Willa McDonald
Workshop
A senior lecturer at Macquarie University, Willa McDonald’s research interests are creative non-fiction/literary journalism, biography and memoir, journalism, ethics, travel writing, place and nature writing, race and the media. In 2007 she co-edited the anthology Telling Stories in Journalism…
Conference - Thinking the Human in the Era of Enlightenment
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The eighteenth century was a formative era for European conceptions of human beings and human nature. This period saw a burgeoning quest for a science of man, and a philosophy of the human, which would incorporate developments in history, ethnography, linguistics and the natural and life sciences…
Brenda Niall
Workshop
Brenda Niall has written a number of biographies, including Seven Little Billabongs: The World of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce (1979), Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer (1994), The Boyds: A Family Biography (2002) and the biography of a…
Colloquium on Professor Maynard's work
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Panel Discussion on Professor Maynard’s works. McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Fellows Road ANU Panel Members: Professor Ann McGrath, School of History (Chair) Dr Maria Nugent, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, ANU Dr Martin Thomas, School of History, ANU Professor Lynette Russell,…
A ride through time - Allan Martin Lecture 2010
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Professor John Maynard’s 2010 Allan Martin Lecture will reflect upon his journey to the University as a mature age student, and will argue that an Indigenous perspective on Australian history and its practice is of critical importance. Exploring the concept of time travel as a metaphor…
Susan Varga
Workshop
Susan Varga's biography of her mother, Heddy and Me (1994), won the Christina Stead Award in 1994. Her latest novel, Headlong: A Novel (2009), has strong autobiographical/biographical elements. Susan will discuss why she chose the two different approaches to her books even though they cover related…
Kate Grenville
Workshop
One of Australia’s best-known authors, Kate Grenville is completing the third novel in a trilogy based on real people in colonial New South Wales. The other novels in the trilogy are The Secret River (2005) and The Lieutenant: A Novel (2009). Kate researches her novels exhaustively.