New South Wales
BATHURST WALKING TOUR
A Regional Forum for the NSW Chapter of ISAA is to take place in Bathurst starting at the Pillars of Bathurst on 8 May at 2pm. It will be a 2-hour Historical Walking Tour led by ISAA member, Dr Robin McLachlan. THE TOUR: My walking tour will take fellow ISAA members…
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
NSW-ISAA already has an interesting line-up of events for 2017. Further details will be in the March issue of the ISAA National Newsletter and the next ISAA-NSW Bulletin. • 31 March ISAA: NSW Member Dr Lesley Potter will speak on her research on midwives (WIP Committee) at Glebe – Elizabeth Fletcher’s…
AUSTRALIA: NATION OR COMMODITY? NOTES FOR AN ADDRESS BY GARY L. STURGESS ISAA-NSW Event, 20 September 2016
ISAA Event, 20 September 2016 You and I are broadly of the same generation, and I would suggest that any differences that we might have on foreign ownership of Australian property, assets and/or brands are going to be fairly marginal. And that they are going to be miniscule when compared…
ISAA-NSW CHAPTER: ANNUAL SEMINAR - GLOBAL ISSUES: PEOPLE, RACE, IDENTITY
Independent Scholars Association of Australia NSW Chapter in association with the State Library of NSW present a seminar Global Issues: People, Race, Identity Saturday 16 July 2016 1 pm – 4.30 pm Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW Dramatic…
'GARDENS OF HISTORY AND IMAGINATION: GROWING NEW SOUTH WALES
Peter Watts: Launch of Gardens of History and Imagination: Growing New South Wales The following is an edited version of an address given by Peter Watts AM at the launch of Gardens of History and Imagination: Growing New South Wales, published by Sydney University Press, on 23 June 2016 at…
STILL FREE, COMPULSORY AND SECULAR?
Description: ISAA Annual Seminar in partnership with the State Library of NSW.
Details: A conversation between Lila Mularczyk and Geoffrey Sherington
In posing the question 'will Australians rediscover the original ideals...of public education' former High Court Judge Michael Kirby AC has suggested that a 'revival of the optimism of the movement that created Australia's public school system in the first place' is required.
ISAA OPEN FORUM: ART HISTORY AND HERITAGE FOCUS ON THE ARTIST GREG HANSELL
With Carol Roberts as speaker and Sue Steggall as Respondent
Carol Roberts has a Master of History from the University of New England. She runs two businesses, Hawkesbury Valley Heritage Tours and Advancing History. She has contributed to community history and arts organisations in her local area for many years.
‘ANGELS OF MERCY’, THE RED CROSS ON THE HOMEFRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
In late August 1914 the Sydney newspaper the Sunday Times (30 August) described Red Cross volunteers as the ‘Angels of Mercy’, and Red Cross volunteers would ‘Stretch forth your hands to Save!’ Red Cross nurses, according to the report, had the touch of Christ, were willing to stand ready to ‘succor and tend the men laid low in the country’s service’.
Censorship, Free Speech and Public Discourse: What Price Democracy?
Independent Scholars Association of Australia NSW Chapter in association with The State Library of NSW present a seminar Censorship, Free Speech and Public Discourse: What Price Democracy? Saturday 11 July 1 pm – 4.30 pm Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW If John Adams is correct…