Category: Papers/Seminars
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UK events
I am leaving for the UK for research and will be travelling for the next few weeks, taking in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Nottingham and Birmingham. Here are a few of the events that I will be speaking at: Tuesday, 25th June – ‘From Subversives to Snow Flakes: Fifty Years of Fears of Student Politics…
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Talk for SA History Festival – 11 May, Box Factory, 2pm
Adelaide peeps, I have been invited by the South Australian branch of the Labour History Society to give a talk as part of South Australia’s History Festival. I will be discussing the book that I co-edited with Jon Piccini and Matthew Worley, The Far Left in Australia since 1945, particularly how we put it together…
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New article in Terrorism & Political Violence: ‘Creating the National/Border Security Nexus’
Terrorism and Political Violence have just published my article, ‘Creating the National/Border Security Nexus: Counter-Terrorist Operations and Monitoring Middle Eastern and North African to the UK in the 1970s-1980s’. It is based on research funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ David Phillips Travelling Fellowship. The abstract is below: This article looks at an…
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The Communist Party of Australia and Anti-Colonial Activism in Papua New Guinea
This is the extended part of a paper that I wrote with Padraic Gibson for the Eric Richards’ Symposium in British and Australian History, which was held at Flinders University last week. The abstract for our paper was as below: Alongside the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA) work for Aboriginal rights, the Party’s demands for…
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New publications: A journal article and a book review.
This is a quick post to let people know about two new publications of mine. Firstly, the International Review of Social History has published an article titled ‘National Liberation for Whom? The Postcolonial Question, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Party’s African and Caribbean Membership’. Here’s the abstract: The Communist Party of Great…
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CFP: XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Monash University, 11-14 July 2017
Monash would like to invite you to the XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, to be held at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus in Melbourne. Europe’s Entanglements Location: Monash University (Melbourne), 11 – 14 July 2017 Contact: arts-AAEH2017@monash.edu Website: http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australasian-association-for-european-history-2017/ First deadline for paper and panel proposals: 30 September 2016 As Europe commemorates the centenary of the…
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New CFP: The First Eric Richards Symposium in British and Australasian History (31 Jan – 3 Feb 2017)
This is a call for papers for a conference organised by my colleague Andrekos Varnava. It looks exciting. Hopefully see you all there! The First Eric Richards Symposium in British and Australasian History Tuesday 31 January – Friday 3 February 2017 The School of History and International Relations, Flinders University, and the other sponsors of…
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New article at History and Policy on ‘no platform’
This is just a quick post to let people know that the good folk at History & Policy have published an opinion piece by myself on the origins of the National Union of Students’ ‘no platform’ policy. You can read the piece here. I am writing a longer piece on the subject, so if anyone…