Tutor/Facilitator Prof Frank Bongiorno
When
Date: on/from Sat 18 Mar 2023 to Sat 18 Mar 2023
Frequency: Single Event
Class time: 2:30-3:30
Delivered ZOOM
Other information
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Speaker: Professor Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History at the Australian National University, author of ‘Dreamers and Schemers’.
Facilitator: Jim Walter Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Monash University and U3APP member
Australians have rarely looked to politics for the source of their national identity, or to politicians for their heroes or villains. What does that tell us about the country? And do we gain fresh insights if we turn our attention to politics as a measure of the kind of society that Australia became across more than sixty thousand years of deep time, and more than 230 of settler history? By drawing on his recent book Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (La Trobe University Press, 2022), Frank Bongiorno will examine the deep patterns of our politics from earliest human occupation to the age of COVID and ask – as well as do his best to answer – some of the big questions about what an understanding of political history might contribute to our wider understanding of this country’s past, present and future.
Frank Bongiorno is Professor History at the Australian National University, and was previously Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. He is the author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012), The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) and, most recently, Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022). He is a Member of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities.
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