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Talks and conferences

The National Library hosts a program of events that highlight aspects of our collections. If you missed a talk or conference, you can listen to and read highlights here.

Ray Mathey Lecture

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The opportunity of distance

Contributor:National Library Oral History
Date published: Thursday, 22 October 2009
Duration 50:35
Format: mp3 audio

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust and the Embassy of the United States of America Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks gives the first Ray Mathew Lecture, a new annual lecture celebrating the achievements of Australians living elsewhere. Geraldine speaks on ‘The Opportunity of Distance’.

balibo

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Shooting Balibo with Tony Maniaty

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Thursday, 30 Jul 2009
Duration 46:47
Format: mp3 audio

In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew into the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film and found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo. Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered by Indonesian troops. Facing death threats, Maniaty fled before Indonesian forces invaded.

kml09

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2009 Kenneth Myer lecture

Contributor: National Library Oral History
Date published: Thursday, 30 Jul 2009
Duration 1:10:00
Format: mp3 audio

Professor Ian Frazer delivers the 2009 Kenneth Myer Lecture. 'Personalised medicine and social responsibility: a prescription for health in the 21st century?'
Website: Kenneth Myer Lecture

conflict

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Shooting the Messenger mp3 78 Mb (1:34:00)
War as a Media Event mp3 48.2 Mb (1:17:00)
The Trauma of Conflict mp3 39.8 Mb (58:00)
Seeing War mp3 63.4 Mb (48:00)

Getting the story:
media, truth and conflict

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Wednesday, 01 Jul 2009
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Australia boasts a long and distinguished tradition of war reporting and each conflict has posed particular challenges to journalists. This two-day symposium featured Australia's finest foreign correspondents reflecting on their experiences of reporting from the world's crisis zones.

primeministers

The prime ministers:
biography and public life

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Friday, 13 Mar 2009
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Prime ministerial biographers discuss the challenges involved in writing about Australia's political leaders. Presented in association with The National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.


Ken Begg - Introduction mp3 748 Kb (03:11)
Peter van Onselen - Recent History: Writing
John Howard
mp3 4.7 Mb (20:27)
Discussion and questions mp3 9.2 Mb (39:40)
Jenny Anderson mp3 1.2 Mb (05:12)
Full Seminar mp3 29.1 Mb (2:05:00)

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Jan Fullerton - Welcome mp3 1.27 Mb (05:24)
Ken Begg - Creating a Public Persona mp3 1.60 Mb (06:51)
David Day - From the Grave: Rediscovering Australia’s Prime Ministers mp3 3.47 Mb (14:48)
Ken Begg - Introduction mp3 1.13 Mb (04:51)
Jenny Hocking - The Man Behind the Myth:
Gough Whitlam
mp3 5.60 Mb (23:54)

cook

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Before Cook: 18th century accounts
of life in eastern Indonesia

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009
Duration
55:40
Format: mp3 audio

Professor James Fox draws on the personal account of young German officer Ernst Christoph Barchewitz, among others, to present an intimate portrait of social life in the early 18th century in what is now eastern Indonesia.

kml08

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2008 Kenneth Myer lecture

Contributor: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Duration 1:10:00
Format: mp3 audio

Professor Tim Flannery delivers the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture, 'Climate Change: an update to July 2008'.
Website:
Kenneth Myer lecture

binns

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The Kenneth Binns lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:20:00
Date published: Saturday, 23 Sep 2006
Format: mp3 audio

Presented by David Malouf at the Love & Desire: Literature and the Intimate Conference, at the National Library of Australia. Entitled ‘Love and Literature’, his lecture explores intimacy and desire in literature and our understanding of what it is to be human.

kml06

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2006 Kenneth Myer lecture

Contributor: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006
Duration 1:20:00
Format: mp3 audio

Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers the 2006 Kenneth Myer Lecture, 'Crimes against humanity: iInternational affairs post-Iraq'. Website: http://nla.gov.au/friends/kennethmyer.html

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