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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.

Great-Friends

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Great Friends on Paper: Susannah Helman

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 0:58:12
Date published: Friday, 10 Feb 2012
Format: mp3 audio

Curator Susannah Helman looks at friendship in the personal letters featured in Handwritten, including letters written by Erasmus, Galileo, Descartes and Voltaire.

 

medieval-manuscripts

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Medieval Manuscripts: Margaret-Manion

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:06:22
Date published: Friday, 3 Feb 2012
Format: mp3 audio

Art historian Margaret Manion discusses the medieval manuscripts in Handwritten. Margaret Manion was a lecturer (1972-1978) before becoming a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. She has been an Emeritus Professor since 1995. She was the first woman chair of the Academic Board from 1987-1988, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1985-1988. Loreto Order SL, then Chair, appointed March 1979. She was awarded an AO in 1989.

 

Elisabeth Niggemann

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Special Lecture: Elisabeth Niggemann

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:00:24
Date published: Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011
Format: mp3 audio

Dr Elisabeth Niggemann, Director-General of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, discusses the strategic directions of the National Library of Germany. Dr Niggemann is Chair of the Conference of European National Librarians and of the European Digital Library Foundation. She is also a member of the European Commission’s Reflection Group on Digitisation. In 2009 she received the Julius Campe Prize, a German literary award.

 

Paul-Ham

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Hiroshima Nagasaki: A Conversation with Paul Ham

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:01:33
Date published: Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011
Format: mp3 audio

Through the eyes of 80 survivors, from 12-year-olds forced to work in war factories to wives and children who faced it alone, Paul Ham reminds us that the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were full of ordinary people – who, without warning, became the world’s first atomic casualties.

RobertDessaix

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2011 Seymour Lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 0:58:13
Date published: Tuesday, 8 Nov 2011
Format: mp3 audio

Renowned writer and broadcaster Robert Dessaix delivers this annual lecture on the craft of biography, autobiography and memoir. In a world that thrives on the lives of Lady Gaga, Madonna and the latest winner of Masterchef, Robert explores ways of writing about ordinary lives and why we want to read about them.

abr50

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Australian Book Review 50th Birthday Lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:17:13
Date published: Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011
Format: mp3 audio

Ian Donaldson, Emeritus Professor of the ANU and honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, explores some of the many contradictions within the life of Ben Jonson, one of England's most brilliant writers.

grenville

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Kate Grenville Presents Sarah Thornhill

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 40:02
Date published: Monday, 26 Sep 2011
Format: mp3 audio

From the author of The Secret River, comes the sequel Sarah Thornhill. Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family. This is Sarah's story. Presented in association with Get Reading and Text Publishing.

politics-memoir

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The Politics of Memoir

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 56:35
Date published: Monday, 12 Sep 2011
Format: mp3 audio

In a conversation with contributors to Griffith REVIEW 33: Such is Life, Debra Adelaide, Shakira Hussein, Maria Tumarkin and Julianne Schultz will explore the fragility of identity, from the manipulation of official documents and historical records, to personal conflicts about privacy, truth and perspective.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett Presents State of Wonder

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 54:57
Date published: Wednesday, 7 Sep 2011
Format: mp3 audio

In association with the ANU and The Canberra Times US author Ann Patchett examines the choices made in the name of discovery and love.

Ray-Mathey-11

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The 2011 Ray Mathew lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 56:14
Date published: Thursday, 25 Aug 2011
Format: mp3 audio

In this year's Ray Mathew Lecture, Susan Johnson explores the long line of women writers who have left and sometimes returned, the artist's ambivalent relationship to Australia, and Australia's ambivalent relationship to its artists.

Kenneth-Myer-11

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The 2011 Kenneth Myer lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 53:24
Date published: Tuesday, 9 Aug 2011
Format: mp3 audio

As a social researcher, Hugh Mackay has spent the past 50 years listening to us talk about our dreams, our hopes, our fears, our disappointments and our passions. In this lecture, he identifies ten desires that drive our social behaviour and suggests that it is the dynamic interplay - the contest - between these desires that explains why we are so often puzzled by the apparently irrational things we all do.

Calebs-Crossing

An Evening with Geraldine Brooks mp3 48.1Mb
Duration
: 52:28

Geraldine Brooks in Conversation mp3 50.9 Mb
Duration
: 55:34

Caleb’s Crossing Book Launch

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Thursday, 9 June 2011
Format: mp3 audio

In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Geraldine Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure.

binns11

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The 2011 Kenneth Binns lecture

Contributor: National Library Publications
Duration
: 1:07:35
Date published: Friday, 8 Apr 2011
Format: mp3 audio

Presented by Christopher Koch AO at the True Stories: Writing History Conference. His talk entitled Fictitious Stories: History as Background provides ....

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True Stories: Writing History

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Friday, 8 April 2011
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Supported by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund, Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust and Alison Sanchez. How do we share the stories of our past? Some of Australia's finest writers, historians and creative artists explore the way we write about, interpret and share our history.
Conference program and featured speakers

Behind Closed Doors mp3 63.88Mb (1:08:04)
Missing Pieces mp3 59.26Mb (1:03:08)
Turning History on its Head mp3 57.13Mb (1:00:52

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Writing the Past mp3 57.54Mb (1:01:18)
Eyewitnesses: The Personal View mp3 57.48Mb (1:01:14)
Breaking News: History's First Draft mp3 56.83Mb (1:00:33)
Popular Fiction mp3 60.63Mb (1:04:36)

ADA

Australian Digital Aliance Policy Forum: Righting the Copyright Imbalance

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

A forum for ADA members, stakeholders and government on the Australian copyright reform agenda. To download PowerPoint presentations and the conference program visit http://www.digital.org.au/Forum.htm

Introducing Flexibility mp3 35Mb (51:08)
Educational Online Copying mp3 10Mb (14:30)
Orphan Works mp3 27.2Mb (43:16)
Reform Agenda mp3 11.2Mb (17:38)

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Helen Daniels mp3 12.5Mb (20:14)
Nicholas Gruen mp3 23.8Mb (39:03)
Safe Harbours mp3 19.5Mb (32:06)
The iiNet Case mp3 35.4Mb (58:08)

ACOC-2010

2010 ACOC Seminar: Describing resources in a web services world

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Cataloguing is changing as never before. RDA is moving cataloguing guidelines into the web services world; a world where standards are used to link software, databases and library tools.

Irma Birchall mp3 12.6Mb (13:46)
Sharon Zuodar mp3 16.0Mb (17:24)
Brad Cummings mp3 25.3Mb (27:36)
Catherine Argus mp3 12.2Mb (13:16)
Anne Robertson mp3 12.7Mb (13:50)

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David Lindahl mp3 36.4Mb (39:46)
Karen Stone mp3 26.7Mb (29:10)
Monika Szunejko mp3 22.0Mb (24:00)
Kent Fitch mp3 25.5Mb (27:49)
Deirdre Kiorgaard mp3 25.3Mb (27:34)

LAF2010

Libraries Australia Forum 2010

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Duration Various
Format: mp3 audio m4a audio and mp4 video

The annual Libraries Australia Forum, 20 October 2010, showcased the developments in the past year for members of the  Libraries Australia community. During the forum, highlights of the service were demonstrated, the Annual Report was presented and future directions were discussed.

Further information and Forum program

Title & Speakers name mp3 file m4a file mp4 file
Introduction - Warwick Cathro Download 8Mb    
The Future Nature of Library Collecting - Constance Malpas Download 20Mb Download 37Mb Download 154Mb
Trends & Developments in ILL and DD - Katie Birch Download 27Mb Download 47Mb Download 224Mb
LA Year in Review - Debbie Campbell Download 15Mb Download 27Mb
Libraries Australia Document Delivery - Deborah Fuller Download 9Mb Download 12Mb
Cataloguing and CBS Developments - Interactive session Download 32Mb Download 42Mb
Enhanced Requesting & LA Helpdesk - Interactive session Download 33Mb Download 37Mb
Issues for Special Libraries - Anne Ritchie / Laurel Paton Download 21Mb Download 32Mb
ERA Update - Nikki Darby Download 11Mb Download 16Mb
Social Metadata for Libraries - Rose Holley Download 27Mb Download 43Mb
Full Seminar (Zip file) Download 190Mb Download 273Mb

Note: The m4a files provided here are enhanced podcasts that contain the speakers presentation slides, these files can be viewed in iTunes or Windows Media Player.

seymour2010

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The Seymour Biography Lecture 2010

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Thursday, 16 September 2010
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Writing Lives (59:52)
Join Peter Rose, Gideon Haigh, Jacqueline Kent and Shirley Walker for an exploration of Australian life writing.

Maggie Beer

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A Woman for All Seasons: 2010 Kenneth Myer Lecture with Maggie Beer

Contributor: National Library Oral History
Date published: Monday, 26 July 2010
Duration 58:02
Format: mp3 audio

Maggie Beer discusses the renewed interest that Australians are showing in cooking, exemplified by the popularity of the many food shows on television, and the notion that Australia really is at the forefront of a new international cuisine.

Kate Jennings

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Everywhere and Nowhere

Contributor: National Library Oral History
Date published: Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Duration 42:31
Format: mp3 audio

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.
Poet, essayist, short-story writer, novelist, feminist and New York resident, Kate Jennings, gives the second Ray Mathew Lecture on the topic 'Everywhere and Nowhere'.

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Essaying: The Calibre Prizes

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Friday, 30 April 2010
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

Explore the role of the essay in Australian cultural life, the need for essays as a way of encapsulating and understanding experience, and the art of essay writing. Speakers include Robert Dessaix and past winners of the Calibre Prize.

David Hansen mp3 11.7Mb (12:47)
Kevin Brophy mp3 10.5Mb (11:26)
Rachel Robertson mp3 10.6Mb (11:34)
Lorna Hallahan mp3 14.8Mb (16:08)

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Robert Dessaix mp3 27.6Mb (30:19)
Elisabeth Holdsworth mp3 18.2Mb (19.52)
Mark Tredinnick mp3 13.7Mb (15:01)
Jane Goodall mp3 9.3Mb (10:12)

oclcap

OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Meeting

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Thursday, 15 April 2010
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

The Libraries Australia community and other interested parties were invited to attend the inaugural OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Meeting held on 15 April 2010 at the National Library of Australia.Additional information: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/events/meetings/oclc-aprc.html

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Welcome and introduction - Warwick Cathro mp3 2.3Mb (02:25)
The new OCLC governance structure - Vic Elliott mp3 29.2Mb (31:04)
WorldCat growth and quality - Ted Fons mp3 54.2Mb (57:44)
The Libraries Australia / OCLC relationship - Anne Horn mp3 10.1Mb (10:46)
SRU Record Update - Chris Thewlis mp3 30.1Mb (32:01)

flight

The Flight of the Mind:
Writing and the Creative Imagination

Contributor: National Library Publications
Date published: Friday, 15 Jan 2010
Duration various
Format: mp3 audio

A major National Library of Australia conference, incorporating the Kenneth Binns Lecture. Supported by the Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund, the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust and Alison Sanchez. Held on 24-25 October 2009, National Library Theatre.

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Session 1: Kenneth Binns Lecture mp3 61.04Mb (1:05:01)
Session 2: Creating Fiction from Fact mp3 63.13Mb (1:07:14)
Session 3: Recreating a Creative Life mp3 58.63Mb (1:02:26)
Session 4: Writing Across Boundaries mp3 56.78Mb (1:00:28)
Session 5: From Inspiration to Publication mp3 37.19Mb (39:34)

Ray Mathew 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.

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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 2006 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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