News
21
Dec
‘11
Seasons Greetings from Professor Ann McGrath, Director of ACIH
Rather than writing a formal Annual report, I thought I’d send a big thank you to everyone who has helped make the ACIH’s year what it was. So let’s take the opportunity to have a look back at the year of 2011.
Firstly, we have...
19
Dec
‘11
Aboriginal Embassy symposium on the radio
The ACIH led symposium on the Aboriginal Embassy, held in June this year was featured in Fire in the Belly on Awaye! ABC Radio National, Saturday 10th December 2011. The podcast can be accessed from the ABC...
23
Nov
‘11
Living Country Culture Camp in the Blue Mountains
'Deepening Histories' project team members (L to R) Julia Torpey, Ann McGrath and Peter Read recently attended the 'Living Country Culture Camp' at Bent's Basin in the Blue Mountains. Peter's team filmed this...
21
Nov
‘11
Orphans in the Storeroom: Christine Hansen's Post Doctoral Research in Sweden
According to the only published inventory of Australian Aboriginal material culture held in overseas institutions, the Gothenburg Ethnographic Museum (now known as the Museum of World Cultures) holds a collection of 344 Australian objects....
14
Sep
‘11
Report on the Aboriginal Embassy Symposium 20-22 June 2011
An ACIH-sponsored symposium on the Aboriginal Embassy was held on 20-22 June in association with the National Film and Sound Archive and the Museum of Australian Democracy. The symposium brought together Embassy activists and an interdisciplinary...
27
Feb
‘12
Dr Martin Thomas at the British Museum Centre for Anthropology Seminar Series
Dr Martin Thomas, an ARC Future Fellow attached to the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Department of History at the Australian National University, will be presenting at the British Museum Centre for Anthropology Seminar Series on the 15th...
23
Nov
‘11
ACIH Indigenous History Writing Workshop for Postgraduates
Professor Ann McGrath and ACIH Adjunct Professor Ann Curthoys held an Indigenous History Writing Workshop for Postgraduates in November 2011 at ANU. Students from Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra discussed and workshopped chapters...
22
Nov
‘11
Serving Our Country ARC Linkage grant application submitted
After many months of work, the ARC Linkage grant application for Serving Our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Defence of Australia was submitted in the second round on November 16.
The...
22
Nov
‘11
2011 Minoru Hokari Scholarship winner Glen Stasiuk's research on the Swan River Colony
Glen Stasiuk, the 2011 winner of the Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship, has begun research on his scholarship topic, Swan River Colony (1829-1834): From Collaboration to Conflict by meeting with significant Swan River (Wadjuk)...
22
Nov
‘11
Publication news: Volume 35 Aboriginal History now online
Aboriginal History, Volume 35, 2011 is now available online. It includes articles by Grace Karskens, Leah Lui-Chivizhe, Noah Riseman and Ian D. Clark, as well as a special section on Indigenous Australian and Asian Histories edited by Christine Choo...
