HISTORY SEMINARS for 2009   History Program Seminars All held on Thursdays from 3.30 to 5.00 pm in McDonald Room, Menzies Library Second Semester Thursday 23 July Rebe Taylor Displaced Objects: Tasmanian Aboriginal material artefacts in Overseas Museums Chair: Tom Griffiths Abstract Thursday 30 July Directors seminar series Barry Higman History in the Social Sciences Chair: Nick Brown Abstract Thursday 6 August Carroll Pursell Just as Relevant in our Culture: Bringing Appropriate Technology Home Chair: Desley Deacon Abstract Thursday 13 August Karen Fox Royal Honours in New Zealand and Australia in Historical Perspective Chair: Janet Doust Abstract Thursday 20 August Desley Deacon Shallow Roots? An International Star (Judith Anderson) and her Transnational Families Chair: Angela Woollacott Abstract Thursday 27 August Nick Guoth Cold civic receptions, warm woolly jumpers: an early China-Australia sporting experience Chair: Adam Henry Abstract Thursday 3 September Chris O'Brien Weather at a Time of Catastrophe Chair: Nick Guoth Abstract Thursday 10 September Karen Downing Chains: men's relationship to civilisation and material progress in Britain and Australia c.1788-1850 Chair: Shelley Richardson Abstract Thursday 16 September Barbara Caine Women's autobiographies in Britain, c.1850-1960 joint seminar with History SSS Abstract Thursday 24 September William H. Chafe From Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Revolution in America: A story of continuity Chair: Desley Deacon Abstract Thursday 1 October Jacqui Donegan The Confectionery Kings: Robertson, Allen and Hoadley, a collective biography, 1887-1967 Chair: Adam Henry Thursday 8 October Jo-Anne Weinman Chair: Susan Mary Withycombe Thursday 15 October Dave Johnston Thursday 22 October Pat Jalland Death and disaster in inter-war England: the working class experience Chair: Karen Fox   Thursday 29 October Graeme Wynn What a Book (or Two) can do Chair: Tom Griffiths Abstract Thursday 5 November Beth Wright Change in the Australian Census - a question of shifting faith? Chair: Nick Brown Thursday 12 November Nick Brown and Susan Boden High Country Politics: Rick Farley and the Kosciuszko National Park Plan of Management Chair: Peter Stanley