History on Wednesday Seminar Series

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School of Humanities 

History at Sydney
2026 | Semester 1 seminar series

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History on Wednesday

Semester 1 | 2026 
12.10pm – 1.30pm | Vere Gordon Childe Centre (F09) and Zoom

Mar 4  | Dr Gaelle Bosseman (University of Rennes 2) The ongoing presence of the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages: functions and uses of an end-of-the-world motif.

Mar 18 Dr Stephen Pascoe (UNSW)
Concessionary Imperialism and Its Discontents: Sketches for an Infrastructural History of Syria.

Mar 25Associate Prof. Jennifer Ferng (Sydney)Offshoring Architecture: Asylum’s Counter Archives. 

Apr 1  | Associate Prof. Toby Martin (Sydney) 
Songwriting as History

Apr 22 | Professor Laura Beers (American University)
“The Prostitution of Reproduction”: Feminist opposition to surrogacy from the 1970s to the present day.

May 6 | Associate Prof. David Smith (Sydney)Truth-telling, renaming and removing: the experience of American Universities.

May 20Dr. Marco Duranti (Sydney)
How Social Rights became Human Rights: Christian Democracy and the Making of the 1961 European Social Charter.

Zoom link to be sent with event reminder.Venue: Vere Gordon Childe Centre (F09)

Contact:
Please contact Niro Kandasamy or James Findlay for more information:
niro[email protected]
 or [email protected]

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