You are cordially invited to the Keynote address at the Belongings: Women, Family and Place symposium presented by
Professor Janet McCalman, Director of the Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne Biographical note: Professor Janet McCalman is Director of the Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit in the Centre for Health and Society , in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. She is a graduate of Melbourne University and completed her PhD at the Australian National University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities. She has published two histories of Australian life and politics, Struggletown (1984, 1998) set in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, and Journeyings (1993), a biography of a middle-class generation from the world of the '69 tram'. The social history of women's health, Sex and Suffering: women's health and a women's hospital, 1856-1996 (Melbourne University Press 1998), was also published in the United States by Johns Hopkins University Press. Her current research interests are in the social history of health and disease, life course history, (in particular of childhood and adolescence), the family, and ecological history. For eight years she wrote a fortnightly opinion column for The Age. In 2006, Janet was elected as fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences. In HPS she teaches the first year subject, 'The Ecological History of Humankind' and the second/third year subject, 'Blood, Guts and Science'; and in the School of Medicine, she co-ordinates Health and Society 4. Janet supervises postgraduate research in history of health and medicine, environmental history, ecological history, Australian social history, education, the family and private life. For more information on the Belongings: Women, Family and Place symposium please visit our current activities and programs page at: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/activities_and_programs ALL WELCOME. NO RESERVATION REQUIRED.
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