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Seminar Program
Time | Session |
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9.30 am |
Registration (Includes complimentary coffee and tea) |
10.00 am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Guy Hansen Director, Exhibitions, National Library of Australia |
10.05 am |
Indigenous Welcome Djon Mundine OAM, Indigenous Curator |
10.10 am |
Session 1: Keynote Address - Matthew Flinders, A Life Miriam Estensen; author of Discovery, The Life of Matthew Flinders, The Life of George Bass, and Terra Australis Incognita. Chair: Lindsay Perry, Secretary, The Matthew Flinders Society of Australia |
10.55 am |
Session 2: Encounters and Incarcerations We cleared for Action: Matthew Flinders at Encounter Bay Incarceration in Mauritius Baudin’s Lessons at Encounter Bay Chair: Dr Susannah Helman, Acting Curatorial Manager, Exhibitions, National Library of Australia |
12.30 pm |
Lunchbreak |
2.00 pm |
Session 3: Indigenous Encounters King Bungaree and Flinders The Nyungar of South Western Australia and Flinders Chair: Lindsay Perry, Secretary, The Matthew Flinders Society of Australia |
3.00 pm |
Session 4: The Naming of Australia I call the whole land Australia Early European placenaming in Australia Chair: Martin Woods, Curator of Maps, National Library of Australia |
3.55 pm |
Closing Remarks Lindsay Perry, Secretary, The Matthew Flinders Society of Australia |