Special Research Event Celebrating 100 years of music making 20 March 2015 Isaiah Nagurrgurrba (R) and Allan Nadjamerrek of Injalak Arts & Crafts, Gunbalanya, NT, show Amanda Harris the present-day location of photos taken in 1948 at a cave on Injalak hill. Photo: Reuben Brown. Used with permission. When Friday, 20 March 2015 9:30am-4:30pm Free entry (registration essential) Where Old Darlington School, University of Sydney More information More information on this symposium: W paradisec.org.au/2015Conf.html E [email protected] Organisers Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris and Martin Thomas. This event is jointly organised by PARADISEC Sydney Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, and the School of History, Australian National University, with support from the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 AmericanAustralian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. ’ (DP1096897) Image – Music – Text An interdisciplinary symposium exploring media in Indigenous histories This one-day forum will examine the relationship between performers, the people who documented them and the afterlives of resulting records in order to better understand the historical and contemporary relevance of these interactions. The fluidity of our own media moment, including the large-scale digitisation of media archives, makes it timely – and indeed necessary – to rethink the significance of these encounters. Speakers include: Paul Arthur, Linda Barwick, Clint Bracknell, Reuben Brown, Genevieve Campbell, Andrew Dowding, Amanda Harris, Melinda Hinkson, Jane Lydon, Ian McLean, Harold Short, Martin Thomas, Julie Torpey, Sally Treloyn The symposium will be followed by a launch of the volumes Expedition into Empire, edited by Martin Thomas (Routledge, 2014), and Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media, edited by Amanda Harris (ANU Press, 2014), with entertainment by the Stiff Gins.
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