Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday 5 December 2022 (1.00pm-2.30pm)
PROGRAM
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Acknowledgement of Country
Annual overview : Special Collections/HLH (Gionni di Gravio OAM, Archivist) WATCH HERE
Guest : Digital Archive Project ‘Unbroken Records’ (Prof. Keri Glastonbury, Dr Alexandra Lewis, Jodi Vial) (15mins+5min questions) WATCH HERE
Guest : Dr Robert Fuller ‘Aboriginal rock engraving projects in the Northern Sydney Basin’. WATCH HERE
Bio : Robert is a late returnee to academia after a 45-year break for a career in first, the military, and then, industry. He was tertiary educated as an anthropologist/archaeologist, did a research MPhil at Macquarie University, Sydney, on Indigenous astronomy, publishing on the cultural astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples of NSW. He completed a PhD at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of NSW, researching cultural astronomy and songlines of the saltwater Aboriginal peoples of the NSW Coast, and active in outreach to the non-Indigenous community, instigator of the successful documentary on Euahlayi astronomy, “Star Stories of the Dreaming”. He is now an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Science, Western Sydney University, working with Dr Ray Norris, astrophysicist and early Australian cultural astronomer. Bob’s academic publishing is available HERE . Contact – r.fuller@westernsydney.edu.au
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Next Showcase – 5 February, 2023