Annual Regional Lecture
Annual Regional Lecture 2024
Each year, the History Council of South Australia presents an Annual Regional Lecture in association with individuals or regional history groups to expand and promote historical books, collections, places, and stories.
This year the Annual Regional Lecture will be held in Mount Gambier, in partnership with the Mount Gambier Library (City of Mount Gambier) on the 28th of November. The event will feature roundtables with experts far and wide to talk about 'Our Stories - Our History', and a keynote given by Peter Christopher OAM.
If you love family history, local history, delving deep into old collections, visiting museums, stately houses and cemeteries, why not get involved in the all day 'History Get Together' on Thurs 28 November 2024, when history experts and enthusiasts from all over the state converge on the Mount Gambier Library to share all sorts of exciting new discoveries, sources and services which are helping to give South Australia's past a future, now!
This all-day chat-fest, will conclude with 'Diving Deeper into what makes the South-East Unique', a compelling keynote from Peter Christopher, OAM, who will reflect on his decades of traveling, working and diving the depths of the South-East as a researcher and writer of shipwrecks and paddle steamers.
Book now to join us in Mount Gambier
Registrations are essential.
Program
9:15 - 11am: Adelaide history institutions show & tell
Join representatives from leading South Australian institutions as they discuss their collections and access for regional users
Chair: Dr Kiera Lindsey- SA’s History Advocate
History Trust South Australia
Genealogy SA
State Library of South Australia
State Records of South Australia
National Archives of Australia
11:30am - 1pm: South East/Local History Organisations' Round Table
Local history organisations discuss thier achievements and challenges.
Chair: Danni Reade- City of Mount Gambier- Local History Officer
Mount Gambier History Group
Mary MacKillop Centre Penola
Sheep's Back Museum Naracoorte
2pm- 3:30pm Our Stories- Our History Panel
Chair: Dr Carmel Pascale HCSA
Ian Lewis- Hydrogeologist and pioneering cave diver.
Angela Goode- Author, former journalist, and now Regional Ambassador for the History Trust of South Australia
Uncle Ken Jones, Boandik Elder, author and educator.
4pm- 5:30pm Key Note Address by Peter Christopher OAM
'Diving Deeper into what makes the South-East unique'
Peter Christopher OAM will reflect upon his decades of traveling, working and diving the depths of the South-East as a researcher and writer of shipwrecks and paddle steamers, a daring diver on sea and on land and most intrepidly, perhaps, his previous role as the Chief Industrial Officer of the Public Service Association.
Annual Regional Lecture 2023
Each year, the History Council of South Australia presents an Annual Regional Lecture in association with individuals or regional history groups to expand and promote historical books, collections, places, and stories.
On 16 November, Dr Skye Krichauff gave the HCSA’s lecture at the Whyalla Library to a keen and interested crowd.
The audience heard her speak on the topic of 'Uncovering and Understanding the South Australian Frontier and its Legacies'. In her lecture, Skye unveiled her ongoing research into colonial era violence in South Australia and displayed the myriad features of the multi-media mapping and source collection tools she is preparing with a team of researchers from Adelaide University.
The event also included a very well received presentation by Dr David Sweet and Dr Christeen Schoepf from the Oral History Association of SA & NT which offered an overview of oral history skills and practices for practitioners, as well as a generous lunch provided by the Whyalla hosts.
The HCSA would like to thank everyone who made the event such a success. In particular, Paul Mazourek, the Whyalla Library and the Whyalla City Council for their generous hospitality, as well as our wonderful presenter Dr Skye Krichauff, and all of those who attended.
About this event
Presenter: Dr Skye Krichauff
Uncovering and Understanding the South Australian Frontier and its Legacies
The research project, 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies', maps the nature and extent of conflict between Aboriginal people and colonists in South Australia, from the arrival of sealers and whalers (in the early 1800s) until Federation (1901). The project is based at the University of Adelaide and emerged out of the call from the Uluru Statement from the Heart to engage in 'truth-telling about our history'. Research for the project has involved an extensive examination of archival sources and the collection of oral histories from Aboriginal people and settler descendants.
Skye demonstrated the website and interactive digital 'Story map' developed by the project team by focussing on the Eyre Peninsula and why violence in this district was exceptionally long lasting and extensive.
About Dr Skye Krichauff
Skye is an ethno-historian who combines the methodologies of history, anthropology and oral history. She is interested in colonial cross-cultural relations, the relationship between history and memory, and how societies live with historical injustices (in particular how Australians live with the enduring legacies of colonialism). Skye is currently employed on the research project 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' which is based at the University of Adelaide.
Read about 2022's lecture here.
Read about 2021's lecture here.
A recording of 2020's lecture can be accessed here.
