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Works by Australia's leading writers have been recognised in the shortlists for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, including Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799‐1815 by Professor Philip Dwyer from the Faculty of Education and Arts.

Australian Research Council Future Fellow and member of Newcastle's Centre for the History of Violence, Associate Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser will be speaking at the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) XXIV Biennial Conference, War, Violence, Aftermaths: Europe and the Wider World, to be held in Newcastle, from July 14-17 2015. Find out more about his talk below in this article originally published in The Conversation.

The University of Newcastle's (UON) Lisa Barritt-Eyles considers representation of Indigenous Australians at the Australian War Memorial. This is a version of a paper that will be presented at The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives conference at UON on 25 to 27 March, 2015.

On 4 and 5 December 2014, Professor Roger Markwick, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle (UON), will co-host a bi-lingual (English/Russian) workshop at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle has secured six Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Program grants for 2015.

The University of Newcastle's Professor Philip Dwyer has been shortlisted for the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815.

A visiting academic with UON's Centre for the History of Violence, Professor Pieter Spierenburg joins The Conversation's series on the history of violence.

Dr Matthew Lewis from the University of Newcastle's Centre for the History of Violence, explores the uncertain history of the petrol bomb.

Over the coming months, The Conversation will be running pieces looking at the history and nature of violence. Here, Professor Philip Dwyer from the Centre for the History of Violence begins the series with an explanation why.

By Lyndall Ryan, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of NewcastleNicholas Clements, The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (2014, University of Queensland Press).

The Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Professor Philip Dwyer, has been awarded an Academic Writers Residency by The Rockefeller Foundation to conclude work on  "The Dark Side of Empire: Violence and Colonialism in the Old and New Worlds, c1780-1820."

Prof Dr Hans-Lukas Kieser have been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship 2013-2017, War, Violence, and Apocalyptic-Millenarianism in the Middle East: Talat Pasha and the Foundation of Modern Turkey, 1874-1921