by Alessandro Antonello | Sep 8, 2021 | News, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Grace Karskens and Luke Keogh, who have both won major awards as part of the 2021 NSW Premier’s History Awards. Grace Karskens won the Australian History Prize for her book People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia (Allen and Unwin,...
by Alessandro Antonello | Sep 7, 2021 | News
The Australian Garden History Society’s annual conference is happening online this year, owing to the covid-19 pandemic. Grace Karskens will be delivering the conference keynote “The pleasures and politics of gardening in thecolony of New South...
by Alessandro Antonello | Aug 25, 2021 | News
In June 1972, 114 nations gathered in Stockholm for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. A landmark event, it was the first major international conference dealing with the subject of ‘the environment’. In the fifty years since, the international...
by Alessandro Antonello | Aug 25, 2021 | News
The Centre for Environmental History (School of History, College of Arts and Social Sciences) at the Australian National University seeks a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, specialising in environmental history. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in environmental...
by Alessandro Antonello | Aug 11, 2021 | News
The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network notes with great sadness the passing of the great Australian artist, Mandy Martin, on 10 July 2021. Nationally and internationally recognised for her art, Mandy was a committed environmentalist and...
by Alessandro Antonello | Aug 11, 2021 | News
Grace Karskens, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, will be delivering the University of Melbourne’s Ernest Scott Lecture on Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 6:15-7:30pm (Melbourne time). She was joint winner of this years Ernest...
