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Staff presentations and papers

The staff at the Museum regularly give talks and present papers to the public. Many are available as downloadable audio on demand. This page links to online articles and to transcripts of audio presentations.

2011

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Sayers, Andrew

Presentation to the Music Council of Australia, 11 September 2011

In the national interest: the National Museum of Australia, 16 March 2011

2010

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Archer, Eric
Reflecting on 30 years in conservation, 14 May 2010

Archer, Eric (with Greer Gehrt)
Centre for the National Museum of Australia Collections, 14 May 2010

Arthur, Dr Jay
Understanding and representing trauma, 5 October 2010

Bartsch, Leah
The Sunshine harvester, 10 March 2010

Chynowth, Dr Adele
Understanding and representing trauma, 5 October 2010

Conde, Anne-Marie
The Pigott inquiry and country museums in Australia, 13 October 2010

Chinese in Bendigo, 9 June 2010

Cooper, Carol (with Louise Douglas)
Where does the Melbourne Cup belong in Australian culture, 13 August 2010

Douglas, Louise (with Carol Cooper)
Where does the Melbourne Cup belong in Australian culture, 13 August 2010

Gehrt, Greer (with Eric Archer)
Centre for the National Museum of Australia Collections, 14 May 2010

Hallam, David (with Guy Hansen)
Restoring the Royal Daimler, 14 May 2010

Hansen, Guy (with David Hallam)
Restoring the Royal Daimler, 14 May 2010

Hetherington, Michelle
Letter readings from the Voyages of Discovery, 20 October 2010

Higgins, Matthew (with Liza Dale-Hallett)
The Victorian Bushfires Collection (reCollections, vol. 5 no. 1, April 2010)

McNaught, Pip
Matthew Flinders in the Recherche Archipelago, 14 April 2010

Menzies, Isa
Melbourne Cup: 150 years of history, 10 November 2010

Pickering, Dr Mike
Understanding and representing trauma, 5 October 2010

Robin, Dr Libby
The Big Wet: history, art, science and community in the Desert Channels, 22 October 2010

Russell, Roslyn
Barbados: More than a beach, 15 September 2010

A question of significance, 14 May 2010

Sayers, Andrew

Museums and their place in the world, 1 December 2010

Letter readings from the Voyages of Discovery, 20 October 2010

Exploration and Endeavour exhibition launch, 14 September 2010

Smith, Nicki
Risk management and light levels, 14 May 2010

Stanley, Dr Peter
Working machines and 'broken Britain' (reCollections, vol. 5 no.1, April 2010)

The role and purpose of museums in public life
, 31 March 2010

Trinca, Mathew
Museums and 'open collections', 14 May 2010

Van Reyk, Cinnamon
Collecting birds of paradise (reCollections, vol. 5 no. 2, October 2010)

Wehner, Dr Kirsten
Curating Australian histories, 31 March 2010

Wenham, Poppy
Chasing shadows - acquiring and managing virtual collections, 14 May 2010

Wessell, Adele (with Alison Wishart)
Recipes for reading culinary heritage (reCollections, vol. 5 no. 1, April 2010)

Wishart, Alison (with Adele Wessell)
Recipes for reading culinary heritage (reCollections, vol. 5 no. 1, April 2010)

2009

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Arthur, Jay
Before the badges, before the T-shirts, before the flag, 27 March 2009

Dempsey, Leanne
Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra, 26 August 2009

Faris, Anne
Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra, 26 August 2009

Greenslade, Andy
Between locals: Interpersonal histories and the Papunya art movement, 9 November 2009

Gunn, Anthea
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853, 14 October 2009

Higgins, Matthew
Rugged Beyond Imagination: Stories from an Australian mountain region, 15 April 2009

Kaus, David
Investigation into the collections of Dr Herbert Basedow, 02 July 2009

Main, Dr George
'Never enough grass' and Bowen Downs, 08 April 2009

McCarthy, Dr Lynne
The 'exciting thing was the landscape': Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field, 18 November 2009

Morton, Craddock
Launch of Collecting Cultures, 18 November 2009

2020 Vision: The National Museum of Australia over the next decade (PDF 103kb), talk given to the Friends of the National Museum of Australia Foundation, 24 June 2009

Introduction to Charles Darwin symposium, 26 February 2009

Neale, Adjunct Professor Margo
'Bastard barks': A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition, 17 November 2009

Newell, Dr Jenny
No presence in the case: looking for Tahiti in world museums, 27 March 2009

Nugent, Dr Maria
The economy of shells: A history of Aboriginal women at La Perouse making shellwork for sale, 09 November 2009

Pickering, Dr Mike
What is a memory?, 26 August 2009

Evidently not!, 9 November 2009

Reid, Dr Richard (with Brendon Kelson)
Irish in Australia, 15 March 2009

Robbin, Dr Libby
'Dead museum animals: natural order or cultural chaos?' (reCollections, vol. 4 no. 2, October 2009)

The Art of Resilience, Violent Ends: The Arts of Environmental Anxiety, 11 June 2009

Dead museum animals: from 'order of nature' to chaos of culture, 27 March 2009

Russell, Roslyn
The 'spirit of inquiry' in Port Macquarie, 10 June 2009

Sear, Martha (with Michael Cathcart)
Review of the National Museum of Australia's Australian Journeys gallery, 27 March 2009

Smith, Nicola
Into the light, 27 March 2009

Stanley, Dr Peter
From collections to exhibitions – welcome and keynote address, 27 March 2009

Closing remarks, Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009

What is a memory?, 26 August 2009

Memorials and sacred sites, 26 August 2009

Thorley, Peter
Between locals: Interpersonal histories and the Papunya art movement, 09 November 2009

Tunks, Benita
Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra, 26 August 2009

Wehner, Dr Kirsten
Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery, 11 March 2009

Wilson, Jennifer
Robe is not famous for robes, 08 July 2009

Wishart, Alison
Flora Pell: Australia's first domestic goddess, 27 March 2009

2008

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Coates, Dr Ian
Showcases II – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Douglas, Louise
'Representing colonial Australia at British, American and European international exhibitions' (reCollections, vol. 3 no. 1, March 2008)

Hansen, Christine
Showcases I – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Hansen, Guy
Viewpoints on material culture, 30 May 2008

Helman, Susannah
The Baden journals, 09 April 2008

Showcases I – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Hetherington, Michelle
John Gore's telescope, 13 February 2008

Higgins, Matthew
Showcases I – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Lewis, Dr Darrell
Outback archive: unorthodox historical records, 04 June 2008

Mercieca, Alison
From Makassar to Marege to the Museum, 07 July 2008

Mercieca, Alison
Showcases I – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Morton, Craddock
'The National Museum of Australia - Have we got the museum we deserve?' (reCollections, vol. 3 no. 2, October 2008)

Nason, Rebecca
Captured in Staffordshire, 11 June 2008

Neale, Dr Margo
Emily: the impossible modernist, 28 September 2008

'Why do those fellas paint like me?' Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introduction, 22 August 2008

Neale, Dr Margo (with Janet Holmes a Court)
Janet on the spot, 23 August 2008

Nugent, Dr Maria
Collections used to interpret the past: panel and audience discussion, 30 May 2008

Robin, Dr Libby
Environmental history beyond the ivory tower, 29 October 2008

Schamberger, Karen
Guna Kinne and her Latvian national dress, 14 May 2008

Showcases II – examples of material culture research in museums, 30 May 2008

Sear, Dr Martha
George Reid: a journey through three parliaments, 13 August 2008

The making of Australian Journeys, 7 October 2008

Smith, Mike
Viewpoints on material culture , 30 May 2008

Stanley, Dr Peter
Ninety years ago on a French hillside: a story of Mont St Quentin, 31 August 2008

Tait, Robin
Introduction to the AE Smith collection, 17 November 2008

2007

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Hallam, David
Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate, 15 June 2007

Higgins, Matthew
Overview of the National Museum of Australia's purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate, 15 June 2007

Robin, Dr Libby
The natural world as a character, 24 June 2007

Sear, Dr Martha
Photographer Richard Daintree's glass plates, 10 October 2007

Smith, Dr Mike
Into the desert, 05 September 2007

Smith, Dr Mike (with Robyn Davidson)
Nomadic cultures, journeys and coming home, 16 September 2007

Wilson, Jennifer
The dàn tre: a musical migration story, 08 August 2007

2006

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Cooper, Carol
Springfield transformed: family collection into national treasure, 21 March 2006

Hansen, Guy
A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical Collection, 21 March 2006

Kaus, David
Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collection, 21 March 2006

Robin, Libby
'Weird and wonderful' (reCollections, vol. 1 no. 2, September 2006)

Trinca, Mat
Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection, 21 March 2006


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