Nigel Starke, Russell Braddon
Workshop
Nigel Stark examines the ethical challenges in researching and composing biography, illustrated by his experiences in writing a life of Russell Braddon (Proud Australian Boy: a biography of Russell Braddon, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011) and his recent book on novelist and…
Remembering Camelot... Hal Foster's 'Prince Valiant'
Seminar
Remembering Camelot… Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant: As a body of work, Foster’s Prince Valiant celebrates the paradoxical. Essentially modernist in its oeuvre, the strip is set in the ‘days of King Arthur’. Ostensibly American in its outlook, the setting is mostly European. Undeniably…
The Silken Cord: Contemporaneous Australian 20th-Century Political Biography and Its Meaning
Seminar
The Silken Cord: Contemporaneous Australian 20th-Century Political Biography & Its Meaning Wednesday 20 August 2014 4:15-5:30pm School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Christine Wallace, PhD candidate, School of History, ANU McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU In ‘The Silken Cord’ an ‘…
The Activist and the Passivist: G. M. Trevelyan, Lytton Strachey and the Myth of the Great War
Seminar
Wednesday 13 August 2014 4:15-5:30pm School of History Seminar Series Speaker: Alastair MacLachlan, Humanities Research Centre, ANU McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU As we celebrate the centenary of August 1914, this paper seeks to explore what could be called ‘The Myth of the Great War’…
The Appeal to Honour and the Decision for War
Seminar
Tuesday 12 August 3.00pm Dr Robin Archer, London School of Economics Coombs Extension Lecture Theatre 1.04 (Bldg 9) ANU This paper marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. In Australia, the arrival of the war often seems to be treated like a bushfire or an ‘Act of God’. And…
Book Launch: 'A History of Canberra' by Nicholas Brown
Other
Please join us for the launch of A History of Canberra by Nicholas Brown. The book will be launched by Geoff Page. Thursday August 7 5.45 for 6.00pm RSVP Telephone 6295 6723 or email info@paperchainbookstore.com.au Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a…
Collaboration and Methods: Behind the Scenes in Researching the Long History of Drought Assistance in Australia
Seminar
Rebecca Jones, Karen Downing and Blake Singley will pull the curtain on their recent forays into an interesting mix of methods and sources that together, they hope, will add new dimensions to the long history of government drought assistance in Australia. We have begun to chart monetary assistance…