Announcements

Online [State Library of NSW], 6 February 2024, 11.00 am (AEDT) During the Vietnam War, Australian activists were aware of the importance of the body as a tool for non-traditional

Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, Thursday 1 February 2024, 9.00am to 5.30pm AEDT Medicare turns forty on 1 February 2024. This forum looks at Medicare’s first 40 years and the reforms needed

AHA member Laura Dawes has initiated a petition to save and protect Marie Curie’s Laboratory from demolition. Laura notes: ‘Marie Curie (1867-1934) is the most famous female scientist in the

State Library of NSW, Monday 11 December 2023 This conference brings scholars of different migrant communities together to explore the twentieth century period of mass migration. Migrants were embedded in

State Library of NSW, Tuesday 5 December 2023, 2.00pm to 5.30pm AEDT Don’t miss the launch of New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World (University of

Macquarie University and online, Tuesday 5 December 2023, 8.30am to 5.00pm AEDT This symposium will explore intersections between Public Sport History and Community Sport. It provides an opportunity for reflection

Great Southern Room, Level 4, State Library of WA, 1 and 2 December 2023 The State Library of Western Australia is proud to host Australian Legacies of Slavery, a two-day

National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Tuesday 28 November 2023, 6.00pm AEDT Jenny Hocking will deliver the 2023 Rod Wallace Memorial Lecture for the Friends of the NFSA at the

Online, Tuesday 21 November 2023, 6.30pm AEDT Join Anna Johnston for this online seminar in the Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series. The talk is entitled ‘“Songs of an Exile”: Sentiment

State Library of NSW, Thursday 16 November 2023, 5.30pm to 7.30pm AEDT Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia could claim compensation for ‘breach of promise

RSSS Building, ANU, Friday 17 November 2023, 9.00am to 5.00pm AEDT This one-day event will explore the relationship between gender and authority, and how the exercise of power affected the

RSSS Building, ANU, Saturday 25 November 2023, 1.15pm AEDT Join Kate Laing and the ANU Press for the launch of Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and

Online, Tuesday 21 November 2023, 12.00pm AEDT The Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University welcomes attendees for the 2023 Bernard Bailyn Lecture in North American History, ‘Artificial

Online, Thursday 16 November 2023, 12.30 to 1.30pm AEDT The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network will hold a seminar celebrating the joint winners of its inaugural book

Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne, Monday 13 November 2023, 6.00pm to 8.30pm AEDT This lecture, to be delivered by Nick Eckstein will address the topic of “Time and Space in Renaissance