Program

8.30 – 9.00am
Registration

9.00 – 9.10am
Welcome address

Peter Stanley: 'Material Histories'

(each paper 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Chair: Peter Stanley

9.10 – 9.30am
Mike Smith (National Museum of Australia): 'An archaeologist's view'

9.30 – 9.50am
Guy Hansen (National Museum of Australia): 'A curator's view'

9.50 – 10.10am
Margaret Anderson (History Trust of South Australia): 'A historian's view'

10.10 – 10.30am
Fred Myers (New York University): 'An anthropologist's view'

10.30 – 10.45am
Discussion

10.45 – 11.15am
MORNING TEA

(each paper 10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Chair: Guy Hansen

11.15 – 11.30am
Susannah Helman (National Museum of Australia): 'Heirlooms speaking for themselves'

11.30 – 11.45am
Matthew Higgins (National Museum of Australia): 'Snowy Scheme objects'

11.45am – 12 noon
Christine Hansen (National Museum of Australia): 'Two way flow: the Koperilya Springs pipeline boomerang'

12 noon – 12.15pm
Alison Mercieca (National Museum of Australia): 'Digging up history using Hmong agricultural tools'

12.15 – 12.30pm
Discussion

12.30 – 1.30pm
LUNCH

(each paper 10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Chair: Martha Sear

1.30 – 1.45pm
Karen Schamberger (National Museum of Australia): 'Re-presenting Little Red Riding Hood'

1.45 – 2.00pm
Erica Dicker (Powerhouse Museum): 'Samuel McCaughey was wrong. The truth is in the wool'

2.00 – 2.15pm
Craig Wilcox (Independent scholar): 'Percy Faithfull's quiet red coat'

2.15 – 2.30pm
Matthew Churchward (Melbourne Museum): 'Models for Learning: Practical observations on Victorian gold mining from a Swedish artisan'

2.30 – 2.45pm
Ian Coates (National Museum of Australia): 'Displaying the remote in the metropolis: The 1928 Australian Inland Mission frontier fete and exhibition'

2.45 – 3.00pm
Discussion

3.00 – 3.30pm
AFTERNOON TEA

Chair: Ian Coates

3.30 – 4.30pm
Graeme Davison (Monash University)
Paula Hamilton (University of Technology, Sydney)
Philip Jones (South Australian Museum)
Maria Nugent (National Museum of Australia)

4.30pm
CONCLUSION

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