In the History Council of Victoria’s third Book+Author event for the year, we will be joined by Alexandra Roginski, Melbourne-based historian, writer and heritage worker and Visiting Fellow of Deakin University, who will be discussing her fascinating new book in conversation with convenor Dr Yves Rees. Alexandra completed her PhD at the ANU in 2018 and
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In the HCV's first in-person author talk of 2024, Dr Yves Rees will be in-conversation with Dr Alecia Simmonds, award-winning historian and author of Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law (La Trobe University Press, 2023). Courting is a history of love turned sour: the story of jilted lovers who claimed legal compensation
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How does Australia's relationship to its settler colonial past shape our shared future? And can we ever achieve true healing if we don't confront history head on? Griffith Review's Acts of Reckoning issue examines some of the complexities at play in Australia's long and fraught journey toward centering First Nations peoples, cultures and knowledges. Join the Wheeler Centre for this special panel event as lawyer, storyteller and Griffith Review contributing editor, Teela Reid, activist and Uluru Statement from the Heart architect, Megan Davis and historian Henry Reynolds (appearing via a video feed) reckon with questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation.