Some photos I took while in Perth for the AAEH. I didn’t have a lot of time for sightseeing in Perth itself; apart from a bit of a wander through the CBD and a look at the Museum of Western Australia (disappointing after seeing the Fremantle branches), my main outing was to Kings Park. This
As I’d never been out west before, I allowed myself a couple of days after the Perth conference for sightseeing. First I travelled down to Fremantle, not far south of Perth.
[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
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’.
