| Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Humanities History at Sydney 2026 | Semester 1 seminar series   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 25 | Associate 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 20 | Dr. 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] Seminar image: Unsplash  |
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