ANU History

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The ANU School of History teaches broadly across Global, European, Indigenous and Australian history, and produces original historical research on questions of national and international significance. The School of History specialises in Early Modern and Modern history, with a focus on Western history as a complement to the concentration on Classical, Asian, Pacific and Middle Eastern History else

where at the ANU. We offer courses that reflect both the research expertise of staff and areas of contemporary critical, intellectual and public engagement with historical issues. Our courses range from thematically-informed studies (including terrorism, modernity, gender and sexuality, human rights, indigeneity), to surveys of major historical transitions (imperialism, revolution) and periods (the twentieth century and its wars), as well as more detailed coverage of social, cultural and political change, from Tudor-Stuart England, the rise of the mass media in the United States to Australia in the 1960s, and the commemoration of ANZAC. We offer, to first year students, courses designed as systematic introductions to the study of history as an academic discipline, and to later year and honours level students, courses geared to refining a range of skills and capacities that historians might carry into professional application. We also offer courses that provide a historical complement to students focused on areas of study, including international relations and economics. At the core of all our teaching is the practice of research-led education, and an encouragement to students to test and refine their interests and values through historically-informed inquiry. Members of the School have won prizes for teaching, supervising and publication, have held visiting positions at leading overseas universities and national institutions, and are regular commentators on local, national and international issues. The School hosts three centres, recognized for their national and international leadership in the areas of Indigenous History, Environmental History, and Biography. We are committed to history as a reflective and creative discipline, and to its centrality to any informed and independent engagement with the challenges of the contemporary world.

16/06/2026

Have you applied to the HIST2206 course? This is your opportunity to live an unforgettable experience and learn more about the Great War's Battlefields.
Applications end on 2 July!
More information here: https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/courses/great-wars-battlefields-study-tour-gallipoli-western-front-and-paris

11/06/2026

Dr Aditya Balasubramanian is currently in Europe, presenting research on the history of eucalyptus planting in India and international organisations to the European University Institute and the Universität Wien

The Homo Sacer: s*x work and the politics of legal abandonment in postcolonial India - Sameera Chauhan, 2026

04/06/2026

🖋️📖 A by our Sameera Chauhan offers a critical re-examination of India’s legal regime governing s*x work, arguing that the problem is not a legislative contradiction but a structural system reproducing colonial modes of control.

The Homo Sacer: s*x work and the politics of legal abandonment in postcolonial India - Sameera Chauhan, 2026 India’s legal framework for s*x work occupies a persistent paradox: s*x work itself is not illegal, yet the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA, 1986) crimin...

04/06/2026

Congrats, Emily Gallagher! We will be cheering for you!!
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

28/05/2026

📚Out now! Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 49 edited by Ben Silverstein and Crystal McKinnon , exploring Aboriginal histories of survival, activism, cultural practice and resistance.
Download for free: http://doi.org/10.22459/AH.49.2025

26/05/2026

🚨Calling our students at The Australian National University! We are pleased to announce that 'HIST2206 The Great War’s Battlefields: A Study Tour of Gallipoli, the Western Front and Paris' will next be offered from mid-June to early July 2027.
EOIs are now open! Submit by 2 July 2026.
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/courses/great-wars-battlefields-study-tour-gallipoli-western-front-and-paris

Modi, BJP influence grow in leaps and bounds across India

25/05/2026

Our Professor Aditya Balasubramanian was featured in ABC News analysis on Modi & BJP’s influence a few days ago.

Modi, BJP influence grow in leaps and bounds across India How Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning India into a one-party nation.

Tribal Visuality and the Politics of Indigenous Art: 'Mary Sully: Native Modern' Revisited - Allan Martin Lecture | School of History

07/05/2026

Don't miss out! Our is coming with guest speaker Philip J. Deloria. Registrations are still available!
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU
🗓️Tuesday 12 May at 6 pm
📍RSSS Auditorium The Australian National University ℹ️https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/ue7w

Tribal Visuality and the Politics of Indigenous Art: 'Mary Sully: Native Modern' Revisited - Allan Martin Lecture | School of History In 2024, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art launched a reclamation of the artistic career of Mary Sully, a reclusive, previously unacknowledged Dakota artist active between the late 1920s and mid-1940s. The processes of conservation, curation, and exhibition revealed new dimensions of the work,...

04/05/2026

Professor Philip J. Deloria will reflect on the global rediscovery of Mary Sully’s work and what it reveals about Indigenous modernism, visual sovereignty, and the cultural politics of Native art today.
Want to know more? https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/ue7w

Arts & Social Sciences at ANU | Harvard University

30/04/2026

📻🎙Podcast New Season Alert! 'Urgent History' is Back!
This season explores war and colonisation, evolving family life, and how news—past and present—shapes what we believe.

Listen on:
* Spotify: https://bit.ly/4lLXI4i
* Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/4fSSnH7

Urgent History Podcast · The Australian National University · Urgent History brings together leading historians to apply their knowledge of the past to some of the most pressing questions of the present. Season 1, hosted by Dr Filip Slaveski, Senior Lecturer in Russian, Soviet and East European History, covered ...

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