Richmond Work-in-Progress
December 2007

Affiliated Research Centres

Oak Lodge, Richmond

On 7 December 2007 CAIA hosted its second work-in-progress for the year. The event was held at the National Trust property, Oak Lodge, a two-storey Georgian home built between 1831 and 1842 that has been used as a rectory, school, fmaily home, and was one the local doctor's surgery. The Coal River Valley Historical Society gave CAIA delegates a tour of the house. The morning seesion included papers from Ian Morrison and Tony Marshall from the State Library of Tasmania and an afternoon session with work-in-progress papers by postgraduate students from Riawunna, the School of English, Journalism and European Languages, and the School of History and Classics.

Programme

10:30 - 12:00
Morning Panel
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart:Recapturing Convicts (with the aid of digital cameras and relational databases)
Ian Morrison: A Most Valuable Acquisition: Melbourne University and the Bequest of George McArthur
Tony Marshall: The Choosing of a Proper Hobby: Sir William Crowther and His Collection

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
Tour of Oak Lodge by the Coal River Valley Historical Society

13:30 - 15:00
Afternoon Panel
Ruth Thomas: 'Take Warning from my Unhappy Case': Mid-Nineteenth-Century Convict Life-Narratives as Cautionary Tales
Margaret Eldridge:Tales of the Hmong: Place, Diaspora and Globalisation

Coffee and Afternoon Tea 15:00
CAIA Executive Report
Noel Frankham: The National Trust and Ten Days on the Island Festival 2008