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Speakers and abstracts

Barks, Birds & Billabongs: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 16-20 November 2009.

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> Altman, Jon
From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer tradition and transformation in Western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008

> Beazley, Kim
Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian relations

> Borsboom, Ad
Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem Land

> Clarke, A and Frederick, U
Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt

> Garde, Murray
The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (AASEAL)

> Hamby, Louise
The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal histories

> Harris, Josh
Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land

> Jenkins, Mark
'A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land ...': Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition

> Jones, Philip
Inside Mountford's tent: paint, politics and paperwork

> Kaeppler, Adrienne L
Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still going

> Lorenzo, Catherine De
Boomerang to Australia the big sky country: Photographic legacies in books of the 50s and 60s

> Marrett, A and Barwick, L
Snapshots of musical life: Simpson's 1948 recordings

May, Sally K
A history of the 1948 expedition

> MacGregor, Tony
Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature

> McCarthy, Lynne
The 'exciting thing was the landscape': Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field

> McIntosh, Ian
Missing the Revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land

> McKenzie, Robyn
Forget the barks! Bring on the string figures! The String Figures of Yirrkala: Activating a legacy

> Miller, G and Cashner, R
Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush Miller

> Morphy, Howard

Neale, Margo
'Bastard barks': A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition

> Russell, S and Chapman, D
The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P Mountford

> Specht, Raymond Louis
Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider's perspective

> Taylor, Paul Michael
Historic perspectives on the Smithsonian's participation in the Arnhem Land Expedition: Transformations of the expeditionary enterprise

> Thomas, Martin
Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land Expedition

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