Prof McGrath Elected as New Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
We congratulate Professor Ann McGrath on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This prestigious Academy recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members, who are world…
Connection to the ADB
ANU alumni Georgia Pike-Rowney (BA '07, PhD '17) discusses her long connection to the ANU. Her grandfather Douglas Pike was founding general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and now…
CEH Research gets a tick from Tim the Yowie Man
CEH visiting fellow, Julie Rickwood, is researching the environmental and cultural history of Five Senses: The Mt Ainslie Community Labyrinth (pictured in the photo gallery). As the anonymous creator…
Call for Papers - Symposium on Political Violence in Modern Europe
Event date: 30 June 2023, Australian National University, Canberra Political violence in twentieth-century Europe has taken a wide variety of forms, ranging from militant protest to urban terrorism…
Call for Papers - Gender, Sexuality and Assaults on Rights in Modern Europe
Event date: 29 June 2023, Australian National University, Canberra A Gender Institute Signature Event in collaboration with the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH), the ANU Centre…
Stephen Wilks, ‘This extraordinary synthesis of ideas for the Australian nation’ Earle Page
Long time Country Party Leader Earle Page was possibly the most important side character in Australian political history. He engineered the fall of Billy Hughes, won a coalition on generous terms…
Biography Footnotes, no 23
The latest issue of National Centre of Biography's newsletter, Biography Footnotes is out now! Click here to read issue 23. Inside we farewell esteemed ADB colleagues, John Nethercote and…