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HISTORY SEMINARS for 2008   History Program Seminars July-December All held on Thursdays from 3.30 to 5.00 pm in Seminar Room A, Coombs Building   Thursday 24 July Margaret Jacobs American Indian Domestic Servants and the Problem of "Diverted Mothering", San Francisco Bay Area, 1920-1940 Abstract Thursday 31 July Kris Inwood Infrastructure To Reconstruct the History of Population Change in Canada and Among the Indigenous Peoples Living in Territory Claimed by Canada Abstract Thursday 7 August Elizabeth Ewan Collecting Scottish Women's Lives: Biographies, History and Identity Abstract Thursday 14 August Nick Guoth Kangaroos and Dragons: The White Australia Policy and the 1923 Chinese football tour of Australia Abstract Thursday 21 August Susan Mary Withycombe Canberra's Internal Reserves Abstract Thursday 28 August Georgina Fitzpatrick From Arnold to Woodfield: a prosopographical A-Z (or W) of fifty Australian "British-born" internees Abstract Thursday 4 September Karen Fox The Fame of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: Prominent Indigenous Women in the Print Media Abstract Thursday 11 September Pat Jalland British prisoners in the Far East: a 'forgotten army' in the history of death, grief and commemoration   Thursday 18 September Ann McGrath, OAM Apologising for Cecil Cook? The Apology, Objectivity and Historical Reputation   Thursday 25 September Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden Send lawyers, guns and money: two views of Rick Farley   Thursday 2 October Chris O'Brien A history of tropical monsoons in Australia   Thursday 9 October Lawrence Niewojt Tourists, motor cars and town development on the Otway Coast   Thursday 16 October HISTORY PROGRAM ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM   Thursday 23 October Lorina Barker A Shearer's Life   Thursday 30 October Emily O'Gorman Cunnamulla, 1990: Floods, Local Knowledge, and State Natural Disaster Response   Thursday 6 November Tim Hatton's all day seminar   Thursday 13 November Tom Griffiths TBC   Thursday 20 November Travis Cutler TBC   Thursday 27 November Kylie Carman-Brown TBA   Cross-Campus Seminars in History February-March All held on Fridays at 3pm in the Conference Room of the AD Hope Building Friday 29 February Beryl Rawson Concepts of slavery and freedom in Roman imperial society Friday 7 March Graeme Davison Down the Gurgler: Historical Influences on Australian Domestic Water Consumption Friday 14 March Graeme Gill The Socialist City and its Post-Socialist Transformation: Moscow Rebuilt   History Program Seminars March-June All held on Thursdays from 3.30 to 5.00 pm in Seminar Room A, Coombs Building   Thursday 20 March Wendy Way Markets, Science and the role of the State: F.L. McDougall's 'Nutrition Initiative' Thursday 27 March John Hawkins Andrew Fisher and Joseph Cook Thursday 3 April Spencer Leineweber Covered with Black Kapa, Private Spaces in 19th century Hawaii Thursday 10 April Christine Hansen Missing objects, absent people: Indigenous material culture and historical representation in south-east NSW Thursday 17 April Barry Higman A curious Christian: the Atlantic career of the Rev. John Lindsay D.D., 1729-1788 Thursday 24 April Tim Rowse The beginnings of Indigenous enumeration: NSW 1815-49 Thursday 1 May Leland Turner Taurindicus tex in the Australian Grasslands: Environmental Dilemma, Landscape Transformation, Breed Diffusion, and Beef Cattle Agriculture in Queensland and Texas, 1870-1970 Thursday 8 May THEME SEMINAR Ann McGrath Ann McGrath talks to George Mukuka and Martin Nakata about Indigenous Knowledge Thursday 15 May Desley Deacon Cosmpolitans at Home: Judith Anderson and the Transnational Horizons of JC Williamson's Stock Company Members, 1897-1918 Thursday 22 May ALLAN MARTIN COLLOQUIUM Mauricio Tenorio The colloquium will be held in Room 1.13, Coombs Extension (Bld 8) Thursday 29 May Doris Kordes Freedoms in the asylum: Kenmore Hospital 1926-1960 Thursday 5 June Elizabeth Ganter Aboriginal Senior Officials in the Northern Territory Government Thursday 12 June Ann Curthoys, Kim Rubenstein, Mary Crock, Peter Prince, Marilyn Lake & Henry Reynolds Drawing the Global Colour Line National Europe Centre, 2-5.30pm Thursday 19 June Ingereth Macfarlane 'Playing at telegraph lines': interactional histories in the western Simpson Desert, northern South Australia Thursday 26 June Frank Moorhouse Imagination: tool or game?   ALL WELCOME Seminar Coordinators: Tim Rowse and Chris O'Brien Enquiries: Chris O'Brien or Tim Rowse (Tim.Rowse@anu.edu.au, Chrisob@coombs.anu.edu.au)   *************************************************************************