SCHOOL OF HISTORY STELLAR COUP OF ARC DISCOVERY GRANTS 2010
The ANU School of History has performed stunningly well in this year’s round of ARC Discovery grants announced 25 October for funding to begin 2011. Academic staff of the School won all five of the…
New Vice-President of the AHA elected
Professor Angela Woollacott was elected Vice President of the Australian Historical Association at its 2010 annual meeting in Perth in July.
VALE PROFESSOR EMERITA BERYL RAWSON
Professor Emerita Beryl Rawson died in Canberra on Friday 22 October, aged 77. A historian of ancient Rome, her publications included Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and her most…
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D.
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D. John McNeill Georgetown University Public Lecture Tuesday 26 October 2010 5-6.30 pm Venue: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU We live in an era…
Biography Footnotes, no 6, 2010
The latest issue of the NCB's newsletter Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. Read about our latest staff news as well as conferences recently held and forthcoming; Mark St Leon, a…
Visitor - Margriet Fokken
Margriet Fokken is working as a research-assistant on an ARC-funded project named ‘Settler society in the Australian Colonies’ of Professor Angela Woollacott. This project is focussing on the…
Report - The Life of Information Symposium
The Life of Information – a one-symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias and collections – was hosted by the National Centre of Biography (NCB) at the Australian National…