Past events
2016 Canberra Intervarsity Choral Festival
Festival
The 2016 Canberra Intervarsity Choral Festival (CIV 2016) has opened its icy doors for registrations! Join us for a choral celebration from Friday 1 to Sunday 10 July 2016. At CIV 2016, you will: • Meet fantastic fellow choristers from all over Australia •…
Colourstrings International Conference
Conference
The Colourstrings International Teacher Conference is coming to Australia, as is hosted this year at Australian National University's School of Music Featuring Géza Szilvay, Yvonne Frye - violin; Csaba Szilvay - cello. Held at the ANU School of Music in 2016, the training programme is directed at…
Melbourne launch of 'Illicit Love' by Prof. Ann McGrath
Book launch
Launch of Ann McGrath's Illicit Love: Interracial Sex & Marriage in the United States and Australia. By Professor Marilyn Lake, University of Melbourne with Dr Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, LaTrobe University. Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and…
True Biographies of Nations? Exploring the Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography Canberra
Conference
In 2004, the chairman of the supervisory committee of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Keith Thomas, concluded the Leslie Stephen Special Lecture by expressing his hope that the genre of the biographical dictionary would develop into a “database so vast as to be a true national…
True Biographies of Nations?
Conference
Exploring the Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography 30 June-2 July 2016 In 2004, the chairman of the supervisory committee of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Keith Thomas, concluded the Leslie Stephen Special Lecture by expressing his hope that the genre of the…
True biographies of nations? Exploring the cultural journeys of dictionaries of National Biography
Other
In 1966, the recently retired Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Robert Menzies, launched volume one of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at University House, The Australian National University. We are returning to University House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that event as well as to…
Dr Philip Butterss, The life of C.J. Dennis; 'An Unsentimental Bloke'
Workshop & workshop
Dr Philip Butterss will talk about C.J. Dennis, whose best-selling books The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and The Moods of Ginger Mick made him a literary celebrity during the First World War and beyond, and are credited by some as helping to shape the ANZAC legend. He will give some attention to…