Join us at the IHSS & NSAH Research Seminar Series to engage in lively discussion on a range of research projects undertaken by our scholars and HDRs, as well as visiting scholars to IHSS.

All seminars are held onsite and via video link. For video links or any enquiries, contact: IHSS@acu.edu.au

2024 Program


Dr Jon Piccini (ACU)

"A visitor from another planet": Tom Mboya's Australia, 1964

Tuesday 13 August 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Dr Rohan Howitt (Monash)

Undiscovering Emerald Island: Phantom islands in the Southern ocean world

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)

"The future of decline": A study of fading US hegemony

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Time: 9.30am-2pm AEST

Introduction: Professor Peter Holbrook

Respondent: Professor Kate Fullagar

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Dr Alex Little (ACU)

Negotiating imperial unity: Colonial Australian contributions to British war, 1885-1902

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Gender and Women's History Research Centre Seminar: Dr Sarah Bendall

'Indian women' and 'Indian houses': East Indies goods and the rise of female retailers in early modern London

Monday 29 April 2024

Time: 2pm AEDT

Chair: Associate Professor Lisa O'Connell

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Dr Minerva Inwald (UNSW)

Creating amateur artists: Problems of skill in China's Great Leap Forward

Tuesday 9 April 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Chairs: Associate Professor Nell Musgrove & Dr Sarah Bendall

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Rebecca Glenn, Professor Supriya Singh (La Trobe), Dr Farjana Mahbuba (ACU)

Promoting Women's Financial Autonomy, Combating Intimate Partner Violence

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Introduction: Dr Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Chair: Dr Rachel Busbridge

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2023 Program


Professor Debjani Ganguly (The University of Virginia/ACU)

Planetary realism, science studies, and climate fiction

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Killian Quigley

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Filippo Benedetti (LUMSA/ACU)

Questions for an institutional history of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Time: 2-3pm AEDT

Chair: Dr Kristie Flannery

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Associate Professor Maggie Nolan (The University of Queensland)

Structures of Feeling in Too Much Lip and The Yield

Tuesday 5 September 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEST

Chair: Dr Killian Quigley

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Dr Mark van de Logt (Texas A&M University of Qatar)

Between the Floods: A conversation

Tuesday 1 August 2023

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Roland Zarzycki (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw)

Empty gestures in the public domain: Pretense, disguise, ignorance

Wednesday 28 June

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Professor Mélanie Méthot

Catholic one day, Catholic always: Jeanne Côté's dilemma

Wednesday 10 May

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi

Rethinking broken trust

Tuesday 2 May

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Claudia Jarzebowski (University of Bonn, Germany)

Emotion and experience. Dependent children in early modern societies

Thursday 13 April

Time: 4-5pm AEST

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Dr Rachel Busbridge

Postcolonial political theory: Tracing the contours of an emerging subfield

Tuesday 4 April

Time: 1-2pm AEST

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Dr Linda Zampol D'Ortia

Failed missions and global circulation of emotions: Ippolito Desideri in eighteenth-century Tibet

Tuesday 7 March

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

Women's legal history in the Portuguese Empire: Gendering law from a global history perspective

Wednesday 8 February

Time: 2-3pm AEDT


Professor Haruko Nawata Ward (Columbia Theological Seminary)

Deciphering Kirishitan women, emotions, and persecution

Tuesday 7 February

Time: 9-10am AEDT

Co-presented with Gender and Emotion in Japanese Christianity (1549-1638), an international workshop made possible by funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement no. 101028277 and the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Grant scheme.

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2022 Program

Associate Professor Catherine Bell

Maker Unknown: Feminist interventions in the archive, a methodology for creative collaboration, and commemorating the achievement of pioneering women

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Associate Professor Lisa O’Connell

Secret springs’ and ‘intricate negotiations’: Richardson, Roe and the global order

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Paul Giles

Decadence’s spatiotemporal technologies: Thomas Hardy and Australian time

Tuesday 6 September 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Jason Smeaton

Nurse or not? Voluntary aids and the Australian Army medical women’s service during World War II

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Associate Professor Shino Konishi

‘Wolves about their prey’: Intimacy and violence in Eyre’s expeditions

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Felix Waldmann

Gianvincenzo Gravina, maternal dominium, and Thomas Hobbes in Rome, 1699-1714

Tuesday 5 April 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Kyle Peyton

Beliefs about minority representation in policing and preferences for increasing officer diversity

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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2021 Program

Dr Ebony Nilsson

Soviet 'enemy aliens' and early Cold War Australia

Tuesday 7 December 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Anh Nguyen Austen

Digital migrants: Vietnamese refugees curating histories on Facebook

Tuesday 9 November 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Kristie Flannery

Piracy and empire in the Spanish Pacific world

Tuesday 5 October 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Dr Rachel Stevens

Refugees, relief and revolution: Australian humanitarian networks during the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

Tuesday 7 September 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Sarah Bendall

‘Wasteful, needless and unprofitable commodities’: Whalebone, fashion and the gendering of commodities and their value

Tuesday 3 August 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Peter Holbrook

D.H. Lawrence and 21st century socialism

Tuesday 6 July 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Associate Professor Shino Konishi

Encounters in indigenous history

Tuesday 1 June 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Mary Tomsic

Historical evidence and children drawing life in immigration detention in Australia

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Killian Quigley

Lively remains: Interpretive ecologies of imperial wrecks

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Dr Jessica Lake

Revolutionary to regressive: Reforming the slander of women across the 19th century Common Law world

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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2020 Program

Professor Paul Kenny

Buying power: The economics of populism from Ancient Greece to the present

Tuesday 9 December 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Iain McCalman

A woman of many masks: Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree jr), feminist, cli-fi pioneer and Anthropocene prophet

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Amanda Nettelbeck

Aboriginal dispossession and imperial humanitarianism: Colonial Australia within a mobile empire

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEDT

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Professor Kate Fullagar

Three lives in an age of empire: Exploring Pacific and Atlantic worlds during the 18th century

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick

Displacement: Thoughts on the writing of migration history

Tuesday 24 August 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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Professor Susan Broomhall

Gender and the early modern English glove

Tuesday 20 July 2020

Time: 12-1pm AEST

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