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School of History · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course examines the ways in which imperial and colonial history has been interpreted, represented, remembered, denied, forgotten, and debated in public contexts across the globe. Through examining a series of 'sites of memory', for instance museums, schools, monuments, protests, commemorations, popular media, literature and art, and inquiries and courtrooms, the course interrogates the uses of imperial and/or colonial pasts in respect to questions of national identity, post-colonialism, and historical reparation and justice. It also involves critically exploring anti-colonial histories, and the ways in which challenges to conventional historical practices is embedded within broader political movements. The course includes opportunities for students to develop their own research projects and public histories.
Historiographical review, 2000 words (30%) Learning outcomes 1-5
Research proposal, 500 words (10%) Learning outcomes 1-5
Research essay or project presented in an agreed upon format, 4000 words (40%) Learning outcomes 1-5
Tutorial or online participation (10%) Learning outcomes 1, 5
Research project/essay presentation, 7 mins (10%) Learning outcomes 1, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks of workshop and workshop-like activities or online activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Readings will be provided to students via Wattle. Preliminary Reading Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines (UNSW Press, 2008) Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provinicialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2007) Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent (eds), Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds (Manchester University Press, 2016; pb 2018) Penelope Edmonds, Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation: Frontier violence, affective performances, and imaginative refoundings (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)