Come and try your hand at transcription, or simply find out out more about the project. We’ll be set up in King’s Hall all day, so drop in! There’ll be live updates on the progress of the transcribe-a-thon projected on the walls of King’s Hall. How many documents can we process in a weekend?<\/p>\n
Dr Sophie Couchman is a curator and public historian with an Honorary Research Fellowship at La Trobe University. She is interested in the place of migrants in Australia\u2019s history and has researched and published in the field of Chinese Australian history and heritage for many years, including as Curator at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne. Sophie has a particular interest in the creation and circulation of visual representations and how they shape our understandings of Chinese Australians, a topic explored in her PhD research on Chinese and photography in Australia from the 1870s to the 1940s.<\/p>\n
Dr Kate Bagnall is a Canberra-based historian and writer. She currently holds an ARC DECRA Research Fellowship in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong, where she is working on a comparative study of Chinese colonial citizenship in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Kate has published on various aspects of Chinese Australian history, including on the administration of the Immigration Restriction Act and on the archives of White Australia. She is @baibi on Twitter and you can find her blog at www.chineseaustralia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dr Peter Prince has spent the last 15 years working on \u2018aliens\u2019, much to the amusement of his children. He published a series of papers for the Commonwealth Parliamentary library on the subject and in 2016 completed a PhD thesis with the ANU College of Law on use of the word \u2018alien\u2019 as a key language tool in the creation of a \u2018White Australia\u2019. He has worked for Defence and the DFAT and is currently a lawyer with the Department of Health, working mainly in the aged care area.<\/p>\n Come and try your hand at transcription, or simply find out out more about the project. We’ll be set up in King’s Hall all day, so drop in! There’ll be live updates on the progress of the transcribe-a-thon projected on the walls of King’s Hall. How many documents can we process in a weekend?<\/p>\n Come and chat with our Chinese family history experts Kate Bagnall and Sophie Couchman.<\/span><\/p>\n Lisa Russ is currently a Bachelor of Heritage, Museums and Conservation student at the University of Canberra. She has lived in Canada, the United Kingdom, and now calls Australia home. Transcribing and analysing Series ST84\/1 documents, many of which have handprints, inspires Lisa to talk about the power of fingerprints.<\/p>\n Dr Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. He\u2019s worked across the cultural heritage sector and has been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. Tim\u2019s tools and experiments include important things like The Real Face of White Australia<\/a>, useful things like QueryPic<\/a>, and weird things like the Vintage Face Depot<\/a>. He\u2019s currently Associate Professor of Digital Heritage at the University of Canberra. You can find him at timsherratt.org<\/a> or as @wragge on Twitter.<\/p>\n Photograph of King’s Hall by Kgbo<\/a> – Own work<\/span>, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, Link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, 9 September All day, KING’s Hall Come and try your hand at transcription, or simply find out out more about the project. We’ll be set up in King’s Hall all day, so drop in! There’ll be live updates on the progress of the transcribe-a-thon projected on the walls of King’s Hall. How many documents … Continue reading Transcribe-a-thon program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.exploringdigitalheritage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaturday, 3.00-3.30pm, Senate<\/h5>\n
Peter Prince, \u2018White Queensland: bananas, aliens and dictation\u2019<\/h4>\n
\nSunday, 10 September<\/h2>\n
All day, KING’s Hall<\/h5>\n
\nSunday, All MORNING, KING’s Hall<\/h5>\n
Chinese Family History Drop-in<\/h3>\n
\nSunday, 12.30-1.00pm, House of Representatives<\/h5>\n
Lisa Russ, \u2018The six degrees of fingerprints: Leave your fingerprint!\u2019<\/h3>\n
\nSunday, 3.00-3.30pm, Senate<\/h5>\n
Tim Sherratt, \u2018Mobilising the digital: A live experiment in meaning, place, and history\u2019<\/h3>\n
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