Group of men and women having a tea party at the Mackay showgrounds, Queensland, 1906. State Library of Queensland.
Each year the National Centre of Biography, based in the School of History, hosts the Biography Workshop series. This series was established in response to requests by practitioners, students, and readers of biography for a forum to discuss a range of methodological issues relating to biography.
The NCB will host ten monthly Biography Workshops in 2025. Throughout the year a wide-ranging set of speakers will discuss their biographical projects, problems, and passions. Each hour-long presentation is followed by a Q&A.
All are welcome! See the program below for the dates and topics for 2025.
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Contact
- Dr Stephen Wilks(02) 6125 2349
Upcoming Events
Women at the edge of the world: human extinction discourse history and historiography
Associate Professor Rebe Taylor
The concept of human extinction in European discourse simultaneously invokes a universal 'we' while delineating exclusive 'others'—notably dying…
Past Events
Shanghai Demimondaine: From Sex Worker to Society Matron
Nick Hordern
In this Biography Workshop Nick Hordern explores the hitherto unknown life of Australian woman Lorraine Murray (1910–2000). Arriving in…
Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend
A/Prof Greg de Moore
There are many versions of the origins of our Australian game of football, but all of them include T.W. Wills in some way. A champion cricketer, he…
‘The name of the product I tested is Life’: The Life and Poetry of Peter Porter - ‘Duelling with diffidence’
Morag Fraser
In a time of debased international politics and media manipulation of truth, the spin-and-cant-skewering precision of poetry is more important than…