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…
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
Other
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
Other
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,…
2010 Allan Martin Lecture: A Ride Through Time
Other
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 for…
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…