Free Public Lecture

Webb Lecture Theatre, co-sponsored by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies

Myra Stanbury, Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum
Journeys of Enlightenment: Changing Perceptions of Terra Australis

7.00pm

Wine reception

Hackett Hall sponsored by the Woodside Valley Estate

9.00 am

Registration

(coffee can be purchased in UWA Club cafeteria)

9.30am

Session 1

Session 1.1 Historical perspectives

John Melville-Jones, University of Western Australia
Concepts and Denials of the Southern Land, in the Millennium from Herodotus to Cosmas Indicopleustes

Bill Leadbetter, Edith Cowan University
The Roman South

Vivian Louis Forbes, University of Western Australia
The Fourth Quadrant: Empirical Observations. Mapping the ‘Unknown Land’ before 1700

Session 1.2 Literary perceptions

Rebecca Giggs, University of Western Australia
The Mare Incognitum (Unknown Sea) in Australian Cartographic and Literary Imagination; Some Historical and Contemporary Reflections

Katrina O’Loughlin, University of Western Australia.
‘My own slender remarks’: Mary Ann Parker’s Voyage around the World in the Gorgon Man of War (1794)

Dennis Haskell, University of Western Australia
From New Britannia to Kangaroo: Early Poetic Perceptions of Australia

11.00am

Morning Tea Break

Welcome

Doug McEachern, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation), University of Western Australia

Andrew Lynch, Director, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia

Session 2 Plenary paper I

Lunch (and Bookstall)

Session 3.1 Observing and interpreting

Christopher Wortham, University of Western Australia
Meanings of the South: Some Cartographic and Literary Sources

Joseph Christensen, Murdoch University
Ships as Scientific Instruments: the Development of Seaborne Scientific Investigations and its Impact upon the Progress
of Geography and Natural History in North-West Australia, 1616-1858

Patrick Armstrong, Edith Cowan University
Charles Darwin's Appraisal of Some Australian Environments

Session 3.2 Early Albany, modern Perth

Des Gurry, Independent scholar
From Botany Bay, to Risdon Cove, to King George’s Sound. Where?

Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown, Northbridge History Project
Terra Incognita Particular

Afternoon tea break

Session 4 Plenary paper II

Mercedes Maroto Camino, Lancaster University
Mapping Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Pacific 1519-1794

5.15pm

Concert

The Winthrop Singers of UWA

Conference Dinner

Thai Gold Plate Restaurant, Nedlands

9.00 am

Registration

(coffee available in UWA Club cafeteria)

9.30am

Session 5

Session 5.1 Dutch/Indonesian experience

W. A. R. (Bill) Richardson, Flinders University
‘Jave la Grande’ Yet Again: its Real Identity Revealed by The Place-Name Evidence

Leigh Penman, University of Melbourne
The Wicked and the Fair. Perceptions of the Batavia Shipwreck from Federation to the Bicentennial

Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent, Susie Protschky
(to be read by) Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia
Orange Cartography: Nassau family Identity in Colonial Expansion

Session 5.2 Explorations of WA

Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby, University of Adelaide
Naming and Shaming: the Baudin Expedition and the Politics of Nomenclature

Sophie Doughty, University of Western Australia
L’héritage méconnu des explorateurs français en Australie occidentale. The Hidden Heritage of the French Explorers in Western Australia.

Mack McCarthy, Western Australian Museum
The First Female Circumnavigators

11.00am

Morning Tea Break

Session 6  Subplenary papers

The French Connection

Noelene Bloomfield, University of Western Australia
Strategies, Maladies, Trials and Triumphs in the French Quest for Terra Australis

Margaret Sankey, University of Sydney
Mapping Terra Australis in the French Seventeenth Century: the Mémoires of the Abbé Jean Paulmier

Lunch (and Bookstall)

Session 7 Plenary paper III

Afternoon Tea Break

4.00pm

Session 8

Forum

All speakers and conference delegates are invited to participate in a discussion which will seek to identify
cutting edge research topics under the broad theme:

Exploring the Long Histories of Australia

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