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GLAMcity
by 2SER 107.3FM
Join historians Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark from the Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney to find out what’s going on in Sydney’s cultural scene.Each week they speak to the people in the know from the 'GLAM' sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).To get in touch with the GLAMcity team - you can email us at [email protected] Producer Season Two: Jason L'EcuyerExecutive Producer Season One: Emma Lancaster
Episodes
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Elena Guest on Restoring Australian Films
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.
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Ann Curthoys on Creative Histories
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…
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Jenny Newell on museums and climate change
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.
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Anna Lawrenson and Chiara O'Reilly on Blockbuster Exhibitions
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.
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Stephen Gapps on the Sydney Wars
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.
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Paul Irish on Hidden in Plain View
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. If you have a GLAM idea for...
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John Maynard on Aboriginal People and Empire
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...
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Kiera Lindsey on Sister Politicians
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…
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Inside the 2SER Archives with Liz Giuffre
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...
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Geoffrey Potter on Local Histories
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.
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GLAM Slam Live!
What role do GLAM institutions have in activism? Should GLAM workers be creating activist spaces? Anna Clarke, host of 2SER 107.3’s GLAMcity, speaks to a panel of GLAM workers about what how cultural institutions should engage with social issues. Kirsten Thorpe, Worrimi woman, professional...
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Inside the gallery with Akira Isogawa and Roger Leong
Akira Isogawa is one of Australia’s most celebrated and respected designers. Originally from Kyoto, Japan, Akira moved to Australia in 1986, studied fashion design at East Sydney Technical College. Since that time, he has broken boundaries and blurred lines between traditional Japanese and...
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Tom Griffiths on radical histories
On this episode, we’re joined by Author and Historian, Tom Griffiths. Tom’s a Professor of History at the Australian National University in Canberra, and has written extensively on environmental history, and the nature of historical understanding. His essay, The Planet is Alive: Radical histories...
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Kim Mahood- Lost and found in translation
On this episode, we speak to with Kim Mahood about her essay Lost and Found in translation. Further Reading: Griffith Review 63- Writing the Country
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David Ritter on GLAM power as clean energy
The second annual GLAM Slam event was held on March 15 at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. The keynote speakers for GLAMSLAM 2019 were Julian Meyrick (Flinders) and David Ritter (Greenpeace Australia Pacific). On this episode of GLAMcity, we’re featuring David Ritter’s keynote...
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Talking country with Bruce Pascoe
“There’s so much information about our country encapsulated in Aboriginal languages that we’d be silly not to get involved because it teaches us so much about our land.” Bruce Pascoe On this episode of Glam City, Anna calls up author and historian, Bruce Pascoe from his home on the south coast of...
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Public art with Jess Scully and Margaret Betteridge
On this episode of Glam City, Anna and Chelsea speak with City of Sydney Councillor Jess Scully and Curator Margaret Betteridge about public art, Sydney Town Hall and the city’s civic collection. More info: You can find more information on Jess Scully’s work with City of Sydney on her website or...
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Science and photography, growing up together
On this episode of GLAMcity, Anna and Chelsea dive into a curious archive at the Australian Museum. In the late 19th century, the museum started to experiment with a strange new technology to capture nature. Zoologist and explorer, Gerard Krefft began taking photographs of animal specimens for…
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The year 2001 and the secret garden of UTS
Do you remember 2001? The year we started watching a group of twenty-somethings in The Secret Life of Us. The year Ansett released it’s infamous advertisement- Am I with Ansett? Absolutely- only to collapse months later along with One.Tel, HIH and Enron. It was the year of the 2001 Census and the...
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Revisiting Industrial heritage: The West Gate Bridge Collapse and re-purposing industrial sites
In this episode of GLAMcity, we return to heritage sites, revisiting Melbourne's Labour history and the site of the Australia's worst industrial accident, the 1970 West Gate Bridge collapse with Historians Elizabeth Humphrys and Sarah Gregson. We then investigate what happens to the remnants of...
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All we can't see on Nauru plus Dr Gene Sherman: from teacher to gallery owner
Arielle Gamble, curator of All We Can’t See, a collection of work based on the infamous leaked documents known as the Nauru Files joined Tamson and Anna on GLAMcity. Thirty- three Australian artists illustrated one file each for the collection. The artists include Abdul Abdullah, Belinda Fox, Ben...
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Sex, money, globalisation and gummi bears: Welcome to season two of HistoryLab
Australia's first investigative history podcast, HistoryLab is returning for a second season. The podcast takes you into archives and documents the making of history from the discovery of first person accounts, the evaluation of sources and the unfurling of narrative. In season two, HistoryLab is...
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The Grim Reaper of Art Archives
Steven Miller is the Head of the National Art Archive and Capon Research Library at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, so how did he come to be known as The Grim Reaper of art archives? Part of Steve's role is to contact artists and request that they leave their archives- their sketchbooks,...
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Activism in the archives
Australia's role in post World War two Indonesia is well documented but not well known. In the aftermath of the Japanese surrender, the previous colonial authorities- the Dutch- attempted to take control of the Island nation once again rather than allow independence in the region. The British at...
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Crime and punishment in Australia: digitising post convict records with citizen historians
It was only a matter of time before GLAMcity joined the ranks - temporarily- of true crime podcasts. Hosts Anna and Tamson and historian Alana Piper investigate the past using official criminal records of Australian offenders from the end of the convict period through to the Second World War....
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Clare Wright: Unfurling the banner on Australia's suffragist movement
Women are often missing from the history of the formation of Australia as a nation but historian and author Clare Wright tells GLAMcity hosts Anna and Tamson that women were present and traces of their inclusion remain- although you may have to seek it out as Clare did at Australia’s Parliament...
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Australian Archaeology and Deep Time with Billy Griffiths
' There is no history of Australia which in non-Indigenous' On this episode of GLAMcity, Anna speaks to Billy Griffiths, Historian and author of Deep Time Dreaming about the history of archaeology and our understanding of the Australian continent. Further Reading: Deep Time Dreaming is available...
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Making History with Tom Murray
How can broadcast and visual media open up new ways of understanding historical narratives? On this episode of GLAMcity, Anna discusses the intersection between history and storytelling with Tom Murray, Senior lecturer in media at Macquarie University. Tom’s work has taken him from remote…
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UTS Art: Integrating creative practice with university research
Why do universities need art galleries? UTS Art aims to integrate creative practice into daily life on campus in the belief that scholarship can extend art practice and conversely, creativity can expand a university's research. On this episode, Tamson and Anna speak to Stella McDonald (UTS Art)…
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Ian Tyrrell's River Dreams
The much maligned Cooks River runs 23 kilometres from Yagoona to Botany Bay in Sydney’s Southeast. The Cooks River doesn’t hold any titles for longest or widest rivers in Australia but it has played an important role to the local Indigenous community as a source of transport and food.…
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Trigger Warnings In Australia's Cultural Institutions
On this episode of Glam City, we’re discussing trigger warnings in our cultural institutions with Breann Fallon, Holocaust Educator at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Further Reading: American Association of University Professors Statement on Trigger Warnings The Unseen Untold exhibition is on at The...
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The Year Everything Changed: 2001
Do you remember 2001? No, not the film, the year Australia celebrated its Centenary. The year we started watching a group of St. Kilda based twenty-somethings in The Secret Life of Us. The year Ansett released its infamous advertisement- Am I with Ansett? Absolutely- only to collapse months…
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Performing Arts Libraries- The NIDA collection
Ever wondered where the costumes from NIDA’s live performances go? On this episode, Tamson speaks with Ross Bruzzese, Library manager at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). The NIDA archives contains one of Australia’s largest repositories of vintage clothing accessories including…
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This is Not a Door- Opening GLAM institutions to the public
On this episode, Anna speaks with Maxine Kauter, co-founder and director of Museophilliac. Museophilliac produces bespoke experiences and content for cultural institutions. It's philosophy is that adult audiences are smart, interested in the mechanics of history and meaning-making, and looking to...
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The Sherman Centre for Culture and ideas
On this episode, Anna speaks with collector, curator and creator Dr. Gene Sherman about the launch of the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI). SCCI is the latest iteration of the not-for-profit Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, a philanthropic enterprise dedicated to providing an...
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Cathedrals of Industry: Re-purposing industrial heritage sites
What do we do with the remnants of industry once they are no longer being used to forge steel, process coal or repair trains? Industrial heritage sites are increasingly repurposed as cultural institutions in Sydney and elsewhere. But who decides what is of heritage ‘value’ and whose history is...
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GLAM Slam Live!
" Hands up for those amongst us who think the arts provide a rich and more meaningful life..." On this episode, we go back and listen to our first ever live event-GLAM Slam! Glam Slam was hosted by the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney in early March....
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Work History and the West Gate Bridge Collapse
On 15 October 1970, a partially constructed West Gate Bridge spanning the Yarra River collapsed, killing thirty-five workers. The collapse had major repercussions for the families of the workers and the future of Australia’s safety standards. On this episode of GLAM City, we speak to Historians...
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Proud History: LGBTIQ Volunteers and military service
On this episode of GLAM City, we speak to Shirleene Robinson, historian and President of Sydney’s Pride History Group. In November 1992, the Australian government overturned a longstanding ban on gays, lesbians and bisexuals serving in the Australian Defence Force. Transgender service would...
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Mardi Gras History Lessons with A 78er
On this episode of GLAM City, we speak to Robyn Kennedy, an original 78er and Secretary and Treasurer of First Mardi Gras Inc. We get a history lesson on the events of 24 June 1978 in preparation for the 40th anniversary of the first Mardi Gras in Sydney. We find out about upcoming events…
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RAT Parties and Macaroni Men
Welcome to GLAM City Season 2! On our first episode of 2018, we speak to Peter McNeil, an interdisciplinary cultural historian who has been studying queer history for nearly thirty years. We find out what Peter did with all of of those dance party old ticket stubs and We talk about Sydney’s...
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Eating your history with Jacqui Newling from Sydney Living Museums
This week on GLAMcity we eat our history with Sydney Living Museums resident colonial gastronomer Jacqui Newling. We talk about how tastes and techniques fall in and out of favour, what food says about us and find out what a Kangaroo steamer is! Tamson and Anna also do a LIVE cake tasting of the...
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Australian Gypsies their secret history with Mandy Sayer
There are very few new stories in the world, but this week on GLAMcity we dive head first into a hidden history uncovered by award winning novelist Mandy Sayer. By hitting the archives, using historical documents and gathering first-hand accounts Mandy has penned the first history of Australian...
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Captured: Portraits of Crime with Penny Stannard, NSW State Archives and Records
We think nothing of seeing a celebrity mug shot these days but how about a mug shot that’s almost 150 years old? The practise of photographing prisoners in NSW started in 1871, a few decades after judicial photography was introduced in Europe. Penny Stannard and her amazing team at NSW State...
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‘Made by Ancestors’ – how to decolonise the archives with Nathan Sentance from the Australian Museum
This week on GLAMcity Tamson and Anna speak to proud Wiradjuri man Nathan Sentance whose life goal is to ‘decolonise the archives’. Nathan works as a First Nations Cultural Programs Officer at the Australian Museum He thinks it’s important that memory institutes ‘people’ their collections and…
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Why the archives need a shredder - with Julia Mant, Archives and Records Manager at NIDA
This week Tamson and Anna chat with Julia Mant, the Archives and Records Manager at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and President of the Australian Society of Archivists. They discuss the importance of independent archives, the changing nature of record keeping and why it is just as...
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Curation - setting the scene with Holly Williams
This week Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark chat with Holly Williams, co-founder of The Curators Department. They dissect what it means to be a curator in 2017, including how to create a sense of wonder while organising information and generating experience, and consider if it’s the curators job to…
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History with boots on
This week Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark spoke with the President of the History Council for NSW, Tanya Evans to find out how #historyweek17 went. They also chatted with the winner of the NSW Premier’s History awards, Peter Hobbins about his award-winning book Stories from the Sandstone, that saw...
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Are museums safe places for dangerous ideas? Michael Harvey from the Australian National Maritime Museum thinks so
This week Anna Clark and Tamson Pietsch chat with Michael Harvey from the Australian National Maritime Museum, located in Darling Harbour. The museum was opened in 1991 and its core mission is to share Australia's maritime heritage. Michael's love for maritime history spans both his professional...
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Things that go POP! - National History week with Dr Michelle Arrow
Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark chat with Associate Professor Michelle Arrow about her highly anticipated Annual History Lecture, the premier event of the History Week Festival run by the History Council of NSW. This week we ponder how pop culture make sense of social change in Australia, how our...
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Join historians Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark from the Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney to find out what’s going on in Sydney’s cultural scene.Each week they speak to the people in the know from the 'GLAM' sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).To get in touch with the GLAMcity team - you can email us at [email protected] Producer Season Two: Jason L'EcuyerExecutive Producer Season One: Emma Lancaster
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