2009

Cultures of Violence and Conflict
The Second Conference of the International Society for Cultural History

20 to 23 July 2009
Hosted by the Cultural History Project, University of Queensland

The second conference of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) will address a broad series of questions pertaining to cultures of violence and conflict. For scholars across a range of disciplines the origins, nature, and impact of violence and conflict have been of fundamental concern, as highlighted by recent publications including Joanna Bourke’s Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present, and Slavoj Žižek’s Violence. Given that ongoing scholarly interest, and the urgency of such matters in the contemporary world, it is appropriate that this assembly encourages research and discussion on these topics as seen through the diverse perspectives of cultural history.

For further information, please visit this website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/isch/
The flyer is also available here for download.

2008

"Making America"

Friday 7 March
10-12.30 am
W6A 127

10.00 am Professor George Perkins (University of Eastern Michigan) and Professor Barbara Perkins (University of Toledo).

"Immigrant Literature in the United States: Questions of Nativity."

11.00 am Coffee

11.15 am Professor Carroll Pursell (Macquarie University)

"American Boys, Their Books, and the Romance of Technology."

Enquiries to Marea Mitchell (9850 8754)
marea.mitchell@mq.edu.au

This two-day conference, hosted by Macquarie University’s 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.  Recent histories of sexuality have increasingly considered the impact of space and the material environment on sexuality and the conference will reflect on the significance of this trend in the historiography of the region.  The conference will provide an exciting opportunity for colleagues to debate new developments in the field and it is hoped that selected conference papers will form the basis of an edited collection on current research in Australian and New Zealand histories of sexuality.

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2007

An occasional series of presentations by visiting and Macquarie scholars that considers ancient, modern, and contemporary conceptions of race and ethnicity and how these have shaped historiographic understandings of past societies and events.

PROFESSOR NORMAN ETHERINGTON
University of Western Australia
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences
Former President of the Australian Historial Association

Title: BARBARIANS ANCIENT AND MODERN

Date: 11.00-12.00, Monday 19 November 2007

Venue: W6A 127, floor 4 Modern History Seminar Room (rotating venues)


For further information, please contact:
Andrew Gillett 9850 9966 andrew.gillett@humn.mq.edu.au
Adrian Carton 9850 7041 adrian.carton@humn.mq.edu.au

Supported by:
the Centre for Cultural History
the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre

1.30 - 5.30pm, Friday 26th October, Macquarie University, Building W6A, Room 107
Hosted by the Centre for Cultural Historyin association with the Centre for Media History, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University

Click for Symposium Program, Abstracts and Speakers' biographies

You are cordially invited to the inaugural event of the Centre for Cultural History in the Humanities Division at Macquarie University. Sex and Sedition: Censorship in Australia, Then and Now - 2 pm, Friday May 25th, Room 107, W6A, Macquarie University.

Click to view/download the event flyer (pdf)