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School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Fellows & Associates Annual Research Day

August 12, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Fellows & Associates Annual Research Day
Friday 12 August 2022 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
to be held at the
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 a’Beckett Street, Melbourne

 

On Friday 12 August, the SHAPS Fellows & Associates will hold their first Research Day since 2019. RHSV members are invited to attend.

Our conference day includes papers by Australian and French historians John Lack, Helen Davies, Jean Ely, Greg Burgess, Rosemary Francis, Wendy Dick, Richard Gillespie, Tony Ward and Fay Woodhouse. It will traverse terrain such as radicals, rags and revues in 1950s and 1960s Melbourne, the immigrant Gagliardi brothers, the 1872 Education Act and centralised education, a sequel to the Emile and Isaac Pereire story, early inhabitants of the Hunter River, a federated Australia, the 150 years of the Prisoners’ Aid Society and the importance of kindness.

For abstracts visit the SHAPS Facebook page: https://fb.me/e/1UP2l9c8v

The cost of $60 for this fabulous day of papers includes morning and afternoon tea, lunch and drinks at the end of the day.

COSTS:

  • $60 full day Fellows & Associates;
  • $40 half day (morning or afternoon);
  • $40 Zoom attendance;
  • $30 Student rate

Direct debit: BSB 063238 A/c: 1127 1070 OR
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PROGRAM

9:00 Arrival and Registration
9:20 Opening
9:30 – 10:45: Session 1
John Lack: Federated Australia: an ‘imagined community’?
Richard Gillespie: ‘Rags, Revues and Radicals: Student ‘Happenings’ in the 1950s and 1960s’
10:45 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 12:45: Session 2
Rosemary Francis: ‘Finding the Links: The Gagliardi Brothers in Australia 1877-1914.
Wendy Dick: ‘She is an active, industrious good girl, her parents residing in this town’: teachers, patrons, and the Victorian Public Service Act 1883.
Jean Ely: ‘How Centralised has Australian Education Become and Why?’
12:45 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 15:00: Session 3
Greg Burgess: ‘Return to Coquun. First Impressions of the British on the Hunter River, 1801’
Helen Davies: “Herminie and Fanny Pereire: writing the sequel to Emile and Isaac during a pandemic”
15:00 – 15:15: Break
15:15 – 16:15: Session 4
Tony Ward: ‘The Importance of the Kindness of Strangers’
Fay Woodhouse: ‘The VACRO Story: 1872 to 2022’
16:15: Close
Drinks. Guest: Professor Margaret Cameron, Head of School, SHAPS

 

 

ALL ENQUIRIES: Greg Burgess on 0419 466 612

 

Details

Date:
August 12, 2022
Time:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Event Category:

Venue

RHSV Gallery Downstairs
239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
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Phone
03 9326 9288
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