The Institute for the Study of the Americas cordially invites you to attend the following event.
Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 September, 10:00 - 18:30
Collaborative Networks Colloquium: Culture and the Canada-US Border
In collaboration with the Native Studies Research Network UK (NSRN), School of American Studies, University of East Anglia and the Culture and the Canada-US Border Network (CCUSB)
Tuesday: (CCUSB)
Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths): 'Sovereign/Power': The Exigencies of Nationalism, Sovereignty and Separatism in Modern America
Catherine Bates (Huddersfield): Thing theory, waste studies and indigenous culture in Canada and the US: can mutually productive connections be made?
Dylan Robinson (Royal Holloway):"What Utopia Feels Like": Hope and its Foreclosure in Indigenous Music
James Mackay (European University of Cyprus): TBA
Wednesday: (NSRN)
John Wills (Kent): “Playing the Indian: The Arcade Western and New Frontier Avatars”
Reeta Humalajoki (Durham): “Debates Surrounding United States Native American Termination Policy in the Domestic and Native Spheres, 1950-1970”
Gareth Clayton (independent scholar, formerly of UEA and University of Victoria, Canada): “Adaptation and Re-articulation: WSÁNEĆ First Nation Cedar Carving Amidst Territorial Restriction”
Maureen Kincaid Speller: TBA
To register, please complete the online form at http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/london.html and return, with payment, to Dr Catherine Barter, School of English, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Giles Lane, Canterbury CT2 7NX.
Please note: a small amount of travel assistance for postgraduate students will be available on a first-come first-served basis to attend the CCUSB event on the Tuesday/both days. Contact David Stirrup(dfs@kent.ac.uk) for further details. Regrettably, this money cannot be used to attend the NSRN day only.
Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
For further information, please contact chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
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