Audiences for both physical exhibitions and for digital scholarship are growing and developing. How are institutions such as the National Library responding to these changing publics?

Join Professor Paul Pickering, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU, and the National Library of Australia's Senior Curator Robyn Holmes and Nat Williams in discussion.

Chair Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Director General, National Library of Australia.

Professor Paul Pickering from RSHA will speak on The biographical turn': studying past lives in a digital world.

Speaker

Professor Paul Pickering is Deputy Director of the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University. He has published extensively on nineteenth century political and social history, commemoration and public memory, historical re-enactment, biography and contemporary politics.

His current project, Sounds of Liberty, examines the role of music in radical politics 1790-1914 and will be published in 2013.

Host

Integrated Humanities Group of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, in association with the Humanities Research Centre and part of the Cities, Imaginaries, Publics lecture series.

More information

Dr Caroline Turner on 02 6125 0529