Queen Victoria Museum and Art Galley
Inveresk, Launceston
On 22 February academic staff and research higher degree candidates from the Schools of Asian Languages & Studies; English, Journalism and European Languages; History and Classics; Riawunna; Visual and Performing Arts, convened at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) (Inveresk, Launceston) for our annual work-in-progress day. Some years ago CAIA held its inaugural face-to-face meeting at the QVMAG, so it was good to return. Importantly, February's work-in-progress day was a collaborative programme, with presentations by both academic staff of the university and QVMAG curatorial and conservatory staff. After a welcome by QVMAG's Director, Patrick Filmer-Sankey, papers on a range of topics (see programme) were presented. The day provided an opportunity for QVMAG to showcase two of their collections--wilderness photography and assorted National Park log books, and artefacts from archaeological digs on two Chinese mining camps in north east Tasmania--not on general display. It also opened up new possibilities for the Cultural Environments and Heritage (CEH) Honours programme.
Programme for the Work-in-Progress
1030 - 1045
Welcome: Patrick Filmer-Sankey (Director, QVMAG)
1045 - 1145
Chair: Mitchell Rolls
Mobo Gao (UTas): Chinese in NE Tasmania
Ian McFarlane (UTas): Italian POWs during WWII in Northern Tasmania
Vic Burrows (UTas): Whiteness and shame
1200 - 1300
Chair: Linn Miller
Pam Sharpe (CAIA Executive): New Directions
Anna Johnston and Mitchell Rolls (CAIA Executive): The Walkabout project: Travel and Race and Representation
1300 - 1315
Briefing by CAIA Executive on 2007 events
1400 - 1500
Deb Malor (UTas): Wilderness Photography, facilitated by Rhonda Hamilton (Curator Community History, QVMAG) in the Museum Learning Centre
1500 - 1600
Linda Clark's (Objects Conservator, QVMAG) presentation on the excavation of two Chinese mining camps in the North East of Tasmania
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