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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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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 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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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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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 3rd May, 11am – Rohan Bastin | CANCELLED

Join us online or in person for a seminar with Rohan Bastin – Martyrdom and Myths of State: Bearing Witness to Freedom in the Political Age 

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 26th April, 11am – Mia Martin Hobbs

Join us in person or online for a special Anzac Day seminar with Mia Martin Hobbs.

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 19th April, 11am – Giselle Bastin

Join us in person at Burwood or Waurn Ponds, or online, for a seminar with Associate Professor Giselle Bastin (Flinders).

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 29th March, 11am – Clare Corbould

Join us online or in person for a seminar with Clare Corbould – “Growing Up in the Black Belt Revisited: Race and Social Science in Mid-Twentieth Century United States”

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 22nd March, 11am – Joan Beaumont

Join us online or in person for a seminar with Joan Beaumont – The psychology of military decision making.

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Interview with Katharine Murphy

In this interview, Prof. Matthew Ricketson interviews the Guardian Australia’s political editor, Katharine Murphy, about her recent Quarterly Essay – Lone Wolf.

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 15th March, 11am – Claire Lowrie

Join us in person or online for a seminar with Claire Lowrie (UoW) – Moving Images: Analysing Photographs of Chinese Amahs

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CCH Seminar Series 2023 – Wed 8th March, 11am – Geoff Boucher

Join us for the first CCH Seminar of 2023, given by Associate Professor Geoff Boucher.

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