Travelling Stories: connecting people and landscapes

A conference with a difference!

We are pleased to announce the first-ever collaboration between the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology (ASHA) and Interpretation Australia (IA) will be a joint conference to be held in Tasmania in October 2017.  The conference will bring people together to explore new ways of telling stories about the important landscapes, places and environments in which we live and work.

It will be a travelling conference, moving through venues from Launceston to Hobart via key places along the Midlands Highway including the World Heritage-listed Brickendon; Ross; the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary and the Shene Estate.

We anticipate the attendance of people from a broad range of disciplines and professions to explore common ground and approaches.

The conference theme will allow for the development of joint sessions and cross-disciplinary discussions about how data and research become transformed into knowledge and how knowledge can be shared with a wide range of audiences in a constantly changing world. The two organisations are developing also conference sessions that relate to their professional interests and concerns, and which enable the delivery of papers about both natural and cultural environments.

We aim to address the conference experience through an exploration of the excitingly complex and interesting landscapes of Tasmania and beyond, using both formal conference sessions and informed site visits. The conference will integrate field excursions with thematic discussions rather than relegating field trips to pre- or post-conference optional extras (although there will be some of those too!). In all of the conference deliberations the focus will be on the telling of new stories, using established and developing technologies for better interpretive outcomes, and in reaching audiences that previously may have seemed either physically remote or challenging to engage. We aim to foster new thinking, profitable collaborations and an atmosphere that encourages challenging the status quo.

We have issues a call for sessions and registrations for the conference are now open.

For:
regular updates about the conference programme, site visits, workshops, and poster sessions
calls for sessions and papers
and/or
to register

please visit the conference website at: http://portarthur.org.au/activities/travelling-stories/


David Roe,
For the Organizing Committee

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