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The series will be presented throughout 2010 in the Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria
The aim of this series is to organize topical seminars on a range of interesting topics on public history, making history, heritage that can be linked to Museum/Library events around the place. The series runs in the State Library of Victoria. SEMESTER 1 2010 11 March 2010 Holocaust Testimony: Preserving, Presenting and Researching Survivor StoriesWhen there are no longer any first generation Holocaust survivors, their stories will live on through recorded testimony. The preservation, presentation and use of the testimony (and related personal photos and artefacts) collected by the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and at Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre will be discussed by: Mark Baker (Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University); Jayne Josem (Curator and Head of Collections, Jewish Holocaust Centre), Konrad Kwiet (Adjunct Professor in Jewish Studies at Sydney University and resident historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum) and Michele Langfield (School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University). This event is linked to the Monash University conference, ‘Aftermath: Holocaust Survivors in Australia' (www.arts.monash.edu.au/jewish-civilisation). Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561705075 or email
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22 April 2010 Drought Stories: A Spoken and Visual History of Drought After 13 years, regional Victorians know all too well the devastating impact of drought. Communities have been placed under acute and sustained stress, but have responded in creative and inspiring ways. The ‘Drought Stories' project, initiated by the History Council of Victoria and supported by Arts Victoria, is capturing this experience. Project manager Robyn Ballinger and other participants will discuss the aims and outcomes of ‘Drought Stories' and reflect on the significance of the stories collected from residents of the Wimmera and northern Victoria; Mike Cathcart (presenter on Radio National's ‘Bush Telegraph' and author of Water Dreamers, 2009) will ‘launch' the project. Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561722126 or email
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20 May 2010 The City Transformed - Making Urban History - Making Public Histories SeminarOver the past century Melbourne and other cities around the world have changed dramatically. Erik Olssen (University of Otago, NZ) and Helen Meller (University of Nottingham, UK) will be in conversation with Seamus O'Hanlon (School of Historical Studies, Monash University) about 20th century urban history and the transformations of city life in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/561730150 or email
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22 July 2010 Queer History as Public History - Making Public Histories Seminar Graham Willett (The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives) will discuss the ways in which gay/lesbian/queer history has been done primarily as a kind of public history. While academics have played their part, community- based organisations (like the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Sydney's Pride History Group) and enthusiastic amateurs have used self-publishing, history walks and local exhibitions to disseminate their discoveries and share their stories. Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or email
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26 August 2010 Footy Passions: Sport, Emotion and Collective Memory As Melbourne approaches the AFL finals, Joy Damousi (School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne and co-author of Footy Passions, 2009) will consider the challenges of writing about emotions and popular culture in collective memory, and what perspectives a historian can bring to such a study. Rob Pascoe (Victoria University) will respond on these challenges. Venue Details: 5:30pm to 7pm, State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or email
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Making Public Histories - Institute for Public History
Upcoming SeminarsThis seminar series explores issues and approaches in making public histories and is open to anyone interested in historical representation in contemporary society. Featuring expert presentations and lively participation from historians working in museums, heritage, professional history, the media, universities, archives and libraries and community history. Offered jointly by the Institute for Public History at Monash University, State Library of Victoria and the History Council of Victoria. Venue and Dates__________________________________________________________________  Thursday 26 August 2010
Footy Passions: Sport, Emotion and Collective Memory
As Melbourne approaches the AFL finals, Joy Damousi (School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne and co-author of Footy Passions, 2009) will consider the challenges of writing about emotions and popular culture in collective memory, and what perspectives a historian can bring to such a study. Rob Pascoe (Victoria University) will respond on these challenges. image: Richard Crawley: Under 16s, "The Roos", Dunkeld-Glenthompson Football Club, 2003 Details:
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(this lecture has been postponed until further notice)
Remembering the Dunera - Emeritus Professor Ken InglisSeventy years after the Hired Military Transport Dunera disgorged in Sydney its cargo of antiNazi Germans and Austrians, most of them Jews, transported from England not as refugees but as interned enemy aliens, the strange story of their incarceration has undiminished power to appal, astonish, and inspire. From undergraduate adolescence at the University of Melbourne in the late 1940s, Ken Inglis retains vivid memories of `Dunera boys` as an exotic band of teachers, fellow students and convivial companions. At parties they would recall with benign amusement life in the camps at Hay and Tatura. They never mentioned, in his hearing, those camps in their native lands where family and friends had been murdered. The youngest of the `boys' are now in their mid-eighties. There has been some instructive writing on them; but much has yet to be told about their diverse fortunes and misfortunes before, during and after World War II. The documentary records, verbal and visual, are rich, and so are the memories of survivors and their families. As an accomplished historian of Australian society, Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis AO is well placed to embark on a study of the men whom fate assigned to the Dunera - `His Majesty's most loyal internees', one of their poets sang. His scope is broad: the book he hopes to write will begin before the Great War in which some of them served the Kaiser, and take in the recent tribulations of boat people. `Whenever I hear people making derogatory comments about asylum seekers', says Lord Stern, son of a Dunera boy and author of a historic report on global warming, `I think "That's my Dad."' This lecture is a progress report on Ken Inglis' attempt to do justice to a momentous subject. This lecture is sponsored by the Jewish Museum of Australia and is part of the Making Public Histories Seminar Series, hosted by the State Library of Victoria, the History Council of Victoria and the Institute for Public History at Monash University. _____________________________________________________________ The political life of a historian, or, the politics of doing heritageThursday 18 November 2010; 5:30pm to 7pm
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