DOES HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE IN CANBERRA?
12 March 2026
Professor Frank Bongiorno will deliver the 2026 Canberra Day Oration at the National Library of Australia on 12 March.
We live in a world where an understanding of history often seems an inadequate guide to the present and future, yet it is also among the very few tools we have. Canberra has long been a place where history is produced, in a range of forms, and it has been understood as offering this kind of guidance.
Canberra history-making has resisted the allure of the ivory-tower; it has frequently been an injunction to act in and on the world, not merely to understand it. In this year's Canberra Day Oration, Frank Bongiorno will explore Canberra as a place of 'history-making', and he will consider what a future for history in Canberra might look like – in an era where sound historical practice can seem almost countercultural.
See details, including booking, at:
www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/canberra-day-oration-2026-frank-bongiorno-am
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