Annual First-Year Students TPR Day
Other
It's that time of year again -- the point at which the School's first-year HDR students present papers that set out their progress and plans. Please note that the program this year begins at 2 p.m. on Friday the 27th of November. It will end with a wine and cheese reception. The full program is…
Helen Trinca: Madeleine
Workshop
Helen Trinca, whose biography of Ted St John's daughter, Madeleine, was the co-winner of the Prime Minister's non-fiction award last December, will discuss the ethics of writing the lives of others.
‘One of the very few socialists the College has ever had’: Don Dunstan’s Education in 1940s Adelaide
Seminar
Don Dunstan was one of the most influential political figures in 20th-century Australia. Premier of South Australia between 1967–68 and 1970–79, he blazed a trail of reform, ending the gerrymandering that had guaranteed decades of conservative rule, and introducing his vision of social democracy in…
Clergy, Colony and Empire: Anglican Clergy in Australia and the British World, 1788–1850
Seminar
Joseph Backler (1813-95), 'St Thomas' Church, Port Macquarie, 1832-42', SLNSW ML/273 Anglican clergymen in the Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only…
Contumacious Nuns? Anger, Fear and the Reform of Religious Women in Late Medieval Germany
Seminar
Nuns' choir, Cistercian monastery of Mariensee, c. 1220 - 1250 Contemporary accounts of introducing religious reform into women's monastic communities in fifteenth-century Germany record nuns’ often fierce, and sometimes violent, resistance to the efforts of clerics and secular lords to impose…
Between the Old World and the New: C. F. Volney and the Politics of Travel Writing in France, 1780–1803
Seminar
For centuries, depictions of the wider world have been important to the self-understanding of Europeans. During the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, in particular, the process of gathering information about peoples and places beyond the borders of Europe gained new importance to…
Sir John Crawford and the Australian National University
Seminar
In 1959 the secretary of the Department of Trade, John Crawford (1910–1984), accepted an invitation to become Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies and Professor of Economics at the Australian National University. In Australia, the appointment to a university post of a senior public…