National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Date recorded: 19 November 2009.
Murray Garde considers the Wubarr ceremony performed in 1948 and examines the tangled cross-cultural politics of non-Aboriginal involvement in secret Aboriginal rel…
00:27:12 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal histories
Date recorded: 19 November 2009.
Louise Hamby examines the dispersed collection of fibre objects collected by the 1948 Expedition - the objects and the process and politics of their collection.
00:32:02 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
A history of the 1948 expedition
Date recorded: 17 November 2009.
Sally K May provides a historical overview of the Expedition, its planning and execution.
00:29:54 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Fossicking memories
Date recorded: 17 November 2009.
Expedition botanist Raymond Louis Specht is interviewed by Martin Thomas.
00:35:16 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature
Date recorded: 18 November 2009.
Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form - the ra…
00:25:21 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider's perspective
Date recorded: 18 November 2009.
Raymond Louis Specht, botanist on the 1948 Expedition, reflects on the influence of the Expedition and discusses his botanical investigations.
00:43:02 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Missing the revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land
Date recorded: 19 November 2009.
Ian McIntosh examines how Yolngu people negotiated disclosure and concealment in relation to Bayini bark paintings. What did they tell Charles Mountford about it an…
00:36:13 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948-2008
Date recorded: 19 November 2009.
Jon Altman describes transformations in the customary economy of Aboriginal people in western Arnhem Land over 60 years - a comparative analysis made possible becau…
00:26:42 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land Expedition
Date recorded: 17 November 2009.
Gerald Blitner served as a guide and translator for the Expedition. Here, Martin Thomas explores his oral testimony alongside archival evidence, including observati…
00:35:09 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
'Bastard barks': A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition
Date recorded: 17 November 2009.
Margo Neale explores Charles Mountford's collection of works on paper, locating them as a useful starting point for reassessing Mountford's reputation as a collecto…
00:25:38 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still going
Date recorded: 18 November 2009.
Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, provides an overview of the museum's Australian collections…
00:22:42 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt
Date recorded: 18 November 2009.
Dr Anne Clarke and Ms Ursula Frederick revisit Frederick McCarthy's research in relation to their own more recent analyses of rock art sites on Groote Eylandt, usin…
00:26:48 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem Land
Date recorded: 19 November 2009.
Whereas the 1948 Expedition presented vast collections of plant and animal life classified according to Linnaean taxonomy, Ad Borsboom explores how the Yolngu organ…
00:23:56 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
Stories of the sea: travellers across the Pacific
Date recorded: 16 September 2009.
Pacific scholars Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula explore the personal and historical accounts of lives lived with the sea, from early Indigenous popula…
Tue 27 Oct 2009
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803-1853
Date recorded: 14 October 2009.
Curator Anthea Gunn talks about her research on the colonial settlement of Hobart and the expansion of Van Diemen's Land in the early 1800s, as part of her work on t…
00:59:46 |
Mon 26 Oct 2009
Ocean crossings: the material traces of voyaging
Date recorded: 22 July 2009.
Contemporary perspectives on Pacific Islander voyaging, investigating archaeological evidence and museum displays from Pacific scholars Kylie Moloney, Melanie Van Olffe…
Mon 05 Oct 2009
Get Up, Stand Up public forum
Date recorded: 10 September 2009.
Contemporary forms of Indigenous protest are examined by historian John Maynard, film director Rachel Perkins, elder Martin Ballangarry and hip-hopper Brothablack …
Tue 29 Sep 2009
Irish in Australia
Date recorded: 15 March 2009.
Researcher, author and Irishman Richard Reid and photographer Brendon Kelson examine the role of the Irish in Australia, to be featured in a forthcoming National Museu…
Mon 17 Aug 2009
Violent ends: the arts of environmental anxiety
Date recorded: 11 June 2009.
Fears around global warming are explored through different mediums by a group of artists, poets, dancers, singers, scientists, film makers, historians, creative writers…
Sun 16 Aug 2009
In coral seas: ships, cargo and people in the South Pacific 1930 to 1960
Date recorded: 22 July 2009.
The history of trade, shipping, tourism and migration between the Pacific islands and Australia is explored by historian Jonathan Ritchie as part of Voyages of the Paci…
00:31:49 |
Thu 13 Aug 2009
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