Filip Slavesk: Defying Stalin/ism in Death
Workshop
Filip Slavesk: Defying Stalin/ism in Death: The unlikely case of Oleksandr Shumskyi Victims of mass repression in Stalin’s Soviet Union were subject to physical and psychological torture by their interrogators, forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Many eventually broke, accepting that…
Family History: Next Generation Symposium
Symposium
The family is changing. For some it is flourishing, expanding to accommodate the complexity of modern life. For others it is contracting, its once primary functions subsumed by official agencies. As our experiences of family change, so too does family history. From the definitions we accept to the…
Jim Davidson: Emperors in Lilliput
Workshop
Jim Davidson: Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin & Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland Literary magazine editors used to be rather imperial in style, exercising considerable influence beyond the literary culture. Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith projected real authority as…
Eleanor Hogan: Writing 'Into the Loneliness'
Workshop
Eleanor Hogan: Writing Into the Loneliness: The situation and the story This workshop will address the challenges of researching and writing Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates. I will discuss why, in telling this story of an amateur ethnologist and a…
Dean Kotlowski: The Private Lives of Public Figures
Workshop
Dean Kotlwski: The Private Lives of Public Figures: The Wendell Willkie-Irita Van Doren Affair and the Responsibilities of a Biographer Ellsworth Barnard published the first scholarly biography of US politician/statesman/internationalist Wendell L. Willkie. In his book Wendell Willkie: Fighter for…
Kate Pickles: Beyond Women's Suffrage: Writing a new biography of Kate Sheppard
Webinar/Online
In this seminar I workshop my quest to research and write the story behind New Zealand’s famous feminist icon. A well-known project around the historical community, for nearly 40 years Tessa Malcolm gathered research on her great, great aunt, Kate Sheppard (1848-1934). Malcolm, however,…
Launch of ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’
Book launch
Launch of ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, Australian Journal of Biography and History, No 6 2022 (ANU Press) This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’,…