Local Intermediaries in International Exploration Conference
Wednesday 17 – Thursday 18 July 2013
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 17TH JULY 2013
8.30-9.00
9.00-9.30
9.30 -11.00
11.00-11.20
11.20-12.50
Conference registration & coffee
Welcome by Professor Ann McGrath, Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Welcome to Country by Aunty Agnes Shea, Ngunnawal Elder
Overview by conference organisers
Keynote Address
Professor Felix Driver, Royal Holloway
Intermediaries and the Archive of Exploration
Morning tea break
1A: TRAVELLERS AND INTERMEDIARIES
1B: VOYAGERS, INTERMEDIARIES AND LOCAL
Chair: Jeanine Leane
KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Mary Anne Jebb
Shino Konishi (ANU)
Guided through empire: Indigenous
David Turnbull (Melbourne)
Intermediaries in Southern Africa and Australia
How Did People Move in Completely New and
Unfamiliar Environments?– A Performative and
Andrew May (Melbourne)
Hodological Approach to Orientation, Spatiality and
Tribals, travellers and topography: the perpetual Temporality
rediscovery of north-east India
Bronwen Douglas (ANU)
Moira White (Otago Museum)
“Much superior, in my eyes, to all the savages I had
‘A most wonderful man in respect to exploration seen”: Person, agency and local knowledge in the
in South-eastern New Guinea’: James Chalmers
exploration of Oceania
Nicole Starbuck (Adelaide)
French Voyagers and Papuan Hosts: Intimacy,
Exchange and the Evolving Role of the Local
Intermediary, 1818-1827
12.50-1.30
Lunch break
1.30-3.30
2A: GUIDING INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Clint Bracknell
2B: INDUSTRIES AND INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Greg Blyton (Newcastle)
Harry Brown: Great Aboriginal Explorers and
Recognition in the Genre of Australian
Exploration and Education
Mark Pharoah (South Australian Museum)
Sealing fates: Macquarie Island Castaways,
Expeditioners, and a Flying Fox
Allison Cadzow (ANU)
Guidance: Aboriginal women’s participation in
19th century Australian expeditions
Mark Dunn (UNSW)
Aboriginal Guides in the Hunter Valley 18191823
3.30- 3.50
3.50 -5.20
5.30–7.30
Stephen Gapps (Australian National Maritime
Museum)
The story of Yankee Ned
Tom Gara (South Australian Museum)
Doggers in central Australia in the 1920s and 1930s
Katie Maher (Adelaide)
“We were all involved with the line”: Indigenous
peoples and Australian railway exploration
Shannyn Palmer (ANU)
‘I only wish I could catch a native’: the ‘local
guide’ and the history of Central Australian
exploration and settlement
Afternoon tea break
Keynote Address
Professor Len Collard, UWA, and Dr David Palmer, Murdoch University
Ngulla Wangkiny, Ni, katatjin Nyungar Nyidyung koorliny, kura, yeye, boorda: A dialogue about Nyungar
and non-Aboriginal people going along together
Cocktail function, ANU Commons
Local Intermediaries in International Exploration Conference
Wednesday 17 – Thursday 18 July 2013
THURSDAY 18TH JULY 2013
8.30-9.00
Conference registration – coffee
9.00-10.30
3A: REGIONAL INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Nicole Starbuck
Leonie Stevens (La Trobe)
A tale of two Georges: George Augustus
Robinson in Western district of Port Phillip,
1841, and Reverend George Brown in New
Britain and New Ireland, 1880
Andrew Connelly (ANU)
‘They…had long been expecting me’: Local
and Regional Indigenous Agency and Sir
William MacGregor’s Exploration of the
Trobriand Islands
10.30-10.50
10.50-12.20
12.20-1.00
1.00-2.30
Fred Cahir (Ballarat)
‘Worthy and Brave’ – Aboriginal people’s
contribution to Australia’s maritime
exploration
Richard White (Sydney)
Explorers as objects of tourism
Afternoon tea break
5A: REPRESENTING AND PERFORMING AS
INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Greg Lehmann
Harriet Parsons (Melbourne)
Bridging the Language Gap British-Tahitian
collaborative drawing strategies on Captain
Cook’s Endeavour voyage
Antje Lubcke (ANU)
Photographic encounters in British New
Guinea: local agency in the making of the
photographic record
4.20-4.30
4.30-5.30
3B: MEDIATING COLONIAL ECONOMIES
Chair: Greg Blyton
Cesar Suva (ANU)
The Women of Sulu in early colonial encounters with
the US 1899-1904
Katherine Aigner (ANU)
The Ngarakwal and Githrabaul people – mediating from
cedar cutters to coal seam gas exploration
Ben Maddison (Wollongong)
Colonialism, ‘circuits of necessity’ and Antarctic
exploration 1770-1850
Dario Di Rosa (ANU)
Mediating the imaginary and the space of
encounter: Some examples from the
exploration of the Gulf of Papua
Morning Tea break
Keynote Address
Professor John Gascoigne, UNSW
Viewing the world from different sides of the beach: the Pacific and cross-cultural knowledge exchange
in the age of the Enlightenment
Lunch break
4A: HISTORY AND INTERMEDIARIES
4B: ANTHROPOLOGY, SCIENCE AND INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Malcolm Allbrook
Chair: Ian Coates
Peta Jeffries (Ballarat)
The Victorian Exploring Expedition and Local
Intermediaries – A discussion on methodology
and historiography of 19th century explorer
encounter
2.30-2.50
2.50-4.20
PROGRAM
Michael Davis (Sydney)
Working with local knowledge: Aborigines and
Europeans in North-East Australia, 1848-49
Philip Jones (South Australian Museum)
Passing along the Line: Spencer and Gillen's Overland
Telegraph informants, 1901-1902
Leah Lui-Chivizhe (UNSW/Sydney)
Alfred Cort Haddon and Maino of Tudu, Torres Strait
5B: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, MEMORIES AND
INTERMEDIARIES
Chair: Philip Jones
Chris Ballard (ANU)
Imaginary Friends: Explorers (& co.) in Interior New
Guinea
Clint Bracknell (UWA)
Birdiya Katij-djinang: ‘On the authority of our native’:
explorative and exploitative relationships on Western
Australia’s southern coast
Maria Nugent (ANU)
Tiffany Shellam (Deakin)
On being faithful: Jackey Jackey’s accounts and the
Bodies and Talk: Indigenous Intermediaries on politics of Aboriginal testimony in the mid-nineteenth
the north-west coast of Australia
century
Break
Closing remarks from keynotes: Len Collard, David Palmer, Felix Driver, John Gascoigne
Local Intermediaries in International Exploration Conference
Wednesday 17 – Thursday 18 July 2013
PROGRAM