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Professor David Lowe’s Article Selected for Australian Journal of International Affairs 70th Anniversary Editor’s Choice Collection

Professor David Lowe‘s article “Australia at the United Nations in the 1950s: The Paradox of Empire” has been selected for the 70th Anniversary Editor’s Choice Collection of the Australian...

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Will Peart Reflects on Recent Australian Policy and History Workshop

Will Peart is a postgraduate student, and recently attended a workshop hosted by the Australian Policy and History Network, titled “How Australians Should Live: Historical Perspectives on Current Policy...

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Dr Cassandra Atherton and Dr Alyson Miller’s VicArts Research Project

Dr Cassandra Atherton and Dr Alyson Miller were awarded a VicArts Grant earlier in 2016 for international research and development of a graphic verse novel (collaboration with artist Phil Day...

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Dr Samuel Koehne’s “Hail Trump? White Nationalists and the Use of Nazi Rhetoric” Published on Deakin Speaking

Dr Samuel Koehne is an expert on Nazism and religion, and has a developed international profile owing to a series of publications in world-class journals (including Central European History, The Journal of Contemporary...

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Ramachandra Guha and “The Challenge of Contemporary History”

The Australia India Institute and the Contemporary Histories Research Group hosted Professor Ramachandra Guha on 10 November for a seminar titled “The Challenge of Contemporary History”.     We...

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Roy Hay on Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin

Contemporary Histories Research Group Sports Historian Roy Hay considers the emerging traces of an Indigenous athletic life in the Western District of Victoria, that of ‘Pompey’ Austin: Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889 At least...

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Dr Samuel Koehne’s Paper Leads to Exhibition in the American Museum of Art

Dr Samuel Koehne works in the field of Modern European History, focusing particularly on the interrelations between religion, politics and nationalism. He is an expert on Nazism and religion, and...

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Professor David McCooey and Associate Professor Maria Takolander ‘s New Publications

Professor David McCooey and Associate Professor Maria Takolander have had poems chosen for publication in The Best Australian Poems 2016, Black Inc’s annual anthology. Their work will also be...

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PhD Student Anna Kent’s Recent Research Trip to NYC

Anna Kent‘s PhD is titled Australian Scholarships for Indonesia 1960 to 2015: Critical Mass, Policy and Expectations Associated with Scholarships and Alumni. New York, New York My area of...

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Professor David McCooey’s Poems Published

Professor David McCooey‘s poems have been published in the anthology, Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, recently published by Hunter. The seventy new poems commissioned for this anthology demonstrate a complexity of social, political,...

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Welcome to Our New Member Dr Eric Meadows

Dr Eric Meadows is the Regional Director for Australia at Arcadia University, Philadelphia, and a Visiting Fellow at Deakin University. He is based in Melbourne. Eric began his professional...

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Professor David McCooey’s Appearance on ABC Radio National’s ‘The Music Show’

Professor David McCooey discussed the work of the late Leonard Cohen with Andrew Ford on ABC Radio National’s ‘The Music Show’ on Saturday 12 November. The interview can also be heard...

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