​Ancestors Words Symposium


ANCESTORS’ WORDS SYMPOSIUM 27 and 28 MARCH 2019
Deakin University
Downtown campus, Tower 2 level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne.


We acknowledge this symposium is being held on the country of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nations, the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered.


Day One

9 am - Welcome Welcome to Country Nyungar protocol and gift                  responding to Welcome


9.30am - Joy Murphy Wandin with Jessica Horton: Wandin letters


Ancestors’ words 


10.30am - Anna Haebich: the project Darryl Kickett: Nyungar methodology Gabriel   

 
11am - Maddock Ancestors’ words research & database


Family Letters


11.20 - Jacinta Walsh: Great Grandmothers letters and PhD topic "Letters      of Hope" 
             

12noon - Darryl Kickett and Marion Kickett: in conversation, James Yombich Kickett’s - dogs and the Beverley police


              Session Four: Performative letters


2.00pm - Carolyn Lewis: ‘Janie’ (dramatic performance followed by              discussion): Carolyn Lewis, Irma Woods and Terry Kennedy as                        Superintendent Mr Brodie, Moore River Native Settlement – 1927.
                       

 2.30 - Sharon Huebner: film screening 'No Longer a Wandering Spirit'           (2016)


 Session Five: Literacy, negotiations, activism
         

3.20pm - Leonie Stevens: VDL Indigenous writing, Flinders Island
                       

4pm - Tiffany Shellam: Rhythmic reckonings of Charles Mortimer
                       

4.30pm -  Julie Evans: Minutes of Evidence, legacies

Day Two


Session One: Gnowangerup Deputation Letter 
         

9 am - Anna Haebich – the Gnowangerup file Irma Woods – the letter          Darryl Kickett - the meetings, the outcomes


Session Two: Letters, law and language


10.50pm -  Jo Cruickshank: Minutes of Evidence Jason Gibson: Howitt project     


11.30 - Claudia Haake: Native American letters


Session Three: Archivists, communities, protocols
                       

1.00 - Maxine Briggs, State Library of Victoria Gerard Foley: State Records    Office of Western Australia


Session Four: Project futures, future archives 


2.50 - Crystal Mckinnon, Jo Cruickshank, Carolyn Lewis, Darryl Kickett,          Maxine  Briggs


4.15 - Wrap up, Tiffany Shellam


4.30   End of Symposium

Above are images of some of the amazing participants at the symposium - Researchers who explore the Archives and Gerard Foley who is the Senior Archivist in the State Records Office of Western Australia.

I had a wonderful chat with Darryl Kickett, who, I learnt, I am related to through marriage. He knows some of my family in Western Australia. What a wonderful man. 

Marion Kickett and I had a great laugh and a chat. Marion is family too and remembers staying in my Great Grandparents (Mabel and Jack's) home in Kellerberrin Western Australia in 1973 for a Jehovah's Witness Convention. This blew me away.. she knew Mabel and Jack! We will stay in touch for sure. 

​What a pleasurer and a privilege to present at this symposium and meet these wonderful people.