ADB Editorial Board welcome - 2017
Activity
Join with the National Centre of Biography in welcoming the Australian Dictionary of Biography's Editorial Board which is holding its annual meeting at the ANU this week. The ADB's Indigenous Working Party is also meeting this week to discuss how to move forward with the Indigenous Australian…
Libby Connors: Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life
Workshop
Libby Connors will discuss her recent book Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.In the 1840s, colonial settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of…
Dr Sue Taffe: ‘A White Hot Flame,’ a life of Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Workshop
Dr Sue Taffe will discuss her recently completed book 'A White Hot Flame' which examines the early private life of Mary Bennett, and provides insights into Bennett's later public life of intense single-minded dedication to the cause of Indigenous rights and justice.
Elleke Boehmer: Nelson Mandela
Seminar
Professor Elleke Boehmer will join us on 21 February to talk about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life–a national leader whose life also had global dimensions. How did this passionately nationalist leader, who identified himself completely with…
Psychology, Biography and History
Workshop
As Barbara Taylor noted at the 2009 American Historical Association Conference which included a round table discussion on the academic status of biography:The role of personal psychology in history is possibly the most poorly developed field of modern historical discussion, plagued by “commonsense…
Tiping Su, Chinese Lives in Australia
Workshop
Tiping Su discusses entries on Australians of Chinese heritage in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. He also discusses Australians of Chinese heritage who were significant and representative but who have been overlooked or neglected and are ‘missing’ from the ADB.
Imogen Mathew, Anita Heiss and the 21st century public intellectual
Workshop
Imogen Mathew, a PhD candidate at the ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, will speak about her research on Anita Heiss as a public intellectual.