The Returning Harvard Chair of Australian Studies Lecture
The Same Under Different Skies?
The University in the United States and Australia
Professor Stuart Macintyre
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The Harvard Chair of Australian Studies was established in 1976 by a grant from the Australian government to the United States, in celebration of the American Bicentenary. It has been held, annually, by distinguished Australians from a wide variety of disciplines, including Geoffrey Blainey, Manning Clark and Tim Flannery. The Returning Harvard Chair Lecture was inaugurated in 2007 and is supported by the Harvard Clubs of Australia.
Professor Stuart Macintyre has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History since 1990 and is currently a professorial research fellow of the Australian Research Council. He has written on aspects of British and Australian history, including communist and labour history, the history of Australian politics and intellectual history. He is currently the president of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. While at Harvard he pursued his interest in the history of the social sciences through a comparative study of American higher education and research, and his lecture will draw on this work.
Professor Macintyre will be introduced by Professor Graeme Davison, Chair of the Australian Nominating Committee for the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, where he held the Chair of Australian Studies, and at Monash University where he is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities.
- Date:
- Thursday 16 April 2009
- Time:
- 6.30 pm
- Location:
- The ICT Building
111 Barry Street, Carlton - Enquiries:
- June McBeth
School of Historical Studies
(+61 3) 8344 5963
jmcbeth@unimelb.edu.au