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

14
Nov
2024

ANU Archives annual lecture for 2024

Join us at the ANU Archives annual lecture for 2024 – ‘Islands, Archives and Ancestors’ with Professor Katerina TeaiwaAbout the lectureProfessor Katerina Teaiwa will reflect on her process of…

Past lectures

25
Sep
2013

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-…

13
Sep
2012

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…

15
Feb
2011

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…

14
Sep
2010

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-…

08
Sep
2009

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…

16
Sep
2008

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…

18
Sep
2007

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…

04
Apr
2006

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…

25
May
2005

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…

03
Nov
2004

2004 Professor Stuart Macintyre: The History Wars continued

About the lecture A war is raging in historical circles.  Divisions about how to interpret Australian history and the politicisation of the topic - see in the vilification of Manning Clark as a…

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