2008 is the Centenary of Swinburne University of Technology. It is also the Centenary of female suffrage in Victoria, the Richmond Football Club, and one of the pioneering Labor Governments of Australia – and the world!
The Faculty of Life of Social Sciences is proud to announce The Centenary Lectures 2008. Distinguished speakers will tell the story not only of Swinburne, but also other institutions forged at the same moment of history. The Lectures will conclude with a special lecture which looks ahead to the future of universities – and Swinburne!
The Centenary Lectures will be held in AS404, from 12.30 to 1.30pm.
Light refreshments will be provided.
All are welcome.
Program
| 30 May | 22 August | 26 September | 24 October | 21 November |
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30 May 2008
The Swinburne Centenary
Dr Peter Love
The first classes at Swinburne were designed for young men who wanted to improve their prospects in trades. Classes for women in domestic economy commenced two years later. Peter Love is eminently qualified to tell the Swinburne Centenary story. He has been a Swinburne staff member since 1988, is the author of Practical Measure: 100 Years at Swinburne, and is currently working on a full history to be published on the centenary of the first classes in 2009.
22 August, 2008
Women’s Suffrage in Victoria
Professor Patricia Grimshaw
Women’s suffrage in Victoria was protracted and bitterly contested. Pat Grimshaw is an expert on the struggle for suffrage in the Antipodes, including Victoria and New Zealand. She is the Max Crawford Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, and is currently working on a book entitled Balancing Acts: Women, Breadwinning and Childcare in Twentieth Century Australia.
26 September, 2008
Richmond Football Club & Australian Rules
Professor Geoffrey Blainey
2008 is the centenary of the Richmond Football Club, and the sesquicentenary of Australian Rules. Our distinguished speaker on the eve of the 2008 Grand Final is Geoffrey Blainey, the author of A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football (1990). He is also the author of 36 other books, including The Tyranny of Distance (1966) and A Short History of the World (2000).
24 October, 2008
The Fisher Labor Government
Professor David Day
The Fisher Labor Government laid the foundations of the modern welfare state, and was the forerunner of the first majority national Labor Government in the world. David Day is Fishers biographer. He is also the biographer of Chifley and Curtin, the author of Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others (2008), Honorary Associate at La Trobe University and visiting professor at the University of Aberdeen.
21 November, 2008
Looking forwards
Professor Simon Marginson
This week we look to the future. We imagine how universities and higher education will develop in the future. What will Swinburne look like in another 50 years? Professor Simon Marginson is Australia’s leading expert on educational policy. He is Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, the author (with Mark Considine) of The Enterprise University (2000), and has most recently edited Prospects of Higher Education: Globalization, market competition, public goods and the future of the university (2007).
Contact:
Michael Gilding,
Phone 92148102,
Email: mgilding  swin.edu.au
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