Pat Jalland: Old Age
Workshop
Professor Pat Jalland is a professor of history in the School of History at the Australian National University. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom, she is the author of a number of acclaimed books. Most recently, she…
Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 18 online launch and medal presentation
Activity
Professor Tom Griffiths, chair of the Australian Dictionary of Biography Editorial Board, invites you to the online launch of Volume 18 and the presentation of the ADB Medal to Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO, Associate Professor John Lack and Professor Michael Roe by Professor Ian Young AO…
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of Mandarins 1940s-60s
Other
Join the National Centre of Biography at its conference on the mandarins who ruled the federal public service in the 1940s-60s. Many of these men were physically diminutive and were known collectively as the 'Seven Dwarfs'. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (or was it…
Elizabeth Morrison
Workshop
Dr Elizabeth Morrison has been librarianship lecturer and Australian studies research fellow at Monash University and project officer in Canberra for the Academy Editions of Australian Literature. Now an independent historian, she researches and writes about nineteenth-century Australian literary,…
Sheridan Palmer
Workshop
Dr Sheridan Palmer, a curator and art historian, is the author of Centre of the Periphery Three European Art Historians in Melbourne (2008) and Argy-Bargy: Dean Bowen (2009). She will be discussing her current biography-in-progress of the Australian art historian, Bernard Smith who is recognised as…
Gideon Haigh
Workshop
Gideon Haigh is a prolific sports and business journalist, historian and biographer. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked as journalist for the Age and the Australian. He has written and edited over two dozen books. His histories include The Cricket War (1993) and The Summer Game: Australian Test…
Labour History and Its People
Conference
Join the National Centre of Biography and the Canberra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History at its conference on labour history and its people. 2011 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in 1961 at…