Paradise with a Past

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1 Paradise with a Past HTA Norfolk Island Conference January 2016 Register at: EARLYBIRDS SAVE $50 per person if travel and registra on are booked by 9 September 2015 Current prices for travel & accommoda on packages are only available un l 5 October 2015 Capacity is limited and early registra on is advised. Travel insurance is strongly advised. The HTANSW Norfolk Island Conference is being organised in associa on with Norfolk Island Central School and Norfolk Island Travel Centre. Conference Program Time pm 6.30 pm 1.30 pm 1.30 pm Monday 11 January Half Day Island Tour (delegates and partners) Conference Welcome Dinner (delegates and partners) Sirius Room, Paradise Hotel Tuesday 12 January Sirius Room, Paradise Hotel Welcome & Introduc on Michelle Nicholson, Principal Norfolk Island Central School A context: the movement of peoples in the 18th and 19th centuries Paul Kiem, Professional Officer HTANSW Norfolk Island Museum: Collec ons and Programs Janelle Blucher, Ac ng Director/Curator Norfolk Island Museum Polynesian Explora on of the Pacific a Tahi an perspec ve Pauline Reynolds, University of New England Teachers as Interpreta on Teaching, inspiring and strengthening students apprecia on of history with new methods and old tools, using Norfolk Island s second se lement as a Case Study Ma Alexander, Commonwealth Heritage Officer, Norfolk Island Excursion Choices: 1. The Kingston Heritage Walk 2. Norfolk Island Museum Walking tour W1A: Convict lads and lasses: Engaging with the experiences of younger convicts Kate Cameron, HTANSW W2A: Women convicts & the founda onal orgy Greg Keith Nagle College, Blacktown NSW W3A: Local & family history in the New Zealand curriculum: Norfolk examples Jill Harland Timaru Boys High School, NZ Wednesday 13 January Norfolk Island Central School Norfolk Island Central School & Introduc on to Story Room Michelle Nicholson, Principal Norfolk Island Central School W1B: Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA) and Stage 5 History Judith Davidson, KAVHA W2B: Object narra ves: bring history to life in the primary classroom using convict and colonial artefacts Angela Casey, David Arnold & Amanda Paroz Na onal Musuem of Australia, Canberra ACT W3B: Dead Easy: using a cemetery as a site study Kate Cameron, HTANSW W1C: NICS curriculum ini a ve 1 Year 10 Site Study W2C: Confron ng the essen al dialec cs of History Denis Mootz University of NSW W3C: NICS curriculum ini a ve 2 Language & Heritage Excursion Choices: 1. The Kingston Heritage Walk 2. Norfolk Island Museum Walking tour Story Room Elders and Artefacts 1

2 Time Thursday 14 January Sirius Room, Paradise Hotel When the Pitcairners arrived on Norfolk Island Rick Kleiner The Cyclorama: meet the ar sts Sue Draper & Tracey Yager, Gallery Guava The Women of the Bounty - uncovering their lives with tapa cloth Pauline Reynolds, University of New England 1.30 pm Excursion Choices: 1. The Kingston Heritage Walk 2. Norfolk Island Museum Walking tour break 5.00 pm Farewell Fish Fry (conference delegates) Details of the conference program are subject to change. History Teachers Associa on of NSW is a QTC endorsed provider of Registered professional development for the maintenance of Proficient Teacher Accredita on in NSW. Scope of endorsement: Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the level of Proficient Teacher. Standards 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 & Standard Descriptor for History related professional development. PROGRAM AND PRESENTER DETAILS Half Day Island Tour This tour, for conference delegates and their partners, will be scheduled for Monday afternoon following the arrival of the plane from Sydney. Conference Dinner The welcome dinner, for conference delegates and their partners, will take place at 6.30 pm in the Sirius Room of the Paradise Hotel. Cyclorama As part of their registration all conference delegates will have a pass to visit the Fletcher s Mutiny Cyclorama. This magnificent artwork is located within a short walk of the conference accommodation and delegates are encouraged to take the opportunity to visit the Cyclorama in their own time before the Thursday presentation by the artists. Opening hours: Monday-Friday 5.00 pm; Saturday-Sunday am 3.00 pm. Allow up to half an hour for a visit. Only small groups are admitted. Farewell Fish Fry The final program event for conference delegates will be a traditional island fish fry, held on the west coast at sunset. Transport will be provided from the conference hotel. Conference Excursions In the last session each day conference delegates will be able to choose one excursion from four options. Each excursion will leave from the conference venue and return to the hotel. 1. Misery, Mutiny and Majesty: The Kingston Heritage Walk This walking tour of World Heritage listed Kingston and Arthurs Vale is a unique opportunity to experience the site. Explore Polynesian, convict and Pitcairner history and heritage in this beautiful landscape. See how the convicts endured the misery and harsh exile to Norfolk walking through the New Gaol. Envisage how the military officers and their families lived in Quality Row, the most majestic collection of Georgian architecture in Australasia. Here at the far end of the earth British and Polynesian history is brought to life as you stroll through this historic area. Visit a restored house that was once home to descendants of Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty and Mauatua his Tahitian wife. Our guides will lead you on this exclusive tour of Kingston, where you are surrounded by majestic Norfolk Pines in a living site where today, Norfolk Islanders live, work and play. 2. Norfolk Island Museum: Walking tour Located in four heritage buildings in the World Heritage listed Kingston and Arthur s Vale Historic Area, the Norfolk Island Museum reveals amazing and multi-layered stories. Explore Norfolk Island s Polynesian past and turbulent penal settlement stories as well as today s living culture. Be guided through the museum s collections to learn the stories associated with the artefacts, including their recovery and care. 3. Walk Back in Time: Arthurs Vale A Walk Back in Time takes advantage of the unspoilt landscape of Arthurs Vale, where the topography first encountered by Lieutenant Gidley King in 1799 retains the practical modifications, so essential to food production, 2

3 made during the subsequent penal settlements and the Pitcairn settlement. Visitors literally walk back in time as the story of the landing place is told and they wander though the Vale. The stone ruins and fields coax to life the stories of millers, convicts, overseers, ticket of leave men and families. The tour starts with a viewing of old maps, sketches, photos and documents at the KAVHA Research and Information Centre. A walk up Flagstaff hill is optional. 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Stories from Norfolk Island Cemetery Join a local guide on the only dedicated cemetery tour on offer as she leads you through the gravestones and the stories, providing a moving and memorable experience. Tuesday 12 JANUARY Sirius Room, Paradise Hotel A Context the movement of people in the 18th and 19th centuries: This session will provide an introductory overview of the movement of people in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a context for understanding key events, people and issues involved in the many histories that merge on Norfolk Island. Dr Paul Kiem, currently HTANSW s Professional Officer, is a former President of the History Teachers Association of Australia, author of a number of popular texts and an experienced presenter. Norfolk Island Museum Collections and Programs: Janelle Blucher, Acting Director and Assistant Curator for Norfolk Island Museum, will provide an overview of Norfolk Island Museum s extensive collections and programs. Polynesian Exploration of the Pacific a Tahitian perspective: Pauline Reynolds will outline the Polynesian exploration of the Pacific, with a focus on the Tahitian perspective. Pauline Reynolds is a historian who lived on and off Norfolk Island before calling Huahine (an outer island of Tahiti) home for many years. On returning to Norfolk Island, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2010 that enabled her to visit museums worldwide to examine the tapa (barkcloths) made by her Tahitian foremothers on Pitcairn Island. Currently completing studies at the University of England, she has presented papers around the world, including at the 2011 Maori and Pacifi c Textile Symposium in Wellington, New Zealand and the 2014 Made in Oceania: Tapa art and social landscapes conference in Cologne, Germany. She is the author of a number of books, including Pitcairn Tapa: Ahu no Hitiaurevareva (2008). Teachers as Interpretation Teaching, inspiring and strengthening students appreciation of history with new methods and old tools, using Norfolk Island s second settlement as a Case Study: Focusing on the period of the second convict settlement, Matt Alexander will explore ways in which teachers can develop an understanding of history as an interpretation of the past. Matt Alexander is Norfolk Island s Commonwealth Heritage Officer. Involved in cultural heritage for a decade, his focus has been on colonial era heritage, the mapping of Aboriginal cultural landscapes, defence heritage and management of heritage through community and community driven mechanisms. Matt has won several awards for his work, including the inaugural ASHA Judy Birmingham Award for the Best Historical Archaeological Heritage Report and two High Commendations from the National Trust of Australia. Prior to taking up his current position on Norfolk Island, Matt owned and operated his own private heritage consultancy and was accepted as a Full International Member of ICOMOS (International Committee on Monuments and Sites). Wednesday 13 JANUARY Norfolk Island Central School Norfolk Island Central School & Introduction to Story Room: Principal of Norfolk Island Central School Michelle Nicholson will provide a brief introduction to both the school s history and the Conference Story Room. Story Room Elders and Artefacts: Conference delegates will have the opportunity to meet with members of the Norfolk Island community and see some of the fascinating artefacts that have been conserved in the island s homes. The Story Room will operate from 9.30 am 1.30 pm and can be visited informally as an alternative to other sessions on the Wednesday program. W1A Convict lads and lasses: Engaging with the experiences of younger convicts: Many convicts transported to Australia were juveniles, under 18 years of age, some as young as 8 or 9. This session models how to help students use primary sources to investigate the experiences of people close to their own age. What were their crimes? How did they serve out their sentences? What kind of citizens did they become? Links with primary and secondary curriculum. Kate Cameron has had extensive experience as a teacher, teacher-educator and as senior assessment officer at the NSW Board of Studies. She provides professional development workshops and programs for primary and secondary teachers of history. Kate s publications include textbooks for Stage 5 Australian History, Stage 6 Ancient History, the Discovering History resource for primary teachers, and a range of chapters and journal articles on all aspects of history teaching. W1B Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA) and Stage 5 History: This presentation will explain the vital roles of the penal settlements on Norfolk Island in relation to the various phases of the British convict 3

4 system and how this fabulous site can be utilized to immerse students in the meaning of that experience through the three tiered School Tours Education package offered by the KAVHA Research and Information Centre. Judith Davidson is a former Head Teacher and history teacher and is now Research Officer with the KAVHA Research and Information Centre. W1C Norfolk Island Central School Curriculum Initiative 1 Year 10 mandatory site study: A multimedia presentation of Norfolk Island s historical participation in the World Wars, hosted by Norfolk Island Central School students, as descendants of the returned servicemen and women. W2A Women convicts & the foundational orgy: In 1988, Robert Hughes claimed that the sexual history of colonial Australia began with an event that has since been termed the foundational orgy, a night of debauchery and depravity that commenced immediately the First Fleet s women convicts were brought onshore. Hughes description of these scenes in The Fatal Shore was vivid. There was just one problem the events he described never happened. The women convicts received particularly unjust treatment from several generations of historians. More recent historians have struggled to defeat the stereotype of damned whore. This presentation will focus on the foundational orgy as a case study in the historiography of the women convicts, demonstrating how the myth was created and perpetuated, but it will also consider the sources for evidence of the women s origins and their contributions to the colonial society of New South Wales, where they became our founding mothers. Greg Keith teaches History at Nagle College, Blacktown, NSW. He holds a BA (English Literature/History) from Macquarie University, an MA in Modern History (with a focus on colonial Australia) also from Macquarie, and an MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Sydney. He has taught the Women Convicts option in the NSW HSC History Extension course for the last 10 years. W2B Object narratives: bring history to life in the primary classroom using convict and colonial artefacts: This workshop will explore the capacity of narrative structures, storytelling and object handling to enliven student curiosity and consider how these approaches build student capacity to frame their own learning inquiry in the history classroom. Practical strategies and resources for teachers to use in their own classroom will be covered in this session. Angela Casey, David Arnold & Amanda Paroz are museum educators from the National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT. David is Head of Community Services and Outreach, Angela Casey is Learning Services Manager and Amanda Paroz is Schools Coordinator. All are former teachers. W2C Confronting the essential dialectics of History: This presentation will argue that the teaching and study of History requires coming to grips with two essential dialectics or points of tension in the process. The first is that the past is not recoverable. Only traces remain for analysis. This leads to inevitable differences in perspectives and interpretation. The second dialectic is tension between the past and the present caused by our propensity to impose anachronism on the past. Avoiding presentism and finding a truth about the past requires the development of a degree of empathy that will allow the past to be viewed through the lens or world view of the people of the past. Teachers of History can address these dialectics in the classroom. Dr Denis Mootz taught K-12 for 40 + years in rural and urban schools, with 30+ of those years spent as a History teacher and Head Teacher in the public sector. He is the author of numerous publications and conference presentations and has postgraduate qualifications in History (Masters by thesis) and in History pedagogy (EdD). W3A Local & family history in the New Zealand curriculum, Norfolk Island examples: The New Zealand History curriculum has over the past few years intensified the introduction of both family and localised history into Junior Social Science and Senior NCEA History Levels 1-3. The special commemoration of men and women who participated in the First World War that commenced last year has also influenced the nature of history assignments and assessment in which students can discuss their own family narratives. To coincide with the unique location of this conference and to offer examples relating to ancestry, Jill Harland will be discussing two case studies. The first will focus on Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk for whom Captain Cook named Norfolk Island. The second will feature surgeon George Bouchier Worgan, who spent a year on the island after the HMS Sirius was wrecked on 19th March Dr Jill Harland has taught in both schools and the tertiary sector in Queensland and New Zealand. She currently teaches History and Social Science at Timaru Boys High School, New Zealand. W3B Dead Easy: using a cemetery as a site study: This workshop offers strategies for designing site-based activities to be used in a cemetery and accompanying engaging classroom activities involving visual and written literacy, construction of a digital database and a range of investigation and communication skills. Templates can be adapted for use in any local cemetery. Links with primary and secondary curriculum. Presented by Kate Cameron, see W2C for presenter details. W3C Norfolk Island Central School Curriculum Initiative 2 Language and Heritage: Norfolk Island Central School s curriculum initiatives, spanning infants, primary and secondary, proudly support our history, heritage and culture. This session is hosted by the school s students. Join us in a multimedia presentation which highlights our annual Year 9 Language Camp, showcasing our own unique language and way of life, including the history of whaling, plaiting, cooking, fishing, gardening, bird life, community activities and events. 4

5 Thursday 14 JANUARY Sirius Room, Paradise Hotel When the Pitcairners arrived on Norfolk Island: Who owns Norfolk Island? This presentation will deal with the contention about ownership of Norfolk Island since the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders in The discussion is made more poignant by recent political events resulting in the dissolving of the Island s Legislative Assembly. There are no villains in this historical de-construction, merely different views of the same event. Richard Kleiner is a self-described lay-historian. With a degree in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1975) and a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (1985), his first career was as a project planner at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, NASA s lead centre for remote sensing. While there he wrote a range of technical and general-interest articles for publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun and the Journal of Project Management. His lifelong interest in the history of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands began as a child in Los Angeles when he mentioned to his mother his interest in the mutiny on the Bounty, after watching the 1939 movie version of the story, only to discover that he was a Bounty descendant. Rick has actively pursued that interest for the last 40 years. He has lived on Norfolk Island for the past 17 years and operates a tour company specialising in the history and natural history of Norfolk Island. The Cyclorama Meet the Artists: In this session Cyclorama artists Sue Draper and Tracey Yager will survey the fascinating history of cycloramas/panoramas based on their own experience of a number of panorama conferences throughout the world. They will then discuss a range of areas such as: how they researched and produced their artwork; how people, local and visitors, have responded to it; the challenges and benefits of representing the past in art and stories relating to the Cyclorama. Sue Draper was born in Melbourne in An early interest in creative arts led to a correspondence Art course in her teens, followed by tertiary education in Interior Design at Melbourne College of Design & Decoration. Sue worked in commercial and domestic fields of Interior Design in Melbourne, including TV set dressing and magazine journalism. She moved to Norfolk Island in 1997 for a career change and began working as a full-time artist. She established gallery guava art gallery with fellow artist, Tracey Yager. Sue works in a variety of mediums, her favoured being pastel or acrylic. She has also designed stamps for Norfolk Island. Tracey Yager was born on Norfolk Island in 1966 and is a direct descendant of Bounty mutineer Matthew Quintal. She was industry trained in Graphic Design and worked in that field in London, Australia and Norfolk Island. After establishing herself as a full time self-employed artist while living in Noosa, Queensland, Tracey returned home in 1997 and opened gallery guava with Sue Draper. The art mediums Tracey prefers to work in are watercolour, acrylic, pencil and more recently wood carving. In 2001 Tracey and Sue were commissioned to design and paint Fletcher s Mutiny Cyclorama, the highly acclaimed 360 panoramic painting which depicts the Bounty story and the settlement of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. The painting took two years to create and has become a popular attraction on Norfolk Island. Conference delegates are encouraged to experience the Cyclorama before attending this session. The Women of the Bounty uncovering their lives with tapa cloth: In this presentation Pauline Reynolds will use her expertise and visual resources to examine the tapa (barkcloths) made by her Tahitian foremothers on Pitcairn Island. The use of these material sources allows her to reveal fascinating stories about the lives of these remarkable women. See Tuesday s session Polynesian Exploration of the Pacific a Tahitian perspective for presenter details. 5