A ride through time - Allan Martin Lecture 2010

Professor John Maynard’s 2010 Allan Martin Lecture will reflect upon his journey to the University as a mature age student, and will argue that an Indigenous perspective on Australian history and its practice is of critical importance. 

Exploring the concept of time travel as a metaphor for history, Professor Maynard will highlight his latest work on early Aboriginal political mobilization during the 1920s and consider the present day significance of these findings in the continued contested climate of Australian history today.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Tuesday 18May, 6pm, Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road ANU

A reception will follow in the foyer of the H.C. Coombs Building Extension, 7.30-8.30 pm.

RSVP and Enquiries to T: 02 6125 2354 or E: history@coombs.anu.edu.au

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John Maynard is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Wollotuka Institute at the University of Newcastle.  He is an Australian Research Council post-doctoral fellow and the Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).  He is a Worimi man of Port Stephens region in New South Wales.  He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (ANU) Stanner Fellowship for 1996 and the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellowship for 2003.  He gained his PhD in 2003 examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism.  John was a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association 2000-2002, Council Member with the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC) 2006-2008 and NSW History Council 2006-2008.  He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities urban, rural and remote.  He is the author of four books including Aboriginal Stars of the Turf (2002) and Fight for Liberty and Freedom (2007).  He was recently the recipient of the University of Newcastle’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (2009) for Fight for Liberty and Freedom.

Allan Martin (1926-2002) was an intellectual, institutional, and social pioneer whose career as a historian spanned the second half of the 20th Century.  When most Australians went to England for their postgraduate work, he chose ANU, where he was the first doctoral student in History in the Research School of Social Sciences.  He accepted the Foundation chair in History at LaTrobe University in 1966 and returned to RSSS as a senior fellow in 1973.

Date & time

Tue 18 May 2010, 6–7pm

Location

Coombs Lecture Theatre, Building 9, ANU

School/Centre

School of History

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