National Centre of Biography News, October 2024
In this edition of the newsletter we flag lots of upcoming events in the world of biography.
New journal article: 'Remembering assimilation: Queen Elizabeth II’s 1954 visit to Shepparton and a "new deal" for Victorian Aboriginal people'
Research editor and senior lecturer Dr Sam Furphy has recently published a new journal article in Aboriginal History. In it he considers the significance of Queen Elizabeth II’s…
PhD Report on the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History
A big congratulations to one of the Centre's environmental history postgraduate students, Ruby Ekkel, for publishing a report on her adventures in Oulu for the 2024 World Congress of Environmental…
Winner of the Inaugural Kay Schaffer Award
A big congratulations to one of the Centre's environmental history postgraduate students, Ruby Ekkel, who has won the 2024 Inaugural Kay Schaffer Award! The Kay Schaffer Award is presented by the…
Ruth Morgan publishes "Climate Change and International History"
Earlier this year, Centre Director Associate Professor Ruth Morgan published her second monograph, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and…
Workshop on Decolonisation in Australia and our region
The workshop 'Decolonisation in Australia and our region in the 20th century and today', organised by Angela Woollacott (ANU); Heather Goodall (UTS); David Lowe (Deakin) and Jon Piccini (ACU) took…
Vote in the Nib People’s Choice Prize
The Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award shortlist has been announced. Dr Shauna Bostock, author of Reaching Through Time: Finding my family's stories, is one of the six finalists.…