CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 10th May , 11am – Margaret Hutchison
Join us for a seminar with Margaret Hutchison (UNSW), “Digger’s Suicide”: Veterans, Suicidality, and the Media in Australia, 1914-1950
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Concerned with pasts that are not yet past
CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 17th May , 11am – Hannah Forsyth
Join us online or in person for a seminar with Hannah Forsyth (ACU) – Virtue Capitalists: the professional class and the rise of new class conflict c.1870-2008
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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 24th May , 11am – Scott McCarthy
Join us for our final seminar of Trimester 1, with Scott McCarthy – ‘Gentlemanly young Australians’ and ‘”Cawtholic” snobs’: the liminal nature of middle-class Catholic identity in Victoria and New South Wales prior to the Great War.
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New Housing Histories Workshop
Dr Stephen Pascoe (UNSW), Dr Rachel Goldlust (La Trobe) and Fiona Gatt (Deakin), recently organised the inaugural New Housing Histories Workshop. The one-day event, held at Deakin Downtown on Friday 21 April 2023 and sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Histories, invited emerging and established scholars to engage in conversation about the future prospects of the field.
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