Reconciliation Lecture 2019 - Making the History of the Australian Colonial Frontier Visible

As part of National Reconciliation Week 2019 JCU in association with Townsville City Council will be hosting the Reconciliation Lecture.

This free event will be held on Monday 27 May from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. 
 The lecture will take place on the JCU campus Townsville, at the Science Place (Building 142 Room 111), with a video link to The Cairns Institute (Building D3 room 054).

For more details and to register visit the event site. 

Titled Making the History of the Australian Colonial Frontier Visible: How the Newcastle Digital Map of Frontier Massacres is changing the way we understand the past. The lecture will be presented by Professor Lyndall Ryan (Centre for the 21st Century Humanities, University of Newcastle).



Professor Ryan will discuss the origins of the project and how it is still a work in progress. By drawing on a frontier massacre site in North Queensland, she will show how the map works, by discussing the definition of frontier massacre and the criteria and protocols required for a site to be included on the map. Professor Ryan will conclude her talk by outlining the impact of the map to date and plans for the future.

The current map can be viewed at The Centre for 21st Century Humanities website.

You can read more about the history of frontier massacres through JCU Library resources some are included below.



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