The next installment in the seminar series from Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects! Sarah Hayes: Toileting early Melbourne: The political landscape and lived reality of chamber pots, cesspits and night pans What made Smellbourne so […]
How do embassies engage in projections of culture, sometimes also called 'soft power'? What is the role of Australian Studies in connection with 'official' activities overseas? Recent years have seen increasing attention paid to such questions. For example, a recent co-edited volume (Kate Darian-Smith and David Lowe), The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations (ANU Press 2023), […]
Join ‘Behind the Lines 2022’ curator Amy Lay and cartoonist Megan Herbert in a discussion about breaking into the cartooning world and Megan’s most impactful cartoons of 2022. Presented as part of the exhibition, ‘Behind the Lines 2022: the year in political cartoons- Off the Planet’ on display at the Old Treasury Building from 13 […]
Join ‘Behind the Lines 2022’ curator Amy Lay and Political Cartoonist of the Year David Pope as they explore the exhibition and David’s work from the year when lockdowns ended and borders opened, and we burst out from our living rooms eager to discover what more was out there. Presented as part of the exhibition, […]
Melbourne's statues overwhelmingly depict powerful white men and represent a narrow selection of our history. Recent campaigns to increase the representation of women and Indigenous Australians in Melbourne statues and memorials have begun to change the public face of Melbourne's past and present. This Making Public Histories webinar will explore challenges and opportunities for recreating Melbourne statues and memorials and […]
The next installment in the seminar series from Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects! First speaker: Happy little Vegemite soldiers: rationing, Vegemite and national identity in WWII Vegemite might be an Australian cultural icon now, but the […]
Were the Australian Women's Land Army really the Fourth Service? Many women who joined the Australian Women's Land Army, saw their war work as members of Australia's women's auxiliary services - they had the uniforms, the rules and regulations to follow, they would go wherever in the country they were sent, they would not unionise. […]
‘A woman’s work is never done’ says the old saying, referring to the endless round of household tasks assigned to women in the past. Whether as ‘housewives’ or domestic servants, most women worked in the home throughout the nineteenth century, kept there by social conventions that barred women from many occupations. But from the 1860s […]
First speaker: Whalebone and its Afterlife: Fashion Innovation, Adaptation and Sustainability, c. 1600-1950 For over four hundred years whale baleen (historically known as whalebone) was sought after for use in western fashion manufacturing where this plastic-like material was used to create a wide range of men and women’s garments and accessories, most notably corsetry. This talk draws […]
In this beautifully illustrated second lecture of our two part series we try to make sense of Renaissance architecture which was a period of architecture that impacted Europe from the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions. It was noteworthy for its celebration and revival of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman […]
