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Local Intermediaries in International Exploration: Call for Papers

Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam will convene a conference in July 2013 on the role and experience of local intermediaries in exploration. The keynote speakers will be Professor Felix Driver and Professor Len Collard.

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Remembering Dispossession

Maria Nugent is currently engaged in a large research project called “Remembering Dispossession”, which uses a series of case studies to explore the ways in which Aboriginal people interpret and narrate their historical experiences under colonial conditions...

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Through Travellers’ Eyes: Foreign Observations of Aboriginal People and British Colonisation, 1800-1850

Shino Konishi is currently working on a research project which critically examines encounters between travellers and Aboriginal people throughout Australia...

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Aboriginal History Journal

The latest volume of Aboriginal History journal (Volume 36, 2012) is now available online.

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Latest news

Professor Ann McGrath heading to Princeton

Professor Ann McGrath, OAM, FASSA, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the ANU, will become a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, for the US academic year 2013-14. She will be based at the School of Social Sciences and, along with a group of twenty international scholars, will participate in its annual theme - 'The Environmental Turn and the...

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Events

Symposium: Deep Time and Deep Histories: A Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Tuesday, 4th June 2013 - 9:00am

This two-day symposium, 'Deep Time and Deep Histories: A Transdisciplinary Collaboration', has been organised by the Australian Centre for...

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Local Intermediaries in International Exploration: call for papers

Wednesday, 17th July 2013 - 9:00am

Keynote speakers Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London Leonard Collard, Professor of Indigenous Studies...

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