The Winter Symposium
July 2006

CAIA’s Winter Symposium for 2006 “Recovering Lives” was held at the Port Arthur Motor Inn 4-6 July.

The Symposium began with a plenary address from Professor Laurel Ulrich (History) Harvard University who was introduced by Professor Cassandra Pybus (History) University of Sydney.
Professor Noel Frankham (Art) University of Tasmania, and Julia Clark, Interpretations Manager, Port Arthur Historic Site, conducted a tour of the site after presenting the panel “Creating Art for historic sites: the Port Arthur Project”.
Postgraduate student Miranda Morris (Gender Studies, School of Philosophy) University of Tasmania, Julia Clark, Interpretations Manager, Port Arthur Historic Site, and postgraduate student Madonna Grehan (School of Nursing) University of Melbourne.
Professor Noel Frankham (Art) University of Tasmania, leading the tour of the Separate Prison.
Delegates on tour of the Separate Prison at Port Arthur.
Symposium delegates take their place in the Separate Prison Chapel at Port Arthur.
Emeritus Professor Basil Sansom (Anthropology, Riawunna) University of Tasmania takes to the pulpit for an impromptu sermon in the Separate Prison Chapel at Port Arthur.
Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (History) University of Tasmania talks with Professor Lucy Frost (English) University of Tasmania and Professor Emeritus Rhys Isaac  (History) Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, in exercise yard of the Separate Prison at Port Arthur.
“Constructing collective biographies” Convening chair Associate Professor Ralph Crane (English), University of Tasmania, Associate Professor Margaret Allen (Gender Studies), University of Adelaide, Dr Susan Ballyn (English), University of Barcelona, Dr Emma Christopher (History) Monash University, and Professor Lucy Frost (English), University of Tasmania.
Members of the public and delegates attending the Plenary session held in conjunction with Port Arthur Lecture Series at the Port Arthur Asylum.
Professor Rhys Isaac presenting the plenary address entitled “Re-enacting at Historic Sites: Slavery at Colonial Williamsburg”.
Dr Anna Johnston (English) University of Tasmania, convening chair of the panel  “Unexpected Lives/Unexpected Sources”.
Panel members of “Unexpected Lives/Unexpected Sources”, from left to right, Professor Helen Tiffin (English) University of Tasmania, Dr Helen MacDonald (History) University of Melbourne, and Caroline Forell (Law) Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law, University of Oregon.

Photographs taken by Mitchell Rolls