ISAA OPEN FORUM
GARDENS OF HISTORY AND IMAGINATION
GROWING NEW SOUTH WALES
THE BOOK, THE AUTHORS, THE EDITORS,
THE EXPERIENCE.
Wednesday November 23, 2016 from 2-4.30pm
At History House
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
133 MACQUARIE ST., SYDNEY
ISAA congratulates the 10 Authors and the Editors, Gretchen Poiner and Sybil Jack for their outstanding contributions in this quality publication.
ISAA has undertaken two major publications with Sydney University Press Limits of Location – Creating a Colony (2007) and Gardens of History and Imagination – Growing New South Wales (2016). Authors who are members of ISAA have written essays from their own perspective but relevant within the book theme. In this Open Forum, three of the authors will talk of their own essays and about the whole process of research: in particular, their collaboration in using the Mitchell Library collections to write about aspects of colonial history. Audience participation is welcomed.
The panel of ISAA presenters/authors at the Forum will be as follows:
Dr Gaynor Macdonald. ‘Gardens? Why are you writing about Gardens?’
Dr Macdonald is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, where she is an award-winning teacher. She is an author in both the Gardens of History and Imagination - Growing New South Wales and the previous ISAA publication, The Limits of Location – Creating a Colony. Her pioneering research with Wiradjuri Aboriginal peoples of central western New South Wales has explored their experience of change, the ongoing significance of kinship and country, political movements and the distinctiveness of Wiradjuri personhood. She conducts consultancies with Indigenous communities, including environmental and social impact assessment and native title.
Dr Janet George. ‘An Interdisciplinary Adventure’
Dr George is an honorary associate professor at the University of Sydney. As an educator, researcher and writer, initially in pharmacy, then in sociology and social policy, she has a particular interest in health policy, ageing and comparative social policy. She co-authored, with Alan Davis, the three editions of States of Health: Health and Illness in Australia, published in 1988, 1993 and 1998.
Dr Catherine Rogers. ‘Alice - through a Looking Glass’
Dr Rogers is an artist, book designer, photographer and photographic historian. She writes on the early history of photography and regularly exhibits drawings and photographs which include picturing pristine, threatened and damaged landscapes from the city to the outback. She is represented in public and private art collections.
Afternoon tea will be provided in the colonial setting of History House
Cost: $10 on the day.
This book is available at the State Library Bookshop.
The event is being held in partnership with the Royal Australian Historical Society: http://www.rahs.org.au/events/