Category Archives: Event review

International Federation for Research in Women’s History 2024 Conference

by Managing Editor Posted on October 11, 2024

Margaret Allen, Ana Stevenson and Michelle Staff share their experiences of attending the 2024 International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference. It was great to attend the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) 2024 Conference, ‘Reflections on … Continue reading →

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A Cocktail of Academic Fervour and Dance Fever: My Experience of AHA 2024

by Managing Editor Posted on September 10, 2024

Australian Women’s History Network Travel Bursary recipient Meg Graham reflects on her experience of the 2024 Australian Historical Association Conference. This year’s Australian Historical Association Conference welcomed people and papers from around Australia and across the world to Kaurna Country … Continue reading →

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Doing feminist history: A symposium for emerging historians

by Managing Editor Posted on September 11, 2019

Michelle Staff reflects on the recent Sydney Feminist History Group symposium for early career researchers and PhD candidates. In 2014, Joy Damousi posed the important question: “Does feminist history have a future?”. In her response, she highlighted the various challenges … Continue reading →

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Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire and the Pursuit of Perfection

by Managing Editor Posted on January 17, 2019

Text of a lecture given by Camille Nurka at the Women in Time Symposium, 30 November 2018, UTAS, Hobart, in association with the Australian Women’s History Network. I would like to say thank you to Paige Gleeson, Honey Dower, Frieda … Continue reading →

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MENTOR Workshop 2018: Six key pieces of career advice for PhDs and ECRs

by Managing Editor Posted on January 13, 2019

Hollie Pich and Marama Whyte co-organised Professor Glenda Sluga’s recent MENTOR workshop. They review the event, and give six key pieces of advice from the event for emerging scholars. Like all industries, academia presents specific challenges to women and gender-diverse … Continue reading →

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Serving in silence? Australian LGBTI military service since World War II

by Managing Editor Posted on January 17, 2018

Mitchell Naughton reviews a museum exhibition on Australia’s history of LGBTI military service, running at the Melbourne City Library until 3 February 2018. “I don’t know where all these gays and poofters have come from, I don’t remember a single … Continue reading →

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‘Wild Jill’: Notes from a plenary session celebrating Australian historian Jill Roe

by Managing Editor Posted on July 26, 2017

Sophie Robinson, Isobelle Barrett Meyering, Chelsea Barnett and James Keating share thoughts on a recent plenary session memorialising pioneering gender historian Jill Roe. On 5 July 2017, an intergenerational group of students and academics gathered at Newcastle’s University House to … Continue reading →

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Celebrating a career of engagement and achievement

by Managing Editor Posted on March 12, 2017

Yorick Smaal reviews the recent symposium celebrating historian Shurlee Swain’s impact across different fields of research and on multiple generations of scholars. I initially encountered Shurlee Swain’s scholarship as a young undergraduate at the University of Queensland in the mid-1990s. … Continue reading →

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