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Calling all #auspol #twitterstorians! We are historians at Deakin researching the history of national security in Australia, tweeting + retweeting the historical context of ongoing #natsec issues in Aus.
📣 EVENT: Historicizing National Security in the 21st Century 📣
4 Oct Melb
We are hosting a workshop historicizing the concept of ‘national security’ in the C21st, with visiting professors (Security History Network, Virginia Tech) and scholars of security from across Australia!
With panels exploring:
- Dynamics of peace and security since the 1990s
- The Australian security context
- Discourses, structures, and cultures of Security
- Security, tech, and anticolonialism
👉Details and registration at nationalsecurityaustralia.co…
#twitterstorians #natsec
National Security Australia retweeted
Shouting and scare stories dumb down Australia’s national security debate. Time to grow up: my latest for @ConversationEDU. theconversation.com/time-to-…
National Security Australia retweeted
Hooray! Accepted for the @AustHistAssoc conference with 'Engineering national insecurity: investment in Australia’s coastal defence, 1911–45'. Looking forward to running our panel, 'Fluid boundaries'.
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Huge thanks to our hosts in Marburg, particularly to @kalesse_p for organising the workshop and events for us. It was a real treat to be in beautiful Marburg (complete with Christmas markets and snow!)
ALT Christmas markets, Marburg
Find details of the workshop here: sfb138.de/en/home-de/veranst…
And read more about our projects at nationalsecurityaustralia.co…
We are back from an exciting workshop on ‘Ideas and Concepts of National Security: Australia and Europe in Comparative Perspective’, at the Herder Institute, Marburg, in collaboration with scholars from the ‘Dynamics of Security’ research centre, Philipps-University Marburg.
ALT From left to right: Carolyn Holbrook (@sigmundmarx), Mia Martin Hobbs (@miamhobbs), Eckart Conze, David Lowe (@DloweDavid), David Eklbadh
@miamhobbs demonstrated how compound threats manifested in uses of national security in Australia in the 1930s
ALT Mia Martin Hobbs presenting a paper on compound threats in uses of national security in the 1930s in Australia
@SigmundMarx explored concepts of security within the national insurance debate in Australia’s interwar years
ALT Carolyn Holbrook presenting a paper on concepts of security within the national insurance debate in the interwar years
The National Security in Australia team all presented research focussing on the interwar years. @DloweDavid revealed the origins of the Australian National Security Act of 1939
ALT David Lowe with title slide from paper on National Security Act of 1939
ALT David Lowe presenting a paper on the origins of the National Security Act, 1939
…and Sarah Wilder Fehl (Marburg), presents research on tensions between national security and sovereignty at the United Nations, 1945-1998.
ALT Sarah Wilder-Fehl presenting a paper on national security and sovereignty at the UN, 1945-1998
Over two days, we heard fascinating research on #natsec topics ranging from the securitization of ethnic minorities, food security, demography, and monetary systems across the 20th century. Below, David Ekbladh (Tufts) discusses national security in the US in the 1930s…
ALT David Ekladh presenting a paper on national security in the US in the 1930s
National Security Australia retweeted
'Ideas and Concepts of National Security' workshop at Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany with Prof Eckart Conze (Marburg), Peter Haslinger (Geissen) David Ekbladh (Tufts), @DloweDavid, @miamhobbs and many excellent PhD & post-docs. Further collaboration to follow.
National Security Australia retweeted
Congratulations to @annakent1 who has been awarded the IEAA Excellence Award 2022 – Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis Award for the thesis 'Australian scholarships for Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific: mandates and mis-steps, 1948 - 2018'.
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National Security Australia retweeted
'If we are to protect our democracy from bad-faith actors in the future', writes @SigmundMarx, 'we need to restore faith in government and equip people with the skills to be vigilant custodians'.
aph.org.au/2022/09/democraci…
National Security Australia retweeted
Announcement: my new book, Dark Winter, an insiders guide to pandemics and biosecurity, is out in November @newsouthpub Be prepared. unsw.press/books/dark-winter…
1930’s national security research - no pigeon liberation allowed!
Please #twitterstorians tell me someone attempted to train cats in signals intel 😺
National Security Australia retweeted
Albanese government unveils national biosecurity plan amid ‘multiple risks on multiple fronts’ theguardian.com/australia-ne…