Annual lectures
Each year the ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre present a lecture by a prominent researcher.
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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 Maritime…
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 the lecture…
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 for…
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 this…
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 and Hidden…
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 labour…
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 to…
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 social…
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 in…
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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