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Greg Dening was born on 1931 in Australia, is an Australian historian. Discover Greg Dening's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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1948

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1948.

1960

From the late 1960s he became the centre of an ethnographic history school called the 'Melbourne Group'.

1970

In 1970 he left the priesthood because he could not preach against the use of birth control, the banning of which was outlined by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968.

Together with his wife, American-born Donna Merwick (another significant historian who dealt mainly with the early colonial histories of New York) Dening served as a mentor for many and often described history-making as a process of "performance".

They thus centred their collaborative seminars around this notion of performing and "Doing History", as Dening called it, since it involved "present"-ing the past.

His personal life was deeply entwined with his professional life, as he inspired generations of Pacific and Australian historians and taught a special brand of humility toward his subject material.

He devoted much of his time to nurturing students and exploring his own fascinations with Oceania and encounters between indigenous people and outsiders on the in-between spaces of the "beach", a metaphor he developed rigorously.

1971

He taught sociology and history at La Trobe University, Melbourne and one semester of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi before being appointed Max Crawford Professor of History at the University of Melbourne in 1971.

As Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, he was one of Australia's most eminent historians, and one of the preeminent historians and anthropologists of the South Pacific.

1998

From 1998 to 2004 he taught ten-day graduate workshops at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Canberra.

2008

Greg Dening (1931 – 13 March 2008) was an Australian historian of the Pacific.

Dening was born in Newcastle, New South Wales.

He was educated at two Jesuit schools: St. Louis School in Perth and Xavier College in Melbourne.

He received an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation was a historical ethnography of the Marquesas Islands.

He died on 13 March 2008 in Hobart.

Vanessa Smith of the University of Sydney spoke of "...his unique gift as a historian, unobtrusively demonstrating that the most acute critical perception is not incommensurate with the deepest appreciation of his subjects' human circumstances."