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Dr Steven Cooke and Dr Donna-Lee Frieze Attend International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Plenary Meeting in Switzerland

Dr Steven Cooke and Dr Donna-Lee Frieze attended the second bi-annual Plenary Meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in Bern, Switzerland this week as appointed Australian experts.  Press...

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Associate Professor Maria Takolander Appears on ABC Radio National

Associate Professor Maria Takolander was on RN Books and Arts on Friday 24 November to discuss the Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’ Men of Maize (1949) and its place...

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Review of Dr Sally Percival Wood’s DISSENT in The Sydney Morning Herald

Dr Sally Percival Wood‘s book, DISSENT: The Student Press in 1960s Australia was reviewed by Steven Carroll in The Sydney Morning Herald, on 23 November 2017. DISSENT: The Student Press...

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Dr Sally Percival Wood’s Article on The Conversation: ‘Student Press In 1960s Australia Was Political, Now It’s More Prozac’

Dr Sally Percival Wood‘s article, ‘Student press in 1960s Australia was political, now it’s more Prozac’, was published on The Conversation today.  Dr Percival Wood’s book, DISSENT: the student press in...

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Roy Hay on ABC Radio ‘Overnights’ Program with Rod Quinn

Roy Hay was a guest speaker on ABC Radio’s ‘Overnights’ program with Rod Quinn.  Roy  is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, where he taught for 25 years, and...

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Dr Donna-Lee Frieze – Guest Speaker at Darebin Ethnic Communities Council Genocide Remembrance Event

Dr Donna-Lee Frieze will be Guest Speaker at the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council (DECC) annual event to commemorate all victims of genocide and genocidal acts. The 2017 ceremony will...

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Professor Klaus Neumann’s New Article in Ethic and Racial Studies Journal

Professor Klaus Neumann and Dr Karina Horsti‘s article, ‘Memorializing Mass Deaths at the Border: Two Cases from Canberra (Australia) and Lampedusa (Italy)’, in Ethic and Racial Studies (2017), is...

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Dr Mathew Turner’s Article on Inside Story – ‘Historians’ Disgrace?’

Dr Mathew Turner‘s article, ‘Historians’ Disgrace’, was published on Inside Story on 14 November. Dr Turner works in the field of contemporary German history, with a focus on the historiography...

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Roy Hay on Football Extra with Ralph Barba

Roy Hay appeared on Football National Radio‘s Football Extra with Ralph Barba last week. The podcast is available on SoundCloud and iTunes. Roy is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University,...

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Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival – November 2017

The Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival will take place 17-19 November at Geelong Library and Heritage Centre.    Associate Professor Maria Takolander will be interviewing the Australian literary legend...

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Anna Kent in Conversation with Editors of International Higher Education Scholarships – Pathways to Social Change

Anna Kent is a postgraduate student, and shares her recent work with the Contemporary Histories Research Group: I recently recorded a conversation with the three editors of the International...

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Dr Sally Percival Wood’s Book Launch for DISSENT – 5 December

Dr Sally Percival Wood‘s new publication, DISSENT: The Student Press in 1960s Australia, will be launched at The Clyde Hotel, Carlton, on 5 December: DISSENT the student press in...

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