Re-Framing Indigenous Biography
The National Centre of Biography, in collaboration with our ARC Project 'An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography', is hosting a conference on Indigenous biography. The aim of our…
Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018
In 2018 the Australian Historical Association annual conference will be hosted by the School of History at the Australian National University. We are excited by the opportunity and look forward to…
Related Histories: Studying the Family
In 2015 Graeme Davison observed that family history had emerged from the world of the ‘private hobby’ and, taking on new understandings of genealogy, memory and history, become a new ‘shared civic…
Aboriginal History Journal: 40 years of publication
Join past, present and future contributors, readers, friends and editors of Aboriginal History journal to celebrate 40 years of publication. Speakers include John Maynard, Shino Konishi, Frances…
Feminist utopias: past, present, and imagined
Presented by ANU Gender Institute & ANU School of History What does it take to maintain optimism in a time of anger, fear and division? How can we revive hope in the midst of despair? And what…
True Biographies of Nations? Exploring the Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Stephen Baxter, The Australian Crowd, 2014. In 2004, the chairman of the supervisory committee of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Keith Thomas, concluded the Leslie Stephen Special…
Connecting Indigenous Histories Conference
This one-day conference in honour of Professor Philip Deloria's (University of Michigan) Fulbright-sponsored visit to Melbourne will bring together scholars working in the field of Indigenous history…