5 June
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Ralph Scrivens - Bush Poetry
Retiree Ralph Scrivens will entertain us with bush poetry, a talent that has seen him dubbed the NSW and Queensland bush poetry champion. He started reciting poems at barbecues and parties but it wasn't until he moved to Corrimal and joined the Illawarra Breakfast Poets that he started competing and he also writes his own poetry.
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3 July
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Tanya Evans - Historians Collaborate - Family History & the Co-Production of Knowledge
Associate Professor Tanya Evans is a public historian who is Director of the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University where she teaches Australian history and public history in the Department of Modern History
Tanya says: n recent publications, I’ve suggested that globally family historians are focused on bringing the lives of the marginalized to the fore, challenging stories about the stability of nuclear family life, gender, class, race and sexuality as well their respective ‘national’ stories. This paper will explore my collaborative work with family historians since the publication of my book on the history of poverty in colonial New South Wales Fractured Families (2015). I want to discuss the ethics of history making and how collaborative public history projects might allow ‘marginalised’ groups to participate in the production and consumption of history. It will focus on my work with diverse migrant communities in Australia including the Australian Lebanese Historical Society, Co.As. and my work with Aboriginal family historians and others. Family history that is practiced self-consciously and critically challenges the nation-focused/state-driven patriarchal history we discover so easily in our formal archives and libraries. Family history can have an enormous impact on ordinary people’s historical knowledge and for Aboriginal, migrant and ‘marginalised’ communities can have significant political purpose. |
7 August
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Bruce Watt - Dharawal: The First Contact People
Bruce is a former teacher, a local historian and president of the Sutherland Shire Historical Society. He will speak on his book, Dharawal the The First Contact People and will describe the experiences of the Dharawal people that is both relevant to the Sutherland Shire and the nation. In 1770 the first encounter between British and Aboriginal people on the east coast of Australia occurred at Botany Bay. For the British it heralded the beginning of endless possibility for Empire. For Aboriginal people it marked the beginning of the decimation of an ancient culture.The Dharawal book is full of interesting and real stories, it's not just a textbook full of facts, it is a difficult story but it needs to be told.
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4 September
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Our previously advised speaker, Leonie Bell has had to postpone her talk. Please visit this page again for details of the speaker for our September meeting
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2 October
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Greg Jackson - The Quarantine Station
Greg will speak about the North Head Quarantine Station near Manly. Through the history and archaeology of the Quarantine Station he will explore not only changes to medical and transport technology but also the social history of modern Australia. For more than 150 years, the Quarantine Station was a place to detain anyone arriving in the colony who might have an infectious disease, until it was considered safe to release them. However, it was also used as a tool to uphold social standards, manipulate immigration and control the nation’s borders.
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