2 0 0 9 History Honours Workshop@ANU, 29-31 May 2009, Canberra An intensive History Honours Workshop held in Canberra on the weekend of 29-31 May 2009 where historians at ANU will lead discussions on various aspects of research and thesis writing, and will provide you with the opportunity to join smaller groups focusing on historical issues of direct relevance to your own work. Students will participate by speaking and writing about their own research-in-progress. Special tuition will be offered in the fields of Biography, Environmental History, Indigenous History and Asian History. Course organisers and presenters: Professor Tom Griffiths, Dr Nicholas Brown, Professor Melanie Nolan, Professor Ann McGrath, Dr Carolyn Strange, Dr Robert Cribb, Dr Shino Konishi and Dr Libby Robin. This Honours History Workshop is an iniative of the History Program of the Research School of Social Sciences in association with History in the Faculty of Arts, the Research School of Humanities, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Fenner School of Environment and Society. Allan Martin Colloquium - 21 May 2008, McDonald Room, Menzies Library, 3.30pm. Colloquium will be on Dr Ballantyne's work . The Panel will consist of Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, Professor Marilyn Lake, LaTrobe University and Dr Michael Mcdonnell, University of Sydney. Allan Martin Lecture - 19 May 2009, Coombs Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm - This years speaker is Dr Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago, and the topic is Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading: Communications & Colonisatioy. This event is followed by a reception in the Coombs Extension Foyer. RSVP to Karen Smith on 6125 2354. 2 0 0 8 Environmental History PhD Workshop, 27-31 October 2008, Canberra. The History Program's fourth biennial Environmental History PhD workshop was held in Canberra on 27-31 October 2008. Fifteen doctoral students from Australia, New Zealand and England spent five days working intensively on issues in environmental history with the convenors, Professor Tom Griffiths (History Program, RSSS) and Dr Libby Robin (Fenner School and National Museum of Australia). Other teachers in the workshop were Associate-Professor Heather Goodall (UTS) and Dr Nicholas Brown (History Program and National Museum of Australia). The special guest speaker was the eminent archaeologist and environmental historian, Dr Mike Smith (National Museum of Australia), who explained his work on 35,000 years of human history at Puritjarra in Central Australia. It was a very stimulating week and provided all participants with a snapshot of the latest work in the field as well helping them to develop and refine their own research and writing. The workshop was sponsored by RSSS, the Fenner School and the National Museum of Australia. The next Environmental History Workshop will be held in the spring of 2010. Writing Indigenous History Workshop - 20-24 October 2008 Allan Martin Colloquium - 22 May 2008, Seminar Room 1.13, New Coombs Building 8, Fellows Road, 3.30pm. Colloquium will be on Cities, Exhibitions and Mexican Modernity. The Panel will consist of Professor Barry Carr, LaTrobe University, Louise Douglas, National Museum of Australia and Dr Melinda Harvey, Australian National University. Allan Martin Lecture - 20 May 2008, Coombs Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm - This years speaker is Professor Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago, and the topic is Around 1919 and in Mexico City. This event is followed by a reception in the Coombs Extension Foyer. RSVP to Karen Smith on 6125 2354.Podcast of talk available at http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts 2 0 0 7 History Program One Day Symposium -11 October 2006, Tuggeranong Homestead - This Symposium was held over one day for all History program staff and students to discuss current projects and receive feed-back from fellow colleagues. Using Lives Workshop, 3-7 September, National Museum of Australia - Using Lives is a postgraduate workshop on biography. All sessions were held at the National Museum of Australia. Aboriginal History Book Launch - Coombs Tea Room, 29 August 2007 - The axe had never sounded by John Mulvaney, Aboriginal History Monograph 14. See http://acih.anu.edu.au for more details. Allan Martin Colloquium - 17 May, McDonald Room, Menzies Library, 3.30 pm - Panel Discussion on Professor Inglis's book Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. Panel Members: Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne, Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia and Professor Jay Winter, Yale University (Chair Profesor Pat Jalland). For flyer please see home page. Allan Martin Memorial Lecture - 15 May 2007, Coombs Lecture Theatre, 6pm - This years speaker is Professor Ken Inglis and the topic is Speechmaking in Australian History. For Flyer please see archive page. This event is followed by a reception in the Coombs Extension Foyer. RSVP to Karen Smith on 6125 2354. Aboriginal History Volume 30 Book Launch, 3 May 2007 - See http://acih.anu.edu.au for more details 2 0 0 6 Australian History Summit Workshops, August - On the 18th July The Hon Julie Bishop issued a media release announcing the staging of an Australian History Summit to be held at Parliament House 17 August. These workshops (three in total) were organised to discuss ideas (with a number of interested parties) to present to the minister. Transnational Lives/Biography Across Boundaries, 26-28 July -This conference was convened by Professor Desley Deacon, History Program, Dr Penny Russell, University of Sydney and Professor Angela Woollacott, Macquarie University. The conference covered what difference does it make to biography and to history to think of lives as transnational? What conceptual work do we have to do to think about lives as transnational? What makes a life transnational? and other topics. For more information go to http://online.anu.edu.au/hrc/conferences/conferences_2006/Transnational_Lives.php Genres of History, 3-7 July, Manning Clark Theatres, ANU - This conference was hosted by The Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW) and The Australian National University. The organising committee was Elanor Hancock, Anthea Hyslop, Paul Pickering and Tim Rowse. The conference consisted of 68 AHA conference sessions and four sessions by the Australian Network for Research in Women's History. Heads of History Conference, 3 July - Heads of History Conference was held over one day and was a closed session for Heads only (or their representatives). The meeting was convened by Tom Griffiths and Tim Rowse. Award of Minoru Scholarship - 5 July - (link to ANU Reporter Article) History Program One Day Symposium - 8 June 2006, Tuggeranong Homestead - This Symposium was held over one day for all History program staff and students to discuss current projects and receive feed-back from fellow colleagues. Allan Martin Memorial Lecture - 9 May - Labor's Part in Australian History: a Lament presented by Dr John Hirst. Copies of the talk are available by contacting history@coombs.anu.edu.au Using Lives: a postgraduate workshop in biography, 6-10 February, ANU - The ADB, History and Humanities Research Centre convened a workshop for postgraduate students working in biography and life history. This workshop provided a forum in which students working on aspects of biography can discuss, reflect on, and debate aspects of the 'biographical turn' in scholarship, publication and media, as it relates to their work, and to their opportunities for professional development. 2 0 0 5 History Through A Lens Exhibition and Symposium, June 30-July 1, National Museum of Australia - Convened by Frances Peters-Little, the symposium included photographers and filmmakers, performers, academics, museum professionals and community representatives. Film Festival, 'Two Fires Festival' honouring the life of Judith Wright, March, Braidwood - Frances Peters-Little coordinated the film section of this four-day interdisciplinary festival, which also involved conference presentations by Dr Briscoe and Dr Griffiths. Our Community: A Great Place to be, June-July, National Museum of Australia, and touring NSW later in the year - Curated by Frances Peters-Little of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in collaboration with staff at the National Museum of Australia, this significant photography exhibition included fifty-five black and white photographs by three distinguished photographers (Juno Gemes, Sharon Aldrick and Ron Blake) and explored the distinctive and diverse multicultural mix of communities in northwest NSW, with a focus on Walgett and Lightning Ridge. Exchanging Histories, September, Broome, WA - A five-day workshop organised by the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in collaboration with the Goolarri Media Enterprises and the National Museum of Australia. The workshop investigated Indigenous Australian historical practices, identified constructive methods of cross-cultural collaboration, and conducted interviews with Indigenous visual artists, musicians, performing artists, writers and media workers. Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion, 1-2 September, National Museum of Australia - A two-day international conference convened by Dr Helen James, and supported by AUSAID, the Canadian High Commission and many departments of the ANU. Allan Martin Memorial Lecture - 5 April - Writing histories of difference: new histories of nation and empire presented by Professor Catherine Hall University College, London. Copies of the talk are available by contacting history@coombs.anu.edu.au 2 0 0 4 Graduation Ceremony - 17 December 2004 Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity, 1 December 2004 - A one-day conference convened by Professor Desley Deacon and Professor Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne). Scholars from throughout Australia used this interdisciplinary one-day conference to explore the cultural meanings of the auditory and its relationship to isues such as modernity, gender, race and sexuality. The conference investigated themes such as speech, sound, music, voice and technologies of sound in radio and film. Environmental History PhD Workshop was held at the ANU from 25-29 October 2004 - The second biennial national workshop in Environmental History held over five days with 16 doctoral students from around Australia and featuring scholars from the University of Technology, Sydney (Assoc-Prof Heather Goodall), the University of Queensland (Dr Christy Collis) and the ANU (Dr Mark McKenna and Dr Kirsty Douglas). Sponsored by RSSS, CRES and the National Institute for the Environment, and organised by Dr Tom Griffiths (History, RSSS) and Dr Libby Robin (CRES). INAUGURAL ALLAN MARTIN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2004 - In Search of the 'Actual Man Underneath': A.W. Martin and the Art of Biography by Dr Inga Clendinnen, Historian and Author, 4 May 2004. Copies of the talk are available by contacting history@coombs.anu.edu.au * * * * SEMINAR - Thursday 6 May 2004 3.30pm, Hohnen Room, Chancelry - Dr Inga Clendinnen - 'Making Stories'