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Programme

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Speakers

Meryl Andrews, Monash University
Green Bans and elephants: urban development and the redefinition of welfare in Australia in the 1970's.

Matt Bailey, Macquarie University
Embracing Private Public Consumer Space: The reception of regional shopping centres in Sydney during the 1960s.

Jill Barnard, Living Histories
A sustained and constantly strained effort: Josephite Sisters and post-war education in Victoria.

Margo Beasley, City of Sydney
Zoot suits, guns, tobacco and mink: doing business in Central Sydney.

Louise Blake, Blake Hyland Group
Seeing Melbourne through the prism of family stories.

Steve Brown, & Allen Maclean
Backyard belonging: creating attachment to place through archaeology and memory.

Kath Ensor, Monash University
Life stories of the not so rich and famous: the public historian's role in researching and recording these stories.

Richard Evans, Swinburne University
'The Police are rotten corrupt': Social geography, police corruption and the mobilisation of scandal in sydney in 1936.

Anita Frayman, Monash University
Understanding cultural diversity: life stories of ageing migrants.

Bronwen Gray, Auckland University of Technology
Homelessness: Myths and memories.

Paula Hamilton, University of Technology Sydney
'The breath of home' Sensory Urbanism - the memory of the city and suburbs through touch, smell, sound and taste .

Jim Hammerton, LaTrobe University
Growing up in 'white bread' England in the 60s I might as well have come from Mars': cosmopolitanism and the city in the lives of British migrants in the late 20th century.

Jo Hook, Monash University
"Let's just open the door and see what happens': the Catholic response to need in St Kilda.

Rebecca Jennings, Macquarie University
Lesbian lifestyles in Sydney in the 1960s and 70s.

Andrew Junor & Megan Sheehy, Sue Hodges Productions
Lockdown: Integrating oral testimony and twentieth century history at the Old Melbourne Gaol.

Helen Klaebe, Queensland University of Technology
Incorporating community history into urban redevelopment.

Andrea Lemon, University of Melbourne
Crossing Town boundaries: urban sprawl and family circuses in Australia.

Tanja Luckins, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
A Collective Conversation: Talking and Hearing the Cosmopolitan City

Nicola McColl, Nicola & Belinda Ensor, Sue Hodges Productions
Empty vessel: Polly Woodside as a post-war Melbourne heritage site.

Julia Miller, Macquarie University
Longing for a decent, hot summer: perceptions of climate change in Sydney in the 20th century.

Felicity Morel-Ednie Brown, Department of the Premier & Cabinet, Western Australia
'From inside my mind': Using oral histories to create authenticity in city interpretation.

Lisa Murray, City of Sydney Council
R.A.W. materials - oral history sources for Redfern, Alexandria and Waterloo.

Tim Murray, LaTrobe University
Explorations in the archaeology of the modern city: Sydney and Melbourne compared.

Barbara Nichol, The University of Melbourne
Melbourne's Chinese Restaurants and the city at war: new perspectives on the urban landscape 1939-1945.

Carla Pascoe, The University of Melbourne
City as Space, City as Place: Sources and the Urban Historian.

Stephen Pascoe, The University of Melbourne
A historic struggle? The SHAC occupation in historical perspective.

Lisa Petty, Monash University
Fox Trots and Air Raids: The role of dance within WWII.

Adrian Regan, Monash University
The Pako Festa and Multiculturalism in Geelong.

Susan Reidy, University of Melbourne
Making Sense of Suburbia:the adventures of an historical hunter-gatherer.

Francesco Ricatti, University of the Sunshine Coast
Italians in Brisbane: oral (hi)stories of hope.

Peter Robinson, RMIT University
Narratives of HIV/AIDS affected males (and their sense of self).

Keren Rubinstein, Monash University & LaTrobe University
Concrete Dreaming.

Tracey Ryan Redland, City Council & Elisabeth Gondwe, North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum
Uses of our Collection.

Joanne Scott, University of the Sunshine Coast, & Ross Laurie, University of Queensland
When the country comes to town: Encounters at a metropolitan agricultural show.

Sherene Suchy, Duo Plus Change Management
Families and Museums: partnerships for provenance.

David Sweet, University of South Australia
Pie Floaters, Fritz and Shoe Boxes: the Photographic Legacy of the Australian Baby Boomer.

Sue Taffe, Monash University
Shirley Andrews: mid-century urban activist for Indigenous rights.

Zora Simic, University of New South Wales
Remembering Sweethearts: OZ Rock and the western suburbs of Sydney.

Kate Darian Smith, University of Melbourne
Australian children's playlore and oral history.

June Factor, University of Melbourne
Reflections on more than a century of collecting children's folklore in Australian suburbs.

Gwenda Davey, Deakin University
Immigration and children's lore.

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