2004: Making Connections Symposium - Institute for Public History
Symposium Program
| 9.00 9.20 | Registration and booking of workshop times |
| 9.20 9.30 | Welcome and Introduction: Professor Graeme Davison, Director, Institute for Public History, Monash University |
| 9.30 11.00 | Session One: Families making history: the Halls, the Hungerfords and the Hassalls Marian Quartly (Monash) Anna Clark (Melb) Peter Sherlock (Melb) |
| 11.00 11.30 | Morning Tea (provided) |
| 11.30 12.30 | Session Two: Family circumstances: Considering Ethnicity and Gender Carolyn Landon (writer and co-author of Jacksons Track, Memoir of a Dreamtime Place): 'Silences: drawing out, listening to and hearing the Aboriginal stories about Jackson's Track' Liz Rushen (RHSV): 'Tracking the invisible: re-constructing lives of C19th women.' |
| 12.30 1.00 | Workshop 1: Objects and Heirlooms: What do they mean? Lenore Frost (Essendon Historical Society) dating family photos Liz Rushen (RHSV) Carolyn Landon (independent author) |
| 1.00 2.00 | Lunch (not provided) |
| 2.00 2.45 | Workshops
2: Managing Data Irene Fullarton, President, VICGUM Eleanor Pugsley, Research Manager, Genealogical Society of Victoria Peter Sherlock (Melb) Workshop 3: Planning to Publish?Marian Quartly (Monash), ISBN/copyright issues, desk-top publishing. Steve Kitto from BPA Print Group Don Grant, a judge of the AIGS Alexander Henderson Award Marjorie Heggen, a family historian who has published her family history |
| 2.45 3.30 | Workshops 2-3 (repeat) |
| 3.30 4.00 | Afternoon Tea (provided) |
| 4.00 5.00 | Session
Three: 'Creating the family' David Garrioch, (Monash) 'Birth Control or Self Control? Birth rates and family size in history' Peter Sherlock (Melb) 'Inventing ancestors: the politics of genealogy in England, 1550-1750' |
| 5.00 5.30 | Closing session
Chaired by Susan Aykut, Deputy Director, Institute for Public History, Monash University |