ANNUAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM - Charles Darwin … HISTORY COLLOQUIUM Saturday 7th November 2015...
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Professional Historians
Association (NT) Centre for
Environmental History The Australian
National University
School of Creative Arts and Humanities
Charles Darwin University
Northern Territory
Library
ANNUAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
Saturday 7th November 2015
Northern Territory Library, Parliament House, Darwin
Time Presenter Title
Session A Chair – Alan Davis, PHA (NT) 8.30 – 8.35 am Welcome
8.35 – 8.40 am Dr Sam Wells, PHA (NT) Julie Wells 1952-2015 8.40 – 9.10 am Dr Steven Farram, CDU Charles Kirkland: Top End pioneer newspaperman 9.10 – 10.10 am Ted Egan A complex man. J.A. Gilruth, first administrator of the Northern Territory 10.10 – 10.40 am Barry Leithhead The enigma that is Dr Mick Cook 10.40 – 11.00 am Morning Tea
Session B Chair – Dr Steven Farram, CDU 11.00 – 11.30 am Benjamin Huf, ANU Man on the Land: the making of the commercial grazier and farmer in Colonial New South Wales 11.30 – 12.00 noon Jacqui Donegan, ANU Broad Horizons: MacRobertson Miller Airlines and the Conquest of Distance
12.00 – 12.30 pm Dr Derham Groves, University A Hopalong Cassidy Cabinet of Curiosities: Australian of Melbourne Hopalong Cassidy Merchandise and William Boyd’s 1954 Australian Tour Australian Tour 12.30 – 1.30 pm Lunch
Session C Chair – Dr Sam Wells, PHA (NT) 1.30 – 2.00 pm Dr Gwenda Baker The storyteller lady who fell out of the sky Monash University 2.00 – 2.30 pm Daniel May, ANU Stealing the fire-stick? The appropriation of Indigenous burning in South-Eastern and Northern Australia. 2.30 – 3.00 pm Annemarie McLaren, ANU Contemplating the life of Goggey, an Aboriginal man on Colonial Sydney’s Western Fringes 3.00 – 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea
Session D Chair – Craig Bellamy, CDU 3.30 – 4.00 pm Dr Wendy Beresford-Maning Webb of Milingimbi - a thorn in the side of the PHA (NT) Methodist Overseas Mission? 4.00 – 5.00 pm Charlie Ward, WSU Self-determination or ‘self-destruction’? Aboriginal social change in the Territory and the Whitlam and Fraser governments’ policies in Aboriginal affairs
Entry is free and morning and afternoon tea is provided. Lunch is at your own expense. For further information please contact Dr Steven Farram on (08) 8946 6865 or