Tim Rowse
Workshop
Professor Tim Rowse's biography of Nugget Coombs (2002) has been described as a 'fine, intellectual biography'. As he notes in his acknowledgements, Tim set out to write about the public life, 'Coombs' deposited papers did not include items that reveal what he considered to be his private life…
The Life of Information - One Day Symposium
Other
A one-day symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias and collections. Graduate students who use online resources in their research, or are interested in the future of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, are especially welcome to participate. This is…
Life of Information
Symposium
A one-day symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias and collections Presented by the National Centre of Biography, Australian National UniversityConvenor: Paul Arthur, Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of…
Using Lives: a postgraduate workshop in biography
Other
For the past five years, the National Museum of Australia's Centre for Historical Research and the Australian National University's National Centre of Biography, School of History and Humanities Research Centre, have collaborated in hosting 'Using Lives', a week-long intensive residential workshop…
Book Launch - Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley
Other
Peter Stanley's latest work, Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force, provides a different view of the men who shaped the Anzac legend. While some were virtuous, brave and selfless, Stanley's research, using public records, family history and other…
Judith Brett
Workshop
Professor Judith Brett is well-known for her studies of prominent politicians, including Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) which won the 1993 Ernest Scott Prize, the 1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies and shared the 1993 New South Wales Premier's Prize for non-fiction…
Ann McGrath presenting a paper at The Confrontation of Oral and Written Cultures Roundtable
Conference
This joint session brings together representatives of indigenous historical and cultural organisations as well as national historical organisations in order to interrogate what challenges these developments have posed to the field of historical narrating. What are the concerns of indigenous…