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UON Researcher Hans-Lukas Kieser will appear at an international conference on the Balfour Declaration and its impact on global politics.

For an Early Career Researcher like Dr Kate Ariotti of the Centre for the History of Violence and Centre for 21st Century Humanities, the Australian Historical Association Conference is an annual opportunity to be inspired, network with Australia’s leading historians and create connections in the world of Australian historical research.

More than 150 Aboriginal massacres that occurred during the spread of pastoral settlement in Australia are now documented in an online digital map, created by University of Newcastle researchers.

Historian and Australian Research Council Future Fellow with UON's Centre for the History of Violence, Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser has been awarded the President of the Republic of Armenia Prize for his significant contribution to the history of the Armenian Genocide. Associate Professor Kieser recently travelled to Armenia to collect his $10,000 prize in a presidential ceremony.

Historicising Violence: the Contested Histories of Present Day ConflictA multidisciplinary conference convened by the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia, to be held at the Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame, Rome, 22-24 November 2017.

Attendees at the Australian Historical Association conference will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience using computational linguistics for historical analysis and learn from one of the leading scholars in the field.A digital history workshop is planned as part of the conference and will be led by international scholar Associate Professor Michelle Moravec from Rosemont College in Philadelphia.

A symposium on Friday May 19th will bring together clinicians and historians to discuss what is unique to accounts of trauma in an Australasian context. The symposium will marshal University of Newcastle expertise on Indigenous trauma, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, clinical approaches to refugees and other diverse populations, plus various historians from around the country on the impact of wartime.

Abstract proposals due 31st March 2017 for the Australian Historical Association 36th Annual Conference"Entangled Histories"

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The Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Cambridge University Press present The History of Violence, from Prehistory to the Present conference.

Dr Kate Ariotti, an Historian with the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, has been awarded the prestigious CEW Bean Prize for Military History from the Australian Army History Unit.