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HTAV Student Lectures

Sunday, 25 March 2012
The University of Melbourne, Parkville

for students of VCE Australian History, VCE Renaissance Italy, VCE Revolutions
and International Baccalaureate

To avoid disappointment register early as room capacity cannot be guaranteed.

PROGRAM:

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PROGRAM
10.00am–11.00am: Lecture One
The Port Phillip District and Gold Rush Victoria
Professor Richard Broome, La Trobe University
Port Phillip and especially gold rush Victoria developed a strong sense of itself as a new world society. This lecture will look at the origin of these ideas and how they were played out in various social and political actions for democratic and land reform, the eight-hour day movement and the question of who was to own Victoria.

11.05am–12.05pm: Lecture Two
Nation, Race and Citizen
James Fiford, Social Education Victoria
In this session, James Fiford will provide an overview of the key knowledge required for Area of Study 2, Nation, Race and Citizen: 1888–1914. He will provide some possible approaches to School Assessed Coursework tasks and explore some of the rich resources available for the study of this topic.

RENAISSANCE ITALY PROGRAM
10.00am–11.00am: Lecture One
Revision of Outcome 1 : The Italian Peninsula and the Renaissance
Anne McIlroy, Genazzano FCJ College
This presentation will briefly revise the states on the Italian Peninsula and the political, economic and cultural interactions. It will examine nature and importance of these interactions. The presentation will examine the changes and development in art and learning, and the importance of the development of a money economy in these changes.

11.05am–12.05pm: Lecture Two
Renaissance Florence
Adrea Fox, Melbourne Grammar School
This presentation will be an evaluation of the changes and the continuities of the political institutions and values of Renaissance Florence 1293–1513. We will analyse the organisation, distribution and use of power. Medicean Florence from 1434 with the assent of Cosimo, displays the manipulation of government by him, his son (Piero 1) and his grandson Lorenzo. The failure of his great grandson Piero11, halted the Medici’s power in 1494. Bruni and Machiavelli offer a contemporary insight into the Florentine political system. Later historiography further enhances our understanding. The key to this outcome is the range of visual and written evidence you present and how you evaluate its’ significance to Florentine power.

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
10.00am–11.00am: Lecture One
Causes of World War I
Dr Barbara Keys, The University of Melbourne
The issue of how to explain the outbreak of World War One in August 1914 and how to apportion responsibility is, nearly a century later, still not definitively settled. This session will provide a brief survey of the major interpretations and then focus on identifying the structural (long-term), conjunctural (short-term) and contingent factors that need to be taken into account in order to fashion a coherent explanation of the causes of the war.

11.05am–12.05pm: Lecture Two
Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, Peacekeeping – International Relations 1918–1936
Dr Barbara Keys, The University of Melbourne
After the bloodiest war in European history ended in November 1918, statesmen turned their attention to creating what Harold Nicholson, one of the British delegates to the Versailles negotiations, termed ‘a new order in Europe’. Nicholson believed that the task was to achieve ‘not peace only, but eternal peace’. This session will survey the course of international relations from Versailles to the reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 in order to explain why the utopian hopes of men like Nicholson ended up being bitterly frustrated.

1.00pm–2.00pm: Lecture Three
USSR Under Stalin 1924–1953
Professor Stephen Wheatcroft, The University of Melbourne
The thirty years between 1924 and 1953 saw the USSR transformed from a weak under-developed country to a super-power that had emerged victorious from WWII. How had this been achieved, and at what costs? Professor Wheatcroft will survey the available data in an attempt to see both the achievements and the costs of Stalinism in perspective.

2.05pm–3.05pm: Lecture Four
Hitler’s Rise to Power and Nazi Germany
Nick Evans, Wesley College
In this session the reasons behind the successes and failures of Weimar Germany will be explored along with the key factors that were behind Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and his subsequent consolidation of power. Julian also will explore the social, political and economic structures of Nazi Germany along with the successes and failures of each structure.

REVOLUTIONS PROGRAM
1.00pm–2.00pm:
Lecture One – Choice of one:
a. America – Area of Study 1
Nick Frigo, Education Consultant
Much recent scholarship has been released lately focusing on the significant contribution of key leaders of studies about the revolution and their ideas. These movements, and many of the significant events of the revolution, will be examined both during this session and in close relation SACs and end of year assessment.

b. France – Area of Study 1
Dr Michael Adcock, Melbourne Grammar School
In this illustrated powerpoint presentation, Dr Michael Adcock will examine the roles of the leader and their ideas, and of the key events and popular movements in the development of the revolution to August 1789.The presentation will explain some of the key themes of the Study Design, and will analyse how these can be applied to revolutionary France.

c. Russia – Area of Study 1
Richard Malone, Caulfield Grammar
This session explores the prominent ideas, leaders and movements that combined to result in the abdication of the tsar and later the overthrow of the Provisional Government by Lenin's Bolshevik Party. The key question asked will be 'Why did the Russian Revolution occur?' A variety of engaging images and media will be used to investigate these issues.

d. China – Area of Study 1
Rachael Rosedale, Education Consultant
This lecture will investigate the main revolutionary ideas, leaders, movements and events in China from 1898–1949 which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the rise of the Nationalists and the eventual triumph of Mao and the Communist Party.

2.05pm–3.05pm:
Lecture Two – Choice of one:
e. America – Area of Study 2
Nick Frigo, Education Consultant
During this session Nick Frigo will closely examine the ways the American revolution, and the years following the War of Independence, saw challenges and changes in the social, economic, political and even the cultural order of the new society within the timeframe 1776–1789.

f. France – Area of Study 2
Dr Michael Adcock, Melbourne Grammar School
In this illustrated powerpoint presentation, Dr Michael Adcock will examine how the original ‘project’ created a new society in 1789, and will evaluate its implementation in the years 1789–1790. The presentation will then examine the forms of opposition to the new society, and the resultant crisis of 1792–1794.The lecture will evaluate how and why crises like this one forced the revolutionaries to modify their original ideals and aims.

g. Russia – Area of Study 2
Richard Malone, Caulfield Grammar
This session explores the reforms, crises and responses of the new Bolshevik Government in the new society. The key question asked is 'How successful was the new government in transforming society?' A variety of engaging images and media will be used to investigate these issues.

3.20pm–4.35pm
h. France in Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette and Marianne - A presentation by Historia Inc. (extra $16.00)
Two women illustrate the clash of two different worlds: Marie Antoinette represents the Ancien Regime, the political and social system of absolute monarchy, ruling by the grace of God and supported by a powerful aristocratic court. Marianne, a fictitious character that personifies ‘Liberty leading the people’, surges forward to a modern democratic future. Marianne brings liberty, fraternity and equality to her people and carries the aspirations of an assertive middle class determined to assume control in the affairs of the state and replace the ancient orders of nobility and the church in leading the nation.

Historia Inc. (www.historia.asn.au) is proud to bring a unique presentation to the HTAV Student Lecture Series. This audio-visual presentation with live narration explores this history in parallel narratives from multiple perspectives. Join us as we bring together the key personalities and the turbulent events from original sources, extracts, images and music of the French Revolution.

Images from Wiki Commons. Marie Antoinette à la Rose, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty leading the people) by Eugène Delacroix commemorating a later revolution in 1830 but containing symbols of the 1789 French Revolution. Image composition by Dr Ian Parkin (© Historia Inc.).

The opinions expressed at Student Lectures are those of presenters, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the HTAV.