Contacts

Ian Hesketh

Decolonising the Colonial Archive: Learning to Read the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science - Anna Johnston (SCA)

21 October 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
This paper conducts an experiment in reading Australia’s first scientific journal, taking seriously recent challenges to decolonise archives, including those of natural science.

“Mourning the Dead of the Great Escape: POWs, Grief, and the Memorial Vault of Stalag Luft III” - Dr. Kate Ariotti

14 October 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
On March 1944 seventy-six Allied prisoners of war (POWs) escaped from their German prison camp, Stalag Luft III. Nearly all were recaptured; fifty were later shot on Hitler's express order. In this paper, I focus on what happened in the period between the recapture of the POWs and the interment of their remains at Stalag Luft III. I will discuss the treatment of the escaper's bodies by German authorities, the dual narrative the grieving POW camp community composed to make sense of their comrades’ deaths, and their construction of a memorial vault to house the dead prisoner's remains. The paper reveals the deep emotional resonance of what came to be known as ‘the Great Escape’. It addresses a long-neglected aspect of the history of this infamous event of the Second World War and provides an example of some of the broader themes I am exploring in my ARC DECRA project: “Between Death and Commemoration: An Australian History of the War Corpse”.

Hui’an Women: Ethnicity and Femininity on the Edge of Han Chinese (HDR Progress Review) - Yuan Jing

16 September 2022 2:00pm
Positioned as a "newly-arrived" member at the edge of Han Chinses, Hui'an women are regarded as an anomaly among Han Chinese with their extended natal residence marriages, distinctive adornment styles, powerful and demanding same-sex networks, unusual gender labour patterns, peculiar beliefs and religions, and high frequency of mass suicides. This project explores how their femininity has been intertwined with ethnicity in history and current society, interacting with other groups to form the Hui'an women today, arguing that women's gender characteristics play an essential role in the process of ethnic confrontation and integration that distinguishes them from men.

“Narrating the Metaphysics of Evolution: Twentieth-Century Australian Scientists and Histories of Evolutionary Science” - Joel Barnes (IASH)

26 August 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
This paper explores historical narratives of the metaphysics of evolutionary science, as advanced by researchers in the biological sciences in mid-twentieth-century Australia. As the historian of medicine Adrian Wilson has argued, from the scale of the literature review upwards, doing science entails writing history. Scientists construct ‘imagined pasts’ that frame the work they are engaged in, shaping the meanings embedded within it. Historical narratives implicitly or explicitly form part of the motivating and legitimating intellectual architecture of scientific practice.

Children and Colonial Violence: Histories of Child Removal in Nineteenth Century India

18 March 2022 11:00am
Presented by Jessica Hinchy, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Rape in Public: Conceptualising Sexual Violence in Queensland, 1945-1955

18 February 2022 4:00pm4:30pm
HPI Student Milestone, Bridget Andresen

The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities

4 February 2022 11:30am12:30pm
HPI Student Milestone, Frédéric Barthet

Miracles and Divine Agency in the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle

26 March 2021 1:00pm2:00pm
The events of the First Crusade were reimagined and rewritten repeatedly for generations after they took place at the end of the eleventh century.

Status and Benefits: Veterans in the Age of Total War

12 March 2021 1:00pm2:00pm
Why were some soldiers treated generously by governments when they returned home from war, while others were not? What determined whether veterans, disabled or not, received gratitude and material rewards in the form of generous pensions, educational, housing and other benefits, or were denied them?

Memories and Narratives, an ongoing reflection

23 October 2020 1:00pm2:00pm
The University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry invites you to virtually attend ‘Memories and Narratives, an ongoing reflection’, presented online by Professor Lynette Russell. All are welcome.

Webinar - After the Plague: Insights from Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern History

10 June 2020 6:00pm7:00pm
Each pandemic throughout history has brought suffering and civil unrest, but in their wake has come a blossoming of art, literature and new ideas. These upheavals have forced people to rethink the world around them, leading to some of history’s most influential and challenging cultural works. As we look towards our post-COVID-19 society, we are likely to see more than just a recovery of the 2019 world, but something completely new. UQ historians will come together to discuss what has come after plagues throughout ancient, medieval and early modern history and what it may mean for our world today.

From Düsseldorf to Stalingrad: German private business, the NSDAP regime and the Drang nach Osten

13 March 2020 3:00pm3:30pm
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.
Picture of girls in the Irish parade from an older time period

Irishness on Parade: St Patrick’s Day in Brisbane 1885-2019

11 March 2020 12:30pm1:30pm
This presentation surveys St Patrick’s Day parades in Brisbane from their origin in 1885 to 2019. Some attention will be paid to fluctuations in the relative importance attached to events in Ireland and Australia. The processions show how Irishness was portrayed and changed over time. They responded to changing national and international contexts. St Patrick’s Day marchers, floats and symbols reflected the changing priorities of participants over the decades.

Kas nende kodu on ka Eestimaa [Is Estonia also their home]? The Russian Minority in Estonia

2 December 2019 2:00pm2:30pm

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.
illustration, human infant held by chimpanzees

Descent of Morality: Charles Darwin and the Making of a Moral Sensation

26 November 2019 10:00am10:30am
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

Self-representation, national heritage, and identity in the Hungarian diaspora - the case of Szekler Gate Down Under

25 November 2019 2:00pm2:30pm
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.
Picture of 4 Indigenous people

HISTORY@UQ Seminar Series: Queensland government Aboriginal policy failure and resistance 1890s to 1960s

18 October 2019 1:00pm2:00pm
The impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people throughout Queensland created concerns amongst settlers.  By the 1880s the need to ameliorate the condition of Aboriginal people saw settlers apply pressure on government resulting in an investigation which led to the passing of the 1897 Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act.
Prisoner sitting next to dog with arm around him.

History/IASH Documentary Series 2019: Prisoners and Pups (2017, 59 mins)

8 October 2019 4:00pm5:00pm
In the Adelaide Women’s Prison a small group of prisoners sign up to foster retired racing greyhounds to get them ready for adoption. The dogs were born into kennels, never knowing the sights and sounds of life beyond the track. Trained only to chase, many of them don’t know their names or how to take food from someone’s hand.
image of Alex Macdonald

Alex Macdonald. The role of the Communist Party of Australia in Queensland Industrial Relations from the 1930s to the 1960s

8 October 2019 11:00am11:30am
Presenter: HDR candidate Dean Wharton
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome to attend.
print, medical illustration, child in womb

False Conceptions, Molas and the Making of the Human Foetus in English and European Medicine and Society, 1600-1800

20 September 2019 2:00pm2:30pm
Presenter: PhD candidate Paige Donaghy
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome to attend.

The Invention, Reinvention and Recontextualization of Amalie Dietrich: Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte ( or - The unexpected consequences of research)

20 September 2019 1:00pm2:00pm
The naturalist Amalie Dietrich was sent to colonial Queensland from 1863 to 1872 to collect specimens for the private Godeffroy Museum of Hamburg. Her skilled and extensive collections represent an enormous contribution to Australian science – in botany, herpetology, ornithology, bryology, arachnology, entomology, lepidoptery, and in an undervalued collection of early ethnographic items. This seminar will trace the various interpretations of Dietrich from the nineteenth century to the present. Presented by Professor Ray Sumner (Long Beach City College).
Westall66

History/IASH Documentary Series 2019: Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery

3 September 2019 4:00pm6:00pm
On the morning of 6 April 1966, in the suburb of Westall in Melbourne’s inner east, hundreds of school students witnessed a strange object hovering above their school, before landing in a nearby nature reserve. The Westall incident should have caused a sensation. But the film taken by news crews was never aired; the newspaper articles never published. Was there a conspiracy?
My Long Neck flyer

IASH/History Documentary Series 2019: My Long Neck

9 April 2019 4:00pm
This film explores themes about the objectification of bodies, particularly “exotic” bodies, and the effects that this has on those who are turned into tourist commodities.

Like the Proverbial Boiling Frogs or the Master of Puppets? German business and the first years of the Third Reich 1932-36

29 March 2019 2:00pm2:30pm
Presented by Troy Gillan, PhD Candidate, History
This is an HDR confirmation seminar in History. All welcome.

IASH/History Documentary Series 2019: OUT In the Line-Up & Heaven

26 March 2019 4:00pm5:30pm
IASH/History Documentary Series 2019 OUT In the Line-Up (directed by Ian Thomson, 2016, 70m) & Heaven (directed by Tracey Moffat, 1997, 20m)
Life, Generation and Spirit: Early Modern Science of Blood

Life, Generation and Spirit: Early Modern Science of Blood

5 October 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Dr. Karin Sellberg HPI / IASH

Gender, Trauma, and Obstetric Violence: The History of Childbirth as a Case Study

20 September 2018 6:00pm7:00pm
Presenter: Associate Professor Paula Michaels, Monash University
Followed by a drinks reception.

A New Order History of Torture, Indonesia 1965-98

7 September 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Dr. Annie Pohlman SLC, HPI

Keynote of International conference on “The War with Japan and Social, Economic, and Political Transformations of Asia-Pacific”

25 August 2018 10:30am11:15am
Memory, History and Conflict in the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective Associate Professor Martin Crotty
Chair: Associate Professor Morris Low

The 6th Chuan Han Sheng Lecture The Impact of 1930s World Depression on China’s Society, Economy and Sino-Japanese Relations

25 August 2018 9:00am10:30am
Presenter: Professor Tim Wright
Welcoming by: Professor Julie Duck, UQ Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences
Chairs: Professor Ricardo Mak and Dr Chi Kong Lai

The 6th Chuan Han Sheng Lecture: The Impact of 1930s World Depression on China’s Society, Economy and Sino-Japanese Relations

25 August 2018 9:00am10:30am
Presenter: Professor Tim Wright
Welcoming by: Prof. Julie Duck, UQ Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences

Conversation with Tim Wright - Author: The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal

24 August 2018 12:00pm1:45pm
Tim Wright - Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Sheffield

Neither “the periphery as the core” nor “the core as the periphery”: The Changing Role of Hong Kong in Modern Chinese History

22 August 2018 11:00am1:00pm
Prof. Man-Kong Wong
Co-hosted by: Griffith Asia Institute; School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland; Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies.

Gender, Trauma, and Obstetric Violence: The History of Childbirth as a Case Study

20 August 2018 6:00pm7:00pm
Associate Professor Paula Michaels, Monash University
WOMEN AND POWER NETWORK and MEDICAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH NETWORK
Followed by a drinks reception.

Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks!”: Estonia's Experience of European Integration

17 August 2018 2:00pm2:30pm
Harry Kriewaldt, PhD Confirmation Milestone

“It was a hideous time in Queensland politics”: Abortion Law Reform in the 1980s

10 August 2018 2:00pm2:30pm
Cassandra Byrnes - History - Confirmation of Candidature Milestone

Intergenerational cultural memory, pathways from Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union to Australia

13 July 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Mr Kristian Ireland, PhD History, Confirmation milestone

History in Australia and New Zealand: The State of the Discipline

25 May 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Martin Crotty

The reconstruction of Berlin's city palace

11 May 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Andrew Bonnell

"Conversations in History": Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus: A Brief History of the Future (2017)

20 April 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presenters: Kriston Rennie (HAPI), Ian Hesketh (ARC Future Fellow, IASH) and Patrick Jory (HAPI)

An ‘industrious lot of men’: Indian convict Masculinities in the Straits Settlements, 1825-1873

16 March 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Jessica Hinchy (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Goenpul Ontology: Are our Cultural Epistemologies a Political Agenda or are they our Theological Beliefs

16 March 2018 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Shane Coghill (PhD Confirmation milestone)

History Seminars

7 March 2018 10:15am11:15am

Monks and Stuff

22 September 2017 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Kriston Rennie

UQ and the Centenary of WWI: What have we learnt?

12 September 2017 2:00pm4:00pm
Research Week Event

Celebrating (or not) the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

7 September 2017 6:00pm7:30pm
PUBLIC LECTURE
Presented by Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (The University of Sydney and the University of Chicago)

Look the other way: Dealing with child sexual abuse outside of institutions in 1980s Australia

18 August 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Lisa Featherstone.

Lisa Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. She is a Australian historian who publishes on sexual violence and the history of sexuality. Her recent book, co-written with Andy Kaladelfos, is Sex Crimes in the Fifties (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing, 2016).

Social Work, Sweetness and Light: Culture for the Poor in Late-Victorian London

2 June 2017 3:00pm4:00pm
Geoff Ginn is senior lecturer in History at the University of Queensland, a former member of the State Library of Queensland and Queensland Museum Boards, and was recently a Visiting Fellow at the University of London where work for this project was completed. His research focuses on aspects of nineteenth-century society and culture in Britain and colonial Australia, and he has particular interests in public history and the history of heritage practice

The 1967 Referendum 50 years on: an Indigenous Reflection

25 May 2017 6:00pm8:30pm
"History Speaks: Humanity’s Challenges” Public Lecture Series Presents:
Professor John Maynard (University of Newcastle), introduced by Michael Aird (University of Queensland)
vietnam countryside, river; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

A Relation of Intransigence: Popular Culture, Memorialisation, and U.S. Policy Towards Vietnam, 1975-2007

5 May 2017 3:00pm3:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Michael Ricchetti
history banner, various historical images

Evolution and the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880

21 April 2017 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Dr Ian Hesketh (IASH, UQ)
old lock on door; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

History Honours Thesis Seminars

20 April 2017 12:30pm3:00pm
Various presenters

Generating Gender

31 March 2017 1:00pm1:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Ann Paterson
history banner, various historical images

Women, Art, and Money in England, 1880-1914

17 March 2017 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Dr Maria Quirk
puppy in grass; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Humans, Animals, and Emotion in England (1680-1837)

24 February 2017 1:00pm1:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Jennifer Jorm
woodcut of witch holding plant in one hand and fan in other; Image by Wellcome Images, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Anna Trapnel – Prophet or Witch? Witchcraft Discourse in England 1640-1660

21 October 2016 2:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Debra Parish
Hong Kong cityscape; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

The Rise of Hong Kong Identity and Political Conflicts in the Colony, 1949-1989: An Abstract

21 October 2016 1:00pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Kent Wan
Chinese lanterns, colourful; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Facing crisis at the wartime period (1937-1952): relocation, network, and business innovation

21 October 2016 12:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Chenchen Wang
old lock on door; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

History Honours Thesis Seminars

2 September 2016 10:00am12:30pm
Various presenters
buildings - traditional and modern

The Pacific Colonial Shadow: New Approaches - One-day Seminar

20 August 2016 9:00am4:30pm
Presented in conjunction with the UQ Solomon Islands Partnership
Various presenters
buildings - traditional and modern

The Pacific Colonial Shadow: New Approaches - Lunch Time Seminar

19 August 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented in conjunction with the UQ Solomon Islands Partnership
Presented by Dr Morgan Brigg (UQ)
tombstones, Flanders; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

PD Workshop for Educators: Learning and unlearning about the Great War with...

28 July 2016 4:30pm6:30pm
Professional development session part of the 'Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation' program
Presented by Dr Mark Cryle
Japanese artwork ; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Time of Others: After Hours Talk - Shared Histories, Memory and Japan

6 July 2016 6:00pm
Part of a three-part series where special guests provide a tailored view of the 'Time of others' exhibition at GoMA
Presented by Associate Professor Morris Low
apple on tree; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Depraved Origins: Sin and the Origins of Society in Early Modern Political Thought

3 June 2016 12:00pm12:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Simon Kennedy
tea pot and cups, old and battered; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Non-Indigenous Domestic Service in Australia, 1914-1945: A British Migrant Servant’s Story

15 April 2016 10:00am10:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Elmari Whyte
Ian Kemish

Seminars on Australian International Diplomacy and Security

28 June 2013 10:30am12:00pm
Presented by Mr Ian Kemish AM
Ian Kemish

Seminars on Australian International Diplomacy and Security

14 June 2013 10:30am12:00pm
Presented by Mr Ian Kemish AM