Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Is it really the case that Economic success is negatively correlated with Sporting success? The lecture will look at the links between sporting success...
The Leveson Inquiry: Trauma or Catharsis? This lecture analyses the crisis of trust and confidence which...
Acting on Evidence: How Medical Research has informed Historical Drama John Powell is an experienced medical advisor on a range...
Cary Grant: Hollywood's exquisite, charming enigma To millions of moviegoers around the world Cary Grant epitomises...
Voices of the Land: Nga Reo o te Whenua In his solo presentation of traditional instruments (taonga puoro), Richard...
Percy Grainger: Australia's greatest composer? We can think of world-leading Australians in sport (Don Bradman)...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...