History Honours Workshop, 29-31 May 2009

• Are you writing an honours thesis in the field of History?
• Want to meet honours students from other universities and discuss how to research and write your thesis?

The History School of the Australian National University invites you to an intensive History Honours Workshop in Canberra on the weekend of 29-31 May 2009. ANU historians will lead discussions on various aspects of research and thesis writing, and will also provide you with the opportunity to join smaller groups focusing on historical issues of direct relevance to your own inquiry. Students will be expected to participate by speaking and writing about their own research-in-progress. Special tuition will be offered in the fields of Biography, Environmental History, Indigenous History and Asian History.

Financial support will be available to participants from outside Canberra in the form of a return discount air or bus fare plus a contribution towards accommodation expenses in Canberra.

Course organisers and presenters

Professor Tom Griffiths (History Program, Research School of Social Sciences)
Dr Nicholas Brown (Senior Fellow, National Centre of Biography)
Professor Melanie Nolan (Director, National Centre of Biography)
Professor Ann McGrath (Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History)
Dr Carolyn Strange (Research School of Humanities)
Dr Robert Cribb (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies)
Dr Shino Konishi (Australian Centre for Indigenous History)
Dr Libby Robin (Fenner School of Environment and Society).

Enrolling in the Workshop

The workshop will be restricted to honours students in History and related fields, currently enrolled at universities in Australia and New Zealand. The number of participants will be strictly limited  to about 15 (to facilitate discussion). There is no registration fee.

The deadline for applications is 17 April 2009.

Please e-mail your application to Karen Smith, History Program Administrator, RSSS: karen.smith@anu.edu.au and include the following information:

• a brief curriculum vitae
• two short statements, totalling no more than 500 words, explaining the subject (or likely subject) of your honours thesis and what you hope to gain from the workshop. These statements will help us to design the event around your interests

Inquiries about the academic program of the workshop should be directed to Dr Nicholas Brown at nicholas.brown@anu.edu.au

This Honours History Workshop is an initiative of the History Program of the Research School of Social Sciences in association with History in the Faculty of Arts, the Research School of Humanities, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Fenner School of Environment and Society.