Program
Thursday 3 Sept 2009
08:15 Registration opens
09:00 President's Welcome: Jeff Hopkins-Weise
09:10 Session 1: Setting the scene
- Ross Johnston: Journeys through Queensland history - a personal reflection
- Maureen Lillie: Journeys through a shifting landscape: the tours of Queensland Governors 1859 - 1901
10:00 Keynote address:
Her Excellency, Ms Penelope Wensley, AO, Governor of Queensland
10:30 Morning Tea
10:50 Session 2: (Re)writing Queensland history?
- Timothy Bottoms: Conspiracy of silence -the colouring of Australian history, Queensland’s 19th century frontier
- Mark Cryle: Reading Christison of Lammermoor
- Anne Monsour: Already here: writing Lebanese into Queensland history
- Barbara Taylor: Community building and empowering experiences? Women's voluntary work in Queensland and its place-based dimensions, 1859-1959
12:30 Lunch
01:20 Session 3: Exploring colonial society and culture
- Hilary Davies: Middle-class social mobility in colonial Queensland: The case study of the Hume family
- Bernadette Turner: Patrick Mayne: the man and his politics
- Leanne Day: Brisbane's Johnsonian Club: a study of its colonial years
- Melissa Bellanta: Rough play: Brisbane larrikins and popular theatre, 1880-1890s
03:00 Afternoon Tea
03:20 Session 4: Exploring shifts in cultural and social landscapes
- Gillian Colclough: ‘Behind its veil of opaque whiteness, every quart of milk hides a potential peril to the public health': milk, microbes and sanitation in early 20th century Queensland
- Jane Lennon: Heritage places in Queensland
04:15 Session 5: Panel and plenary session
What is the future for the practice of history in Queensland?
Panel: Ross Johnston, Jennifer Harrison Chair: Jeff Hopkins-Weise
04:45 Day 1 concludes
Friday 4 Sept 2009
09:00 Registration Opens
09:30 Session 6: Settling the landscape
- Cathie Clement: Promising imagery: northern settlement ideas of the 1850s and 1860s
- Geoff Wharton: The sandalwood industry on Cape York Peninsula
10:00 Morning Tea
10:50 Session 7: Valuing the landscape: tourism, recreation, conservation
- Peter Osborne: Rivers and resorts: how rivers and sheltered waters influenced the location of the Sunshine Coast's resort towns
- Sean O'Keeffe: The Great North Coast Road: The early development of the Bruce Highway and features of its cultural landscape
- Carol Gistitin: Mount Etna: mining or recreation?
- Janet Spillman: Brisbane's breathing space: Mt Coot-tha
12:30 Lunch
01:20 Session 8: Connecting history and heritage
- Mary Burns: Brisbane: whither art thou?
- Jennifer Harrison: Echoes of the past time: Miss Lord and Brisbane's Historic Homes
- Brian Sinclair: Tracking heritage and gauging significance : assessing the heritage significance of the Etheridge Railway
- Joanna Wills: Remembering the cane: conserving the sugar legacy of Far North Qld
03:00 Afternoon Tea
03:20 Session 9: Connecting history and community
- Helen Klaebe: The Albion Flour Mill History Project: Anything but run of the mill.
- Bronwyn Roper & Mellissa Case: When QAL came to town: living through the construction years in Gladstone 1964-1967
- Joanna Besley: History and community reflections on social history exhibitions presented by the Museum Of Brisbane, 2003-2009
