Bulletin

Issue: August/September 2006

News

ABR - La Trobe Annual Lecture

The Australian Book Review - La Trobe University Annual Lecture - a literary event held in three states - this year featured Ian Donaldson, Director of the ANU’s Humanities Research Centre.

The lecture, ‘Matters of Life and Death: The Return of Biography’ examined some of the forces behind the resurgence of interest in biography, and recent examples of the genre.

Professor Donaldson is consultant editor for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, due for publication in twenty-five volumes in 2007, and is completing a life of Jonson for OUP.

The lecture was held on La Trobe’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora, at the National Library, Canberra, and travels to the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide on Sunday, October 8.