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Shuxia Chen: Women and 1930s–1940s Sino-Australian relations

Tuesday
Tue 3 Oct 2023
  • series: Scholar Talks

Shuxia Chen investigates the role women played in Sino-Australian relations towards the end of WWII.

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History Now: food history

Wednesday
Wed 4 Oct 2023
  • series: History Now

Jacqui Newling and Anna Kharzeeva speak about using food to interrogate and interpret academic and social histories.

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Bennelong and Phillip

Monday
Mon 9 Oct 2023
  • series: Talks & Ideas
Professor Kate Fullagar details the history behind her innovative joint biography of Yiyura leader Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip.
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To thine own self be true: Hamlet

Thursday
Thu 12 Oct 2023
  • series: Exhibition related
  • series: Talks & Ideas

In connection with the exhibition For All Time, a panel of experts discuss the influence and interpretations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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Avian attractions

Sunday
Sun 15 Oct 2023
  • series: Inside the Library
To celebrate National Bird Week, ABC RN’s Kate Evans delves into the Library’s collection of illustrations of Australian birds.
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Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions for You

Tuesday
Tue 17 Oct 2023
  • series: Talks & Ideas

Acclaimed author of The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, discusses her new novel I Have Some Questions for You with Laura Brading.

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Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie

Wednesday
Wed 18 Oct 2023
  • series: Talks & Ideas
Melissa Lucashenko discusses her epic new novel Edenglassie with Daniel Browning.
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4th Biennial Coral Thomas Lecture: Professor Sean Scalmer

Thursday
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Professor Sean Scalmer charts how the 19th-century campaign for an eight-hour-day remade Australian society.
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Through my lens: Stephen Dupont

Sunday
Sun 29 Oct 2023
  • series: Open Day

Through my lens is a series of talks by some of Australia’s most widely acclaimed photographers illuminating the stories behind the stills.

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Through my lens: Tony Mott

Sunday
Sun 29 Oct 2023
  • series: Open Day

Through my lens is a series of talks by some of Australia’s most widely acclaimed photographers illuminating the stories behind the stills.

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Shakespeare’s Folio in its time

Tuesday
Tue 31 Oct 2023
  • series: Inside the Library

Travel back to the 17th century with Dr Karen Attar to look at folios around Shakespeare’s time and hear about his First Folio in its context.   

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History Now: creative non-fiction history for children

Wednesday
Wed 1 Nov 2023
  • series: History Now

Paul Ashton and Sarah Luke will speak about the teaching and writing of creative non-fiction and historical fiction for children.

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