The ADB's Story book launch
Book launch
The National Centre of Biography invites you to the launch, by the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP, of The ADB's Story.Edited by Melanie Nolan and Christine Fernon, The ADB's Story celebrates the Australian Dictionary of Biography's 50-year history.The book will be available for purchase on the night at $…
Barry Jones: Dictionary of World Biography
Workshop
The Hon. Dr. Barry Jones, AO, is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. A Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1972-1977, he was a Member of the federal House of Representatives between 1977 and 1998, and Science Minister from 1983-1990. He was National President of the…
Peter Yule
Workshop
Dr Peter Yule is a freelance historian and a fellow of the School of History at the University of Melbourne. He has written a wide range of histories, including The Royal Children's Hospital: A History of Faith, Science and Love (1999), In the Public Interest: 150 Years of the Victorian Auditor-…
Cameron Hazlehurst: An Australian Tragedy
Workshop
Professor Cameron Hazlehurst is an adjunct professor at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is a foundation principal of The Ethicos Group and principal of Flaxton Mill House, and was previously foundation professor and head of the School of Humanities at…
Jim Davidson: Editorial Beginnings
Workshop
Jim Davidson is a fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He edited Meanjin from 1974 to 1982, and his books include Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia Since 1870 (with Peter Spearritt). His biography Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of…
Chris Wallace: Real time Biography
Workshop
Problems in contemporaneous, or "real time", biography share much in common with those faced by biographers of the dead but often in heightened forms and with higher stakes. The writers of contemporaneous biography might be characterised as frontline field historians cutting a path forward for an…
Gwenda Tavan: Arthur Calwell
Workshop
Dr Gwenda Tavan is a senior lecturer in Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She researches the politics and history of immigration and multiculturalism in Australian, global and transnational politics, and is the author of the prize-winning book The Long, Slow Death of White Australia.…