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Understanding and representing trauma: speaker presentations
Dr Joanna Sassoon, Dr Adele Chynoweth, Dr Jay Arthur, Dr Geoffrey Megargee and Dr Mike Pickering
Understanding and Representing Trauma conversation, 5 October 2010
Museums and kindred institutions that are serious about reflecting human life are often compelled to confront the dark side of human experience we might prefer not to face. But if we are to be truthful, we must do so.
Question and answer session from Understanding and representing trauma
Dr Joanna Sassoon, Dr Adele Chynoweth, Dr Jay Arthur, Dr Geoffrey Megargee and Dr Mike Pickering
Understanding and Representing Trauma conversation, 5 October 2010
Discussion amongst the panellists and questions from the audience. Museum curators and researchers with experience representing traumatic experiences in museums share their expertise.
Language and identity
Jeanie Bell, Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education
Weekend of Ideas, 20 March 2010
Jeanie Bell, a Jagera and Dulingbara woman, talks about the importance of language to Indigenous identities, the impact of the forcible loss of language and culture, and the attempts to revive Indigenous languages.
Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian Relations
Professor the Hon Kim Beazley AC
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Kim Beazley situates the 1948 Expedition in the context of postwar international relations.
Settler economies and Indigenous encounters
Christopher Lloyd, University of New England
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Christopher Lloyd explores and discusses the development, meaning, use, and usefulness of the concepts of ‘conquest’, ‘hybridity’, and ‘production regimes’ in the field of research into the history of settler/Indigenous relations and their consequences.
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853
Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 14 October 2009
Curator Anthea Gunn talks about her research on the colonial settlement of Hobart and the expansion of Van Diemen’s Land in the early 1800s, as part of her work on the Creating a Country gallery.
Memorials and sacred sites
Professor Claire Smith, Flinders University and Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
The spiritual significance and memorialisation of place are explored by archaeologist Claire Smith, examining Aboriginal sacred sites, and by historian Peter Stanley’s research into the Mont St Quentin battlefield.
Stories of sadness and loss
Laina Hall, Peter Lane and Susannah Helman
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series, 13 June 2009
Collector Peter Lane and curators Laina Hall and Susannah Helman discuss three stories from the Australian Journeys gallery: the emotional drama of convict tokens, Alexander Mussen’s redemption on the goldfields and Muriel McPhee’s secret trousseau.
Conversation with Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall, ABC TV with Stephen Munro, National Museum of Australia
Eternity series, 3 April 2009
Horticulturalist and television personality Peter Cundall shares his unexpected life story, his passion for gardening and his thoughts on life, love and the environment with curator Stephen Munro.
Online exhibitions
Mary-Elizabeth Andrews
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
Mary-Elizabeth Andrews examines an online exhibition about war brides at the Australian National Maritime Museum. She considers the use of objects, access, technical and moral concerns and how museums can reconnect with communities.
