* * * PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY * * * WHITE SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA: violent conquest or benign colonisation?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE debates PAT GRIMSHAW WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH @ 6.30PM New Council Chamber, Trades Hall In his recent book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Keith Windschuttle charges academic historians with a series of wilful misrepresentations intended to portray Australia as a society marked by atrocities against Aborigines. In this important debate, Keith Windschuttle and Pat Grimshaw outline competing accounts of white settlement, and explain what's at stake in the dispute. Keith Windschuttle is the author of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (2000), now in its fourth edition, as well as five other books on contemporary social issues. His most recent book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, was published by Macleay Press in November 02. He is also a publisher and a frequent contributor to The New Criterion and Quadrant. Pat Grimshaw holds the Max Crawford Chair of History at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand (revised edition 1987) and Paths of Duty: American Missionary Women in Nineteenth Century Hawaii (1989), and co-author of Creating a Nation (1994). A co-authored comparative study of the place of indigenous peoples in the political structures of British settler colonies is currently in press with Manchester University Press. The event will be chaired by Associate Professor Joy Damousi, Editor of Australian Historical Studies. ENTRY: $5 FULL / $3 CONCESSION / RMIT & LATROBE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FREE Further information from Gillian on 9925 2910 or Jeff on 9662 3744 www.advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au or www.nibs.org.au Sponsored by the RMIT Community Advocacy Unit, the New International Bookshop, Australian Historical Studies, the Australian Historical Association and Latrobe University Aboriginal Studies. Gillian Davy Co-ordinator, Community Advocacy Unit School of Social Science and Planning RMIT University GPO Box 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001 http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au Tel: +61 3 9925 2910 Fax: +61 3 9925 1855 -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
