Frank Bongiorno: A History of Contraception in Australia
Based on research by Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno for his award winning book 'The Sex Lives of Australians: A History' comes this exciting guest lecture. From early contraceptive methods to the arrival of the pill in Australia in the 1960s, Frank Bongiorno reveals aspects of Australian history previously untold. An engaging and colourful lecturer, as well as a gripping historical writer - we hope to see you there to learn new and curious things!
Refreshments will be available from 5:30pm in the auditorium foyer with the lecture beginning at 6pm.
Tickets are FREE! However please register to help us organise catering.
ABOUT FRANK
Frank Bongiorno is an Australian labour, political and cultural historian. Prior to joining the Australian National University, he held lecturing positions at King's College London (2007-11), the University of New England (2000-07) and Griffith University (1996) and also taught previously at the ANU. He has been an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the ANU and in 1997-98 was Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge and Mellon Visiting Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Frank is the author or co-author of four books and many scholarly articles and book chapters on Australian history. His most recent book is The Eighties (2015), which was shortlisted for the 2016 Ernest Scott Prize. His previous book, The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012), won the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Book of the Year and was shortlisted in the Australian History category of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the New South Wales Premier’s History Award. Frank is also member of the Executive of the Australian Historical Association, the Committee of Manning Clark House and the National Archives of Australia’s Canberra Consultative Forum and Anzac Centenary Advisory Group.