Book Launch: Melanie Nolan, Biography: An Historiography
Book launch
Join us for canapés and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as Prof. Tom Griffiths launches Melanie Nolan’s Biography: an historiography (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present –…
Rachel Franks: An Uncommon Hangman
Workshop
Rachel Franks, An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do…
Jane Carey: Recovering and situating life stories in 'Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science'
Workshop
Drawing on my recent monograph, this paper reflects on the potential and pitfalls of using life stories as a basis for writing broader histories, particularly in women’s and gender history. Histories of women in science are dominated by biographical approaches. In Taking to the Field, I set out…
Catherine Bishop: ‘A worthwhile trace of myself’
Workshop
Dr Catherine Bishop: ‘A worthwhile trace of myself’: The Autobiographical Essays of World Youth Forum Delegates 1947-1972 Between 1947 and 1972 nearly 800 teenagers aged 17-19 were selected to represent their countries at a World Youth Forum in New York, run for most of that time by the New York…
Our Stories: Biography Book Group
Meeting
ACT Heritage Library is partnering with the National Centre of Biography and Marion (previously the ACT Writers Centre) in 2023 to offer a monthly program exploring the diversity of Canberrans through biography, autobiography and memoir. The series begins with Subhash Jaireth and Jacqui Malins…
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…