History in Public: Manning Clark Centenary, 1915-2015

History in Public: Manning Clark Centenary, 1915-2015 (School of History, Research School of Social Sciences in partnership with Manning Clark House) Confirmed panellists: Mark McKenna (University of Sydney) and Nicholas Brown (ANU) This year sees the centenary of the birth of Charles Manning Hope Clark (born 3 March 1915), Professor of History at Canberra University College and later the Australian National University, from 1949 to 1974. Manning Clark was one of the university’s most distinguished academics: a gifted teacher, major historian and influential public figure up to the time of his death in 1991. His pioneering courses on Australian history, magisterial six-volume A History of Australia (1962-1987) and numerous other publications, and long engagement with many of the big questions in Australian culture and society, provide a powerful exemplar of the historian as public intellectual. This panel discussion, organised to mark this centenary, will take up this theme via some more recent projects and examples of ‘history in public’. It will be an opportunity to honour Manning Clark’s contribution and legacy as a publicly engaged historian, and to explore some of the ways that history continues to figure in the public sphere. The event will be followed by a reception and registration is necessary to attend.