School of Arts Tenterfield Incorporated (SOATI) has launched its annual Historian in Residence program, with inaugural resident Associate Professor Nancy Cushing to deliver a free public lecture at the School of Arts Banquet Room on Wednesday, 29 July.
The annual program has been established to promote the study of Australian history through a week-long residency in Tenterfield for a historian with expertise in the field.
During the residency, the visiting historian will speak with students at Tenterfield High School, meet with local history and heritage groups, and present a free public lecture. The historian will also have access to office space in SOATI’s new administrative offices in the Resources Building, next to the School of Arts, to continue their own research and writing.
The inaugural Historian in Residence is Associate Professor Nancy Cushing from the University of Newcastle. An Australian historian specialising in crime and environmental history, Associate Professor Cushing’s latest book, Writing a New Australian History in Fifteen Animals, will be published by Bloomsbury later this year.
Associate Professor Cushing’s public lecture, History Is More Than Human: Writing an Animal History of Australia, will be held at the School of Arts Banquet Room at 5pm on Wednesday, 29 July.
The event is free and open to the public. No bookings are required.
More information about Associate Professor Cushing is available at: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/nancy-cushing.
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