Historians play a crucial role in shaping the way you understand conflicts as diverse as frontier violence in Victoria, genocide in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the feminist struggle in East Timor. Far from being passive observers of conflict, historians play an active role in cultural struggles, and in recent decades have become embroiled in the so-called ‘history wars’. Our speakers will discuss some of the different ways that contemporary historians are speaking about and interpreting the past – and how their endeavours are oriented toward shaping future understandings of history, culture and conflict.
Starts: Sept. 22, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Where: The Alderman (upstairs) 134 Lygon St, East Brunswick
Format: Presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
Race, violence and settlement in the Port Phillip District
Sept. 22, 2016 Lecturer: Tom Rogers (University of Melbourne)
presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
“I’m a Serb. I’m a Muslim. I’m a Bosnian”: Liminality as resistance to genocide and ethnic
Sept. 29, 2016 Lecturer: Damir Mitric (Latrobe University)
presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
Struggles over the teaching of history in Australian schools
Oct. 6, 2016 Lecturer: Tyson Retz and Claire Deery (University of Melbourne)
presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
In women’s words: Gender, memory, and violence in Timor-Leste
Oct. 13, 2016 Lecturer: Hannah Loney (University of Melbourne)
presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
Who speaks in museums? Creating spaces for new histories in contemporary museums
Oct. 20, 2016 Lecturer: David Henry (University of Melbourne)
presentation - 45 minutes, open discussion - 45 minutes
