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Special Research Event
Celebrating 100 years of music making
20 March 2015
Isaiah Nagurrgurrba (R) and Allan Nadjamerrek of Injalak Arts & Crafts, Gunbalanya, NT, show Amanda Harris the
present-day location of photos taken in 1948 at a cave on Injalak hill. Photo: Reuben Brown. Used with permission.
When
Friday, 20 March 2015
9:30am-4:30pm
Free entry (registration essential)
Where
Old Darlington School,
University of Sydney
More information
More information on this symposium:
W paradisec.org.au/2015Conf.html
E admin@paradisec.org.au
Organisers
Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris and
Martin Thomas. This event is jointly
organised by PARADISEC Sydney
Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of
Music, University of Sydney, and the
School of History, Australian
National University, with support
from the Australian Research Council
Discovery Project ‘Intercultural inquiry
in a trans-national context: Exploring
the legacy of the 1948 AmericanAustralian Scientific Expedition to
Arnhem Land. ’ (DP1096897)
Image – Music – Text
An interdisciplinary symposium
exploring media in Indigenous histories
This one-day forum will examine the relationship
between performers, the people who documented them
and the afterlives of resulting records in order to better
understand the historical and contemporary relevance of
these interactions. The fluidity of our own media moment,
including the large-scale digitisation of media archives,
makes it timely – and indeed necessary – to rethink the
significance of these encounters.
Speakers include: Paul Arthur, Linda Barwick, Clint
Bracknell, Reuben Brown, Genevieve Campbell, Andrew
Dowding, Amanda Harris, Melinda Hinkson, Jane Lydon,
Ian McLean, Harold Short, Martin Thomas, Julie Torpey,
Sally Treloyn
The symposium will be followed by a launch of the
volumes Expedition into Empire, edited by Martin
Thomas (Routledge, 2014), and Circulating Cultures:
Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and
Media, edited by Amanda Harris (ANU Press, 2014),
with entertainment by the Stiff Gins.