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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Past lectures
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…
2013 Professor Jeannette Bastian: Whose memories, whose records
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. About the lecture "Whose memories, whose records: when the archival legacy of a colonial past meets the cultural records of a post-…
2012 Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer: Feminism for the 21st century
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. The transcript and slides are also available. About the lecture Feminism has suffered from 'false feminist death syndrome…
2011 Senator John Faulkner: Proud past, bright future
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel, or listen to the lecture online. About the lecture Senator John Faulkner presents the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the…
2010 Dr Peter Stanley: Smiths in Stasiland (Archival reminders of an uncomfortable Australian past)
You can listen to the lecture online. About the lecture Dr Peter Stanley is currently researching Australia's Great War through the experience of people with the family name Smith, and German-…
2009 Graeme Davison: Rethinking the Australian legend
You can listen to the lecture online. About the lecture Fifty years after its publication Russel Ward's book The Australian Legend remains the classic account of our national origins. In tracing…
2008 Michael Piggott: Alchemist magpies? Collecting archivists & their critics
You can listen to the lecture online. About the lecture Are archivists complicit in helping the victors write history, privileging some voices and silencing others? Are they alchemists transforming…
2007 Professor Anne Curthoys: Harry Potter & the Holocaust - reflections on history & fiction
You can listen to the lecture online. About the lecture In recent debates over truth and fiction in history, the Holocaust has loomed large. It is often seen to be a litmus test for historians, in…
2006 Dr Gordon Briscoe: Repeating the mistakes of the past? Aborigines and the Pastoralists in the Northern Territory 1914-67
About the lecture What is happening to records of aboriginal people today? Will these archives survive? Are we repeating the mistakes of the past? These are the questions that Dr Gordon…
2005 Humphrey McQueen: Tradesmen's entrance. The contribution of trade journals to understanding capitalism in Australia
About the lecture The lecture draws attention to a neglected body of Australian journalism, namely, trade periodicals. Between the 1880s and 1960s Australian employer organisations produced…
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