Menzies Centre for Australian Studies 2010-11 Seminar Series

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies 2010-11 Seminar Series

Term 1

All seminars, unless otherwise stated, are held on Wednesday evenings at 5.15 pm, in The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, London, WC 2B 4LG

RSVP: carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk

29 September 2010

David Roberts (University of New England)
Remembering Lt Oxley: National History and Provincial Memory in rural New South Wales

followed at 6.30pm by:

Geoff Page
Poetry reading
Geoff will read from a range of work but particularly from his collections Agnostic Skies (Five Islands Press 2006) and Seriatim (Salt 2007).

**Venue: Room S8.08, Department of History, King’s College London, Eighth Floor, Strand Building, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS**

13 October 2010

Adam Hughes Henry (Australian National University)
Manufacturing the Debates: The Australian Foreign Policy Network in the 1960s

27 October 2010

Katie Holmes (University College Dublin)
The Poet’s Gardens: Judith Wright’s letters, language and landscape

3 November 2010

Vanessa Castejon (L’Universite Paris XIII), Anna Cole (University of London, Goldsmiths College) and Oliver Haag (University of Vienna)
Ego-histoire & Australia

17 November

Aruna Wittmann (King’s College London)
Peter Carey: a psychoanalytic perspective

1 December 2010

Richard Scully (University of New England)
Four Australasian Women and the German Empire

8 December 2010

Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)
Writing about the UN: Shirley Hazzard’s humanist politic