1997-98 North American Speaker Series

 

The following speakers visited North America during 1997-98.

 

Ann Millar
Director of the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Department of the Senate, Australian Commonwealth Parliament
"Women in Parliament and the Australian Government"
October 18 - 31, 1997
Visited the Embassy of Australia, five universities, and the Library of Congress. She also met with the Senate Historian and with staff of the Center for Legislative Archives at the US National Archives.
 
Frank G. Clarke, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History, Macquarie University
"Sacred space and promised land: Aboriginal and European attitudes to country and landscape"
March & April 1998
Visited University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Beloit College, Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum, and State University of New York at Oswego.
 
John R. DeLaeter, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, Curtin University of Technology
"Science and Technology Policy in Australia" and "An Overview of Australian Science Education"
March 1998
Visited Northern Arizona University, Penn State University, University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia based Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 
Peter G. Edwards, PhD
Executive Director, Australian Centre for American Studies
"Australia's Vietnam War in Comparison to the US Experience"
April 1998
Visited the University of Texas at Austin, College of William & Mary, Penn State University, the Australian High Commission in Ottawa, University of Oregon, and a special event with Greg Sheridan in Washington, DC.
 
Greg Sheridan
Foreign Editor, The Australian
"Australia's role in, vision for, and interest in Asia"
April 1998
Visited the University of California at Los Angeles, the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, Penn State University, a special event with Peter Edwards in Washington, DC, the Australian Consulate in NY, and the Pacific & Asian Affairs Council in Honolulu.
 
David Walker, PhD
Professor of Australian Studies, Deakin University
"Australian Interactions and Anxieties with Asia, 19th Century to Present"
Various times during the fall of 1997 and spring of 1998.
Visited John Carroll University, Pennsylvania State University, State University of New York-Oswego, and Southeast Missouri State University.

 

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