My abstract for the Australian Historical Association’s 31st Annual Conference, to be held in Adelaide this July, has been accepted. The title and abstract are as follows: Dreaming war: airmindedness and the Australian defence panic of 1918 Between March and June 1918, Australian newspapers, police forces and military intelligence units were deluged with hundreds of […]
An article of mine has been accepted for publication in the September 2012 issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History, to be entitled ‘”Bomb back, and bomb hard”: debating reprisals during the Blitz’. I’m very pleased with this for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s been a while since I last had an
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] Just a brief note on a conference I attended earlier this week at Monash University, ‘The Pacific War 1941-45: Heritage, Legacies & Culture’. I wasn’t presenting, just listening; in fact I only decided to go at the very last minute, mainly on the basis that it seemed silly not to given that
This is the programme for an air display called ‘London Defended’ which was part of the 1925 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (in Wembley Stadium, in fact, before it became Wembley Stadium). I must admit to having missed this one (and its predecessor in 1924), but it sounds like it was comparable to the longer-lived
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] So the XXII Biennial Australasian Association for European History Conference is over, and I must say it’s the best conference I’ve been to, for a number of reasons. It was well-organised, despite some added difficulties such as being jointly hosted by and held at two universities, the University of Western Australia and
Since my AAEH talk is in four days, I’d better start actually putting the pieces I’ve scattered over this blog together into something (ideally) coherent which can be presented in 20 minutes (with 10 for questions). So here’s a stab at a plan: First thing is to explain what I’m talking about: the public debate
I’m giving a talk at the XXII Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, being held in Perth this July. It’s a big conference with some big names (e.g. Omer Bartov, Richard Bosworth, John MacKenzie), and there’s an appropriately big theme: ‘War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilisation in Modern Europe and its Empires’.
So, THATCamp Melbourne is over. It was pretty much as I expected, which is to say it was excellent. I’m not going to write a conference report (you should have been following #thatcamp on Twitter for that!) but two sessions did give me ideas for digital history projects I might like to do. One day.
Later this week I’m going to THATCamp Melbourne. What’s THATCamp, you ask? THATCamp stands for The Humanities and Technology Camp. It’s an unconference devoted to exploring the ways in which the humanities and digital technology can work together. It is informal and collegial: attendees vote on the programme on the first morning. It’s practical and
I’m giving a talk at the 2010 antiTHESIS interdisciplinary symposium, to be held on 9 July at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate Centre. The theme of the symposium is ‘futures’, which immediately grabbed me — as did last year’s, ‘fear’, but I didn’t get my act together in time for that — so I thought
