What's on in History Compiled by Fiona Poulton

Professional Historians Association (Victoria) Historically Speaking – Members’ Current Work History Week 2016 Tuesday 8 November, 16-23 October La Notte Restaurant, 140-146 Lygon St, Carlton

This perennially popular event on the Historically Speaking calendar offers members an Discover the wonders of Victoria’s past this History Week! From fascinating walking tours and engaging discussions, to exhibitions and ‘history in opportunity to discuss achievements, issues, milestones and problems associated with the making’ events – there is something in store for everyone to enjoy. their work as historians. Join us to discover what projects your colleagues have been engaged in 2016 and share your own achievements. This History Week you can… xx meet well-known lawyers, murderers, a slain police officer and robbery victims now at rest in Bell Street xx explore the stories of early Victoria’s many wild colonial boys, including the St SAVE THE DATE – 4 December 2016 Kilda Gang, the Plenty Gang and the Kelly Gang xx discuss the meaning and power of place in Australia’s historical narrative xx commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Melbourne Olympics and step into the shoes of an Argus Newspaper sports journalist xx be transported back to Marvellous Melbourne with one of Australia’s most influential historians xx join makers from all of the Yarra Ranges to recreate a time when clothes were made to last xx enjoy an online exhibition of stirrers with style and learn other stories of women leaders And much more! Visit http://historyweek.org.au/ for the full calendar of events. The University of Melbourne George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein: Why the United States Went to War in Iraq in March 2003 The war in Iraq launched in 2003 was a decisive moment in post-Cold War international history. This lecture will challenge and interrogate prevailing interpretations of why the United States went to war in March 2003. Critics argue that hubris, power, and greed (oil) inspired the neoconservatives in the Bush administration to push for war. These critics are not wrong, but their explanation is incomplete. A more textured account of the decision to go to war is essential to illuminate the complexities of decision-making and to understand why policy turned out so tragically. Based on interviews with leading members of the Bush administration, captured Iraqi records, documents and records from the Chilcot parliamentary inquiry in the United Kingdom, declassified U.S. documents, and memoirs and public interviews, this lecture offers a new synthesis, arguing that in addition to hubris and power, fear, threat perception, guilt Picnic Party, c. 1900, James Fox Bernard, State Library Victoria, H2002.125/32 over 9/11, a sense of responsibility, and worries about domestic political recriminations exerted decisive influence on policymakers. PHA (Vic)’s annual End of Year Picnic will be held in Footscray Melvyn P. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Chair of American History at the Park, Ballarat Rd, Footscray. Make sure you put the date in University of Virginia and Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2016 at your diary and keep an eye on your letterbox for further the University of Melbourne. When: 17 October 2016, 6-7pm details. Where: Carrillo Gantner Theatre (B02), Sidney Myer Asia Centre Cost: Free Booking: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/MelvynLeffler 13 State Library Victoria 'Peace or war: the big picture' by ‘Bushrangers’ pop-up talk ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR William Kelly

Caption: William Strutt, 'Bushrangers, Victoria, Australia, 1852' Celebrate 40 years of Melbourne independent radio in (detail), 1887, oil on canvas, The University of Melbourne Art the first-ever exhibition showcasing Triple R, Australia’s Collection, gift of the Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest, 1973 largest and most successful community station. On a Saturday afternoon in October 1852, bushrangers Covering pop to punk, country to techno, and even bailed up and robbed more than twenty people travelling science, permaculture and politics, Triple R continues to along St Kilda Road. influence and inspire Melbourne’s independent music The crime was reported in lurid detail in the press scene, and provide a vital voice for local community. Visit the dome to see William Kelly’s large-scale artwork, and fed fears of lawlessness in the newly formed colony. Discover the story of Triple R’s evolution from humble spanning more than three storeys. Kelly’s work reflects William Strutt's painting Bushrangers, Victoria, Australia, beginnings as an educational broadcaster at RMIT on the perspectives of various artists over the past 100 1852 explores this emerging, iconic figure of the University, to a station with 440,000 listeners and its years who have expressed the belief that peace is a better bushranger. Join us to hear more about this thought- own digs in Brunswick. option than war. provoking painting. Featuring an eclectic array of materials from Triple R’s When: 3 October – 4 December 2016 When: 12 October 2016, 3-3:45pm archive including signed gig posters, original artworks, rare photographs and Triple R t-shirts and merchandise, Where: La Trobe Reading Room Where: Keith Murdoch Gallery ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR explores the history, culture Cost: Free Cost: Free and character of this iconic and much loved station. The exhibition will be complemented by a free public program of associated talks, debates and an after-hours Curator’s talk: ‘Heroes and villains’ Author in conversation: Maggie Black pop-up bar. Take a guided tour of free exhibition Heroes and villains: Author Maggie ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR is on display in the Keith Strutt's Australia with guest curator Matthew Jones from Black talks with Murdoch Gallery from 18 November 2016 to 29 the National Library of Australia. historian Peter Yule January 2017. Hear the full story of artist William Strutt's life and work, about her new book Open from 10am to 5pm daily and until 9pm on his training in Paris and how he became the first great Up came a squatter, Thursdays. Presented in partnership with Triple R. exponent of history painting in Australia. the story of Niel When: 21 October 2016, 2-3pm; Black, who arrived in Melbourne from Curator’s talk: ‘ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR’ 22 October 2016, 11am-12pm; Hear the inside story about our ON AIR: 40 years of Scotland in 1839 22 October 2016, 3-4pm 3RRR exhibition on a free guided tour with curator Angela intending to make Bailey. Where: Keith Murdoch Gallery his fortune. Cost: Free Ambitious and When: 18 November 2016, 11:00am–12:00pm Bookings: Book online for Fri 21 October at 2pm determined, Black 18 November 2016, 2:00pm–3:00pm Book online for Sat 22 October at 11am became one of the 19 November 2016, 11:00am–12:00pm most successful and Book online for Sat 22 October at 3pm 19 November 2016, 2:00pm–3:00pm energetic squatters 20 November 2016, 3:00pm–4:00pm in the Western District of Victoria. Where: Keith Murdoch Gallery He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his Cost: Free letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials and Bookings: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/curators- his chief UK business partner offer a unique insight into talk-air-40-years-3rrr life at the time. This author talk will also include the opportunity to view a Pop-up bar: ON AIR selection of rare manuscripts from the Library's collection, Join the party at the Library’s pop-up bar! including Black’s journals, letters and papers. Listen to music from popular Triple R DJs, explore Up came a squatter is published by NewSouth Publishing Readings' exclusive vinyl shop and gain late-night access in association with State Library Victoria. to the ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR exhibition. When: 6 October 2016, 11am-12:15pm When: 25 November 2016, 7:00pm–10:00pm Where: Red Rotunda, Cowen Gallery 02 December 2016, 7:00pm–10:00pm http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/ p110711/html/Images/Fig%207_opt.png Cost: Free 13 January 2017, 7:00pm–10:00pm Making Public Histories Seminar Series Bookings: Book online 20 January 2017, 7:00pm–10:00pm Bread & stones: historians using & preserving digital Phone: 03 8664 7099 Where: Palmer Hall sources Email: [email protected] Cost: Free This Making Public Histories seminar explores the subject of discovering and using electronic data, and preserving David Collopy: Yesterday once more it for future use. Check http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/bread- Discover how Melbourne’s familiar landmarks have and-stones for further details. changed over time in David Collopy’s display of old and When: 16 November 2016, 6-7:30pm new photographs of the city. Where: Conference centre Images sourced from the Library’s catalogue, Monash University archives and Collopy’s personal collection Cost: Free have been rephotographed and shown alongside the Bookings: Book online original scene for comparison. Phone: 03 8664 7099 When: 30 November 2016 – 5 March 2017 Email: [email protected] 14 Where: Palmer Hall Cost: Free Royal Historical Society of Victoria History Council of Victoria Oral History Victoria Two ways of looking at St Kilda’s past Annual Lecture Innovation Award Presentations and AGM Speakers: David Willis and Judith Buckrich Each year, the History Council of Join us for our History Week Lecture as two Victoria presents a public lecture historians take us into the history of Melbourne’s that shares fresh thinking and favourite and most edgy seaside suburb, St Kilda. new evidence on an historical topic. The RHSV’s monthly Third Tuesday evening The HCV is delighted to lecture in October showcases two different announce that the 2016 Annual approaches to the biography of places – spaces Lecture will be presented on that have multiple meanings for the myriad of Thursday 20 October by Dr people who pass through them. David Willis Anna Clark, author of Private Lives, Public History. Dr Clark's topic is 'Locating the Past: Place and moved into ‘The Majestic Flats’ in 2012 and set Historical Consciousness in Australia'. about discovering the history of the place. It ABSTRACT resulted in a beautifully illustrated social history of It’s hard to ignore the power of place in Australia’s Members and friends of Oral History Victoria are the century-old Majestic Hotel in Fitzroy Street, historical narrative: Botany Bay, Port Arthur, Myall Creek, invited to attend our presentation evening and AGM at and Ballarat all resonate in our national historical St. Kilda. The Majestic: Early Apartment Living the Royal Historical Society Building on the corner of imagination. Place literally locates our individual and in St Kilda uncovers the story of a building that A’Beckett St and Williams St (opposite Flagstaff station – collective historical consciousness in the world around enter via Williams St entrance). has a significant place in the architectural and us—family, community and national narratives are We’ll start with drinks and light refreshments from social history of Melbourne. It captures the story bound by the places in which they play out. (Just think 5.30. At 6pm shortlisted applicants for the 2016 of a suburb in change as old family mansions of the extraordinary annual pilgrimage to that place, OHV Innovation Awards will showcase a variety of Gallipoli.) But what do Australians actually think about made way for new modes of living including the imaginative and effective uses of oral history, and we historical places such as these? And how do they place development of apartments. In his talk, David will will then present the Community and Education awards. themselves in the past? This lecture draws on interviews After the award presentations, at about 6.30 we will discuss how he went about his project and self- with 100 Australians to explore the meaning of place hold the Oral History Victoria AGM, including reports published his book. in Australian history, and notes that even the past on achievements this past year and plans for the next, itself has become a ‘place’ of sorts in our historical Among Judith Buckrich’s many published books and the election of the new OHV Committee. The consciousness. are two ‘street biographies’ - Melbourne’s business should be finished well before 7.30 – so we When: 20 October 2016, 6-7:30pm Grand Boulevard: The Story of St Kilda Road can socialise and enjoy the refreshments. Where: Old Treasury Building, Spring Street and Collins: Australia’s Premier Street. Now she All welcome, including guests, though please note Cost: $15, including light refreshments that only OHV members can vote at the AGM. Also is turning her attention to famous Acland Street, Bookings: http://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/annual_ note that access to the meetings is via a set of stairs. St Kilda. Acland Street encapsulates Melbourne’s lecture_2016 When: 27 October 2016, 5:30-7:30pm social history in a unique way. The street saw Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria boom times before the ‘bust’ of the 1890s when Bookings: If you plan to attend, to help us with many beautiful houses became rooming houses. catering please let us know by emailing from the The 1920s saw cafés, cabarets, restaurants, jazz The Foundling Archive form on the Contact Us page. clubs and music venues. Barely out of sight were KEEPSAKES: A series of audio mementos brothels, gambling dens and meeting places What do we Talking Experience: Oral History Victoria - for persons of every sexual orientation. From save and how Inaugural group showcase the postwar years, European migrants arrived do we save it? in St Kilda in great numbers, setting up shops An audio People can be and restaurants in Acland Street and creating a exhibition of sound-rich much vibrant, cosmopolitan atmosphere. stories exploring more When: 18 October 2016, 5:15 refreshments, the different interesting than doc- 5:45 lecture ways we hold onto our uments: Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, memories. through 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne We’ll hear childhood reminiscences, we’ll unpack the oral Cost: RHSV members free, way we preserve the present and we’ll peek into almost- history Non-members $10 forgotten time capsules. We’re diving into memories the past and the objects that remind us of who we used to be. comes Enquiries: (03) 9326 9288 or Some objects hold histories, but if we don’t hear their alive. [email protected] stories they stay mysteries. KEEPSAKES is an attempt to The recorded interview can be used as a primary w: historyvictoria.org.au preserve the stories of people, places and things that source of information about a time, an event or a life. might otherwise be lost to time. Oral histories can also challenge existing collective Hosted by All The Best’s Bec Fary, Bethany Atkinson- beliefs. Frequently they raise the status of the every- Quinton and Michael Brydon, KEEPSAKES will feature day experience as historical records usually rely on an work by a range of local artists, poets and writers, official version of an event. including: Amy Tsilemanis, Andi Snelling, Beth Gibson, This exhibition commemorates the everyday lived Cassandra Wright, Jess Fairfax, Lauren Klein, Made experience of ordinary people and celebrates the Stuchbery, May Jasper, Melissa Fletcher Young, Molly ability for ordinary people to create histories through George, Philippe Perez, Rachael Dexter and Zacha the power of conversation. From teenage dating to Rosen. diplomatic missions to China, this exhibition showcases All The Best is an Australian community radio the recent and varied projects completed by members of storytelling show, with producers based in Sydney, Oral History Victoria. Melbourne and Brisbane. It's broadcast nationwide on When: 23 November – 21 December the Community Radio Network and a highly acclaimed Where: The Good Room, 390a Lygon St, podcast. If you haven't already, check us out at www. allthebestradio.com or search "All the Best" on iTunes. Brunswick East Website: http://www.oralhistoryvictoria.org.au/event/ When: 12 October – 19 November 2016 inaugural-group-exhibitions-members-showcase/ Where: The Good Room, 390a Lygon St, Brunswick East 15 Old Treasury Building National Trust Australia (Victoria) Paintings of Early Melbourne Layers and Pattern: Wallpaper Exhibition – Saturday Open Days This display showcases rare and little known paintings of Melbourne from the 1840s Layers and Pattern is a unique to the 1870s. Drawn from the private collection of the Roy Morgan Research Centre wallpaper exhibition at Collection, these paintings, watercolours and lithographs show a Melbourne before Labassa Mansion featuring high-rise buildings, a swamp city through to the wealth of the gold rush. the work of the Kinkarakami They provide an insider’s glimpse of the early beginnings of colonial Melbourne and offers an insight into the life of Melbournians. Institute, the Centre for Materials Conservation and the Phyllis Murphy Collection. Wallpaper is ephemeral and is easy to replace as fashions change. Historical examples are exceptionally rare and often found in layers, as patterns are updated over the years. Layers and Pattern is a wallpaper exhibition taking place in historic, Labassa Mansion and showcases the work of the Kinkarakami Institute in Tokyo, who have revived the lost craft of Japanese leather paper. The institute participates in many Included in this exciting tour is the historic Executive Council Chamber, the office restoration projects and the of the Governor of Victoria, since 1862. Trust has commissioned them Wednesday 12 October at 11am to recreate a wallpaper at Rippon Lea. They are the only Friday 18 November at 11am practitioners of this ancient Monday 5 December aT 11am or by appointment. craft in the world and it is the Cost: $8 Adults first commission of its kind Bookings essential, 9651 2233 or [email protected] outside of Japan. It will take the artisans one and a half years to complete a 3 metre Yarra Ranges Regional Museum square of wallpaper. Also featured in the People, Stories exhibition, is the work of and Dance paper conservators from After arriving in the Centre for Materials Australia as a Conservation who Hungarian refugee painstakingly separated in 1957, Ivan layers of wallpapers from soon commenced Gulf Station, preserving the a journey into information found within the the world of layers photography Bridging these two themes and filmmaking. Photography gave are examples from the Phyllis Murphy Collection – an exceptional resource him the chance for research. to explore his Exhibition open day includes a 45 minute talk with a Collections Curator new world and from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), with time allocated to explore to get to know the Mansion. and understand people who were When: This event is running on selected dates from 8 October 2016 interesting, some of whom he befriended; his photos for Pram Factory in the 1970's until 29 October 2016. opened the way for making short films with Max Gillies and others. It is next occurring on The photos in this exhibition span over forty years of taking these photographs. 8 Oct 2016 11am — 12:30pm. I don't see myself as a photographer or a filmmaker, but as a person with 15 Oct 2016 11:00 am — 12:30 pm a camera. 22 Oct 2016 11:00 am — 12:30 pm The camera has always allowed me to extend myself and to discover more 29 Oct 2016 11:00 am — 12:30 pm about people, their stories, their interests in life, and their interaction with Exhibition open days will also be running at 2pm to 3.30pm Wednesday me, and with their environment. The camera made me a better person in my own life. 12, 19 and 26 October. It helped me to learn about and take more interest in my surroundings Where: 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North and the people who live within it. Cost: General Adult $20, National Trust members $10 It has always been an extension of my personality. Bookings: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/layers-and-pattern-saturday/ Ival Gaal When: 11 November 2016 – 31 January 2017, Tuesday-Sunday 11am-4pm Where: Upper Yarra Arts Centre, Warburton Cost: Free 16 The Wheeler Centre The Shrine of Nyarri Nyarri Morgan: Virtual Reality, A Matter of Trust: Writing Sexual Abuse Remembrance History and Indigenous Experience In 2013, Joanne McCarthy from the Newcastle Herald Nyarri Nyarri Morgan is a Martu man from the Western received a Gold Walkley Award for her reporting Bendigo Talk: War From a Woman's Angle Desert who lives in the remote Parnngurr Community on the sexual abuse cover-up in the Hunter Valley Jeannine Baker reveals the little-known stories of Western Australia. He lived his early life with no Region. Accepting the award, she thanked the of the trailblazing women journalists who have knowledge of or contact with western culture. Then, in the survivors, who had placed their trust in her as a reported on war. Since Agnes Macready travelled 1950s, he witnessed first hand – and with no warning or journalist, and in their local paper. ‘People who to South Africa in 1900 to write about the Boer context – an atomic test held by the British government in have every reason in the world not to trust – they the South Australian desert. trusted us,’ she said. When it comes to writing and reporting, there aren’t many subjects as sensitive or painful as that of sexual abuse. In this discussion, we’ll hear from two writers who Image of Louise Mack in Belgium 1914, from her book A have broached Woman's Experiences in the Great War this topic in War for the Catholic Press, Australian women their work: have fought for the right to cover conflict. In 1914 McCarthy, whose Louise Mack defied the orders of Lord Kitchener investigations to travel to Belgium, where she witnessed the fall led to the royal of Antwerp, and Katharine Susannah Prichard commission into reported from close to the front at Wimeraux. It was an experience that had a profound impact institutional child sexual abuse and Manny Waks, These pioneers of war reporting carved a path for on Morgan and, half a century later, led him into author of Who Gave You Permission?, a memoir new generations of female foreign correspondents a collaboration with a Sydney-based immersive of the abuse he suffered at the ultra-orthodox technology artist and director, Lynette Wallworth. who have built upon their legacy. His story is now the subject of a virtual reality film, Yeshivah Centre Melbourne. Waks has worked as When: Tuesday 25 October, 5:30pm arrival Collisions, which Wallworth directed. a victim advocate and his research culminated in for 6pm start Collisions drops audiences right in the middle of a public hearing into Australian Jewish institutions Where: Bendigo RSL, 73-75 Havilah Road, Bendigo the Pilbara desert – home of Morgan and of the Martu at the royal commission. Cost: Entry by donation people. This conversation at ACMI will take Morgan’s Hosted by Trauma-scapes author Maria Booking: http://www.shrine.org.au/Visit-the-Shrine/ experience filming Collisions as a starting point for a Tumarkin, the pair will discuss the processes Talks-and-Events/Bendigo-Talk--War-From-a-Woman-s- broader discussion of the issues facing the Martu people and ramifications of this difficult but essential Angle/ in this remote region of Western Australia. Joined by work: interviewing survivors and perpetrators, Wallworth, Nyarri's wife Nola and young filmmaker and the challenges of trust and verification and the Martu leader Curtis Taylor, Morgan will speak about frustrations of institutional cover-up. his life, his work as an artist and the fate of the Martu Monuments of Remembrance people since the actions in Collisions took place. This discussion includes topics that some An activist elder who has seen his community through attendees may find confronting. Audience some dramatic changes, a speaker of seven Western questions from this event will not be recorded and Desert languages, an artist whose work has been published. exhibited across the world and whose story is now being When: 17 October 2016, 6:15-7:15pm shared through virtual reality – meet this extraordinary Where: The Wheeler Centre Australian and his family for a discussion of culture, Cost: Free contention, creativity and collaboration. Booking: http://www.wheelercentre.com/events/a- When: 8 October 2016, 1:30pm – 2:30pm matter-of-trust-writing-sexual-abuse/ Where: ACMI Cinema 2 Cost: Free

Booking: http://www.wheelercentre.com/events/ of Bronwyn courtesy Image Hughes nyarri-nyarri-morgan-virtual-reality-history-and- Even as the guns grew silent over the battlefields indigenous-experience of Europe in 1918, Australia’s military leaders were planning to commemorate pivotal Australian victories through a series of monuments on the Western Front. In Australia too, communities motivated by loss, grief and a determination to never forget the cost to a generation, erected hundreds of war memorials across the land over Stonnington Library the following decades—and again after 1945. This talk will explore motives for commemoration— History Matters: Costume: Candlelight to Haute Couture victory, honour and remembrance—through a Carolyn McDowall, cultural historian and designer, will discuss the fashionable concerns of costume and jewellery range of key monuments to Australia’s service men from 1800s Europe to 1970s Australia and America. Carolyn is writer and editor-in-chief for The Culture Concept and women. Circle. From 1992-2005 she was core lecturer at The Academy of Design and Decorative Arts in Sydney and Brisbane. When: 9 November, 5:30pm arrival for 6pm start When: Wednesday 23 November, 10.30am–12pm Where: Auditorium, Shrine of Remembrance Where: Northbrook Pop-up Gallery, 1257 High Street, Malvern (behind Malvern Library) Cost: Entry by donation Cost: Free Booking: http://www.shrine.org.au/Visit-the-Shrine/ Talks-and-Events/Monuments-of-Remembrance/ Information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/history-matters-costume-candlelight-to-haute-couture- tickets-27803934316/ 17