Wendy van Duivenvoorde: Expedition 1705: The earliest record of substantial culture contact between Indigenous Australians and the VOC
2021 Global Encounters Network Seminar Series
Throughout 2021, we will host a monthly webinar series to connect the diverse network of scholars affiliated or linked to the project for a fruitful, ongoing discussion.
Topic: Expedition 1705: The earliest record of substantial culture contact between Indigenous Australians and the VOC
Speaker: Associate Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Flinders University
Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is an Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University, South Australia. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Australia and is affiliated with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. From 2006 to 2011, she worked as a maritime archaeologist at the Western Australian Maritime Museum. Her research is focused primarily on maritime trade, seafaring and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean, the early modern period in north western Europe, and the early Australian colonies. Her work in Australia has mainly focused on Dutch East India Company seafaring and shipbuilding and include the archaeology of Western Australia’s early Dutch shipwrecks.
Discussant: Dr Leigh T.I. Penman, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University
Dr Leigh T.I. Penman (Monash) is an historian of ideas who received a PhD from the University of Melbourne in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2009. Fluent in English, Dutch, and German, Leigh brings important multilingual skills to the Global Encounters program. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of London (Goldsmiths), and the University of Queensland. He is the author of Hope and Heresy: The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture (Springer 2019), and The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism (Bloomsbury 2020).
Time: Thursday 16 September 2021, 6:00pm - 7:00pm AEST
Register here.
For enquiries please contact leonie.stevens@monash.edu
Event Details
- Date:
- 16 September 2021 at 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Categories:
- Monash Indigenous Studies Centre (MISC); Global Encounters & First Nations People
Description
2021 Global Encounters Network Seminar Series
Throughout 2021, we will host a monthly webinar series to connect the diverse network of scholars affiliated or linked to the project for a fruitful, ongoing discussion.
Topic: Expedition 1705: The earliest record of substantial culture contact between Indigenous Australians and the VOC
Speaker: Associate Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Flinders University
Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is an Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University, South Australia. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Australia and is affiliated with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. From 2006 to 2011, she worked as a maritime archaeologist at the Western Australian Maritime Museum. Her research is focused primarily on maritime trade, seafaring and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean, the early modern period in north western Europe, and the early Australian colonies. Her work in Australia has mainly focused on Dutch East India Company seafaring and shipbuilding and include the archaeology of Western Australia’s early Dutch shipwrecks.
Discussant: Dr Leigh T.I. Penman, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University
Dr Leigh T.I. Penman (Monash) is an historian of ideas who received a PhD from the University of Melbourne in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2009. Fluent in English, Dutch, and German, Leigh brings important multilingual skills to the Global Encounters program. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of London (Goldsmiths), and the University of Queensland. He is the author of Hope and Heresy: The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture (Springer 2019), and The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism (Bloomsbury 2020).
Time: Thursday 16 September 2021, 6:00pm - 7:00pm AEST
Register here.
For enquiries please contact leonie.stevens@monash.edu