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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

  • Welcome to Country - Uncle Bill O’Brien

  • 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

 

  • 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

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