Past events
Australia before Federation Workshop: 23rd June
Workshop
The ANU Centre for Economic History will hold a workshop on “Australia before Federation” at the ANU on 23rd June 2023. It will bring together experts on the Australian economy in the late nineteenth century. The workshop will be held in the Gruen Suite, first floor of the Arndt building (25A).…
AuSI’s Mark Kenny in conversation with Sally Young
Book launch
Sally Young will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on her new book Media Monsters The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires, which uncovers the key players, their political connections and campaigns and the corporate failures and triumphs of the companies that still influence…
Chris Watson - 'A Great Pioneer: Australia's third prime minister' Book Launch
Book launch
Join in on Wed 14 June for the launch of Chris Watson – A Great Pioneer by Dr David Headon. RSVPs (to DPSParliamentaryLibraryEvents@aph.gov.au) would be appreciated by 12 June. About the Book Chris Watson (1867-1941) was Australia’s third prime minister. Though his term lasted a bare four months…
June 2023 - Visiting Fellows Dinner
Other
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) invites you to join us for the June Visiting Fellows Dinner. The dinner is an opportunity to welcome Visiting Fellows across campus and encourage opportunities for further engagement with the ANU academic community. The dinner is also attended by…
Meet the author - Stan Grant
Book launch
Stan Grant will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new book The Queen is Dead, a searing, viscerally powerful, emotionally unstoppable, pull-no-punches book on the bitter legacy of colonialism for indigenous people. The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to…
Australia-India Encounters: Past, Present, Future
Conference
Organised by The Centre for Australian Studies, Department of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan in collaboration with the ANU Australian Studies Institute. The history of Australia-India encounters dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Even before the 1840s,…
2023 Menzies Lecture: Professor Frank Bongiorno, “Australia: A New Political Geography?”
Lecture
Hosted by the Menzies Australia Institute at King's College London. Some of the most eloquent advocates of Australian Federation in the 1890s imagined that there was nothing more natural than ‘a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation’, as the first prime minister, Edmund…