2010 Making Public Histories Seminar Series
MAKING PUBLIC HISTORIES SEMINAR SERIES - 2010 (archive)
11 March 2010
Holocaust Testimony: Preserving, Presenting and Researching Survivor Stories
When there are no longer any first generation Holocaust survivors, their stories will live on through recorded testimony. The preservation, presentation and use of the testimony (and related personal photos and artefacts) collected by the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and at Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre will be discussed by: Mark Baker (Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University); Jayne Josem (Curator and Head of Collections, Jewish Holocaust Centre), Konrad Kwiet (Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies at Sydney University and resident historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum) and Michele Langfield (School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University). This event is linked to the Monash University conference, ‘Aftermath: Holocaust Survivors in Australia' (www.arts.monash.edu.au/jewish-civilisation).
Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne.
Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561705075 or email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
22 April 2010
Drought Stories: A Spoken and Visual History of Drought
After 13 years, regional Victorians know all too well the devastating impact of drought. Communities have been placed under acute and sustained stress, but have responded in creative and inspiring ways. The ‘Drought Stories' project, initiated by the History Council of Victoria and supported by Arts Victoria, is capturing this experience. Project manager Robyn Ballinger and other participants will discuss the aims and outcomes of ‘Drought Stories' and reflect on the significance of the stories collected from residents of the Wimmera and northern Victoria; Mike Cathcart (presenter on Radio National's ‘Bush Telegraph' and author of Water Dreamers, 2009) will ‘launch' the project.
Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne.
Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561722126 or email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
20 May 2010
The City Transformed - Making Urban History - Making Public Histories Seminar
Over the past century Melbourne and other cities around the world have changed dramatically. Erik Olssen (University of Otago, NZ) and Helen Meller (University of Nottingham, UK) will be in conversation with Seamus O'Hanlon (School of Historical Studies, Monash University) about 20th century urban history and the transformations of city life in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne.
Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561730150 or email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
22 July 2010
Queer History as Public History - Making Public Histories Seminar
Graham Willett (The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives) will discuss the ways in which gay/lesbian/queer history has been done primarily as a kind of public history. While academics have played their part, community- based organisations (like the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Sydney's Pride History Group) and enthusiastic amateurs have used self-publishing, history walks and local exhibitions to disseminate their discoveries and share their stories.
Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne.
Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
26 August 2010
Footy Passions: Sport, Emotion and Collective Memory
As Melbourne approaches the AFL finals, Joy Damousi (School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne and co-author of Footy Passions, 2009) will consider the challenges of writing about emotions and popular culture in collective memory, and what perspectives a historian can bring to such a study. Rob Pascoe (Victoria University) will respond on these challenges.
Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne.
Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
The political life of a historian, or, the politics of doing heritage
Thursday 18 November 2010; 5:30pm to 7pm
‘Doing heritage' involves not only developing formal skills in historical research and place assessment but also requires the historian to intersect with political life.
Drawing on her long career as a professional historian, Susan Marsden (a founder of the Professional Historians Association in South Australia, a member of SA Heritage Council's Register Committee, and co-author of many heritage studies, including two stages of South Australia's Twentieth century heritage survey and the City of Adelaide Heritage Survey), will discuss how much the work of a professional historian intersects with local, state and national politics. She will explain how essential it is for anyone undertaking a heritage consultancy or other commissioned history to understand and to operate in that milieu.
Mary Sheehan a founding member of the Professional Historians Association in Victoria and a former member of the Public Records Advisory Council will respond. Mary is the author of many heritage studies and commissioned histories and is a partner in Living Histories.
Details:
- Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria
- Entry 3, LaTrobe Street, Melbourne
- All are welcome to attend, Bookings Essential
- Bookings: Email: bookings@slv.vic.gov.au;
- telephone: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/making-public-histories-series
Suggestions for future seminars to:
Professor Alistair Thomson
Director, Institute for Public History
Phone: (03) 9905 9785
Email: alistair.thomson@arts.monash.edu.au