Australian Encounters

School of Social Sciences

A one-day workshop exploring the diverse histories of encounter across Australasia.

WA Maritime Museum

Please join us for the Australian Encounters Symposium – a one day workshop collaboration between Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History (Lynette Russell, Monash University) &amp; ARC LP Mobilising Dutch East India Company Collection for new Global Stories (Alistair Paterson, UWA), with the Western Australian Museum.This symposium at the Maritime Museum (WA Museum) in Fremantle promises an exciting programme of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with the numerous histories and experiences of encounter in Australasia.The programme’s opening session is led by First Nations communities’ voices, and details memories, experiences and research of encounter from the Western Australian coast, on Menang Country, and with Mirning Community, as well as in the ‘VOC archive’.The programme then features presentations from research projects across Australasia that are investigating and finding or reconnecting the evidence of various forms of encounter. These include papers on ‘Encounter on the Kimberley coast (1650-1850)’, reconnecting Tiwi cultural heritage held in the Wereldmuseum (Leiden), stories of Yanyuwa relationships with Makassan voyagers, Melanesian and Polynesian contact with the east coast of Australia, and entangled encounters encapsulated in the wreck of HMS Pandora.The final sessions of the day will consider visualisation and communication of encounters, featuring an in-conversation discussion of the documentary <a href="https://www.wanganymala.com/" title="https://www.wanganymala.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wangany Mala</a> (2024) with filmmaker Will McCallum, and presentations from artists and researchers engaging with the challenges and affordances of visualising encounter. These will be complemented by the work of <a href="https://abdikarya.wixsite.com/website" title="https://abdikarya.wixsite.com/website" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Abdi Karya</a> which will feature on digital screens accessible for viewing during breaks between sessions.

<a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/monash-indigenous-studies/global-encounters-and-first-nations-peoples" title="https://www.monash.edu/arts/monash-indigenous-studies/global-encounters-and-first-nations-peoples" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History</a> (Monash University)ARC LP <a href="https://www.uwa.edu.au/projects/mobilising-voc-collections" title="https://www.uwa.edu.au/projects/mobilising-voc-collections" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mobilising Dutch East India Company Collection for new Global Stories</a>Western Australian Museum

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