Pamela Burton
Workshop
Pamela Burton, ‘In Pursuit of Mary Gaudron’. Pam is a former barrister and now independent scholar, who is writing an unauthorised biography of Mary Gaudron, Australia's first female High Court judge, who retired in 2003.
David Headon
Workshop
Dr David Headon is a cultural consultant and historian. Formerly a teacher at ADFA and Director of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (1994-2004), he is now Advisor on the Centenary of Canberra in the Chief Minister’s Department of the ACT Government, and Advisor to Senator Kate Lundy. He…
Barbara Caine
Workshop
Professor Barbara Caine is the head of the School of Historical Studies at Monash University where she co-ordinates a Masters program in Biography and Life. Her publications include Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb (1986) and Bombay to Bloomsbury: The Stracheys, c 1850-1950 (2005…
Helen Ennis
Workshop
Helen Ennis is an art historian at the School of Art, ANU. Her book Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography (2005) won the Nettie Palmer Prize for non-fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2006. She is currently writing a biography of Wolfgang Sievers.
Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden
Workshop
Nick Brown is a Senior Fellow with the National Centre of Biography. With Susan Boden he is writing a biography of Rick Farley, former executive director of the National Farmers Federation, who died in 2006.
The Art of Obituary Writing
Lecture
Dr Nigel Starck will discuss 'The Art of Obituary Writing' with Canberra Times editor-at-large, Jack Waterford, on Tuesday 9 June, at Manning Clark House, Canberra, 5.30-8pm. Dr Starck is the author of Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary. Cost $15 MCH members, $20 non-members. Booking…
History Honours Workshop
Other
An intensive History Honours Workshop held in Canberra on the weekend of 29-31 May 2009 where historians at ANU will lead discussions on various aspects of research and thesis writing, and will provide you with the opportunity to join smaller groups focusing on historical issues of direct relevance…