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…
Ian Hancock
Workshop
Ian Hancock is a Biography Fellow with the NCB and is currently writing biographies of public service mandarin Sir Frederick Wheeler, former New South Wales premier Nick Greiner, former Liberal senator Sir John Carrick, and a chapter on Sir Roden Cutler for a forthcoming book on NSW governors.
Challenges in Writing Joan Montgomery's Biography
Seminar
Kim Rubenstein will discuss her motivations for writing a biography of Joan Montgomery, the legendary principal of PLC Melbourne who was ousted in dramatic circumstances during the Presbyterian /Uniting Church split and asset carve-up in the 1980s. * Kim is Professor and Director of the…
Ann Moyal
Workshop
Dr Ann Moyal AM is a leading historian of Australian science and a biographer. She is the author of many books including the prize-winning Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World (2001). Her biographical works include Breakfast with Beaverbrook: Memoirs of an…
Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World
Symposium
The speakers will discuss the recently published book, Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World edited by Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (ANU Press, 2008).