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Prof

Kate Darian-Smith

Honorary
Architecture, Building and Planning
arts & humanities
history
social sciences
architecture
cultural studies
area studies
historical studies
geography
social sciences - other topics
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Prof

Kate Darian-Smith

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Australian Studies and Australian History
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Kate Darian-Smith.

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BEYOND1914: KNOWLEDGE, WAR, PEACE, AND NATION

This project aims to investigate how Australian university graduates with World War One experience contributed to the formation of the post-..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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BEYOND1914: KNOWLEDGE, WAR, PEACE, AND NATION

This project aims to investigate how Australian university graduates with World War One experience contributed to the formation of the post-..

2016 - 2019
Completed
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Management and Selection of the Australian Studies Visiting Professorial Chair

2017 - 2018
Completed
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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia

This project seeks to document the evolving history of popular television and its contribution to national discussions about migration, cult..

2016 - 2018
Completed
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A History of Press Photography in Australia

Press photography has long influenced how Australians have understood themselves and their world. In collaboration with the National Library..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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A History of Press Photography in Australia

Press photography has long influenced how Australians have understood themselves and their world. In collaboration with the National Library..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies

This project deepens Australian understandings of the negotiated forms of conciliation that occurred between Indigenous and non-Indigenous p..

2008 - 2016
Completed
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CHILDHOOD, TRADITION AND CHANGE: A NATIONAL STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S PLAYLORE

Through extending knowledge of children's playlore in the daily lives and social frameworks of Australians from the 1950s to the present, th..

2007 - 2016
Completed
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Designing Australian Schools: a spatial history of innovation, pedagogy and social change

This project will provide understanding of the design, educational and environmental motivations underpinning modern Australian schools in t..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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MAPPING AND VISUALIZING CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE

2015 - 2015
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

14

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

2

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Kate Darian-Smith.

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Beyond bully beef: soldiers, food and transcultural interactions in World War I

Heather Merle Benbow, Kate Darian-Smith, Veronique Duche-Gavet

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY

Important recent scholarship has highlighted the social, cultural, religious and emotional significance of food, drink and hunger ..

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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND THE QUEST FOR THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS

Kate Darian-Smith, Jackie Dickenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  MEDIA HISTORY

The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reli..

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Young people and the world wars: visuality, materiality and cultural heritage

Ana Carden-Coyne, Kate Darian-Smith

Journal article  |  2020  |  CULTURAL & SOCIAL HISTORY

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War and Australian society

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Book Chapter  |  2020

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Translating Australia

Kyle Harvey, Kate Darian-Smith

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter explores the televised teaching of the English language to non-English speaking migrants in Australia in the 1970s, a..

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Children, Comforts and Intercultural Exchanges for Australians in Both World Wars

Kate Darian-Smith

Journal article  |  2020  |  CULTURAL & SOCIAL HISTORY

Despite the importance of the production and supply of food during times of conflict, little scholarly attention has been paid to ..

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Pearl Harbor and Australia’s War in the Pacific

Kate Darian-Smith

Book Chapter  |  2019

On February 19, 2017, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Darwin was commemorated with a service attended by the Austr..

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Australian Universities, Expertise and Internationalism After World War I

Kate Darian-Smith, James Waghorne

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Australian Studies

This article explores the impact of World War I on Australian university communities, its contribution to innovations and knowledg..

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Introduction

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Book Chapter  |  2019

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"Are We Internationally Minded?" Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the mid-20th Century

Kate Darian-Smith, Catriona Elder, Fiona Paisley

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Understanding Past Societies
Architecture
Heritage
Cultural Studies
Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies
Other Culture and Society
Urban and Regional Planning
Human Geography

News

Displaying the 1 most recent news article by Kate Darian-Smith.

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The medical student who helped change Australia

Kate Darian-Smith, James Waghorne

When Ismail bin Abdul Rahman (MBBS, 1945), the first graduate of the University of Melbourne from Malaya, arrived in Australia in 1940, he d..

September 6, 2016
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2010

Citation for Teaching Excellence (RHD Supervision) - National

Australian Learning and Teaching Award
2010

University Teaching Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision

University of Melbourne
2009

2008 Mander Jones Award for 'Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World'

Australian Society of Archivists
2007

Neil Currie Publishing Award (with Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University)

Australia-Japan Foundation
2006

Faculty of Arts Excellence in Supervision

University of Melbourne
2008

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Architecture, Building and Planning

Honorary

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Editorial Board

Journal of Grainger Studies (Editorial Board)

Advisory Council

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (Advisory Council)

Education

Graduate Diploma in Education

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts Honours

University of Melbourne

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