MENZIES CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Menzies Lecture :

Narrating the Nation in Australia

by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University

18.00 Tuesday 20 October 2009

The Old Anatomy Theatre, Strand Building, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

RSVP to Kirsten McIntyre Menzies Centre, The Australia Centre Strand, WC2B 4LG

Tel 020-7240 0220 Email: menzies.centre@kcl.ac.uk

The Menzies Lecture is one of two major public lectures organised each year by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. It is designed to provide an opportunity for a distinguished person, of any nationality, to reflect on a subject of contemporary interest affecting Britain and Australia.

Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University. He is a graduate of the universities of Melbourne and Oxford and of the Australian National University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Edinburgh, the Australian National University, and King’s College London. He has written extensively on Australian history, especially on urban history, technology, national identity and public history. His book The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978 and new edition 2004) won the Ernest Scott Prize and his most recent, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities (2004) won the Nettie Palmer Prize in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. His long involvement in heritage, museums and other aspects of public history is reflected in The Use and Abuse of Australian History (2000, and his co-editorship of the Oxford Companion to Australian History (1998 and later editions). He is currently working on a book on Australian nationalism and beginning a history of Monash University.


Phone: +44 (0) 207 557 7162

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