<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold">Finding
and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific: a
workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">28th - 30th January 2014, ANU, Canberra</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">As
anthropologists, historians and linguists are aware, historical
documents, or unpublished sources, can contain important information on
aspects of Pacific Islander and Australian Aboriginal cultures. Over
three days, this workshop will explore the historical archives and the
research techniques required to identify and interpret material relevant
to kinship, land, social organisation and language. Beginning with an
introduction on archives; their formation, their organisation, what is
in them and what isn’t, the workshop will include a master class at St
Mark’s National Memorial Library (Canberra), the repository of much of
Lorimer Fison’s collection of kinship data. The target audience will be
anthropologists, linguists and historians—be they students,
practitioners or academic staff—and may be of interest to those working
in Heritage and Native Title. Registration is not necessary but if you
are interested in attending, please contact Piers Kelly
(<a href="mailto:Piers.Kelly@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">Piers.Kelly@anu.edu.au</a>).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">The draft program is included below:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Tuesday 28 January 2014</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">9.30am-11am: Helen Gardner introductory seminar ‘Hunting Fison: finding archival material relevant to the writing of <i>Kamilaroi and Kurnai</i>’</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Using
Lorimer Fison’s complex archive of manuscript material as an example,
Helen Gardner will present on searching for, handling and interpreting
the Fison archive. Her presentation will include the following:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Where the Fison manuscript material is held and why it is spread over such a wide number of institutions.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">The differences in cataloguing and accessing the material according to the institution.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">The mediums in which the Fison archival material is held: eg microfilm, online, hard-copy.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Handling and reading issues: including problems with handwriting, sifting through uncatalogued material, dealing with microfilm.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Interpreting missionary material.</span></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">1-4pm: Visit to St Mark’s National Memorial Library</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Wednesday 29 January and Thursday 30 January:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Presenters
will include Jeanie Bell (Batchelor Institute), Bruce Birch (Iwaidja
Inyman), Tony Jefferies (ANU) and James Rose (NTSCORP) who will convene
informal workshops on using oral history, genealogy and historical
documents for the reconstruction of family, social organisation, land
and language groups. Archival and historical documents will be used for
discussion and analysis by the group. <br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">If there are others who wish to make a presentation of 30-45 minutes, please contact </span><a href="mailto:patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"> and </span><a href="mailto:piers.kelly@anu.edu.au" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">piers.kelly@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">
with a title and short abstract (100-200 words) by 20th December 2013. A
more detailed program will be circulated in late December.</span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><font color="#100080"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><font color="#222222" face="'Georgia Bold'"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#100080"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><font face="'Georgia Bold'">
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