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2006 seminars


21 February Dr Ben Wellings

History, Museum, Nation: the Politics of the Past at the National Museum of Australia

28 February Margy Burn,
Assistant Director General, National Library of Australia

Amazoogling the Library: New Strategic Directions for the National Library of Australia

7 March

Paolo Cherchi Usai,
Director, National Film
and Sound Archive

K Sera, Sera: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Content

9 March A/Professor Laurence Simmons,
Dept of Film, Television, and Media Studies, Auckland University, HRC Visiting Fellow

I AM’: Colin McCahon Genius or Apostle?

21 March Professor Joanna Bourke,
School of History, Birkbeck College,
HRC Visiting Fellow
Violating Subjects: Reflections on the Memory of Rapists
28 March Professor Ian Donaldson,
Director, HRC
Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Invention of the Author
4 April Dr Alastair Maclachlan,
HRC Adjunct Fellow

On the Pedestal, Through the Keyhole, on the - Collective - Couch and Up in the Air': Some Reflections on Political Biography in Britain 1900-1960

10 April

Costas Douzinas,
School of Law, Birkbeck College, HRC Visiting Fellow

The End of Human Rights http://law.anu.edu.au/Audio/churn/costas.mp3
2 May Dr Brenda Niall,
AO, HRC Visiting Lecturer
Changing the Subject: the Biographer and the Journals of Georgina McCrae
30 May Dr Paul Pickering,
Research Fellow, HRC
The Highway to Comfort and Independence': a Case Study of Transnational Radicalism
6 June Professor Iain McCalman,
HRC/CCR Federation Fellow
Failing with Livingstone. A Voyage of Re-enactment on Lake Nyassa
13 June Dr Elizabeth Boyd,
American and Southern Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, HRC Visiting Fellow
Southern Beauty: Rituals of Race, Region and Remembrance in the U. S. South
20 June Dr C. J. Wan-ling Wee,
English Language & Literature Academic Group, Nanyang Technological University, HRC Visiting Fellow
Contemporary Art, 'Globalising East Asia', Singapore
27 June Dr Leonarda Kovacic,
Postdoctoral Fellow, RSSS
Beauty, Passion, Desire and Sex Across Borders: Writing Women’s Lives From a Transcultural Perspective
18 July Joint HRC/Cross-Campus History Research Seminar, presented by the National Centre for Indigenous Studies History and the Aboriginal Present
25 July

Dr Timothy Duff, Department of Classics, University of Reading, HRC Visiting Fellow
HRC/Cross-Campus History Research Seminar, First Floor, AD Hope Building, School of Humanities Conference Room

Education and Childhood Development in Ancient Greek Biographies
1 August

Dr Peter Stanley from the Australian War Memorial
This seminar in the Ross Hohnen Room, Chancelry Building is part of the HRC/Cross-Campus History Research Seminar Program

A history of history at the Australian War Memorial
8 August Dr Gordon McMullan, Department of English, King's College London, HRC Visiting Fellow The invention (and reinvention) of late style: Gielgud, Rylance, Prospero
10 August Dora Ching, Associate Director, Tang Center, Princeton University
Ming Dynasty Portraits: Images of Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398)
10 August Professor Jerome Silbergeld, Director, Tang Center, Princeton University History, Memory, Illusion in Director Jiang Wen's film, "In the Heat of the Sun"
15 August Professor Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, HRC Visiting Fellow Recovered Lives as Windows on the Anglo-colonial World, 1750-1850
22 August Dr Lawrence Goldman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, HRC Visiting Fellow R.H. Tawney: Using and Misusing a Biography
29 August John Hughes, 2006 National Biography Award Winner, HRC Visiting Lecturer The Autobiographical Essay
5 September Dr Jane Shaw, New College, Oxford University, HRC Visiting Fellow The Individual and the Group: Writing the Life of a Religious Community (1919-1934)
19 September Associate Professor Margaret Allen, Gender Studies, University of Adelaide, HRC Visiting Fellow Remembering Indian-Australian Lives
26 September Professor Alison Mackinnon, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, HRC Visiting Fellow
Measured Lives - posture photos, campus queens and 'homely' subjects in the 1950s and early 60s
3 October Professor Stephen Foster, HRC Adjunct Professor Historian or biographer? Reflections on writing a narrative across generations
10 October Professor Roger Benjamin, Art History and Visual Culture, University of Sydney, HRC Visiting Fellow
GROWING UP MODERNIST. Writing the History of a Canberra Home
17 October Dr Tridip Suhrud, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Near Indroda Circle, HRC Visiting Fellow
Between Experiment and Sadhana: Towards an Understanding of Gandhiji's Observances
24 October Dr Nicholas Brown, Australian Dictionary of Biography, RSSS, HRC Visiting Lecturer
Enacting 'the International' as a Matter of Conscience, Politics and Sociability, 1920-1950: an Australian Case Study
2 November Ms Anne-Marie Conde, Military History Section, Australian War Memorial, HRC Visiting Fellow
Biography on the Streets: a Ramble Through the Early Life of John Treloar