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 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(*)
All meetings, unless otherwise indicated, are to be held on
the Strand Campus.
Please check individual listings for venues for Wednesday seminars
Tuesday 17 January 2012 - CANCELLED
Lecture
Alison Bashford (Sydney)
‘Malthus and the New World'
18.00, Lecture Theatre K-1.56, King’s Building, Strand Campus
A joint meeting with the Centre for the Humanities and Health
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Seminar
Keir Reeves (Monash University/King’s College London Rydon Fellow)
‘A Centenary History of Anzac Day at Home and Abroad’
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Seminar
James Taylor (Sussex)
‘Painting around Australia 1801-3: Re-discovering the Art of William Westall (1781-1850)’
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Seminar
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
‘Peter Porter: a memorial celebration’
Among the participants will be poets Martin Bax, Alan Brownjohn, Wendy Cope, Laurie Duggan, Emma Jones, John Kinsella, Tim Liardet, Sean O’Brien, Jaya Savige and Anthony Thwaite; scholars and editors Roger Covell, Warwick Gould (IES), Ian Henderson (KCL) and Don Paterson; and cellist Kwesi Edman.
18.00, Downer Room, Australia House.
A joint meeting with the Institute of English Studies
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Seminar
Simon Sleight (King’s College London),
‘Australian Youthscapes, 1860-1914’
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Seminar
* Commodore Peter Lockwood, RAN, Defence Adviser, Australian High Commission, London
‘The Australian Defence Outlook’
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Seminar
Carl Bridge (King's College London)
'Dr Mannix's Rhetoric, 1913-20'
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Seminar
* Hugh White (Australian National University)
‘Australia and China’
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Seminar
Simon Potter (Bristol)
‘The ABC and the end of the British ‘embrace’, 1945-70’
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Seminar
Helen Idle (King’s College London)
‘Art or Anthropology: Presenting Australian Aboriginal Works in Contemporary European Galleries and Museums’ (tbc)
Date tbc
The Menzies Lecture for 2011-12
Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
'Australia and the global eco-system’ (title tbc)