Department of History Seminar Series, Semester One 2018

Dear colleagues and friends of the History Department, University of Sydney
In 2018 our departmental seminar will be moving to a different day of the week and will be held at intervals across the semester rather than weekly. The venue remains the same. Details of this semester’s program for History on Wednesday can be found below and the full program is on the web here:
Seminar Series for Postgraduates and Faculty
Held at 12.10-1.30
in Woolley Common Room, Woolley Building A22
(Enter Woolley through the entrance on Science Road and climb the stairs in front of you. Turn left down the corridor, and the WCR is the door at the end of the hall)
Coordinators:
Dr Andrés Rodriguez and Professor Kirsten McKenzie
Semester 1 2018
7 March
Marco Duranti (University of Sydney)
French Colonialism and International Human Rights after 1945
21 March
Peter Hobbins (University of Sydney) and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen (University of Newcastle)
False horizon: historical data, the psychology of risk and the politics of safety
18 April
Penny Russell (University of Sydney)
Family Business: Love and Money in Colonial Sydney
2 May
Paul Betts (Oxford University)
Red Globalism: Eastern Europe, Decolonization and African Heritage
16 May
Elizabeth Manley (Xavier University of Louisiana)
Created by God for Tourism: Developing Tropical Paradise in the Dominican Republic, 1966 – 1978
23 May
Chris Hilliard (University of Sydney)
Housing, Race and the Remaking of the English Working Class