School of History Seminar Series Week 3
Seminar
Angas Downs/Anangu Ngura: A History in Place Wednesday 5 August 2015 4:15-5:30pm School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Shannyn Palmer, PhD Candidate, School of History, ANU McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU Myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralism have been potent in shaping…
Philip Ayres: Owen Dixon
Workshop
Philip Ayres will discuss writing biography: the generation of forward momentum, the question of fate vs will, and the concept of essence in regard to character.
School of History Seminar Week 2
Seminar
“The Silence of Daily Life [and] Aboriginal Voices”*: The Archaeology of Post-Contact Western Arnhem Land A 2008–2012 ARC Linkage Project “Baijini, Macassans, Balanda, and Bininj” sought to investigate how the archaeology of western Arnhem Land could demonstrate the range of historically…
HISTORY SEMINAR PROGRAM SEMESTER 2
Other
The School of History Seminar Series Week 10, to be held on Wednesday 07 October, will be presented by Dr Alex Cook, School of History, Australian National University "Between the Old World and the New: C. F. Volney and the Politics of Travel Writing in France, 1780–1803'. Flyer available here. The…
Andrew Tink: Australia 1901–2001
Workshop
Andrew Tink discusses his latest book, Australia 1901–2001: a narrative history (2014), a story driven by people: prime ministers, soldiers, shopkeepers, singers, footballers and farmers, be they men or women, Australian-born, immigrant or Aboriginal.
Alison Alexander: Jane Franklin
Workshop
Alison Alexander discusses her biography The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian lady adventurer (Allen & Unwin 2013) which won the National Biography Award in 2014.
The Hero and the Organiser: E. P. Thompson, Raphael Samuel, and the Uses of Biography
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Sophie Scott-Brown, PhD Candidate, School of History and National Centre of Biography The histories of Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) and Raphael Elkan Samuel (1934–1996) can be said to run in close parallel with each another, in more ways than one.…