Events
The Menzies Centre is an Australian cultural base in London, providing a highly regarded forum for the discussion of Australian issues. The Centre's
public lectures,
conferences,
seminars,
briefings, book launches and literary readings attract a diverse audience and help to produce a more comprehensive, detailed and balanced perception of Australian politics, economics, life and culture than is popularly available.
Public Events Diary 2011/2012
*Australia's Future challenges theme
**Australians in Britain theme
***Australia at War theme
All meetings, unless otherwise indicated, are to be held on
the Strand Campus.
Please check individual listings for venues for Wednesday seminars
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Term 3
Wednesday 11 April 2012
**Sheridan Palmer (Melbourne)
‘Hegel’s Owl: the Biography of Bernard Smith and the importance of distance’
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Three Poets and a Reader
Poetry readings by Laurie Duggan, Emma Jones and Jaya Savige
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Raia Prokhovnic (Open University)
‘From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty.’
Wednesday 16 May 2012
**
Launch of Andrew Dilley’s book, Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London c.1896-1914, Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
***Leah Riches (Monash),
‘Anzac Day: 1955-85’ (title tbc)
Followed by launch of Philip Payton (Exeter)'s book,
Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from old Kio', [Yorke Peninsular, South Australia] Exeter University Press, Exeter.
Thursday 24 May 2012
Poetry Reading by Simon West
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Harshan Kumarasingham (Potsdam/Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
‘The Dismissal of the Whitlam Government, 11 November 1975’
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Launch of Sir Roger Carrick’s book, Diplomatic Andecdotage: Around the World in Forty Years, Elliott & Thompson.
Wednesday 13 June 2012
*The Menzies Lecture for 2011-12
18.15, Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building
Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
From Botany Bay to Breathing Planet: reflections on plant diversity and global sustainability
Friday 15 June 2012
18.15, Anatomy Museum, King's Building
Down the Lawson Track
Henry Lawson Anniversary Concert & Reading
Martyn Wyndham-Read (folk singer) and Bill Gammage (ANU)
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Helen O’Neill
‘Florence Broadhurst (designer, couturier, painter): Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives’
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Will Sanders (ANU)
'Competing Principles, Federalism and Generational Dynamics: Changing Policy Agendas in Australian Indigenous Affairs'
Wednesday 25 July 2012
*Public Lecture
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
Term 2
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Keir Reeves (Monash University/King’s College London Rydon Fellow)
‘A Centenary History of Anzac Day at Home and Abroad’
Wednesday 1 February 2012
James Taylor (Sussex)
‘Painting around Australia 1801-3: Re-discovering the Art of William Westall (1781-1850)’
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Jatinder Mann (King’s College London)
'The evolution of Commonwealth citizenship, 1945-48: The Canadian Citizenship Act; the British Nationality Act; and the British Nationality and Australian Citizenship Act'
Thursday 16 February 2012 (6 pm to 8.30 pm, Downer Room Australia House)
‘Peter Porter: a memorial celebration’.A joint event with the Institute of English Studies
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Simon Sleight (King’s College London), ‘Australian Youthscapes, 1860-1914’
Wednesday 29 February 2012
*Commodore Peter Lockwood, RAN, Defence Adviser, Australian High Commission,
‘The Australian Defence Outlook’
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Carl Bridge (King’s College London),
‘Dr Mannix’s Rhetoric, 1913-1919’
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Teaching Australian History in the United Kingdom Workshop, Higher Education Academy /Durham/KCL.
Speakers: Carl Bridge, Ian Henderson and Simon Sleight (King’s College London), Peter D’Sena (HEA) and Margaret Ray (Durham).
Institute of Historical Research, 14.00 - 17.00.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Simon Potter (Bristol), ‘The ABC and the end of the British ‘embrace’, 1945-70'
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Helen Idle (King’s College London)
‘Art or Anthropology: Presenting Australian Aboriginal Works in Contemporary European Galleries and Museums’ (title tbc)