Venue: A Suitable Book Sunday 13th September Historian, Professor John Merritt will introduce the author and the book. Champagne in the Bookshop at 6:30pm followed by dinner at the Wood…
Bushfire essay wins award, prize money boosts bushfire research project
Professor Tom Griffiths, whose essay ‘We have still not lived long enough’ won the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, said…
Seminar: Weather at a Time of Catastrophe
Chris O’Brien History (RSSS) Seminar Thursday, 3 September, at 3.30 pm in the McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU. In 1897 Darwin was destroyed for the first time. Well over a…
The Idea of Weather: 1660-1860
Julian Holland, Associate of the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia Fenner School Seminar Series Thursday 27 August 2009, 1-2pm, in Fenner School Forrestry Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building…
Bushfire essay short-listed for Alfred Deakin Award
Tom Griffiths’ essay on the Victorian bushfires, ‘We have still not lived long enough’, has been short-listed for the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, and described…
Symposium – Australian Gardens and Landscapes: New Perspectives
Friday 9 October 2009 La Trobe University (Bundoora Campus) Martin Building Room 362 between 9.00am – 5.00pm Keynote: Professor Tom Griffiths, “Black Saturday in historical perspective – fire, memory and…