Scholar Talks

From courses in popular psychology to snapshots of physical culture — join us to meet the ancestors of today’s wellness trends.

Unaipon descendent, Ngarrindjeri man Kym Kropinyeri, wants to know why this famous inventor never made any money. This talk explains why.

Dr Rebecca Jones, CH Currey Fellow 2020, explores historical adaptations to extreme weather in arid Australia.  

Matt Devine discusses Edward (Ted) Herbert Farmer, Government Architect from 1958-73, during possibly the last Golden Age for public architecture in NSW.

The Tooheys Limited collection has been an untapped resource, in the Mitchell stack, unnoticed by historians. Dr Lisa Murray – 2021 Hertzberg Fellow – has been exploring this special collection of business and industry records.

Art historian David Hansen makes a deep dive into a single (and singular) painting: George Lambert’s The Convex Mirror.

Tess Gardner tells the story of the Australian journalists who played a part in the end of the Qing Dynasty.

This talk explores the important role of Wicked Women and LOTL magazines in connecting and building lesbian communities in Sydney during the 1990s.