Archive for the ‘Seminar’ Category

The symposium “Gender and Settler Colonialism” was held last friday at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne. To get an idea of the areas covered, have a look at the program. Keynote: Angela Wanhalla, ‘Intimate Moments, Racial Pasts, Colonial Histories’ Chair: Kat Ellinghaus ‘Intimacy, Space and Types/Representations of Indigenous Women’ Chair: Lynette Russell Penelope […]


Coming up in Melbourne soon is this symposium on gender and settler colonialism. I will certainly attend and hopefully post some reflections about it afterwards. Here is some info: Friday 19 March, 9.45am-5.15pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies (54 Curzon St, Nth Melbourne) Confirmed speakers and commentators include: Ann Curthoys (Sydney), Patricia Grimshaw (Melbourne), Lynette Russell (Monash), […]


FEEGI’s biennial conference (Empire and Identity in the Early Modern World) is now only a couple of weeks away. From their website: The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. Members come to FEEGI from a wide range of […]


The Legal History Blog has called our attention to a conference to be held at UC Irvine in April. The program looks great: April 16th Welcome and Introduction: Catherine Fisk (Law, UC Irvine) Session 1: Interactions – Law, Text, History Chair Dirk Hartog (History, Princeton) Speakers: Steven Wilf (Law, Connecticut), “Law/Text/Past”; Norman Spaulding (Law, Stanford), […]


Seminar topics this year include: Sexuality in the South Seas Critical Histories of Human Biology and ‘Hybridity’ in the Pacific The Antarctic Laboratory: Science, Culture, and Law The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field for more details, check the USYD School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry website.