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Stephanie HoltHear some of the fascinating stories of Australian spies and spying during the Cold War, from specialist historians.
SPEAKERS
Dr Ebony Nilsson is a lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University. She is a social historian whose work specialises in migrant communities’ experiences of politics and surveillance during the Cold War. Her first book, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the transnational lives and experiences of Soviet ‘Displaced Persons’ who were resettled in Australia from Europe and China during the early Cold War and drew the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation with their political engagement.
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Dr David Schaefer is a Lecturer at the ANU National Security College. He received his PhD at King's College London and has worked at the Kings Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI), the University of Melbourne, and Asialink Diplomacy. His work focuses on the role of intelligence in Australian history and intelligence studies more broadly, and he is co-author, with the late Michael Herman, of Intelligence Power in Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
This seminar is part of an ongoing series of free online seminars, Making Public Histories, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building.
Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. Click HERE to learn about other events in the series.
We thank the series sponsors, Monash University Publishing, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
Posted by Admin Account on February 12, 2025
