The Port Macquarie Bicentennial Database Legacy Project
The Life and Death of the Port Macquarie Penal Station: A Bicentennial History Workshop
Timetable
The Life and Death of the Port Macquarie Penal Station: A Bicentennial History Workshop
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April 10 2021
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Welcome and opening remarks 9 am
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Opening remarks - President of PMDFHS - Diane Gillespie
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Welcome to Country - Uncle Bill O’Brien
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The Volunteers - Rex Toomey
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Session one 9.15 am -10.45 am
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Convict voices and the stories they tell
Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
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The late Ian Duffield, “‘Death or Liberty!’; The Language of Rebellion, Betrayal and Authority in a Convict Outbreak at Port Macquarie, June 1825”
University of Edinburgh
(Read by Tamsin O’Connor and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart)
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Tamsin O’Connor, ‘The History of Experience in the Imagination’ or the ‘Most Beautiful Lies’: The Humble Petitions and Hopeful Pleas of the Convicts of Port Macquarie
University of Sydney
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Meg Keneally, “Stranger than Fiction”
Historical Novelist
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Morning Tea 10.45 am - 11.15 am
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Session two 11.15 am -12.45 pm
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The Voices of Authority: God, Governance and the Digital Liberation of the Paper Panopticon
Chair: Tamsin O’Connor
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David Roberts, “Investigating Port Macquarie: The 1828 inquiry into Malfeasance and Misrule at the NSW Penal Settlement”
University of New England
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Perry McIntyre, “Tending to Spirit and Body in the Port Macquarie Penal Settlement 1827-1858”
Independent Scholar, Genealogist and Publisher
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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, “A Digital Future for Australia’s Convict Past”
University of New England
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Lunch 12.45 pm -1.45 pm
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Session three 1.45 pm - 3.15 pm
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Chair Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and David Roberts
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Database Round Table
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Afternoon Tea 3.15 pm - 3.45 pm
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Key Note Address 3.45 pm - 4.45 pm
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John Heath, “2021: A Birpai Perspective on the Port Macquarie Penal Colony and its Aftermath”
Traditional Birpai man and independent scholar
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Closing remarks and farewell 4.45 pm