[RNLD] Finalised program: Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific: a workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists

[Piers Kelly]

Following the announcement last year, here is the finalised program.

*Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific:
a workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists*

*28th - 30th January 2014*

Venue: Room W3.03, Baldessin Precinct Building, ANU, Canberra.

Map directions here <http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=110>.

As anthropologists, historians and linguists are aware, historical
documents, or unpublished sources, can contain important information on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 make use of
archival materials on loan from 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 (Piers.Kelly at anu.edu.au).

*Tuesday 28 January 2014*:

*9.30am-10.30am* Helen Gardner introductory seminar:  ‘Hunting Fison:
finding archival material relevant to the writing of *Kamilaroi and Kurnai*’

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:

·       The far-flung Fison archive: what is present, what is absent, where
and why.

·       The differences in cataloguing and accessing the material according
to the institution.

·       The mediums in which the Fison archival material is held: eg
microfilm, online, hard-copy.

·       Handling and reading issues: including problems with handwriting,
sifting through uncatalogued material, dealing with microfilm.

·       Interpreting missionary material.

*10.30-11.30am* Bronwen Douglas: ‘Reading Texts for Ethno-history: signs,
markers countersigns’


*Wednesday 29 January *

*Finding Family, Kinship and Social Organisation in Historical Documents*

(Each speaker will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes
for discussion)

*9am-10am* James Rose (NTSCORP) ‘Identifying the people behind the
Wiradjuric kinship system: Building the world's largest fenealogy of First
Australians’

 *11.00-12.00am* Jeanie Bell (Batchelor Institute) Discussion: ‘Challenges
in oral history and genealogy’

*11-12am* Tony Jefferies ‘Howitt's headache: duplication in kinterm
inventories and their analysis: the Chepara example'


*Thursday 30 January:*

*Finding Land and Language Groups in Historical Documents*
(Each speaker will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes
for discussion)

*9.00-10am* Bruce Birch (UWS and ANU) ‘What’s in a skin name? The
manuscripts of Don Angelo Confalonieri and other early sources from the
Cobourg Region’

*10-11am* Michael Walsh (AIATSIS) : ‘Mitchell, New Norcia, Turnbull:
Finding and interpreting language resources’

*11-12am* John Burton: ‘Using free resources from Geoscience Australia,
Native TitleVision and Queensland Place Names Search to map and match
localities in Queensland Native Title research’

*Friday 31 January*

A visit to St Mark’s Library in Barton (TBA)



-- 
Dr Piers Kelly
 School of Language Studies
Baldessin Precinct Building #110
 Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

 T: +61 2 6125 5803 (Tues-Fri)
E: piers.kelly at anu.edu.au
W: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/kelly-pst
AustKin: http://www.pacific-credo.net/
Other research: http://bravenewwords.info/about/

 *(Please note that I am not in the office on Mondays. I will respond to
your email on Tuesday.)*
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