‘Now is the Psychological Moment’— Earle Page and the Imagining of Australia
Seminar
Stephen Wilks will present his thesis on the remarkable but little-studied Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880-1961) – Country Party leader, Treasurer, Prime Minister and perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in the Australian Commonwealth. Page’s incessant activism in…
Elleke Boehmer: Nelson Mandela
Seminar
Professor Elleke Boehmer will join us on 21 February to talk about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life–a national leader whose life also had global dimensions. How did this passionately nationalist leader, who identified himself completely with…
School of History, RSSS, Annual Thesis Proposal Review Day
Other
Schedule Session 1: 9:30 to 11:00 Scott W. DempseyRory McLeodLindy Orthia Refreshment Break: 11:00 to 11:15 Session 2: 11:15 to 12:45 Wilbert Wong Wei WenDavid RothDeborah Nance Lunch: 12:45 to 1:30 Abstracts Dreams of Empire: An Account of British Thought on Empire in the…
Brokers & Boundaries Book Launch
Other
Launched by Dr Malcolm Allbrook, National Centre of Biography, School of History, ANU Please RSVP by 14 November 2016: maria.haenga-collins@anu.edu.au
Psychology, Biography and History
Workshop
As Barbara Taylor noted at the 2009 American Historical Association Conference which included a round table discussion on the academic status of biography:The role of personal psychology in history is possibly the most poorly developed field of modern historical discussion, plagued by “commonsense…
The Defeat of Conscription: A Centennial Retrospective
Other
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in partnership with the School of History, The Australian National University 1.00-1.10: Frank Bongiorno - Welcome: Why does the centenary of the conscription crisis matter? 1.10-3.00: …
Tiping Su, Chinese Lives in Australia
Workshop
Tiping Su discusses entries on Australians of Chinese heritage in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. He also discusses Australians of Chinese heritage who were significant and representative but who have been overlooked or neglected and are ‘missing’ from the ADB.