Seminars
The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies organises a research seminar series throughout the academic year with events being held weekly during term time. The seminar series is a fantastic opportunity for the centre to welcome academics from a broad range of disciplines working on Australian subjects and to exchange research ideas and new discoveries.
All seminars will be held on the Strand Campus at 18.15 on Wednesdays. See individual listings for room details.
All seminars are free, and all members of the public are welcome to attend. RSVP to convener: Professor Carl Bridge, email: carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk or phone: 020 7848 7392.
*Australia's Future challenges theme
**Australians in Britain theme
***Australia at War theme
2011/2012
Term 3
Wednesday 11 April 2012
K2.41, King's Building
**Sheridan Palmer (Melbourne)
‘Hegel’s Owl: the Biography of Bernard Smith and the importance of distance’
Wednesday 18 April 2012
K2.41, King's Building
Three Poets and a Reader
Poetry readings by Laurie Duggan, Emma Jones and Jaya Savige
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Council Room, King's Building
Raia Prokhovnic (Open University)
‘From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty.’
Wednesday 16 May 2012
K0.31, King's Building - this event starts at 18.30
**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
K6.63, King's Building
***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.
Wednesday 30 May 2012
K6.63, King's Building
Harshan Kumarasingham (Potsdam/Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
‘The Dismissal of the Whitlam Government, 11 November 1975’
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Council Room, King's Building
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
Safra Lecture Theatre
Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
From Botany Bay to Breathing Planet: reflections on plant diversity and global sustainability
Wednesday 20 June 2012
K6.63, King's Building
Helen O’Neill
‘Florence Broadhurst (designer, couturier, painter): Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives’
Wednesday 27 June 2012
K6.63, King's Building
Will Sanders (ANU)
'Competing Principles, Federalism and Generational Dynamics: Changing Policy Agendas in Australian Indigenous Affairs'
Wednesday 25 July
*Public Lecture
Council Room, King's Building
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia', Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in assocoation with the Natural History Museum
Term 1
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Seminar
Professor Roger Scott (University of Queensland)
Queensland Speaks: An Oral History of the Parliament of Queensland
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Seminar
Caitlin Mahar (University of Melbourne)
The Rise of the Euthanasia Movement in Australia and England
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Seminar
Hugh Mackay (Mackay Research, Macquarie University)
Whither Australian Society? Reconsidering the Psychology of Human Motivation
Will take place in Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Strand Campus
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Seminar
Susan Sheridan (Flinders University, Adelaide)
Australian Women Writers in the Post-war Years: a group biography
Co-hosted by London Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Seminar
Catherine Kevin (Flinders)
New light on the making of Jedda (1955)
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Seminar
Carl Bridge (King's College London)
Billy Hughes and Daniel Mannix
To be followed by the launch of Carl Bridge's, William Hughes (Haus Books) by HE John Dauth, High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom (tbc)
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Seminar
Bronwyn Lacken (Sydney)
Murray Bail's Short Stories
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Seminar
Alison Clark (King's College London)
Conversations in country: researching the British museums indigenous Australian Collections in Australia
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Seminar
Grayson Cooke (Southern Cross University)
The Outback and Beyond
held in the Anatomy Museum, 6th Floor, King's Building.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Seminar
Jeannine Baker (Melbourne)
Australian women war correspondents: Reporting the Second World War 'from a woman's angle'
Term 2
18 January 2012
Seminar: K.6.63, King's Building
Keir Reeves (Monash University/King’s College London Rydon Fellow)
‘A Centenary History of Anzac Day at Home and Abroad’
1 February 2012
Seminar: K2.41, King's Building
James Taylor (Sussex)
‘Painting around Australia 1801-3: Re-discovering the Art of William Westall (1781-1850)’
8 February 2012
Seminar: K2.41, King's Building
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'
22 February 2012
Seminar: S3.41, Strand Building
Simon Sleight (King’s College London),
‘Australian Youthscapes, 1860-1914’
29 February 2012
Seminar: K2.41, King's Building
Commodore Peter Lockwood, RAN, Defence Adviser, Australian High Commission, London
‘The Australian Defence Outlook’
7 March 2012
Seminar: K2.41, King's Building
Carl Bridge (King's College London)
'Dr Mannix's Rhetoric, 1913-20'
21 March 2012
Seminar: K3.11, King's Building
Simon Potter (Bristol)
‘The ABC and the end of the British ‘embrace’, 1945-70’
28 March 2012
Seminar: K2.41, King's Building
Helen Idle (King’s College London)
'Art or Anthropology: Presenting Australian Aboriginal Works in Contemporary European Galleries and Museums' (tbc)