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Conference Speakers KEYNOTES Associate Professor David Goodman Goldfields Comparisons: Georgia (USA) 1820s, New Zealand, California and Victorian Goldrushes David teaches US history at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of the 1994 book Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (Allen and Unwin and Stanford University Press) and more recently of Radio’s Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s (Oxford University Press). Leigh Olver “Blood and Bone”: Discovering Ned Kelly: Using DNA to trace an ancestor resulting in family reconnections Born and raised in the Victorian central goldfields town of Maryborough, Leigh was awarded his Fine Arts Degree (Ballarat CAE),Post Grad Dip Fine Art (RMIT), Dip Ed (BendigoCAE), awarded RMIT Painting Travel Scholarship and travelled extensively throughout Europe/USA. He has since held various exhibitions and worked as a Secondary Art Teacher for over 22 years (various schools). He has an avid interest in Ned Kelly Family History and is a Ned Kelly descendant via the King branch. Involved with various Ned Kelly events, including recently providing the DNA sample which assisted with the identification of Ned Kelly’s remains. Professor Robert Pascoe The Footy Tribes of Ballarat Robert Pascoe is a Professor of History and Dean Laureate at Victoria University in Melbourne and the author of the The Winter Game (1995). With Mark Pennings of QUT he is co-authoring a new multi-volume series on football in colonial Victoria, published in Ballan by Connor Court. Robert is a well known historian, author & experienced media commentator. Conference Speakers KEYNOTES Susan Fayad Heritage at Your Fingertips Susan Fayad is the Coordinator Heritage, City of Ballarat. Susan brings a multidisciplinary skill-set to her position as Coordinator Heritage at the City of Ballarat and has been instrumental in developing the Preserving Ballarat’s Heritage Strategy which has received awards from the Heritage Council of Victoria and Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria). Lisa Gervasoni Hidden Perspectives through Maps: New and Traditional Sources to Locate your Ancestors & their Homes Lisa is a strategic town planner, City of Moorabool and an International member of ICOMOS Conference Speakers (IN ALPHABETICAL SURNAME ORDER) Noelene Allen The Trials, Tragedies & Triumphs: Kelly Women Noelene Allen was born in Sydney and moved to Tamworth in Northern NSW. Following a successful career in retail management and teaching at TAFE, a move to Beechworth in 1999, when the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct was in its infancy, saw Noelene join the band of Precinct Volunteer where her interest in Ellen Kelly and the women of the Kelly family began. She was the Coordinator of the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct until her retirement in 2009. Meredith Blake Researching Victorian Collections Meredith Blake is currently the Project Manager, Victorian Collections, Museums Australia (Vic Branch) Meredith completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the University of Melbourne (Anthropology & History) and a Masters in Cultural Heritage from Deakin University. She has worked in the cultural sector for the past 8 years in a number of roles, and in a diverse range of sectors including local and state governments, NGOs and not-for-profits and universities. Nathaniel Buchanan Insanity on the Goldfields: Victoria’s Lunatic Asylums Nathaniel Buchanan and Adam Wynne-Jenkins are the operators of the largest privately owned dark tourism business in Australia. Fascinated by total institutions, the duo delve into parts of our history that most others ignore – the incarcerated. Like Cold Case the duo uncover stories and facts that were hidden from the ‘normal’ community that bring evidence to light that are ‘gems’ for the family historian. Both Nathaniel and Adam have conducted historical tours throughout the world and currently lead well researched tours of Aradale (formerly Ararat Lunatic Asylum), Beechworth Asylum, Old Geelong Gaol, Lydiard St. Ballarat, and The Ballarat Old Cemetery. Dr Fred Cahir Black Gold: Aboriginals on the Gold Fields of Victoria Senior Lecturer at University of Ballarat. His book: ”Black Gold: Aboriginals on the Gold Fields Victoria” is a part of the first history that documents the role of Aboriginal people on the Gold Fields of Victoria during 1850 to 1870. It details their extensive involvement as miners, police, traders, entertainers and activists. Fred is the author & winner of the 2008 Alan Martin Award and an expert on Victoria’s Aboriginal history Dianne Campbell MA Trades & Professions: Lawyers, Licensees & Women Dianne is a legal historian, freelance writer/editor and author. Her interests include the history of lawyers and legal practice on the goldfields of Australasia & the Anglo-Irish in Australia. Di is currently a member of the City of Ballarat’s Heritage Advisory Committee; Central Highlands Historical Assn committee; the committee of Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc., and Treasurer, Invermay Local History Association. Dr Jan Croggon “So good, so gentle, trustful, fond and true”: Towards a broader understanding of the position of women on the goldfields Jan Croggon is Senior Historian at The Sovereign Hill Museum Association Ballarat. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and Ballarat, a Senior Visiting Fellow of the University of Ballarat and is a member of the Ballarat Australian History Network. She has been closely associated with Museums Australia (Victoria), retiring as Vice president in May 2012. Dr Anne Doggett Music on the Victorian Goldfields Anne researches and writes about the music of colonial Australia, and has published articles in national and international journals. She has an MA in Japaneseliterature, and a PhD in musicology. As a keen change ringer, she has rung several peals on tower bells and hand held bells, and has co-authored a book about the history of bells in Melbourne, as well as writing a history of the bells in the Ballarat Town Hall. After co-authoring See How They Ring!: Travelling Bellringers on the Australasian Popular Stage she is currently busy working on a history of town criers in Australia. Marc Eiden ABC Open Senior Producer – ABC Open at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, producer ABC Open Ballarat – has a background in film making, multi media and music production. To learn more visit: https:\\open.abc.net.au\openregions\vic-ballarat-42Tn7FB Dr Charles Fahey The Cornish on the Victorian Goldfields Charles Fahey teaches history at La Trobe University. He is the co- ordinator of a first year subject – Global Migration Stories – which is taught at Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton and Mildura. Students in this course have to write their own global migration story and the course introduces many of them to archives, and family history sources. He has written extensively on the Victorian goldfields and with Alan Mayne published, Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields (2010). With Lionel Frost and Keir Reeves he was a guest editor of the Australian Economic History Review – A World in Search of Gold (2010). Charles Fahey’s other publications have been in the history of agriculture and the history of labour markets in Australia. He is currently part of a team researching and writing a history of Australia’s southern mallee landscapes, financed by the Australian Research Council. Charlie Farrugia Victoria’s Inquest Records Charlie Farrugia is the Senior Collections Advisor at Public Record Office Victoria. He is the longest serving member of the current staff having commenced his career there during 1985. In that time he has worked extensively with the PROV Collection in many contexts in most areas of theOffice. During 2003 he assisted Professor E.W Russell by undertaking research for A Matter of Record. A History of Public Record Office Victoria. Greg Gerrand SLV Digitisation of Family History Records Greg is the Project coordinator Heritage Collections, State Library of Victoria – Digitisation Projects Clare Gervasoni A Confusion of Tongues: The Multicultural Goldfields Clare is the curator of the Art & Historical Collections at University of Ballarat, Director Ballarat Heritage Services,genealogist & consulting historian with an interest in pre-1900 non-English speakers in Australia. Jenny Higgins More than Gold: Treasure from TROVE Jenny Higgins is the Family History Reference Librarian at the National Library of Australia. For over a decade she has assisted family historians researching their origins at the Library and regularly conducts Learning Program sessions on Family History subjects and about uses of TROVE for family history research. She recently developed and delivered a 10 session course of family history reference training for staff in the Library. She has be researching her own family intermittently for over 30 years and assisted at local society and LDS libraries in Canberra for over 10 years. Originally a computer programmer, she undertook contract family history research, prior to joining the Library. In 2011, she was awarded a National Library Australia Day award for her contribution to the family history work in the Library. Monika McIntyre SLV Digitsation of Family History Records Monika is a librarian with the State Library of Victoria, Digitisation Projects Dr Michele Matthews Bendigo’s “Petitions of the People”: a unique primary source for Family Historians For over three decades Michele has been a local