Upcoming Seminars
Macquarie History Week Events 2008
For further information, please contact Lisa Featherstone Lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
This year, our History Week program is bigger and better than ever, ranging across Modern History, Ancient History, Politics, Drama and Art. A highlight is the first ever reading of Miles Franklins' play "The Survivors". But there is something for everyone.
Bennelong Across the Oceans
8 th September, 2008
11am-12.30pm
Mollie Thomson Room
Macquarie University Library
Morning tea provided.
Bookings: lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Just Scratching the Surface: What Graffiti Can Tell Us About Ancient Rome
8 th September, 2008
2pm to 3pm
Macquarie University Art Gallery , Building E11A
Bookings: Lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
A History of Terrorism
9 th September, 2008
11am- Noon
Macquarie University , Room 107, W6A
Bookings: lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Indigenous Art: Australia and the World
9 th September, 2008
1pm - 2pm
Macquarie University Art Gallery , Building E11A
Bookings: rdavis@vc.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Gallipoli From The Other Side
10 th September, 2008
12 noon to 1.30pmMacquarie University , Room 107, W6A
Bookings: lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Excavations at Saqqara
11 th September, 2008
11am- Noon
Macquarie University , Room 107, W6A
Bookings: lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Miles Franklin's First Play: 'The Survivors'. A Centenary Presentation
11 th September, 2008
5.30 for 6.00 start
Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of New South Wales
Cost $22.00, $20.00 seniors, $15.00 Friends and Students. Includes light refreshments.
Bookings essential, phone 92731770.
Greek Currents in Australian Waters: Greek-Australians and the Sea.
12 th September 2008
10.30am -11.30am
Macquarie University Art Gallery , Building E11A
Bookings: rdavis@vc.mq.edu.au
Free. Bookings essential.
Public Lecture: '"Going to the Show": Representing the Spatiality of Film History'
Robert C Allen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
13th March 2008,
5.30 for 6pm, Friends' Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of NSW
For more than thirty years, Robert Allen has explored the histories of and relationships among popular entertainment forms in America : cinema, vaudeville, burlesque, radio, and television. Of particular concern for him have been issues of exhibition, audience, and reception. In an essay published in 1999, he argued that a decade before the U.S. had entered a "post-Hollywood" era, in which the products, technologies, experiences, audiences, and locales associated with "cinema" were profoundly different from those assumed by most in the field of cinema studies. In this lecture, Professor Allen amplifies this argument and extends its implications back across the entire history of cinema in the U.S.
For more information and RSVPs, see http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/cmh/docs/CRNAllenLec.pdf
ARC Cultural Research Workshop: "Western Australian Media Histories"
3th June, 2008
State Library of Western Australia , Perth .
This workshop aims to bring together scholars and media practitioners interested in the history of the media in Western Australia . Papers are welcome on all aspects of Western Australian media history.
Convened by Bridget Griffen-Foley, contact bgfoley@húmn.mq.edu.au
Colloquium: Histories of Australian Media Reception
26th September 2008
The Centre for Media History is hosting an innovative one day colloquium on the history of media reception-reading, listening and viewing. Scholars working on Australian press, radio, television, film and Internet history are invited to offer papers for the colloquium and/or the special MIA issue. Both general articles, and specific case studies, are welcome.
For more information see http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/cmh/docs/CMHcfpaudience.pdf
Or contact: Dr Michelle Arrow: Michelle.Arrow@humn.mq.edu.au
Associate Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley: bgfoley@humn.mq.edu.au
Associate Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington: mhughesw@humn.mq.edu.au
Let's Talk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia and New Zealand
2nd -3rd October, 2008
Macquarie University
This two-day conference, hosted by the Centre for Cultural History, will explore histories of sex and sexuality in Australia and New Zealand . The conference aims to provide a forum for discussion of the range of discourses which have shaped sexual identities and practices in Australia and New Zealand and the linguistic and cultural frameworks within which individuals have articulated their sexuality. Papers are also invited for a strand on European, Asian and international histories, and postgraduates are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract.
For more information, see our website http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/cch/letstalk.html
Or contact the convenors, Rebecca Jennings or Lisa Featherstone
Rebecca.jennings@humn.mq.edu.au ; lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
4/8/08
'Histories on Wednesday' - A staff and postgraduate seminar in the Department of Modern History
All Welcome!
From 12 noon—1.15 pm in W6A 127
For further information, contact Mark Hearn on 9850 8824 or email mark.hearn@humn.mq.edu.au
August 13 Mary Spongberg (Modern History, Macquarie )
'The Abelard Complex: Gender, Genre and the History of Life Writing'.
(Co-sponsored by the Centre for Cultural History)
August 20 Ian Hoskins ( North Sydney Council Historian)
'Being Ken Burns: Film making and local history in the digital age.'
August 27 Michelle Arrow (Modern History, Macquarie )
'I can only go on the evidence of my own eyes: Witnessing the Lindy Chamberlain case on film and television'.
(Co-sponsored by the Centre for Media History)
September 3 Carol Liston ( University of Western Sydney )
'Convict women and the female factories - exhibiting history.'
September 10 Harvey Broadbent (Modern History, Macquarie )
'Researching Gallipoli Documents in Turkish Archives: Foreign archival research issues.'
September 17 Hsu-Ming Teo (Modern History, Macquarie )
'This potpourri of porno, pillage and pretense!: The Orientalist Historical Romance Novel'.
October 8 Hera Cook ( University of Birmingham )
The structure of feeling (Raymond Williams) and emotional change in mid-20th century Britain
October 15 Gordon Lang (Modern History, Macquarie )
'The changing role of the pre-Federation Governors of NSW in the 1890s'.
October 22 Angela Woollacott (Modern History, Macquarie )
'Locating Australia in the South Seas : Annette Kellerman's Mermaids and Exotic Ingenues'.
October 29 Robyn Arrowsmith (Modern History, Macquarie )
'Australian WWII War Brides' arrival in America : 'it was like going to the ends of the earth!'
November 5 Glenda Sluga (History, University of Sydney )
'Patriotism, Passions and the Intellectual History of Nationalism.'
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Macquarie University Alumni Events
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Seminar series
The Department of Modern History and the Department of Ancient History are co-chairing a new occasional seminar series called the "History, Race and Ethnicity"colloquium. The series is being co- convened by Dr Adrian Carton and Dr Andrew Gillett. The first seminar will be held on Monday 19th November at 11.00 am in the Modern History seminar room on the fourth floor of W6A. The speaker is Professor Norman Etherington from UWA in Perth, and the tilte of his talk is "Barbarians Ancient and Modern'.
Please click here for further information
HTA NSW and Macquarie University
Extension History for Teachers and Students
Saturday, 1st December 2007
A one-day symposium on extension history for teachers and students with a keynote by Dr Mark McKenna (University of Sydney) titled, 'A Creative Endeavour: Manning Clarke and the teaching of history'.
Other topics include postmodernism and history, feminist history, Marxist history, social/culture history and history through film.
click here for more information and to download the registration form
Macquarie History Week Events 2007
For further information, please contact Lisa Featherstone Lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
2pm, 16th September, Old Berowra District Hall, Corner Berowra Waters Road and Crowley Rd
“Berowra’s Living History Project - Talk and Display”
Bookings to Rhonda Davis, 9850 7437, Rhonda.Davis@vc.edu.au
1pm-2pm, 17th September, Australian History Museum, W6A Level 1, Macquarie University
Leonard Janiszeweski, “Selling an American Dream: Australia’s Greek Café’
Bookings: tracy.sullivan@humn.mq.edu.au
7.30pm, 17th September, Museum of Ancient Cultures, X5B Level, Macquarie University
Dr. Chris Forbes, “Alexander the Great Conquers Afghanistan”
Bookings essential, Karl.vandyke@mq.edu.au
11am to 12 noon, 18th September, Molly Thomson Room Level 5, Macquarie University Library
Julia Miller “Soakers and Scorchers: A History of El Nino”
Refreshments served. Please RSVP for catering : Lisa.featherstone@humn.mq.edu.au
2.pm, 19th September, Macquarie University Art Gallery, E11A, Macquarie University
Rhonda Davis, “Margaret Preston, Rural Craft, European Influences”