Peter Rees: Charles Bean and Len Waters
Workshop
Peter Rees published his biography of Charles Bean in 2015 (Bearing Witness, Allen & Unwin, 2015), a study which, for the first time, captured the essence of this giant in Australian military history. Years of research into the vast Bean archive allowed Rees to produce a warm and deeply moving…
Peter Monteath: Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Frederick Rose
Workshop
Peter Monteath discusses his book Red Professor (Wakefield Press, 2015) a portrait of the life of the anthropologist, communist, and spy Fred Rose, which he co-wrote with Valerie Munt.
Nick Brodie: Telling Big History
Workshop
Nick Brodie discusses making methodological history accessible to a broad public audience – especially by using people to revise master narratives, rather than situating people in master narratives.
Garry Sturgess talks to Barry Jones
Workshop
Garry Sturgess and Barry Jones discuss Garry’s film about Barry and the use of film and oral history in political biography.
John Murphy on Evatt: A Life
Workshop
Professor John Murphy will discuss his recent book Evatt: A Life (NewSouth Publishing, 2016), a biography of the significant Australian parliamentarian and jurist Herbert Evatt.
Gideon Haigh discusses Victor Trumper
Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a…
Telling Lives: Indigenous Biography
Symposium
The Australian Dictionary of Biography's Indigenous Working Party members will discuss their own research and how it relates to biography and life writing. Collectively, the presentations in this symposium will also suggest new directions in biography informed by Indigenous perspectives, interests…