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Using Lives program

Using Lives: a postgraduate workshop in biography

Monday 8 September

9am
Studio		 Introduction
Nicholas Brown
10am
Studio 		Collective biography: from the particular to the representative
Melanie Nolan
11am Break
11.30am
Studio 		Reflections of a reluctant biographer - biography by accident
Peter Stanley
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Yowie 1. Karren Amadio
2. Dianne de Bellis
3. Michael Crouch
3pm Break
3.30pm
Yowie		 1. Penny Spirou
2. Jim Chambliss
3. Ruth Lee
5.30pm Reception with senior curators, National Library of Australia

Tuesday, 9 September

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9am
Studio		 The past and future of Eternity
Sophie Jensen
10am
Studio		 Joseph Banks and the cultivation and management of celebrity
Michelle Hetherington
11am Break
11.30am
Studio		 Writing biographies
Ross McMullin
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm
Yowie		 1. Susan Stegall
2. Odhran O'Brien
3. Sarah Collins
3pm Break
3.30pm
Yowie		 1. Keith Hallett
2. Jacqueline Darcy
3. Martin Sims
4. Tony Earls

Wednesday, 10 September

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9am
Studio		 'Making art, that's my writing': collecting Tasmanian Aboriginal voices
Amanda Reynolds
10am
Studio		 When biography becomes fiction
Peter Read
11am Break
11.30am
Studio		 Generational tensions in cross-cultural memoir
Mary Besemeres
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm
Yowie		 1. Janet Marles
2. Catherine Bishop
3. Cecilia Leong-Salobir
3pm Break
3.30pm
Yowie		 1. Kath Ensor
2. Mark Mallman
3. Nancy Sugarman
4. Rebecca Grimmet
6pm

4th Annual Seymour Lecture in Biography
Richard Holmes
National Library of Australia

Thursday, 11 September

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9am
Studio		 The morning after
Richard Holmes
10am
Studio		 Putting words into mouths: dramatising past encounters
Mark Peel
11am Break
11.30am
Studio		 Australians and the world - lessons from theatre history
Desley Deacon
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm
Yowie		 1. Danielle Mason
2. Fabri Blacklock
3. Katarina Ferro
3pm Break
3.30pm
Yowie		 1. Angie Dunstan
2. Stan d'Argeavel
3. Christian Wicke
4. John Ireland

Friday, 12 September

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9am
Studio		 Prosopography: get it right
Paul Pickering
10am
Studio		 Subjects who talk too much
Carolyn Strange
11am Break
11.30am
Studio		 Conclusion
Nicholas Brown
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