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Bain Attwood

Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University and has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. In 2010 his book Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History won the Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or colonial history. He has written many books, including the acclaimed biography William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story, about the inspirational Aboriginal leader William Cooper, and co-edited Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand and Protection and Empire: A Global History.

Photo credit: James Braund.

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Events

Launch: Unseen by Penelope Jackson (North Caulfield)

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art 5 Malakoff Street, North Caulfield, VIC

Monash University Publishing and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art are delighted to invite you to the launch of Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia by Penelope Jackson. Please join us for a conversation between Penelope...

Launch: The Curious Diplomat by Lachlan Strahan (Melbourne CBD)

Hill of Content Bookshop Level 2, 86 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Monash University Publishing is delighted to invite you to the launch of The Curious Diplomat: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Diplomacy by Lachlan Strahan. From the Indo-Pacific and...

Book launch: Righting My World by Dennis Altman (Gleebooks)

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

In conversation with Anne Summers A collection of writings over the past half-century from the acclaimed professor of politics and gay rights activist. From the inauguration of Richard Nixon to...