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On Wednesday 18 July 2012, Peter Read (The University of Sydney) and Julia Torpey (The Australian National University) presented research from two projects (History of Aboriginal Sydney and Deepening Histories of Place) in a paper entitled “Framing Aboriginal Lives: A view from the Easy Coast”. The session was chaired by Ann McGrath. Abstract In this […]
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Our Music, Performing Place, Listening to Sydney will be be held on 30 June 2012. It is a premier event of Aboriginal storytelling and musical exploration, hosted by the Sydney Conservatorium, The University of Sydney and The Australia National University. This day-long event is an opportunity for both established and emerging Aboriginal musicians who call […]
Review: Blue Mountains Dreaming
Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal Heritage (Second Edition) Edited by Eugene Stockton and John Merriman 255 pp, Blue Mountain Educational and Research Trust, Lawson, 2009 ISBN 9780646503868 $60.00 I (RP) recall the first edition of Blue Mountains Dreaming published in 1993. It was a delight then to see the disparate knowledge of Aboriginal heritage for the […]
2012 Minoru Hokari Scholarship
The 2012 Minoru Hokari Scholarship has been awarded to Ms Shannyn Palmer. Ms Palmer is a doctoral student in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University. The award will support fieldwork for Ms Palmer’s project, titled ‘Thinking History Through People and Place: Mobile and situated historical narratives in southwest Central Australia’. […]
Some Notes From Short Film Courses at the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts (School of Film and Television) In January 2012 a few members of the Deepening Histories Project team, Julia, Mary Anne and myself , attended some short courses at the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts (School of […]
Past and Futures in a Digital Age: ‘Digital History’ and the drive toward shared histories and knowledge exchange in a colonised settler nation. (Shannyn Palmer) History assumes a particular significance in a colonised settler nation such as Australia. History here, like much of the physical landscape, is contested territory. Aboriginal perspectives need to be a part […]
‘Deepening Histories’ project team members (left to right of first photo after map) Julia Torpey, Ann McGrath and Peter Read attended the ‘Living Country Culture Camp’ at Bent’s Basin in the Blue Mountains. Peter’s team filmed this family event, which included speeches by Elders, canoe trips and great musical performances. It was perfect weather for […]
Pasts and Futures in the Digital Age: Shared Histories and Knowledge Exchange across the Generations (Shannyn Palmer) History assumes a particular significance in a colonised settler nation such as Australia. History here, like much of the physical landscape, is contested territory. Aboriginal perspectives need to be part of a shared history rather than just consulted […]
