VIDA blog editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the June 2020 History Australia forum, “Doing History in Urgent Times.” The editors of a new History Australia forum have poignantly summoned their colleagues to “articulate what this moment demands … Continue reading
Michelle Staff reflects on the recent Sydney Feminist History Group symposium for early career researchers and PhD candidates. In 2014, Joy Damousi posed the important question: “Does feminist history have a future?”. In her response, she highlighted the various challenges … Continue reading
Text of a lecture given by Camille Nurka at the Women in Time Symposium, 30 November 2018, UTAS, Hobart, in association with the Australian Women’s History Network. I would like to say thank you to Paige Gleeson, Honey Dower, Frieda … Continue reading
Hollie Pich and Marama Whyte co-organised Professor Glenda Sluga’s recent MENTOR workshop. They review the event, and give six key pieces of advice from the event for emerging scholars. Like all industries, academia presents specific challenges to women and gender-diverse … Continue reading
Mitchell Naughton reviews a museum exhibition on Australia’s history of LGBTI military service, running at the Melbourne City Library until 3 February 2018. “I don’t know where all these gays and poofters have come from, I don’t remember a single … Continue reading
In anticipation of the Melbourne film festival, Mary Tomsic reviews Celia, a film that explores a young girl’s life in Australia in the 1950s. Ann Turner’s 1989 feature film Celia will open the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival’s program on Pioneering … Continue reading
Sophie Robinson, Isobelle Barrett Meyering, Chelsea Barnett and James Keating share thoughts on a recent plenary session memorialising pioneering gender historian Jill Roe. On 5 July 2017, an intergenerational group of students and academics gathered at Newcastle’s University House to … Continue reading
Yorick Smaal reviews the recent symposium celebrating historian Shurlee Swain’s impact across different fields of research and on multiple generations of scholars. I initially encountered Shurlee Swain’s scholarship as a young undergraduate at the University of Queensland in the mid-1990s. … Continue reading
Anne Jamison reflects on the Australian Women’s Writing Symposium held at the State Library of New South Wales on November 3, 2016. Maggie MacKellar, at the close of her essay in the Sydney Review of Books on nineteenth-century author and social reformer … Continue reading
Wendy Michaels reflects upon an exhibition currently being hosted by the NSW Parliament on the state’s history of women in politics. New South Wales – Australia’s ‘Mother Parliament’ – was amongst the trailblazers in universal male suffrage (1858) and female … Continue reading