Colonial romance: CSU public lecture this Friday
10 AUGUST 2015
Relationships, marriages and families in early colonial New South Wales are the subject of the 2015 Theo Barker Memorial Lecture at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Friday 14 August. Head of Campus at CSU in Bathurst, Professor Jo-Anne Reid, said this free annual memorial public lecture will be presented by guest history lecturer Associate Professor Grace Karskens from the University of New South Wales. "This is the sixth Theo Barker Memorial Lecture to celebrate the life and work of former history lecturer and Bathurst historian Mr Theo Barker," Professor Reid said. "It is co-presented by Charles Sturt University and the Bathurst District Historical Society (BDHS) in honour of the late Mr Barker, a long-standing member of the BDHS who wrote a two-volume history of Bathurst and The Story of Three Colleges, a history of CSU's three predecessor institutions. "Professor Karskens will explore the findings of her research on relationships, marriage and families in the early settler community at Castlereagh on the Nepean River in New South Wales in her talk, 'Men, women, couples and families on Australia's first frontier, 1803 to 1830'. It explores the dynamics of relationships at a time when men outnumbered women in the fledgling colony. I invite the Bathurst community to attend this fascinating and fitting free public lecture."
Media Note:
Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Associate Professor Grace Karskens (pictured).
The 2015 Theo Barker Memorial Lecture at 6pm Friday 14 August is part of the CSU Explorations Series of public lectures. To attend, please register here (for catering purposes), or for more information, contact CSU regional relations assistant Ms Olivia Wyborn on owyborn@csu.edu.au or phone (02) 6338 4645.
The venue for this free CSU public lecture is room 223 in building 1292, with the nearest parking in car park P7. Follow the event parking signs and balloons. Associate Professor Grace Karskens teaches Australian history at the University of New South Wales. Her research areas include Australian colonial history, urban history, cross cultural history and urban environmental history. Her books include Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood and the multi-award winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney. Her latest book, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney won the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction as well as the US Urban History Association's Best Book 2010 award. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2010. At the moment she is working on a history of early colonial Castlereagh and the Nepean River. Professor Karskens completed her high school education at the Diocesan Catholic Girls High School (now MacKillop College) in Bathurst.
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