Fifty years ago, the world was rocked by the publication of a quiet tirade against the chemical industry. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the dangers and risks of everyday chemicals…
Something New Under the New Zealand and Australian Sun!
The general meeting of the Australian Forest History Society has adopted a motion to change the name of the AFHS to the New Zealand and Australian Environmental and Forest History…
Issue 51 of AHR: ‘On the Table: Food in Our Culture’
Photo by pigstubs Issue #51 of Australian Humanities Review is available. Guest edited by Lisa Milner is a special section, ‘On the Table: Food in Our Culture’, which includes essays…
Ocean / maritime history
Canal Rocks in Western Australia by Mike Pratt PhD Scholarship PhD scholarship in the environmental or maritime history of South-East Asia The Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/img/Warren%20Scholarship.pdf Calls…
Gippsland Environments and Human Interaction: Past, Present and Future
The Centre for Gippsland Studies, Monash University Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2011 The Auditorium (Building 3E) Monash University, Gippsland Campus Northways Road, Churchill Victoria 3842 This academic and…
The history and future of ice: science, humanities and climate change
W K Hancock Professor of History Inaugural Lecture Tom Griffiths introduced by Emeritus Professor D.A. Low Tuesday 20 September 2011 5pm, followed by a reception in the foyer Hedley Bull…