The Crowd in the Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher’s rise to the conservative party leadership & aspects of her popular support
Seminar
The Thatcher Government appears as a political behemoth to contemporary observers looking back on a period of policy and social change still reverberating through western democracies. ‘Thatcherism’ became a synonym for the neoliberal suite of policies in which market forces are paramount, and for…
Kioloa Research & HDR Development Weekend
Other
Staff and PhD students will travel to the ANU's Kioloa Coastal Campus on 28 April for a Research & HDR development weekend. The focus of this weekend is on the School’s research culture, particularly as includes our HDR students. We are looking forward to the opportunity to welcome a new cohort…
John Murphy on Evatt: A Life
Workshop
Professor John Murphy will discuss his recent book Evatt: A Life (NewSouth Publishing, 2016), a biography of the significant Australian parliamentarian and jurist Herbert Evatt.
Risky Performances: Reconciliation, Frontier Violence, and Imagined Refoundings
Seminar
In contemporary settler societies reconciliation has emerged as a potent and alluring form of utopian politics. This paper, drawn from Penny's new book 'Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation: Frontier Violence, Affective Performances, and Imaginative Refoundings', examines the performative life…
Gideon Haigh discusses Victor Trumper
Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a…
Telling Lives: Indigenous Biography
Symposium
The Australian Dictionary of Biography's Indigenous Working Party members will discuss their own research and how it relates to biography and life writing. Collectively, the presentations in this symposium will also suggest new directions in biography informed by Indigenous perspectives, interests…
ADB Editorial Board welcome - 2017
Activity
Join with the National Centre of Biography in welcoming the Australian Dictionary of Biography's Editorial Board which is holding its annual meeting at the ANU this week. The ADB's Indigenous Working Party is also meeting this week to discuss how to move forward with the Indigenous Australian…