History at UNSW

By our own Jan Lanicek.

Could the current crisis of Holocaust education also be an opportunity? - ABC Religion & Ethics Holocaust education in Australia is facing new challenges. This may be a good moment to reconsider how we teach the Holocaust, to remember the past and help students make sense of the present.

The UNSW History seminar is back for Term 2!! Details below-lunch provided if you come in person, but note we have an online option too.

After a hiatus the UNSW History Seminar series (and FB page) is back in action! Please see below our seminar program for term 1 2026 which begins this coming Tuesday March 3. All welcome to come along in person or via Zoom. Details below.

All welcome to our next History Seminar, Tuesday 11th November, from 12:30-2pm - in person in Morven Brown 310, or online. Our presenter Dr Alexandra Dellios (ANU) will be presenting online from the US, where she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Seger Centre for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Paper: 'The "Ethnic" Welfare Worker: personal perspectives on changes to welfare approaches in multicultural Australia (1970s-1980s). More details below. DM for Zoom Link.

All welcome to the next UNSW History Seminar, Tuesday 5 August, 12:30-2pm - online (message for details) or in person in Morven Brown 209 - lunch provided.

Our next speaker is Matthew Birchall, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laureate Centre for History & Population at UNSW.

“Depopulation and Repopulation: Political Economy and Settler Colonialism in the Early Nineteenth Century”.

Abstract and further details below.

Migration and Health Histories - A History and Area Studies Workshop - this Friday August 1 at UNSW, from 12:30-4:30pm - details and registration at the link below.

Migration and Health Histories - A History and Area Studies Workshop This workshop brings together scholars working at the intersections of health and migration histories to share works-in-progress

The Australian Historical Association has initiated an Open Letter signed by a sparkling array of BA graduates calling on the PM to abolish the Jobs Ready Graduate Scheme which has made arts degrees far more expensive and less accessible to the many people who want to do one or who are undertaking a BA now.

You can now sign the petition in support of this campaign at the link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-government-university-fees-jrg-scheme?fbclid=IwY2xjawLzw-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHl4BPw7FRKizJGGnEWoab3BLSWBInq5GbyigkPaJKR_qRTkYEpn3lFMum1pA_aem_8sNGTsap0Jjs75ey9Vg6EA

Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

All welcome to the next History Seminar, with Dr Edwin Rose, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds on "Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820" - more details below

Tuesday July 22, 12:30-2pm (EST) in Morven Brown 358 (Laureate Centre) or online (DM for Zoom link)

All welcome to our next history seminar on WEDNESDAY 30th April (i.e. not our usual Tuesday) 12:30-2pm, in person at the Laureate Centre, or online via Zoom (email [email protected] for a link). We are delighted to welcome Professor Lucy Delap from Cambridge University speaking on her latest project, a history of disabled people's experiences of labour. More details below.

Please join us for our next History at UNSW seminar on April 1, 12:30-2pm - featuring visiting scholar Veronika Durin-Hornyik on “The history and legacy of the Free Europe University in Exile (1951–1958)”

This will be a hybrid event, held in person in the Laureate Centre Room (Morven Brown 353) as well as online (DM for Zoom link). Lunch will be provided to attendees. More details below.