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HomeWelcome To The National Centre of BiographyNCB Upcoming EventsBiography Workshop
Biography Workshop

Group of men and women having a tea party at the Mackay showgrounds, Queensland, 1906. State Library of Queensland.

Each year the National Centre of Biography, based in the School of History, hosts the Biography Workshop series. This series was established in response to requests by practitioners, students, and readers of biography for a forum to discuss a range of methodological issues relating to biography. 

The NCB will host ten monthly Biography Workshops in 2025. Throughout the year a wide-ranging set of speakers will discuss their biographical projects, problems, and passions. Each hour-long presentation is followed by a Q&A. 

All are welcome! See the program below for the dates and topics for 2025. 

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Upcoming Events

29
May
2025

Women at the edge of the world: human extinction discourse history and historiography

Associate Professor Rebe Taylor

The concept of human extinction in European discourse simultaneously invokes a universal 'we' while delineating exclusive 'others'—notably dying…

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Past Events

01
May
2025

‘Serious and Seemingly Inherent Obstacles to Successful Judicial Biography’ in Writing Sir Gerard Brennan: The Law’s Good Servant

Dr Jeff FitzGerald

Twelve years before I commenced work on a ‘judicial biography’, the US jurist Richard Posner warned that in addition to ‘all the problems of general…

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18
Mar
2025

From Thesis to Published Book: An Aboriginal historian’s multi-generational family history research and what it revealed about the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people

Shauna Bostock’s insatiable curiosity about her family history developed over time to become the focus of her academic research. She traced her four…

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13
Feb
2025

Dan Jacobson and the Story of a South African Family: A Collaborative Memoir

Professor Jessica Jacobson

Many of the published works of South African-born writer Dan Jacobson were autobiographical in nature and explored the theme of family. For example,…

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