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News • 25 Sep 2020

Academy membership great source of pride

Professor Maynard didn’t set foot in a university until he was 40 years old.

News • 14 Aug 2020

Research uncovers the historical experiences of the earliest global domestic workers

A new research project will bring to life the experiences and histories of the world’s first travelling global domestic workers, the Indian Ayahs and the Chinese Amahs who were employed by colonial families during the period of British colonialism.

News • 02 Jul 2020

Captain Cook and COVID

This year Australia was set to observe the 250th anniversary of Cook and the arrival of the Endeavour in 1770 but the pandemic has disrupted this anniversary moment.

News • 29 May 2020

Ring Kings: A History of Aboriginal Boxing

The Australian Boxing community has been mourning the recent death of the great Hector Thompson.

News • 30 Apr 2020

A more balanced understanding of Australian history

The Australian nation will be torn between celebration and mourning today on the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing at Kamay or Botony Bay on the shores of the Gweagal Clan of the Dharawal Nation.

News • 28 Apr 2020

History of Domestic Service Podcast

This episode of the HASS School Human Experience podcast features Professor Victoria Haskins who shares an intriguing family history discovery that sparked her wonderful academic journey.

News • 09 Dec 2019

Discovery Project grant success for Centre for 21st Century Humanities researchers

Professor Victoria Haskins and Associate Professor Bill Palmer have both been awarded ARC Discovery Project grants.

News • 18 Oct 2019

First Nations Languages in NSW Parliament

The 2019 Year of Indigenous Languages bought sobering news to the attention of the world; 40% of languages are endangered and a large proportion of these are Indigenous languages.

News • 13 Sep 2019

Kicking Goals for Aboriginal Soccer

The second edition of John Maynard’s, ‘The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe’ was launched at Glee Books on 13 September, 2019 by Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning.

News • 03 Sep 2019

Professor John Maynard to deliver Annual History Week Lecture

The University of Newcastle's Professor of Indigenous Education and Research, John Maynard, has been selected to deliver the prestigious Annual History Lecture – an event produced by the History Council of New South Wales as part of this year’s History Week.

News • 22 Aug 2019

Chief investigators meet: history of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board (1883-1969) project

A digital map, touring exhibition, and inclusion of research material in the Australian National University's Indigenous Studies major are some of the many outcomes produced by researchers involved in the History of the Aboriginal Protection/Welfare Board Project (1883-1969).

News • 09 Jul 2019

65,000 Years of Place and Memory

Professor Maynard will present a Keynote address, ‘Yuraki – 65,000 Years of Place and Memory’, in Toowoomba’s historic Empire Church Theatre at the 38th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference.

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