Great Australians Alison Bashford

About this talk

Our final Great Australian was a geologist, geographer, and anthropologist. His travels took him from Scott’s final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on Earth, in a life that stretched from the South African War to the Cold War.

Highly controversial in 1920s Australia, he relocated to the University of Toronto, pursuing a stellar career. Yet this Great Australian has been both acclaimed and derided as one of the twentieth century’s most insistent environmental determinists.

Join Alison Bashford to learn this Great Australian’s identity and to hear about his remarkable life.

Guest Speaker — Alison Bashford

Cc138170-alison_bashford_photo_by_jesus_college_cambridge_1 Alison Bashford is Research Professor in History. Her work connects the history of science, global history, and environmental history into new assessments of the modern world, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has recently focused on the geopolitics of world population, presented in two books: The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population, with Joyce E. Chaplin (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (Columbia University Press, 2014). Before taking up her Research Chair at UNSW, Alison Bashford was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Trustee of Royal Museums, Greenwich, UK. In 2009-10, she was the Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science. She has researched and taught at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Alison Bashford is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of Humanities. In May 2018, she presented the Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University, Belfast.

This is the final talk of the Great Australians You’ve Never Heard Of series, a program of talks co-hosted by the SMSA and the Royal Society of NSW in which our speakers will reveal the stories of remarkable Australians who have not received the recognition they deserve.

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Alison Bashford — Great Australians You’ve Never Heard Of: Lecture 4

Monday, 12 November 2018, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Venue: Mitchell Theatre

Venue

Mitchell Theatre, Level 1
Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney

Date

Monday, 12 November 2018

Time

6.00pm – Registration/drinks
6:30-7:30pm – Talk
Light refreshments will be served before the lecture

Cost

$15 – SMSA Members
$15 – Royal Society Members and Fellows
$20 – Guests and General Entry

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