We look forward to updating and being updated on research in CTW over the past quarter.  Please come along to share a 5 minute presentation of your research and catch up with what everyone else has been doing. We'll be in touch closer to the time with more details including the location but for now, please do save the date.

We hope you can join us over lunch at the UWA Club. We'll be recapping 18 months of CTW and updating you on our direction for the rest of the year.

SRO lunchtime seminars are designed to inform researchers about the State Records Office, the State Archives Collection, historical and other research based on archival sources. The seminars provide researchers with an opportunity to meet fellow researchers, learn about members of staff and provides a forum for questions and discussions in a relaxed and friendly environment. Tea and coffee are provided.

More details: https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/whats-on/events-exhibitions/find-what-you-want-state-archives-collection-%E2%80%93-seminar-beginners-and

FREE | South West Room, State Records Office of WA

A practical two-day course to health check your policies, governance and National Standards alignment, review your documentation procedures, and delve into the RWAHS collections.

Ideal for paid and unpaid museum staff looking to refresh existing skills and practice; collecting organisations looking for governance basics and skills development.

Saturday 24 February and Sunday 25 February 2018

10am – 3pm both days

Venue: RWAHS, 49 Broadway, Nedlands

Cost $165.00 (including GST) per person,

includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea both days

More details & Registration:

https://www.histwest.org.au/activities/skills-development-program-2018

A masterclass with Professor Shalom Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Values have been of interest to scholars for over a century, yet there are still important developments to be made in our understanding of values, including:

1. the range and nature of values,
2. how values can be used to characterise societies, groups, and individuals,
3. how values change over time and across age and life stage, and
4. how best to measure these phenomena at different levels.

Join Professor Shalom Schwartz for a masterclass discussing anything and everything related to the study of human and cultural values. This masterclass is targeted at postgraduate students and early career researchers who have a special interest in values theory, measurement, and application.

Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA

Cost: Free

Audience: Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers, Academics, Professional Researchers

Registration: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/masterclass/schwartz

We hope you can come to the first of our QRUs for 2018. These meetings are an opportunity to share your CTW related research.

9am arrival for 9:15am start - 12pm Monday 19 February

North West Room, SLWA

Thanks to SLWA for hosting. We hope you can join us for lunch afterwards.

Please join us over lunch to kick off our second year and catch up with members of our team visiting from interstate and overseas. 

Please join us to mark the end of CTW's first year!

The Museums Galleries Australia Indigenous Roadmap project is an initiative to facilitate discussion on how best to advance the participation and representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in museums and galleries.

The project aims to develop the Museums Galleries Australia Indigenous 10-Year Roadmap. This document will map out a plan for Indigenous engagement and employment over the next 10 years. 

Workshop: 28th November 2017 SLWA

Terri Janke and Company has designed an open workshop to discuss this important project with you. The goal is to obtain your feedback to generate a clear path for the Roadmap which will create better engagement over the next decade.

Who should attend?

We encourage Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists; museum, gallery and art centre staff members, curators, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, researcher, art dealers, students and museum visitors to attend.

If you are unable to attend the workshop, you can send a submission of your responses.

What will be discussed in the workshop:

·         What are the current Issues

·         What should be in the MGA Roadmap?

·         How will success be measured?

·         What will be the future benchmarks?

·         Who will be responsible for enforcement?

·         What should be in the updated Continuing Cultures principles document?

Register for the workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mga-indigenous-roadmap-perth-workshop-tickets-38824881265

Great Southern Room

State Library of Western Australia,

25 Francis St

Perth, WA 6000

The Department of Information Studies and The HIVE at Curtin University welcome Dr. Ricky Punzalan from the University of Maryland, College Park to give a talk on the ethics of digitisation and display of content from ethnographic archives.

Title: Ethnographic Photographs & the Ethics of Display: Possibilities in the Age of Virtual Reunification

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ethnographic-photographs-the-ethics-of-display-tickets-37634443634

Abstract:

Libraries, archives, and museums are making great strides to digitize their archival holdings. The availability of digital surrogates has encouraged the creation of digital projects that facilitate collections management and content delivery. Virtual reunification offers possibilities to create and assemble digital versions of archives, artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, and other literary or artistic works of common origin that have been geographically dispersed for historical, political, or cultural reasons. Cultural heritage scholars have noted the potential of virtual reunification for facilitating “digital repatriation” and in enabling “cultural diplomacy.” However, access to ethnographic archives presents unique ethical concerns given their sensitive content and context of creation.

In this presentation, I will discuss the case of Dean C. Worcester’s ethnographic photographs of the U.S. colonial Philippines and the issues that hinder attempts to provide consolidated access to this dispersed collection. Worcester served as a U.S. administrator in the Philippines from 1899 to 1913. The photographs, which were taken during “ethnological surveys” to document the Indigenous communities of the islands, are currently dispersed among ten libraries, museums and archives in North America and Europe. As cultural heritage institutions facilitate virtual reunification projects, the ethics of online displays and the digital returns of Indigenous images pose concerns for scholars and Native communities.

This presentation will investigate some of the ways in which the desire to provide access contends with respectful representation. 

Presenter Bio:

Ricardo L. Punzalan is an assistant professor of archives and digital curation at the College of Information Studies, affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology, and co-director of Museum Scholarship and Material Culture program at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2016, he received an early-career grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and develop strategies to assess the impact of access to digitized ethnographic archives for academic and Indigenous community users. He also examines ‘virtual reunification’ as a strategy to provide integrated access to dispersed ethnographic archival images online. He leads a team of postdoctoral scholars and masters’ fellows to enhance agricultural data curation efforts at the U.S. National Agricultural Library. He holds a Ph.D. in Information as well as graduate certificates in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. He previously taught on the faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies. His articles have been published in leading library and archives academic journals, including the Library Quarterly, American Archivist, Archivaria, andArchival Science. In 2012, he received the Hugh A. Taylor Prize from the Association of Canadian Archivists for his co-authored article in Archivariaon users and uses of digitized photographic archives.

Please note that food and drink are not permitted in The HIVE, however attendees are welcome to join us for a casual BYO lunch following the presentation (location to be announced on the day). 

Registration is essential as seats are strictly limited. 

Gascoyne Room, SLWA

Public Lecture with Verne Harris

Tim Winton Lecture Theatre, Building 213:101, Curtin University, Bentley

Time: 3:45pm for a 4:00pm start

RSVP: MCCAAdmin@curtin.edu.au by Wednesday 13 September

The Centre for Human Rights Education and the Department of Information Studies at Curtin University would like to invite you to a public lecture by award-winning South African archivist and scholar, Verne Harris. This lecture will explore the role of archive and memory work in struggles for social justice within a frame set up by these questions:

• What does Nelson Mandela’s legacy mean in South Africa today?
• Is democracy an oppressive apparatus?
• Does whiteness still exercise hegemony globally?
• Is there hope for the human project?

About Verne Harris

Director of Archive and Dialogue at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Verne Harris was Mandela’s archivist from 2004 to 2013. He is an honorary research fellow with the University of Cape Town, participated in a range of structures which transformed South Africa’s apartheid archival landscape, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is a former Deputy Director of the National Archives. Widely published, he is probably best-known for leading the editorial team on the best-seller Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Cordoba in Argentina (2014), archival publication awards from Australia, Canada and South Africa, and both his novels were short-listed for South Africa’s M-Net Book Prize. He has served on the Boards of Archival Science, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, the Freedom of Expression Institute, and the South African History Archive.

The Remarkable 1960s: reflections on history, political activism, and the 1967 Referendum by Ann Curthoys.

This lecture explores Australia’s politics of race leading up to the 1967 Referendum. The referendum aimed to change the Australian constitution in order to grant the Commonwealth the power for the first time to make laws specifically concerning Indigenous people and to include them in the census. It was passed by 90.77% of voters. In exploring the historical context for the Referendum, I look first at the political upheavals concerning race in the 1960s, with special attention to the Freedom Ride of 1965, in which I was involved. I trace the broader international influences on Australian racial politics. I also look further back in time to explore why it was that constitution-making in Australia, whether for self-governing colonies in the British Empire or for the new nation of Australia in 1901, so consistently involved visions of self-determination from which Indigenous people were excluded. Finally, I ask, what is the legacy of these histories for Australia today?

Ann Curthoys is an honorary professor at UWA and Emeritus Professor at ANU. She has written widely on aspects of Australian history, and on questions of historical theory and writing. Her books include Freedom Ride: A Freedom rider Remembers (2002); Is History Fiction? (with John Docker, 2005); How to Write History that People Want to Read (with Ann McGrath, 2009). She has edited many collections of essays. Her latest book, written jointly with Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government, is currently in press with Cambridge University Press.

After the Referendum… the emotional things changed by Shino Konishi.

Indigenous memories’ Since the late 1990s a number of historians have argued against the ‘myth’ that the 1967 Referendum granted Aboriginal people the right to vote, pointing out that the Referendum only concerned enabling the Commonwealth Government to legislate for Aboriginal people, and including Indigenous people in the census. Yet, as Frances Peters-Little observes, the Referendum meant so much more for Aboriginal people, and is remembered as the time we became citizens in our own country. In this presentation, I will build on her work, exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s memories of the 1967 Referendum, and in particular, the way emotions imbue these memories.

Shino Konishi is a descendant of the Yawuru people of Broome. She is a historian based at UWA, and is a chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her books include The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012) and the co-edited collections Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on the Exploration Archives (2015) and Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory (2016). She is now beginning a new ARC project on Indigenous biography

Great Southern Room, 4th Floor, Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre

A public lecture by Tony Ballantyne, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, University of Otago

The links between British empire building and its shifting relationships with Europe have frequently been overlooked by historians, in part because they have been seen as two fundamentally distinct fields of inquiry.

Using the debates around Brexit as it departure point, this talk explores some of the key connections between the project of empire building and Britain’s engagements with Europe, tracing some key points of convergence from the 1760s on. But it will also explore the shifting terrain of recent historiography, tracing the ways in which Europe and empire have figured within British historical writing since the 1970s and how those relationships have also figured in important work from the former settler colonies.

Tony Ballantyne is a Professor of History and Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities at the University of Otago, where he is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture. He has published widely on the cultural history of the British Empire and his most recent sole-authored book is the award-winning Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori and the Question of the Body (Duke University Press, 2015).

Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts, UWA

Reserve your seat: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ballantyne

Professor Alistair Paterson will present new research on the history of the Northwest and explore what the colonial coastal frontier was like for Aboriginal communities facing the extreme challenges of European settlement. Bringing together archival sources, collected objects held in museums with historical archaeological fieldwork, a new regional analysis will be revealed producing a new history of the Northwest, 100 years since J.S. Battye’s History of the Northwest.

Venue

Great Southern Room, SLWA

Great Southern Room, SLWA

It's not a CTW project, but promises to be interesting anyway :)

Come along to a talk by CTW Chief Investigator Jenny Gregory. The Emeritus Professor builds on her doctorate from 30 years ago to reveal how Dalkeith and Nedlands became what they are.

Nedlands Library.

http://www.communitynews.com.au/western-suburbs-weekly/news/learn-history-of-dalkeith-nedlands-at-uwa-talk/

Work Package Leaders to map project outcomes in more detail.

Shipwrecks Museum Boardroom, Fremantle 

PhD candidate Donna Oxenham presents her thesis proposal: 'The Power of an Image: Indigenous Photographic Archives in a Digital Age and how Aboriginal Communities benefit.'  

Philippa Maddern Seminar Room Arts 1.33 UWA

A film screening followed by a panel discussion with Professor Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University; Professor Ben Smith, UWA; Dr John Taylor, UWA; Rebecca Repper, Oxford University and UWA.

Join us for this powerful award-winning film on the war against culture, and the battle to save it.

Theatre Auditorium, The University Club of Western Australia

Cost: Free

Audience: General Public, Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni

Book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-destruction-of-memory-film-screening-tickets-35854968175

CTW WP leaders to meet with NMP team to discuss best way of integrating CTW research into the new museum. 

150 William St 

Perth WA 

Al, Andrea, Rebecca to discuss database.

SLWA cafe

Agenda: -- oral history program -- Royals engagement plan -- Digitisation prospects -- finalised data management plan -- KEE Disruptive Technology and Collecting Institutions and partnership -- dates.... -- Publication plan and internal reports published to CTW web site -- protocols

Al, Andrea, Jenny, Kate, Denise, Baige & Dirima

SLWA TBC