Simply the Best 2: Reflections of women through records
Program
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Keynote Speaker
Lena Tornqvist, Astrid Lindgren Collection, National Library of Sweden,
Stockholm
'From a box in the attic to a Memory of the World - Astrid Lindgren's
remarkable archives at the National Library of Sweden'
Women and Health
Dr Louella McCarthy, Project Manager and Research Associate at the Faculty
of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
Health, History and Disadvantage: Where are Women with Disabilities in
the Records?
Mireille Dremanis and
Meg Hale, Association Representing Mothers Separated from their Children
by Adoption
Living records: the health Impact on women separated from children through
adoption
Shauna Hicks, Public Record Office of Victoria, Melbourne
Women in Colonial Asylums
Women and Education
Dr Tiffany Donnelly,
Women’s College, University of Sydney
Women in Higher Education 1892-1968: The Women’s College Biographical
Register Project
Helen Bruce, University of Adelaide Archives
Women and Education – The Early Years
Tony Ryan, Australian College of Educators Archive, Adelaide
Conversations with Women in Education
Helen Miller, De Lissa Association of Early Childhood Graduates, Adelaide
Recorded memories of graduates from the first 50 years of the
Kindergarten Training College, 1907 – 1957
Jenny Gill,
Archivist, Launceston Church Grammar School
19th Century female educators
Jane Ellen, University of Melbourne Archives
Women and Politics
Dr Caitlin Stone, University of Melbourne Archives
It wasn’t meant to be easy… Reflections of women in the Malcolm Fraser
Collection at the University of Melbourne
Alison Bartlett (University of Western Australia),
Maryanne Dever (Monash
University), and Dr Margaret Henderson (the University of Queensland)
The Australian Feminist Memory Project: Notes Towards Making a Feminist
Archive
Rachel Grahame and
Emma Grahame, NSW Committee, Australian Women’s
Archive Project
On and off the ‘sacred benches’: tracing women candidates for the
Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1920-2005
Women and Research
Jennifer Coombes, National Gallery of Australia
Women Artists in the Archives’ at the National Gallery of Australia
Dr Julie Tolley, University of South Australia
Documents and witnesses: the use of primary sources in historical
research
Dr Gintaras Kantvilas, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Janet Somerville: a botanical history of Tasmania (1642-1820)
Women and Social Justice
Jenny Scott, State Library of South Australia
Incorrigible rogues : visible crimes Invisible statutes : the prosecution
of women in Adelaide in the 19th Century
Grant Stone,
Murdoch University Library
At the street level - Irene Greenwood and Women of the Green Movement: and
their struggle for a just society