Event Invitation for Rotary Hawthorn Club Lunch
24 Sep 2019 |
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Hawthorn
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Meeting Speaker
Adjunct Associate Professor Rob Hess is an historian and a former staff member in the College of Sport and Exercise Science at Victoria University. He has a long-standing interest in the social history of sport and his PhD was the first ever doctoral study of the history of Australian Rules football. Rob is a past president of the Australian Society for Sports History and he currently serves as a regional academic editor for the International Journal of the History of Sport. He is also a member of the Australian Football Heritage Group, an honorary heritage consultant with Netball Victoria and a Board member of the History Council of Victoria. His most recent book (co-written with Brunette Lenkić) is Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football, published in 2016.
**Wear your favourite football scarf or hat!**
Chair: Geoff Wright