GLAMcity

This episode we're joined by Elena Guest, manager of the National Film and Sound Archive Restores progra Chelsea Barnett talks to Elena about the ins and outs of restoring films, the National Film and Sound Archives approach to restoration, and some exciting upcoming films.

This week we speak to the historian Professor Ann Curthoys. Across her more than forty year career, Ann has worked in Indigenous, colonial and women’s history. Ann is joined by Kiera Lindsey, to talk about “creative histories”- what the term means, why it’s used, and how creativity plays a part in making histories.

This week on GLAMcity we speak with Jenny Newell, the Australian Museum’s Manager of International Collections and Climate Change Projects. We talk about what place cultural institutions have in addressing climate change- and how the Australian Museum is doing its part.

This week we speak to Dr Anna Lawrenson and Dr Chiara O’Reilly about their book- The Rise of the Must-See Exhibition: Blockbusters in Australian Museums and Galleries. Chelsea Barnett chats to Chiara and Anna about these blockbusters, and how they shape, and are shaped by, our cultural institutions.

This week's guest is Stephen Gapps, a Sydney based historian with an interest in public history and early colonial Sydney. We talk to Stephen about his book The Sydney Wars, and the conflicts between colonists and Sydney people in the city's early years.

This episode we speak to Paul Irish, a Sydney based historian and archaeologist. Paul is the author of Hidden In Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney, which explores the history of Aboriginal people in Sydney, and their interactions with early colonists.

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Professor John Maynard is a Worimi man and chair of Indigenous Studies and Head of Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle- his research covers Aboriginal social and political life, and international links between Aboriginal activists.

On this episode of GLAMcity, we talk to John about his research into the movement of Aboriginal people from Australia to England from the late eighteenth century onward.

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This week on GLAMcity we're taking the questions to one of our own- Dr Kiera Lindsey is a GLAMcity host, as well as a research fellow at University of Technology Sydney and author of the speculative biography The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony. Chelsea Barnett talks to Kiera about her current research project on colonial artist Adelaide Ironside, and how it led her to a fascinating archival find that could change what we know about colonials women's political lives.

This episode we take an introspective look at some of the station's own archives.

Liz Giuffre, senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, joins us to talk about her work sorting through boxes of tape, photos and 2SER ephemera, and her passion for pop culture.

What's On:

40 Years of 2SER at the 107 Projects 10-20 October

Meet Bluey and Bingo at the State Library 12 October

Meet Mr Wickham at Ashfield Library 28 October

Music: Comprehension, Frank Jonsson

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Geoffrey Potter is a central coast local history librarian, and author of "Wreck of the Maitland: a scene to make the angels weep"

On this episode of GLAMcity, we talk to Geoffrey about what it means to be a local historian and the importance of exploring local histories.