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Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition

Andrew Sayers, Shane Mortimer, Martin Thomas, Anne McGrath, Professor Mandy Thomas and Margo Neale

Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 June 2011

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Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium

• Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land ExpeditionAndrew Sayers, Shane Mortimer, Martin Thomas, Anne McGrath, Professor Mandy Thomas and Margo Neale
• Terra incognito no more – reflecting on changeRobyn Williams, science journalist, presenter and author
• A history of the 1948 expeditionDr Sally K May, Australian National University
• Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land ExpeditionMartin Thomas, University of Sydney
• Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian RelationsProfessor the Hon Kim Beazley AC
• The Smithsonian’s participation in the Arnhem Land ExpeditionPaul Taylor (paper read by Martin Thomas)
• ‘A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land …’: Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land ExpeditionMark Jenkins, writer, editor and historian
• Fossicking memoriesEmeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht and Martin Thomas, University of Sydney
• Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperworkDr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
• The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P MountfordSuzy Russell (paper co-authored by Denise Chapman), State Library of South Australia
• ‘Bastard barks’: A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expeditionAdjunct Professor Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
• Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush MillerGifford Miller and Robert Cashner
• Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider’s perspectiveEmeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht
• The ‘exciting thing was the landscape’: Raymond Specht, a botanist in the fieldDr Lynne McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
• Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expeditionCraddock Morton, National Museum of Australia
• Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary featureTony MacGregor, Arts Editor, ABC Radio National
• Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem LandJosh Harris (paper read by Mark Jenkins)
• Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still goingDr Adrienne L Kaeppler, National Museum of Natural History, United States
• Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy’s research on Groote EylandtDr Anne Clarke, University of Sydney and Ursula Frederick, Australian National University
• The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal historiesDr Louise Hamby, Australian National University
• Missing the revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem LandDr Ian McIntosh, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States
• The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem LandDr Murray Garde, University of Melbourne
• From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
• Forget the barks! Bring on the string figures! The String Figures of Yirrkala: Activating a legacyRobyn McKenzie, Australian National University
• Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem LandEmeritus Professor Dr Ad Borsboom, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Closing remarksDr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia