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Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperwork
Dr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Charles Mountford lacked formal credentials as an anthropologist or scientist, yet he led the largest and most complex scientific expedition to remote Australia. Dr Philip Jones explores Mountford’s contribution and the controversy around his leadership.
A history of the 1948 expedition
Dr Sally K May, Australian National University
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Sally K May provides a historical overview of the Expedition, its planning and execution.
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.
Terra incognito no more – reflecting on change
Robyn Williams, science journalist, presenter and author
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 16 November 2009
At the time of this ‘last great expedition’, many plants, animals, aspects of human culture were unknown to science. Robyn Williams launches the symposium Barks, Birds and Billabongs with a broad-ranging talk on science since 1948.
Necessity entrepreneurship within a dominant society
Dennis Foley, University of Newcastle
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Dennis Foley describes two kinds of Indigenous entrepreneur: ‘opportunists’ who seize a concept and use their networks to embark on a business venture, and those who lack capital, so out of ‘necessity’ must adapt to dominant culture to provide the basics.
The hybrid economy as political project
Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Altman introduces his conceptual framework ‘the hybrid economy’, devised as a means to overcome the binary between market/non-market and to explore alternative ways of understanding and practising ‘development’.
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.
Get Up, Stand Up public forum
Martin Ballangarry, Brothablack, Professor John Maynard and Rachel Perkins
10 September 2009
Contemporary forms of Indigenous protest are examined by historian John Maynard, film director Rachel Perkins, elder Martin Ballangarry and hip-hopper Brothablack in a forum coinciding with the Museum’s From Little Things Big Things Grow exhibition.
Before the badges, before the T-shirts, before the flag
Dr Jay Arthur, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
Curator Jay Arthur on the creation of an exhibition on the struggle for Indigenous civil rights from 1920 to 1970 for the National Museum. She examines the notion of the ‘untold’ story and the challenge in assembling objects to tell this story.
Animated conversation with Geoff Pryor
Michael McKernan and Geoff Pryor
13 December 2008
Historian Michael McKernan celebrates the life and work of much admired political cartoonist and Canberra identity Geoff Pryor, who retired after three decades with The Canberra Times.
