Seminar: Exploring Histories of Irish and Indigenous Australians

Exploring Histories of Irish and Indigenous Australians is a free seminar presenting findings from Dr Dianne Hall’s forthcoming book, A New History of the Irish in Australia.

Dianne will share her findings about some of the overlooked interactions between Irish and Indigenous Australians throughout history from the book she co-authors with Elizabeth Malcolm.

The paper provides an overview of what is known about the history of Irish attitudes towards Indigenous people and explores their varied interactions throughout Australian history.

Register

This is a free event. Confirm your attendance by RSVP to [email protected], anytime up until the start of the event.

Speaker

Dr Dianne Hall is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Arts and Education. Her research interests are in histories of violence, gender, religion and memory with a particular focus on the Irish both in medieval and early modern Ireland and in the modern Irish diaspora. Dianne held post doctoral research fellowships in the School of History at University of Melbourne and School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast before joining Victoria University.

She has been Book Review Editor of Australasian Journal of Irish Studies since 2007 and is also on the Committee of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.