Biography Book Group - Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait with Samantha Faulkner & Lisa Fuller
Seminar
Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman from the Wuthuthi and Yadhaigana peoples, Cape York Peninsula and Badu and Moa Islands, Torres Strait. She is the author of Life B'long Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007) and Pamle:…
The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister
Seminar
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.
Stephen Chavura: The Forgotten Menzies
Workshop
Stephen Chavaura: The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies was Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister. Although there have been several substantial biographies of him over the past few decades, he has not inspired much attention…
RETURN: Reconnecting objects and collections with people and places
Symposium
Objects held in Australian and international museums are returning to Country. What is involved in these ‘returns’? What is activated when objects removed from Country are reconnected to people and place? How might it affect ‘wellbeing’ and ‘resilience’ – and how does it contribute…
History and Legacies of Violence Research Roadshow
Conference
Join us for a Research Roadshow of presentations that explore the History and Legacy of Violence. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines and research specialties will combine forces to explore multiple ways of interpreting violence through its history and legacies. Public presentations will run…
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 –…
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 –…