Scholar Talks

Scholar Talks showcase the work of the Library's Fellows and other researchers.

Working and Not: Life in an Economic Crisis

Dr Elizabeth Humphrys explores life for blue-collar workers in the economic crises from the 1970s to 1990s.

The spiritual is political: Magdalene Journal and Christian feminism

Associate Professor Clare Monagle — Australian Religious History Fellow, 2020 — explores the history of Christian feminism in Australia in the 1970s and 80s.

Doctored Uniforms

This talk and paper employs soldiers’ voices not only to highlight their reliance on vernacular medicine, but also to reformulate the boundaries of medical practice, and ask who can be considered a medical practitioner?

Natural curiosity: Unseen art of the First Fleet

Louise Anemaat – Executive Director, Library & Information Services and Dixson Librarian – talks about some of the extraordinary unseen art of the First Fleet.

Making Theatre that Matters

Dr Isobelle Barrett Meyering, the 2019 David Mitchell Memorial Fellow, discusses the background of Children’s Rights Activism in the 1970s and 1980s.

Landscaping Eastern Australia through the Colonial Survey

2020 Mitchell Fellow, Dr Jarrod Hore, re-grounds colonial surveying and explores the environmental prehistories of our settler colonial landscapes.

Searching for Charlotte: Australia’s First Children’s Writer

Australian writer Kate Forsyth, a descendant of Charlotte Waring Atkinson, has spent the past year investigating her ancestor’s astonishing true story of love, grief, and triumph in the face of overwhelming odds.

Visiting Mother: Australian soldiers in London during WWI

This talk explores London through the eyes of Australian soldiers and nurses on leave during the First World War.