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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Objects of Time
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nFirst speaker:\nTurning Over Material Histories of the Sandglass\nwith Matthew Champion\nIn the early fourteenth century\, the sandglass made its debut as the most precise technology of time measurement in Europe to date. Almost immediately its impact was felt: cooks and courtiers\, rabbis and scientists\, accountants and artisans\, began to use sandglasses to time their activities\, their lives\, and to make their livings. Yet for an instrument of such importance\, the sandglass’s origins and its histories remain startlingly unclear. This paper sets out some first thoughts towards a material history of the sandglass and its importance to the history of temporalities. What can we learn from surviving objects and evidence of their use in multiple spaces\, genres\, and media? \nMatthew Champion is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in the history of premodern temporalities and materiality\, including his 2017 Chicago monograph The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries\, winner of the 2018 Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society. His articles have appeared in Past & Present\, Speculum\, Sixteenth Century Journal and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. He is a co-curator of the current exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance (Arts West Gallery\, University of Melbourne). \nSecond speaker:\nPunctuality and Progress: Reflections on Clocks\, Time and History\nwith Graeme Davison\nProbably no invention has played a more significant part in the making of the modern world than the mechanical clock. I have long loved clocks and watches. I marvel at their intricate workmanship\, their delicate self-regulation and their humanoid qualities. From The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to tell the Time (1994) to My Grandfather’s Clock (2023) clocks and changing conceptions of measured time have shaped my vision of history as much as any human character. In this talk\, I will reflect on the histories of some clocks I have known either as museum objects\, such as the Powerhouse Museum’s Strasburg Clock\, or personal possessions\, such as my great-grandfather’s long case-clock. What can we learn from the clocks as material objects as distinct from the knowledge of their origins and provenance? Where does the mystique of the antiquarian end and the wisdom of the historian begin? \nGraeme Davison is Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor of History at Monash University. He has written widely on Australian history\, heritage and public history where his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne\, The Use and Abuse of Australian History\, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Changed our Cities\, City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia and Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age. He is a former chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria\, an advisor to the National Museum of Australia and co-editor of a history of the Powerhouse Museum. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
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SUMMARY:‘Good Price\, Reliable Recipes\, Great Photos’
DESCRIPTION:The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbooks and their influence on Australian food culture \nThe Australian Women’s Weekly’s cookbooks were (and still are) remarkably popular. The Weekly\, Australia’s most popular women’s magazine\, started publishing a range of cookbooks from the late 1930s\, but it was during the 1970s when their cookbooks became incredibly popular. Many of the Weekly’s cookbooks\, whether the Children’s Birthday Cake Book or the Chinese Cooking Class Cookbook\, have become ‘bibles’ in the Australian kitchen. This talk will investigate how these books came to be\, why they were so popular\, and how they helped shape Australia’s food culture. \nDr Lauren Samuelsson holds a PhD in history and is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong\, Australia. Lauren’s research interests include cultural history\, the history of food and drink\, the history of popular culture and gender history. Her PhD thesis considered the influence of the Australian Women’s Weekly magazine and cookbooks on the development of Australian food culture from the 1930s to the 1980s. She has also worked on the social and cultural history of liquor legislation in mid-twentieth century New South Wales.
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Objects at Sea
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \n\n\n\nObjects at Sea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke Keogh: The Wardian Case: Lost at Sea or a Case for Stories?\nIn 1829\, the surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathanial Bagshaw Ward accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in airtight glass cases could survive for long periods without watering. The Wardian case\, as it became known\, revolutionised the movement of plants around the globe. In the cases plants had greater chance of survival when in transit. After the first successful experiment on a journey from London to Sydney and back\, the cases were used for over a century and had a major impact on the distribution of plants around the globe. As a museum object\, the Wardian case is almost lost in collections worldwide\, with only thirteen of these boxes remaining. In this presentation Luke Keogh travels across the oceans with live plants in Wardian cases and delves into the ways to approach the histories of lost museum objects.\nLuke Keogh is a curator and historian. His book The Wardian Case (Chicago\, 2020) won the NSW Premiers General History Prize and was Garden Media Guild’s Book of the Year. He lectures into the museums and history programs at Deakin University. \nDr Peter Hobbins: Pickled and preserved: a brandy bottle\, a drunken sailor and a shipwreck\nWhy would a ship’s captain steer his vessel toward shore on a night that was literally dark and stormy? Did it have anything to do with the 3000 cases of brandy\, spirits and ale in the hold? Indeed\, was Captain Samuel Bache drunk when the barque Queen of Nations grounded just north of Wollongong on 31 May 1881? This presentation focuses on a fragile survivor of that shipwreck – a brandy bottle. What might this vessel and its tempting amber fluid tell us about materiality\, mobility\, consumption\, labour\, economics\, environment\, safety and psychology at a moment of technological transformation in sea travel?\nDr Peter Hobbins leads the curatorial\, library and publications teams at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. As a curator and historian of science\, technology and medicine\, he focuses on what we can learn about the past when things go wrong\, including snakebite\, pandemics\, aircraft crashes and shipwrecks. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
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SUMMARY:The Teapot in Victoria: Connections in Time
DESCRIPTION:The teabag may be ubiquitous in contemporary life\, but for most of the period from 1840 tea was brewed in a teapot\, or in a billy over the fire. Almost every family owned a teapot\, and often they owned several\, for Victorians were prodigious tea drinkers. So much so\, that in 1883 visiting author Richard Twopeny described tea as the ‘national beverage’. In this lecture Margaret Anderson explores the history of tea drinking in Victoria\, through the lens of the humble teapot. From the solitary ‘cuppa’ to lavish afternoon teas\, Australians celebrated\, consoled\, and forged social connections around the tea table\, in family rituals that reached form one generation to the next.  \nPresented as part of the ‘Belongings: Objects and Family Life’ exhibition program and as part of the Australian Heritage Festival.
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