PEOPLE, IMAGES AND THINGS CONFERENCE PROGRAM The Museum Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Museum

30-31 October 2015

Friday 30 October

8.30 – 9.00 Registration, lower ground floor, Melbourne Museum

9.00 – 9.30 1.1 WELCOME Welcome To Country Welcome by Dr Richard Gillespie, Humanities Department Head, Museum Victoria 9.30 – 10.30 1.2 Chair: Lindy Allen, Museum Victoria Jonathon Jones, Artist and Curator, and Carol Cooper, National Museum of Australia The Maker’s Hand: Designs in wood Melinda Hinkson, Deakin University Conundrums of the Archive: The case of the Warlpiri drawings Jason Gibson, Museum Victoria Putting Objects in Their Place: Re-reading central Australian object documentation

10.30 – 11.00 Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30 1.3 Chair: Philip Batty, Museum Victoria Christiane Keller, National Museum of Australia & Australian National University Body and Flesh: Interrogating sculpture from Milingimbi Sabine Hoeng, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory “One artist, many names”: Reassembling the oeuvres of Indigenous artists from museum collections Louise Hamby, Australian National University Fabric Fragments to Fashion

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 1.4 Chair: Jilda Andrews, National Museum of Australia & ANU Mariko Smith, Connections Through Collections: Indigenous cultural resurgence and Aboriginal tied-bark canoes Antoinette Smith, University of Connecting Baskets: Research and engagement with Aboriginal communities Wendy Somerville, University of Canberra Who Defines Aboriginal Identity? Is the new answer the same as the old?

3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 5.00 1.5 Chair: Liz Bonshek, Museum Victoria Jude Philp, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney Krar: Turtle-shell masks from Mabuyag Leah Lui-Chivizhe, University of New South Wales & University of Sydney Op-le: Visual traditions, marine environments and Torres Strait Islander knowledge Rosita Henry, Creative Connections: An artefact collection from the wet tropics of north

7.00 – 10.00 CONFERENCE DINNER (JIM’S GREEK TAVERN - JOHNSON STREET ABBOTSFORD)

PEOPLE, IMAGES AND THINGS CONFERENCE PROGRAM The Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum

30-31 October 2015

Saturday 31 October

8.00 – 9.00 Registration, lower ground floor, Melbourne Museum

8.45 – 10.30 2.1 Chair: Rosita Henry, James Cook University Michael Aird, Curator and Publisher, and Paul Memmott, University of Queensland Return of the Wild Australia Show Michael Wood, James Cook University Researching and Renewing Links: Dudley Bulmer’s artefacts and his legacy Diane Hafner, University of Queensland Heritage and Kinship: Mutualities and overlapping interests in research pursuits Ian Coates, National Museum of Australia Old Objects Made New

10.30 – 11.00 Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30 2.2 Chair: Christiane Keller, National Museum of Australia & ANU Fran Edmonds, University of Melbourne Aboriginal Young People, Indigenous Collections and the Digital Realm Julie Gough, Artist and Curator The Lost World Project: The motivation and means for an Aboriginal response to a UK museum collection (and where to from there) Jilda Andrews, National Museum of Australia and Australian National University Off-Country: The cultural life of collected material [a performance]

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 2.3 Chair: Louise Hamby, Australian National University Peter White, National Film and Sound Archive The Mob Rules: A paradigm shift for the cultural sector? Rebecca Conway, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney “Everything is telling us who we are!” Yolŋu collections at the University of Sydney Lindy Allen, Museum Victoria Mediating Interpretations: Early museum collections from Milingimbi in Arnhem Land 3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 4.45 2.4 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION & REFLECTIONS Chair: Lindy Allen, Museum Victoria Jilda Andrews, NMA and ANU Liz Bonshek, Museum Victoria Leonn Satterthwait,