Making Public Histories - Institute for Public History
Public Lectures
The Institute for Public History convenes both independently and/or collaboratively a range of public lectures that offer expert commentary on matters of historical interest, especially in relation to heritage, remembrance, history-making, and the relationships between history and contemporary issues.
Past Lectures
2007 Lecture 'Lorenzo fra le donne': Lorenzo de' Medici's Women, by Bill Kent Professor of History and Australian Professorial Fellow & Founding Director, Monash University Centre in Prato, School of Historical Studies.
2006 Lecture
Communities of Learning 1085-1453: Cultural Exchange and Religious Diversity from the capture of Toledo to the fall of Constantinople, by Associate Professor Constant Mews (Monash School of Historical Studies) and Professor Earl Jeffrey Richards (Universität Wupperthal, Germany).
2005 Lecture
Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, by Associate Professor Bain Attwood (Monash School of Historical Studies)
2006 Series: From Kimono to Sushi
This year the Institute for Public History is jointly hosting a lecture program with the Japan Club of Victoria (JCV) at the Immigration Museum to accompany the JCVs exhibition, From Kimono to Sushi: The Japanese in Victoria, in the Access gallery. This event is part of the 2006 Australia Japan Year of Exchange official program commemorating the 30th anniversary of the signing of the 1976 Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Australia and Japan.
2004:
The Hijab and Secularism
An evening forum exploring
'The Hijab and Secularism: Responses to the French law banning
the headscarf' was held at the State Library of Victoria on 19
May 2004.
2004:
Great Eras of Europe
A light-hearted debate
on which of the three eras of European history (Classical, Medieval,
or Renaissance) was the most influential in the development of European
culture and civilisation.