Annual lectures

Each year the ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre present a lecture by a prominent researcher.

Next lecture

The next Annual Lecture will be scheduled in 2024.

Past lectures

21
Mar
2023

Join us at the 2023 ANU Archives annual lecture ‘Here to Stay!’ – Militancy and Longevity in Australia’s Maritime Labour History

Join us at the 2023 ANU Archives annual lecture ‘Here to Stay!’ – Militancy and Longevity in Australia’s Maritime Labour History   About the lecture The…

03
Nov
2022

2022 Professor Marian Quartly: Friendly society or force for nationalism?

The ANU Archives 2022 Annual Lecture was held 3 November 2022 in conjunction with the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. The recording is now available to watch online. About…

26
Oct
2021

2021 Dr Anthea Hyslop: Records and recollections

This lecture is now available to watch online, and responses to the Q&A during the webinar are available here.About the lectureHistorians of the current COVID-19 pandemic will not lack…

20
Oct
2020

2020 Ruth Morgan: Archives for a dry and drying land

This lecture is now available online.  By all accounts, 2020 has been a remarkable year. Bushfires of unprecedented duration and spread, then a pandemic, have led us all to wonder, when will…

10
Sep
2019

2019 Professor Jenny Hocking: Archival Secrets and Hidden Histories

You can now watch the lecture on ANU TV  or read it in the February 2020 edition of the Griffith Review. About the lecture The ANU Archives annual lecture for 2019 is 'Archival Secrets…

09
Oct
2018

2018 Professor Simon Ville: Tales of the unexpected: why archival research remains important today

You can listen to the lecture online via the Experience ANU podcast now.  About the lecture For the contemporary researcher, archival research is often considered antiquarian and too…

16
Oct
2017

2017 Dr Shino Konishi: Indigenous lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography

You can now watch the lecture on ANU TV.   About the lecture Of the more than 12,000 individuals included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) only 210 (1.5%) of all entries relate…

25
Oct
2016

2016 Phil Carswell OAM: Did the Grim Reaper win?

You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. About the lecture The early history of HIV/AIDS in Australia was marked with controversial political decisions and public and…

11
Aug
2015

2015 Professor David Merrett: Whither business history? Memory, message and meaning

You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. About the lecture Professor David Merrett, the University of Melbourne explores the past 25 years as it experienced marked shifts…

23
Sep
2014

2014 Professor Joan Beaumont: The Real War? Battles on the Australian home front 1914–19

You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. If you read only one book about Australia's experience of World War I... make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the…

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