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
Katherine Sanders: F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43
Katherine Sanders
F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43: Innovative Legal Judgments on Native Title and the Treaty of Waitangi F.O.V.…
Philip Payton - D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall: In Search of Utopia
Philip Payton
This talk is based on my forthcoming biographical study D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall: In Search of Utopia, to be published shortly by University of…
The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia, 1890-1914, using biographical microhistories to explore this era
Mark Hearn
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.