Day three of sessions at the Australian Historical Association conference started with disasters. No, nothing awful befell the historians ensconced at the University of Adelaide. Rather, the subject of the plenary panel in the morning was ‘Disasters in Social and Cultural Perspective: Impact, Response, Memory’. Archives, museums and libraries around Australia have done … [Read more...] about Disasters at the 2012 Australian Historical Association Conference
Cyclones
Mapping Australia’s Natural Disasters: Space and Time
Yet another natural disaster is unfolding in Queensland with tropical cyclone Yasi crossing the coast of Far North Queensland. There was not much sleep in our household on Wednesday night as we have family members who live right at the heart of the destructive forces of the cyclone. I resumed this post at around 1 am Thursday morning. Blogging while keeping an eye on Twitter … [Read more...] about Mapping Australia’s Natural Disasters: Space and Time
