As the Nixon White House went increasingly on the defensive in early 1973, reeling from the lethal drip of the Watergate revelations, the first Austraian Labor prime minister in twenty-three years looked to redefine ANZUS and Australia's global stance. In his new book, Unholy Fury the US Alliance and the Whitlam-Nixon Crisis, James Curran draws on [...]
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Book from 27 April 2015 Speaker(s): James Curran Date: 2015-05-11 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Dr James Curran is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is Curtin’s Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Dr Curran is also the co-author (with Stuart Ward) of The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire and author of The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining [...]
Speaker(s): James Curran Date: 2011-03-22 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm
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Dr James Curran, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialises in twentieth century Australian political culture. Dr Stuart Ward held the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin (2008-9) and teaches Australian studies and Imperial history at the University of Copenhagen. Stuart Ward and James Curran are the co-authors of [...]
[LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): James Curran|Stuart Ward Date: 2010-05-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm)
