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Locality: Bundoora, Victoria

Address: Level 1, David Myers Building East 3086 Bundoora, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 What are your plans for the weekend? How about a book festival in sunny Mildura? Online of course - Write Around the Murray host a special free event at 5 this evening. With Prof Clare Wright at the helm, hear from Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar, Chris Flynn and James Dunk responding to the NSW History Week theme, History: What is it good for? 5pm Saturday on the facebooks or youtubes https://www.writearoundthemurray.org.au//author/past-tense 5... Watch the event with us in real-time on YouTube or Facebook live.

25.01.2022 This week the three-minute thesis (3MT) university finals were held online, during which the Visualise Your Thesis entries were also shown. In an exciting development, History Dept PhD Candidate Katrina Dernelley Competition was Highly Commended by the Judging Panel, who were "really impressed with the high quality of [Katrinas] entry, among what proved to be highly competitive entries, and have awarded [her] $100 in prize money." Great work Katrina and congratualtions! You can see Katrionas entry here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90jxjHZJigg

24.01.2022 Our History Program Convener, Dr Emma Robertson, humbly admits to "making a brief appearance on a series celebrating 60 years since the launch of Focus on Africa on the BBC World Service". Dr Robertson recently co-authored a book on the BBC World Service with Gordon Johnston, focussing on the imperial origins of the BBC Empire Service and the slow dawning realisation that it might need to look beyond its white ex-pat audience after World War 2. Enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08n6l0h

24.01.2022 We're all pretty excited to hear that Alan Lester and Nikita Vanderbyl have had their co-authored article published in the prestigious History Workshop Journal. Warmest congratulations to Nikita and Alan! The research that underpins 'Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 1832-8' has particular significance for our department as it was begun between Tracey Banivanua Mar and Alan in Traceys last months. To see it now in publication is both a poignant and powerful testimony to Traceys ongoing legacy. Alan Lester & Nikita Vanderbyl, The Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 18328, History Workshop Journal, dbaa017, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa017

24.01.2022 This week, the History Department held our first Career Talk morning tea session, (online) and Alicia Cerrato, President of the Professional Historians Association Victoria & Tasmania, spoke about the Association and oppurtunities beyond academia. Alicia explained the 30 year history of the PHA (w 230+ members), the professional development, resources and career opportunities on offer, and perhaps most importantly, the community of support and friendship. Her advice to HDR...s (and academics) was to be confident in your abilities and not be afraid to sell yourself. In achieving this, she suggested that one of the most important things was to create a public presence for yourself including an ABN, social media pages and a website. For more info, the PHA website is linked in the comments below. (FB pages get fewer views with website links compared to images or videos.) Images are from a previous (Pre-COVID) PHA-VT Professional Development day attended by the post author & another La Trobe HDR, which included behind the scenes access to the costume department of Ballarats Soverign Hill.

24.01.2022 La Trobe Centre for the Inland research fellow, Kerry Nixon on the population changes of post-WW2 Mildura https://www.milduraweekly.com.au/local-perspective-new-aus/

23.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS! It's time for another celebration!! It was announced earlier today that following a FIVE-WAY BIDDING WAR, (the History Department's very own) Dr Yves Rees has signed a contract with Allen and Unwin to publish their memoir, 'All About Yves: Notes From A Transition'.... Great work Yves - it's a huge achievement and we're all super chuffed for you

23.01.2022 Do we have a cracking line-up of novelists, historians and history-makers for you! Responding to the NSW History Week provocation, History: What is it good for?..., we welcome Clare Wright Historian at the helm, with Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar Author, Chris Flynn and James Dunk on the Past Tense panel. Wow - dont miss this one, on Saturday 12 September 5pm-6.30pm online and free. https://writearoundthemurray.org.au//author-tal/past-tense #WAMALBURY #WRITEAROUNDTHEMURRAY UNSW Pan Macmillan Australia University of Queensland Press NewSouth Books History Council NSW

23.01.2022 Is it another Sunday at home for you? Maybe you'll wander about your neighbourhood instead, and wonder about the housing of your area and how it came to be... Admin lives amongst "the grand villas and humble miners cottages" that Emeritus AssocProf Charles Fahey discusses in this talk about the housing of gold mining towns. We'll be listening - just in case we bump into Charles while we're out there later on this arvo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkD6o9iz-JA

23.01.2022 La Trobe lecturer Dr Timothy Jones says the new legislation that Queensland is putting forward will be a clear signal that gay conversion therapies are not appropriate. https://www.sbs.com.au//queensland-outlawed-gay-conversion

22.01.2022 As part of the La Trobe Discovering History seminar series, last week Dr. Fred Cahir 'Zoomed' into our lounge rooms and studies, to discuss the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the central Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The seminar was recorded and is now available to watch thanks to the Bendigo Library - enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xmmup-CFBo&feature=youtu.be

22.01.2022 Dont miss this event tonight 6pm on zoom where our very own Karen Twigg will present A life full to brimming: farm womens experience of abundant rain in the 1950s. For the zoom link, just email the Melbourne Feminist History Group [email protected].

22.01.2022 Kat Ellinghaus, along with Professor Barry Judd and Dr Rachel Standfield (Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne) on how claims about David Unaipons genius sit when we pay attention to the settler-colonial context. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au//unaipon-behind-the-da-vinc

22.01.2022 All are welcome to join this Melbourne Feminist History Group's Histories of Parenthood panel with Carla Pascoe Leahy presenting on 'The last generation: environmental activism and the history and future of the family alongside Professor Alistair Thomson (Monash) presenting on From dads to hands-on-parents: reflections on Australian oral histories about the 1980s-2000s.

22.01.2022 Podcast AND radio: getting the voice of history into your ears! This afternoon you can listen to Professor Darius von Guttner speaking earlier this week on Shepparton ABC radion, discussing why history and the recording of history is so important... http://www.mediaportal.com/mp/playnow.aspx

21.01.2022 In her guest blog for the University of Nebraska Press blog, Dr Claudia Haake, ARC Future Fellow at La Trobe University describes how she focussed on the unexpected but treasured letters, memoranda, and petitions authored by Native Americans for her latest monograph... https://unpblog.com//from-the-desk-of-claudia-b-haake-a-l/

20.01.2022 As a Triple R subscriber, Sunday morning is Admins chosen time to tune into Einstein A Go-Go over some smashed avo & coffee, so we were super excited this week to hear the dulcet tones of Dr Jayne Rantall speaking to Dr Shane. Jayne discussed her PhD research on memorials and reconciliation in Australia and the U.S. You can hear it all... here: https://www.rrr.org.au/shar/broadcast-episode/13234/1980000

19.01.2022 We're excited to be able to share this recently presented seminar by Dr. Nikita Vanderbyl, for a limited time. Nikita's talk is based on research in her Ph.D. thesis and responds to the prompt for the series 'New Directions in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Art' She explores the question of defining Aboriginal art in the context of William Barak's paintings and drawings. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that the presentation includes a photograph of William Barak.) https://www.youtube.com/watch KrLTYDL0GeVOaH4xDfURzmqdiKpAN3OgliRgLUG7bO4

19.01.2022 Something for the kids to listen to while you have your Sunday morning coffee... (Grown ups can listen in too!) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0nhzrOERwpcrQCJPfUNc2h

18.01.2022 This moving essay by Dr Clare Wright appeared in Meanjin last week, looking at how the second locekdown has forced Melbourne residents back into their homes in new and confronting ways. https://meanjin.com.au/blog/how-the-dark-gets-in/

18.01.2022 It's been a podcast/radio bonanza here this week! In this Conversation peice about where to turn for solace, award-winning La Trobe historian Yves Rees discusses that "special kind of intimacy with someone who whispers into your ear as you scrub the toilet each week". https://theconversation.com/secret-feminist-agenda-a-treasu

17.01.2022 "We are so accustomed to equating nation-building with mens ambitions that weve betrayed the very people who put modern Australia on the map." https://www.theguardian.com//australia-doesnt-have-much-to

17.01.2022 Welcome back to another week - we cant help you with your Monday but we have your Tuesday covered. How can we support regional communities to ride the social, health and economic shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic? Moderated by La Trobes Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland, Katie Holmes, this webinar will present some Canadian strategies designed to deal with these challenges, and responses from regional Victorian communities. Join our expert panel of Profes...sor of Canadian Rural and Small Town Studies Greg Halseth; Shepparton community leader Zahra Haydar Big; and University planning expert Julie Rudner. (Cant make the live event? Go ahead and BOOK NOW anyway, and a recording of the event will be sent to your inbox.) https://www.latrobe.edu.au//online-event-global-pandemic,-

17.01.2022 What having a public venue for their meetings meant was that the issue of womens enfranchisement was transformed from being a domestic matter to a political matter. Clare Wright in the South China News this week!

16.01.2022 It's a new month next week, which means it's a new Discovering History seminar. This time it's the turn of PhD candidate Elizabeth Offer, presenting Dressed and Blessed: Brit Milah, dress and Goldfields Jewish families. Elizabeth examines the connection between an emerging British identity and the shifting religious practices of Hebrew congregations which formed in Bendigo and Ballarat between 1851 and 1900. Her research is part of a larger community-based project uncovering... the religious diversity of the Central Victorian Goldfields. The Disovering History seminar series is presented on the first Thursday of every month, by La Trobe University in partnership with the Bendigo Regional Archive Centre and Goldfields Library. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/discovering-history-dressed

16.01.2022 With La Trobe Universitys Clare Wright Historian at the helm, along with a bevy of special guests, join us September 12th for the online event Past Tense. His...tory: What is it good for? part of the Write Around the Murray festival hosted by AlburyCity. For five days in September, Write Around the Murray (WAM) brings people together in Albury Wodonga (and online) for a festival of storytelling unlike anywhere else. Visit the link below to find out more about this fabulous local event and to register.

15.01.2022 Is it another Sunday at home for you? Maybe youll wander about your neighbourhood instead, and wonder about the housing of your area and how it came to be... Admin lives amongst "the grand villas and humble miners cottages" that Emeritus AssocProf Charles Fahey discusses in this talk about the housing of gold mining towns. Well be listening - just in case we bump into Charles while were out there later on this arvo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkD6o9iz-JA

15.01.2022 Happy Spring everyone! Where is everyone today? Are there any signs of spring where you are? If so, share in the comments. And later on this evening, tune into ABC TV at 8.30pm for the first episoide of the new series of Further Back in Time. Dr Clare Wright helps a time travelling family learn about Federation, the Spanish Flu Pandemic and Womens Suffrage. In Sydney. In the sunshine. Outside.. *sobs* (filmed pre-pandamic obvs.)

14.01.2022 Were excited to be able to share this recently presented seminar by Dr. Nikita Vanderbyl, for a limited time. Nikitas talk is based on research in her Ph.D. thesis and responds to the prompt for the series New Directions in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Art She explores the question of defining Aboriginal art in the context of William Baraks paintings and drawings. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that the presentation includes a photograph of William Barak.) https://www.youtube.com/watch KrLTYDL0GeVOaH4xDfURzmqdiKpAN3OgliRgLUG7bO4

14.01.2022 Call for interviewees: Womens experiences of infertility in Australia since 1945 Historian Dr Sianan Healy at La Trobe University is researching the ways in which womens experiences of infertility have changed since the post-war period. She is carrying out interviews with women from across Australia who have experienced infertility, difficulty conceiving or secondary infertility. Sianan is seeking participants of any age who would like to be interviewed about their experien...ces, including women from regional and rural as well as metropolitan areas, lesbian women, Indigenous women and migrant women. Interviews will be conducted in English. Your (de-identified) memories will become part of a book on the history of womens experiences of infertility in Australia, and you will be given a copy of your interview to keep. This research has been reviewed and approved by the La Trobe University Human Ethics Committee (HEC20263). If you would like more information, please contact Sianan at [email protected] or on 03 9479 2386.

14.01.2022 All are welcome to join this Melbourne Feminist History Groups Histories of Parenthood panel with Carla Pascoe Leahy presenting on The last generation: environmental activism and the history and future of the family alongside Professor Alistair Thomson (Monash) presenting on From dads to hands-on-parents: reflections on Australian oral histories about the 1980s-2000s.

14.01.2022 There are two History postgraduates entered in the Visualise Your Thesis competition: Katrina Dernelley and Tash Joyce. Voting has opened for the Peoples Choice Award here: https://www.latrobe.edu.au//visualise-your-thesis-vote-for... The clips are only about 1 minute each, are very informative, and we would encourage you all to vote for one of fab students!

14.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS! Its time for another celebration!! It was announced earlier today that following a FIVE-WAY BIDDING WAR, (the History Departments very own) Dr Yves Rees has signed a contract with Allen and Unwin to publish their memoir, All About Yves: Notes From A Transition.... Great work Yves - its a huge achievement and were all super chuffed for you

12.01.2022 Check out this stunning opportunity to hear some great Aboriginal history from leading historians Tony Birch, Jacqui Katona and Gary Foley!

10.01.2022 This week, the History Department will play host* to Kirstie Innes-Will, Editorial and Production Director at Black Inc. Publishing. Kirstie did her honours in medieval history at Melbourne Uni. As well as sharing her experiences as an editor shell hopefully be able to provide some hot publishing tips! Last week the Editor of ABC Radio Nationals the History Listen and Earshot Michelle Raynor joined us to discuss how she fell into history. After completing a Bachelor of A...rts and Law and then undertaking a cadetship at the ABC, Michelle went on to do a Masters in Public History at UTS, graduating in 1999. Since then, Michelle has worked on multiple radio shows in the humanities and sciences at the ABC and BBC. She is currently Editor of The History Listen and Earshot. Michelle told us that it was important to understand the story being told through your work and its relevance to the general public. Encouraging HDRs and staff to pitch their work, Michelle stated that it was important to consider several questions, including: what ideas does your work promote? What will the listener/viewer learn? Who will we hear from? How does it differ from other histories? Where will we go? What are your sources? And most importantly, what pulled you into this topic and why does it matter? * The History Dept PhDs host a weekly series of Career Talks in which a History PhD or Masters grad discusses their career outside of academia. The talks demonstrate the various career options available as well as offering practical advice. Weve heard from public servants, consultants, and editors with many more professions yet to come. For details on how to join the talks or provide suggestions, please email [email protected] https://www.abc.net.au/radiona/programs/the-history-listen/

10.01.2022 Congratulations Natasha Joyce, who was the highest-ranking School* entrant in the university's "Visualise Your Thesis" competition. Tash placed sixth from twenty-one La Trobe entrants, as well as placing a narrow third in the popular vote. The winners were all from science (and in this arena, it's hard to beat someone whose thesis helps find the causes of high blood pressure), which makes Tash's achievement all the greater, and shows again that we can compete in these competi...tions. Well done, Tash! The exercise is also helpful in summarising the research message and argument of any thesis and we encourage students to enter next year's competition. Make sure you come along to the 3MT University Championships, where the VYT entries will play during the judges deliberation and prizes announced. The La Trobe 3MT University Championships will take place online on Wednesday 9 September, from 2pm to 4pm. Ten finalists from across the University will be presenting including archaeology student Wenjing Yu (HUSS): 'Want to date archaeological remains? Try taking a bath!' No registration is required. To access the webinar on the day, please use this link: https://latrobe.zoom.us/j/98280599692 ... (C.W.) *School of Humanities and Social Sciences

10.01.2022 My next guest on A Podcast of Ones Own is a timely one. As the US nears the 100 year anniversary of ratifying the 19th Amendment guaranteeing the right for w...omen to vote I speak to Clare Wright Historian about the forgotten women from Australian history, and how the women who won the vote in Australia influenced the rest of the world. Listen here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl/podcast

09.01.2022 As part of the La Trobe Discovering History seminar series, last week Dr. Fred Cahir Zoomed into our lounge rooms and studies, to discuss the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the central Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The seminar was recorded and is now available to watch thanks to the Bendigo Library - enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xmmup-CFBo&feature=youtu.be

09.01.2022 Happy Friday! Thanks to the "current situation", Page Admin has leaned heavily on the product in question in this wonderfully evocative Harvard Review of Latin America article, by History Program Convener Dr Emma Robertson. My Gals A Yorkshire Gal: Yorkshire identity, gendered consumption and womens labor inclusion however, of this 1984 image of Dr Robertson dressed as a Marathon (aka Snickers) Bar cannot - and will not - be ignored. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu//gendered-chocolate-myt

08.01.2022 Its been a podcast/radio bonanza here this week! In this Conversation peice about where to turn for solace, award-winning La Trobe historian Yves Rees discusses that "special kind of intimacy with someone who whispers into your ear as you scrub the toilet each week". https://theconversation.com/secret-feminist-agenda-a-treasu

08.01.2022 Are you addicted to podcasts? Or getting the hang of them? Need to try them out? Whichever stage of Podcast fever youre experiencing, you should definitely have a listen to Dr Ruth Gamble as she joins host Ali Moore and Dr Lewis Mayo in examining the complex relationship between State and commemorative statues. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au//ear-to-as/episodes/episode-74

07.01.2022 With La Trobe University's Clare Wright Historian at the helm, along with a bevy of special guests, join us September 12th for the online event 'Past Tense. His...tory: What is it good for?' part of the Write Around the Murray festival hosted by AlburyCity. For five days in September, Write Around the Murray (WAM) brings people together in Albury Wodonga (and online) for a festival of storytelling unlike anywhere else. Visit the link below to find out more about this fabulous local event and to register.

07.01.2022 As a Triple R subscriber, Sunday morning is Admin's chosen time to tune into Einstein A Go-Go over some smashed avo & coffee, so we were super excited this week to hear the dulcet tones of Dr Jayne Rantall speaking to Dr Shane. Jayne discussed her PhD research on memorials and reconciliation in Australia and the U.S. You can hear it all... here: https://www.rrr.org.au/shar/broadcast-episode/13234/1980000

05.01.2022 What are your plans for this evening, history friends? Tune into Zoom at 5.30pm for this month's episode of Discovering History, brought to you by the chemical symbol Au! Dr Charles Fahey will discuss the almost instant creation of towns and cities as the discovery of gold in Victoria drew thousands of migrants inland. During the alluvial phase of mining, most diggers lived in tents and rough bush houses. Company mining encouraged more lasting housing and the solution was the... construction of cheap weatherboard housing on Crown land the miners residence area. The successful gold reefers and local businessmen also built more substantial housing. Charles will examine the way the gold cities housed their residents in the years of company mining, looking at both the grand villa and the humble miners cottage. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/discovering-history-housing

05.01.2022 Today marks 50 years since a group of 70 students at La Trobe University assembled on their campus for a protest march against the American war in Vietnam. Dr Barry York was one of the organisers, and this peice for the Museum of Australian Democracy he includes a two minute audio clip of Larry Abramson talking about his arrest at gunpoint. https://www.moadoph.gov.au//asserting-the-right-to-prote/#

04.01.2022 In recent weeks, History Department Post-Grads have held virtual career morning teas, organised in response to concerns about job prospects in the current climate. Were featuring the highlights here. SHANE TAS Senior Policy Advisor in Masculinities, Our Watch... Midway through his PhD on theories of masculinity and how it is embodied in spaces such as sport, pornography and online dating, Shane Tas started to think about where he would like to work post-submission. Around this time, he came into contact with Our Watch, the primary policy advisor on gender equality and violence against women to the State and Federal Governments, where he is now Senior Advisor and Researcher of Masculinities. Shanes tips to obtaining a dream role such as his were that you be pro-active in searching out your ideal job, research institutions that align with your ethics and goals, then organise contact with them in Shanes case two of those he had already met with were on his interview panel. Learn how to sell your skill set and translate it into the language of the industry remember that youre now an expert in your historical area. Practice job applications and interviews whether that be with a colleague, your supervisor or a co-worker. And be patient - probably the hardest advice of all. https://www.ourwatch.org.au/

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04.01.2022 Congratulations Natasha Joyce, who was the highest-ranking School* entrant in the universitys "Visualise Your Thesis" competition. Tash placed sixth from twenty-one La Trobe entrants, as well as placing a narrow third in the popular vote. The winners were all from science (and in this arena, its hard to beat someone whose thesis helps find the causes of high blood pressure), which makes Tashs achievement all the greater, and shows again that we can compete in these competi...tions. Well done, Tash! The exercise is also helpful in summarising the research message and argument of any thesis and we encourage students to enter next years competition. Make sure you come along to the 3MT University Championships, where the VYT entries will play during the judges deliberation and prizes announced. The La Trobe 3MT University Championships will take place online on Wednesday 9 September, from 2pm to 4pm. Ten finalists from across the University will be presenting including archaeology student Wenjing Yu (HUSS): Want to date archaeological remains? Try taking a bath! No registration is required. To access the webinar on the day, please use this link: https://latrobe.zoom.us/j/98280599692 ... (C.W.) *School of Humanities and Social Sciences

02.01.2022 What are your plans for this evening, history friends? Tune into Zoom at 5.30pm for this months episode of Discovering History, brought to you by the chemical symbol Au! Dr Charles Fahey will discuss the almost instant creation of towns and cities as the discovery of gold in Victoria drew thousands of migrants inland. During the alluvial phase of mining, most diggers lived in tents and rough bush houses. Company mining encouraged more lasting housing and the solution was the... construction of cheap weatherboard housing on Crown land the miners residence area. The successful gold reefers and local businessmen also built more substantial housing. Charles will examine the way the gold cities housed their residents in the years of company mining, looking at both the grand villa and the humble miners cottage. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/discovering-history-housing

01.01.2022 Welcome back to another week - we can't help you with your Monday but we have your Tuesday covered. How can we support regional communities to ride the social, health and economic shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic? Moderated by La Trobes Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland, Katie Holmes, this webinar will present some Canadian strategies designed to deal with these challenges, and responses from regional Victorian communities. Join our expert panel of Profes...sor of Canadian Rural and Small Town Studies Greg Halseth; Shepparton community leader Zahra Haydar Big; and University planning expert Julie Rudner. (Cant make the live event? Go ahead and BOOK NOW anyway, and a recording of the event will be sent to your inbox.) https://www.latrobe.edu.au//online-event-global-pandemic,-

01.01.2022 The History Dept PhDs host a weekly series of Career Talks in which a History PhD or Masters grad discusses their career outside of academia. The talks demonstrate the various career options available as well as offering practical advice. Weve already heard from public servants, consultants, researchers and most recently, Sopie Couchman joined us to share her varied experiences since gaining her PhD in 2009. Sophies career began with her involvement in the project, Chines...e Heritage of Australia Federation, which saw her contribute to many different components, and in the process learn a raft of new, different skills. Sophie reinforced to listeners the need to create products and apply for awards that can be shared and promoted to others in your industry. Sophie spoke to the importance of community in creating networks, establishing support, but also as a way of finding jobs and roles. Finally she sopke of how a PhD will infiltrate everything you do including the way you work but also the way you understand and communicate history, so that even though Sophie works outside of academia, she has never really left it. Please find below the link to the two articles Sophie mentioned on the politics of Chinese-Australian history the key concepts of which apply broadly across themes. http://chl.anu.edu.au//chinese-southern-diaspora-studies-v