Biography Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his…
Launch of Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression
Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression authored by Carolyn Strange was launched by Doug Craig on Friday afternoon. Discretionary Justice is the…
94 new ADB entries added to website
94 new entries for people who died in 1993 were added to Australian Dictionary of Biography website today. Troy Lovegrove (1986-1993) and Eve van Grafhorst (1982- 1993) are, by far, the youngest of ‘…
"Rents, Profits, Wages": The Bicentenary of Ricardo's Principles and the making of economics
This month marks the bicentenary of David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, a founding text of modern economics, first published in London on 17 April, 1817. The veneration of ‘…
'Localising the Anthropocene' workshop
On Friday 24 March artists, scientists, writers and scholars met to explore the idea of ‘Localising the Anthropocene.’ How do we take a broad, abstract term and make it grounded? What does it…
Keynote from 'How the Personal became Political: Re-assessing Australia's Revolutions in Gender and Sexuality in the 1970's'
Earlier this month, the Gender Institute hosted a symposium on 'How the Personal became Political: Re-assessing Australia's Revolutions in Gender and Sexuality in the 1970's', together with Angela…
Biography Workshop
Date: Thursday 30 March 2017Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bldg. 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU)Time: 12 midday until about 1.30 p.m.Inquiries: malcolm.allbrook@anu.edu.au Libby…