous consequences
Seminar
Over 221 years ago, on 15 December 1803, having no charts of Mauritius and only information gleaned from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (lent by Sir Joseph Banks), Captain Matthew Flinders put in at Baie du Cap in the French colony of Mauritius, unaware that war had broken out between France and…
Religious exemptions as public pedagogies of homophobia
Seminar
The concept of public pedagogy (Sandlin et al. 2010) explores how societal norms are conveyed outside formal education. This framework helps to understand how religious exemptions to discrimination laws in Australian schools function as a means of teaching homophobia. Religious exemptions allow…
Roundtable discussion: The End of Deep History? Where have we been and where to now?
Seminar
This Roundtable brings together key researchers who shaped the seven-year ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program ‘Rediscovering the Deep Human Past: Global Networks, Future Opportunities’ at the Research Centre for Deep History led by Professor Ann McGrath AM. Defying our interest in critiquing…