Meet the author - Stan Grant in conversation with Mark Kenny
Book launch
Stan Grant will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on his book Murriyang.Song of Time. Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in the Wiradjuri…
Meet the author - Misha Ketchell, Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny
Book launch
Misha Ketchell will moderate a discussion with Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny, contributors to the new collection of essays, How Australian Democracy Works. And why we need it more than ever, edited by Amanda Dunn, a book in which The Conversation‘s best authors reveal the real…
Book Launch: Joseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime minister
Book launch
Book launchJoseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime ministerWednesday, 12 February 2025, 11:00 am (AEDT)Location: Level 1, Members' Hall adjacent to the 'I am Woman' exhibitionRSVP: by Monday 10 February to parliamentary.librarian@aph.gov.auPlease join us as Senator the Hon Sue Lines,…
International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2025 Biennial Conference
Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds Interactions, Perspectives, Futures Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus, Sydney, Australia 5-7 February 2025 Australian Studies has long been concerned with histories and stories about human…
Winter Institute - 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century'
Workshop
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: WINTER INSTITUTE 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century' 7—10 JANUARY 2025 The University of Tokyo, Japan About: The Winter Institute is an annual collaboration between ANU, the University of Tokyo, New York University and the University of Bonn. The…
First Eight Lecture: A Maker and a Breaker — the many faces of Billy Hughes
Lecture
About the LectureWilliam Morris ‘Billy’ Hughes, the ‘Little Digger’, is impossible to sum up satisfactorily. The country’s most controversial prime minister, he was full of contradictions, prone to tall-tale telling, and his stance on the issue of conscription in 1916-17 divided the Australian…
'Australia and the World' 2024 Annual Lecture: Dr Nick Bryant
Lecture
On Wednesday 20 November 2024, Dr Nick Bryant, Former BBC Correspondent, delivered the 2024 ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture: "The Consequential Country" at the National Press Club of Australia.The popular event was moderated by AuSI Director, Professor Mark Kenny and…