Conflict + Society Seminars
Introduction
Conflict + Society seminars debate issues relating to the nexus of social and military history.
We are switching our Conflict + Society Seminar Series to Webinar Format. Our first Webinar will be on Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 5pm AEST (GMT + 10 hrs) or, in summer, at 5pm AEDT (GMT +11 hours)
Our webinar format will be a 30-minute presentation followed by a question-and-answer session.
Those who participate (as presenters or audience) are postgraduates and academics from ACT universities, professional historians, early career researchers, independent scholars, Australian Defence Force personnel, and interested individuals. Attendance is free. Registration is required to receive a zoom link.
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2020 PROGRAMME
Tuesday 21 July View abstracts and biographies → |
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Professor Peter StanleyInventing Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: The Santal Rebellion of 1855 |
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Recording of the webinar is available here |
Tuesday 25 August View abstracts and biographies → |
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Dr Catherine BondInternment by Law in First World War Australia:Franz Wallach and Wilhelm Karl Lude |
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Recording of the webinar is available here |
Tuesday 29 September View abstracts and biographies → |
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James Morrison, PhD CandidateThe Militia, Conscription and Politics of ‘One Army’, 1939-1945 |
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Recording of the webinar is available hereAccess Passcode: D4f69@3P |
Tuesday 27 October View abstracts and biographies → |
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Jessie Lewcock‘I ought to have been killed at the War’: Studying Australian First World War Veterans who Died by Suicide |
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Recording of the webinar is available here |
Tuesday 24 November View abstracts and biographies → |
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Dr Thomas J. RogersThe New South Wales contingent to Sudan, 1885: colonial commemoration and commentary. |
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Past Seminars
2019 PROGRAMME
12:00 noon – 1:30pm
Navy Room, Adams Auditorium, UNSW Canberra at ADFA
SEMESTER 1
Tuesday 19 March View abstracts and biographies → |
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Alexandra McKinnonHereafter: Memory, Commemoration, and the First World War at the Australian War Memorial, 1927–1930s |
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Emeritus Professor Peter DennisThe possibilities and perils of military prosopography revisited |
Tuesday, 26 March View abstract and biographies → |
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Georgia McWhinneyUniform and Uniformity: Fashioning Vernacular Medicine in the First World War British and Dominion Forces |
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Damien ZuccariniNo Australian need apply: British officers, command and the Australian Imperial Force |
Tuesday, 23 April View abstract and biographies → |
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Jordan BeavisCo-operation between Commonwealth Armies during the Inter-War period |
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Nicole TownsendReady to see it through? Australian Preparations for a Second World War. |
Tuesday, 30 April View abstracts and biographies → |
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Honae CuffeThe 1944 Australia-New Zealand Agreement: Wartime Diplomacy and Australia’s Future Role in the Asia-Pacific |
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Liam Kane‘Prompt and Drastic Action’: Policing, Discipline and Crime in the American-Australian Alliance, 1942–1945. |
SEMESTER 2
Tuesday, 13 August View abstracts and biographies → |
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Dr Meleah HamptonApproaching the Battles for Bullecourt, April-May 1917 |
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Jaclyn Hopkins‘[O]ne needs a special Pal in a place like this’: Relationships between Australian nurses during the First World War |
Tuesday, 24 September View abstracts and biographies → |
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Bryce AbrahamPolicies, Politics and Patrols: The Mechanics of Recognition in Australia’s Korean War |
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Ebony NilssonA “bloody migrant who thinks he can run a union”: Postwar Migrants, ASIO, and the Australian Trade Unions |
Tuesday, 1 October View abstracts and biographies → |
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Daniel SeatonConceptualising and Constructing a Group Biography of Australia’s Second World War Correspondents |
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Dr Emily RobertsonComplex Imperialism: the Western Australian labour movement press in Australia and the Great War |
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