PUBLIC LECTURE: Remembering back through the heart: personal engagements with history

In her public lecture, Professor Anna Haebich reflects on the relationships, experiences and love of history and writing that drive her determination to write histories of value and meaning that challenge and engage a wide range of readers.

Biographical note: A scholar of international repute, Anna Haebich is the co-director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas and currently holds the position of Orbicom UNESCO Chair in Communications. Research interests include Aboriginal history and art, contemporary visual arts, museology and social justice issues and her career combines teaching and research with museum curatorship, visual art practice and working with Aboriginal organisations. The multi-award winning Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000, is Australia’s first national history of the Stolen Generations and For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia is a seminal work on the impact of Australia’s discriminatory polices and laws. Her present ARC Fellowship project, Imagining Assimilation, will produce the first comprehensive cultural history of assimilation in Australia.

This lecture is part of “Writing Out”- a program of seminar and masterclasses for research postgraduates and early career academics.

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