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Stirring the pot: women in the business of food
Donna Lee Brien, Marion Halligan, Janet Jeffs and Dr Adele Wessell
6 March 2011
Women are strongly represented in Australia’s food industry as producers, chefs, cookbook authors and creative writers. Chef Janet Jeffs, novelist Marion Halligan and food historians Adele Wessell and Donna Lee Brien explore women’s stories about food.
The economy of shells: A history of Aboriginal women at La Perouse making shellwork for sale
Maria Nugent, National Museum of Australia
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Maria Nugent explores the 130-year-long practice of shell-working by Aboriginal women at La Perouse in Sydney’s south, and how the makers have been able to create or find new markets by adapting their products to appeal to new customers.
Late-style modernist: a ‘boundary rider’ view
Djon Mundine, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series, 22 August 2008
Indigenous art curator Djon Mundine examines the art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, drawing parallels with other late-style female artists to deepen the understanding of Emily and her work beyond the local perspective.
art, emily, indigenous, women
Moving stories: women’s lives, British women and the postwar Australian dream
Professor Alistair Thomson, Monash University
Historical Interpretation series, 9 July 2008
Oral historian Alistair Thomson explores the experience of migration to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, through the eyes and life stories of four British women, during his time as a Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia.
‘If it wasn’t for them …’ – remembering the activists of the 1920s and 1930s
June Barker, Esther Carroll, Olive Campbell, Barbara McDonogh, Suzanne Ingram, Professor John Maynard, Barbara Nicholson and Dianne O'Brien
9 July 2008
Historian John Maynard leads an informal discussion with some of the original political activists from the Indigenous protests of the 1920s and 1930s, as part of the National Museum’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of the 1938 Day of Mourning.
Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writing
Dr Lenore Coltheart, political historian, and author Frank Moorhouse
Historical Imagination series, 20 May 2007
The convergence of history and fiction and the power of archives and objects to inform their work on Australian women and the League of Nations is explored by political historian Lenore Coltheart and author Frank Moorhouse.
