Agnes Heller Lecture- Professor Graeme Davison

The Annual Agnes Heller Lecture will be held on Wednesday, 3 November from 5-6.30pm, at the Martin Building Lecture Theate, La Trobe Melbourne Campus.

Professor Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University. He is a fellow of the Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Edinburgh, King’s College London and the Australian National University. He has written widely on Australian history where his principal works include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978, 2004), The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time (1994), Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities (2004) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1998). He has been active as a commentator and advisor on the uses of history in heritage, museums, archives and other public institutions: his book The Use and Abuse of Australian History (2001) draws on these activities. He is currently writing a history of Monash University and researching a study of Australian nationalism.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Professor Peter Beilharz, School of Social Sciences.