This year’s lecture, on Connecting and Building Sustainable Communities, will be presented by Dr Ken Michael, former Governor of Western Australia. An initiative of the National Trust (WA) the lecture will be held in Perth on Wednesday 14 March and in Kalgoorlie on 19 March. 20120111 CY O’Connor Flyer – FINAL
You can book online at http://www.ntwa.com.au/
Early bird registrations for this conference close soon.
The theme of the conference is Urban Transformations: booms, busts and
other catastrophes. Its focus is on the manifold factors, including rapid
economic change and natural disaster, that operate over time to transform
urban areas.
Keynote speakers are Associate Professor Charles Schenking (HKU) on the
great Kanto earthquake and the chimera of national reconstruction in
Japan, and Winthrop Professor Richard Weller (UWA) on the past in the
future of urbanisation.
Online registration is now open. Hurry! Early bird discount ends 19
December.
Please visit http://uhph2012.com/ for more details and to register online.
Our first paper from the waterfront forum, Recreation for reclamation by Dr Lise Summers, is now available.
The Heritage Council of WA is undertaking a review of the Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990 and is now in the second stage of the consultation process. This stage is critical as the proposals contained in this discussion paper will inform the drafting of the new Act.
The History Council has posted their comments on the online survey.11.11.28 Review of the Heritage Act
You can also have your say by completing the online survey here or by making a submission directly to the Office of Heritage. Please note that the closing date for submissions is Friday 2 December 2011.
The Hon. Lynn MacLaren, MLC held a Question and Answer session on the proposed changes to the Western Australian Heritage Act, on Sunday 12 November at the Fremantle Film and Television Institute.
http://www.lynnmaclaren.org.au/there-future-heritage
A call for papers has just been released for the Book:logic symposium to be held at UWA on 29 June 2012.
‘In coming decades, “all the scholarly resources we use—all the editions, every print book, every manuscript—are going to be remade in digital
form” (Peter Robinson).
But what form exactly? After more than two decades of work, have we yet
produced an electronic scholarly edition that works as well as a print
edition and satisfies all of its users? This one-day symposium will investigate the promises and pitfalls of digital textuality, the changing role of the textual editor, and the
intersections of textual studies and digital technologies within different cultures and literary traditions.
The convenors invite proposals for 20 minute papers, panels or seminars
on any aspect of digital textual studies. Email abstracts with a short
bio to booklogic2…@gmail.com by 14 February 2012.’
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Museums Australia will be holding their annual conference in Perth, from 14 to 18 November. The theme is ‘At the Frontier‘, with a range of key speakers from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.