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The History Talks podcasts offer a valuable opportunity to delve into Australian history through the insights of prominent historians or those who significantly contribute to historical knowledge.
These recordings capture speaker events, providing listeners with a platform to engage with the rich historical narratives and perspectives shared by experts in the field. Whether exploring significant events, individuals, or societal transformations, these podcasts serve as an accessible and informative resource for those interested in delving deeper into Australia's past.
The History Talks podcasts are a series of recordings of speaker events featuring leading Australian Historians, produced by the History Council of New South Wales. Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
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This discussion will feature contemporary case studies of cultural heritage destruction from abroad and locally, including recent damage to the National Museum of Sudan. However, it is not just conflict scenarios, the conversation will cover case studies of damage due to earthquake and natural damage and wilful damage. We will also consider how sites of historical trauma become historical sites themselves, and how they are reflected in contemporary perspectives. With presentations by Dr Julie...
In this episode of History Now 2025, the rising genre of History Podcasts is explored in a discussion between Geraldine Fela and Leigh Boucher from Macquarie University, chaired by Craig Barker from the University of Sydney. In the ever-expanding podcast media universe, history is a significant player. Podcasts led by historians regularly feature in ‘top-ten’ download lists, and there is clearly an appetite amongst podcast listeners to hear experts interpret and make meaning from the past.&nb...
This conversation is part of the HCNSW podcast series "First Nations Conversations" that looks at First Nations histories of resilience, survival, and resistance. This episode of "First Nations Conversations" is the recording of the 2025 History Week panel “Living Histories: First Nations Creatives and Researchers in Conversation” which was presented at the Vere Gordon Childe Centre at the University of Sydney, in partnership with the History Council of NSW and the Powerful Stories Netw...
Dr Aunty Rhonda Radley joins Jadzia Stronell to share her journey in language revitalisation, community work, education, and healing. She reflects on truth-telling around the Blackmans Point massacre, the responsibilities of academic engagement with Aboriginal histories, and speaks on her own stories of resilience. Known in the community as Dr Aunty Rhonda Radley (Anjilkurri), a proud Birrbay/Dhanggati woman. She has 40 years’ experience working with Aboriginal people in education, land right...
Lorena Allam, Dirk Moses and Ümit Kurt reflect on what can be learned from histories of genocide, and locate their discussion between journalism, history and processes of truth-telling. This History Now session, chaired by Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, is a compelling exploration of truth-telling and genocide, featuring insights from award-winning journalist Lorena Allam, and renowned genocide scholars Dr Umut Kurt and Professor Dirk Moses. What responsibilities do historians have...
In this episode of History Now, Emily O’Gorman and Taylor Coyne reflect on how history can be understood and written from more-than-human perspectives. History Now seminars explore current and compelling issues affecting the practice of contemporary history. It is a long-running series of public talks and discussions, bringing new perspectives to all aspects of historical practice. This year History Now is a collaboration between the History Council of NSW (HCNSW), the State Library of ...
In this episode of History Now, Livia Rezende and Isabel Rousset explore the ways in which international exchange and transcultural connections inform design and visual histories. History Now seminars explore current and compelling issues affecting the practice of contemporary history. It is a long-running series of public talks and discussions, bringing new perspectives to all aspects of historical practice. This year History Now is a collaboration between the History Council of NSW (HCNSW),...
Historians Professor Catharine Coleborne and Dr James Dunk discuss the depth of historical writing about mental illness in Australia and reflect on its resonance in the present moment; how can we write the history of mental health now? Chair: Dr Effie Karageorgos This event is held in partnership with the University of Newcastle’s Future of Madness Network. Send us a text Support the show
Reflecting on the enduring spirit of Aboriginal activism, today's episode is an homage to both the ancestors who fought for justice and the scholars like Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan who have chronicled their struggles. Coordinated by Jessie Adam-Stein and chaired by Dr. Cara Cross, this panel event from the History Now 2024 series, co-hosted with the History Council of New South Wales and the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS, dives into the depths of Aboriginal political histor...
Featuring Dr Hannah Forsyth & Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson. Chair: Dr Mike Beggs. Series curated by Dr Jesse Adams Stein. Hannah Forsyth and Sophie Loy-Wilson discuss the ways in which historicising capitalism is changing our approach to history in Australia. History Now seminars explore current and compelling issues affecting the practice of contemporary history. It is a long-running series of public talks and discussions, bringing new perspectives to all aspects of historical prac...
Professor Alison Bashford and Dr Jarrod Hore, Chair: Dr Frances Flanagan Alison Bashford and Jarrod Hore reflect on New Earth Histories and how the history of geosciences and different world cosmologies can be brought together. History Now seminars explore current and compelling issues affecting the practice of contemporary history. It is a long-running series of public talks and discussions, bringing new perspectives to all aspects of historical practice. In 2024, the series, curated...
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Q&A with Session Chair Dr Kiera Lindsey and Speakers.](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pze1phoevdz3gg0w2iryy7yn8oal?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Q&A with Session Chair Dr Kiera Lindsey and Speakers.")
DR KIERA LINDSEY CONDUCTS A Q&A WITH NOËLLE JANACZEWSKA, DR JAMES DUNK, PROFESSOR KATE FULLAGAR, CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON AND PIERRE-JACQUES OBER. Send us a text Support the show
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Professor Kate Fullagar](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/dum0y88wsjbstkcqnwdtv1jcfhwr?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Professor Kate Fullagar")
Kate Fullagar is a Professor of History at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. She is also an honorary professor of history at Macquarie University and currently co-editor of the Australian Historical Association’s journal, History Australia. Kate specializes in the history of the eighteenth-century world, particularly the British Empire and the many indigenous societies it encountered. THE WARRIOR, THE VOYAGER, AND THE ARTIST Three intercon...
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Pierre-Jacques Ober](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/2luuucb020270sq9pep2zldcv139?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Pierre-Jacques Ober")
Born in a French military family, Pierre-Jacques Ober broke with family traditions by preferring philosophy to war. In the last 25 years, he has thrown himself into numerous adventures as an independent filmmaker. Working in partnership with photographer Jules Ober, he now focuses on the creation of books using a unique story-telling device – photographs of figurines in miniature sets. THE GOOD SON A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature. A young WWI soldier’s unauthorized visit ...
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Dr Noëlle Janaczewska](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/2j71uxhxbq7omffzz0ws4aeo7oq7?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Dr Noëlle Janaczewska")
Noëlle Janaczewska is a playwright, poet, essayist and the author of The Book of Thistles (UWA Publishing)—part environmental history, part poetry, part unconventional memoir. She is the recipient of multiple awards, fellowships and residencies, including the 2020 NSW Premier’s Digital History Prize, a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Griffin Award, ten AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild Industry Excellence) Awards and a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University for her body of work a...
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Dr James Dunk](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/fypjjd0h2y6wno40t5kc85xpdnfq?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Presentation by Dr James Dunk")
James Dunk lives and writes in Wangal country in Sydney’s inner west. He works as a historian at the University of Sydney, where he lectures in Australian history and the history of medicine, and he is a conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Rethinking History, History Australia, and Health and History and his literary reviews and essays have appeared in various magazines and journals. BEDLAM AT BOTANY His firs...
![SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Intro by Dr Kiera Lindsey and presentation by Callum Clayton Dixon](https://storage.buzzsprout.com/83bd8hkn6xyes0rwasg3u1b9c7g5?.jpg "SWF2021 [Margins and Mayhem] - Intro by Dr Kiera Lindsey and presentation by Callum Clayton Dixon")
Kiera Lindsey is an award-winning historian based at UTS where she is a Senior Research Fellow conducting an ARC DECRA on speculative biography and historical craft. Callum Clayton-Dixon is an Aboriginal linguist and historian whose people come from the southern end of the New England Tableland, New South Wales, around Walcha, Woolbrook, and the Ingleba Aboriginal Reserve—Ambēyang country. SURVIVING NEW ENGLAND A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years ...
Is there such a thing as a career in history? The world of the past is broken down into numerous fields, from archivists, librarians and curators to archaeologists, historians and heritage consultants. Join Dr Kiera Lindsey as she hosts Part 2 of a Careers in History session with early-career historian, Bonnie Wildie, Archivist in Engagement and Access Services at NSW State Archives. Dr Lindsey asks the question: what was the magic that got you into history, what’s been your journey to dat...
Is there such a thing as a career in history? The world of the past is broken down into numerous fields, from archivists, librarians and curators to archaeologists, historians and heritage consultants. Join Dr Kiera Lindsey as she hosts a session with early-career historians, Alinde Bierhuizen, Social History Curator at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery. Dr Lindsey asks the question: what was the magic that got you into history, what’s been your journey to date, and where do you imagine ...
On 4 September 2018, Dr Lisa Murray (City Historian, City of Sydney) delivered the History Council of NSW’s Annual History Lecture as part of History Week. Cemeteries preserve our history and form part of our national heritage. But to truly understand the Australian way of death we must consider the social and economic history of funeral practices. This was recorded by the ABC’s Big Ideas program and broadcast nationally on 21 November 2018. Send us a text Support the show
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