Australian Encounters

Ouzman, S. (Participant)

School of Social Sciences

Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference

Description

A one-day workshop collaboration between Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History (Lynette Russell, Monash University) & ARC LP Mobilising Dutch East India Company Collections for new Global Stories (Alistair Paterson, UWA), with the Western Australian Museum.
This symposium at the Maritime Museum (WA Museum) in Fremantle promises an exciting programme of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with the numerous histories and experiences of encounter in Australasia.
The programme’s opening session is led by First Nations communities’ voices, and details memories, experiences and research of encounter from the Western Australian coast, on Menang Country, and with Mirning Community, as well as in the ‘VOC archive’.
The programme then features presentations from research projects across Australasia that are investigating and finding or reconnecting the evidence of various forms of encounter. These include papers on ‘Encounter on the Kimberley coast (1650-1850)’, reconnecting Tiwi cultural heritage held in the Wereldmuseum (Leiden), stories of Yanyuwa relationships with Makassan voyagers, Melanesian and Polynesian contact with the east coast of Australia, and entangled encounters encapsulated in the wreck of HMS Pandora.
The final sessions of the day will consider visualisation and communication of encounters, featuring an in-conversation discussion of the documentary Wangany Mala (2024) with filmmaker Will McCallum, and presentations from artists and researchers engaging with the challenges and affordances of visualising encounter. These will be complemented by the work of Abdi Karya which will feature on digital screens accessible for viewing during breaks between sessions.

Period	1 Dec 2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Fremantle Walyalup, Australia, Western AustraliaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National

Keywords

Australia
Pacific
Encounters
Archaeology
History
Museums
Aboriginal
Indigenous

Documents & Links

A one-day workshop collaboration between Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History (Lynette Russell, Monash University) & ARC LP Mobilising Dutch East India Company Collections for new Global Stories (Alistair Paterson, UWA), with the Western Australian Museum. This symposium at the Maritime Museum (WA Museum) in Fremantle promises an exciting programme of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with the numerous histories and experiences of encounter in Australasia. The programme’s opening session is led by First Nations communities’ voices, and details memories, experiences and research of encounter from the Western Australian coast, on Menang Country, and with Mirning Community, as well as in the ‘VOC archive’. The programme then features presentations from research projects across Australasia that are investigating and finding or reconnecting the evidence of various forms of encounter. These include papers on ‘Encounter on the Kimberley coast (1650-1850)’, reconnecting Tiwi cultural heritage held in the Wereldmuseum (Leiden), stories of Yanyuwa relationships with Makassan voyagers, Melanesian and Polynesian contact with the east coast of Australia, and entangled encounters encapsulated in the wreck of HMS Pandora. The final sessions of the day will consider visualisation and communication of encounters, featuring an in-conversation discussion of the documentary Wangany Mala (2024) with filmmaker Will McCallum, and presentations from artists and researchers engaging with the challenges and affordances of visualising encounter. These will be complemented by the work of Abdi Karya which will feature on digital screens accessible for viewing during breaks between sessions.