History @ Newcastle
Research Seminar Series
ALL WELCOME!!
Seminars are held in Cultural Collections @ Auchmuty Library (ground floor, through AIC), from 10am, and are followed by morning tea at 11am.
Semester Two, 2015
| Week 3 Friday 14 Aug. |
Ken Thornton – UoN “The ‘Poles and Wires’ do not care who owns them. Should we? The rise of centralised coordination of electricity generation and transmission in New South Wales 1888-2003.” |
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| Week 5 Friday 28 Aug. |
Julie McIntyre – UoN “Australia’s Atlantic: Trans-imperial encounters, exchange and entanglement” |
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| Week 7 Friday 11 Sept. |
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| Week 9 Friday 9 Oct. |
Chris Cuneen – Macquarie “The ADB 50 Years On: updating Dangar, Dumaresq and co” |
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| Week 11 Friday 23 Oct. |
Jo May – UoN “Headmistresses, Archives and Audit Selves: reflections on the first two female principals of Maitland Girls High School 1884-1887″ |
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| Week 13 Friday 6 Nov. |
Michael Kilmister – UoN ‘Treading on Anzac’s Sacred Ground: Fight or Flight?’* |
For more information contact matthew.lewis@newcastle.edu.au or visit the History @ Newcastle Facebook page.
*This paper is co-authored by Dr James Bennett and Dr Jennifer Debenham.
