INTRODUCTION TO FREMANTLE
Emeritus
Professor Geoffrey Bolton, Chancellor of Murdoch University, will be giving
an ‘Introduction to Fremantle’ address. Professor Bolton has held chairs of
history at four Australian universities, and was foundation professor of
Australian Studies, University of London, 1982-85. He was the Foundation
Professor of History at Murdoch University from 1973 to 1989, including periods
as Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Social Inquiry. He has been a Member of
Senate, Murdoch University’s governing body, since 1999. He was the ABC Boyer
Lecturer in 1992 and is an Officer of the Order of Australia and Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA); Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
(FASSA); Royal Australian Historical Society (FRAHS); and Royal Society of Arts
(FRSA). Professor Bolton has been publishing works on Australian history since
1952, most recently Edmund Barton: The One Man for the Job (biography of
Australia’s first Prime Minister), which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Centenary
of Federation award 2001.
DINNER SPEAKER
Dr
Carmen Lawrence began her parliamentary career in State politics in 1986
when she won the seat of Subiaco for the Australian Labor Party. Subiaco had
previously been held by the Liberal Party for 27 years. She went on to make
history by becoming Australia’s first woman Premier when she became Premier of
Western Australia , and later Western Australia’s first woman Opposition Leader.
Dr Lawrence entered Federal politics as the Federal Member for Fremantle in
1994, and has since held a number of portfolios, including Shadow Minister for
the Environment; the Arts; Industry, Innovation and Technology; and Status of
Women Portfolios. She was elected President of the Australian Labor Party in
2004.
CONFERENCE
RAPPORTEUR
Since Dr David Dolan’s appointment in 1995 as foundation
Professor of Cultural Heritage at Curtin University in Perth, he has contributed
to a number of conservation and interpretation plans. He is Chairman of the
National Trust (WA) and a Councillor of the Heritage Council of Western
Australia. He was previously Curator of Lanyon Homestead near Canberra, and
Manager of Collection Development and Research at the Powerhouse Museum in
Sydney. David was an invited speaker at the International Conferences of
National Trusts in Alice Springs in 2000 and Washington DC in 2005. He has
participated as a speaker at the 2005 Fremantle Heritage Festival, and the 2004
Fremantle Studies Day. He is involved in the Australian-EU exchange program
"Sharing our Heritages" with staff and postgraduate students from eight
universities including Curtin, teaching World Heritage master-classes at UNESCO
in Paris and in the Val de Loire, in early 2006. His most recent book
(co-authored with Christine Lewis) is The Fairbridge Chapel: Sir Herbert
Baker’s Labour of Love (API Network, 2004).
The opening
keynote address will be by Dr Brian Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Human
Geography in the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences at the University of
Western Australia. This address will give an overview of postcolonial port cites
of Southeast Asia and Australia and discuss the interaction of forces (economic,
political, cultural) that define port landscapes. Dr Shaw has expertise in the
areas of Urban Geography, Urban Planning, and the Geography of Development with
specific reference to Southeast Asia, Tourism and Heritage Studies. He is
currently researching the construction of political and social space in
Singapore and the colonial heritage of port cities in the Indian Ocean, together
with the study of development, migration and tourism in the Mekong Region.
Jonathan
Coad will present the second keynote address outlining an extremely
challenging and ambitious case study of adaptive reuse of an historic port in
the UK. Jonathan is an historian and archaeologist and has recently retired as
an Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage. Early in his career he
was asked to evaluate the historic importance of the Royal Navy’s operational
home bases. Since then, he has worked closely with the Ministry of Defence to
secure the preservation of these. His main work has been on State monuments in
south-east England such as Dover Castle. He has lectured widely and written
three books and numerous articles on the historic architecture and engineering
works of the Royal Navy. He is the President-elect of the Royal Archaeological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a Vice-President of the Society for
Nautical Research and the Chairman of the HMS Victory Technical Advisory
Committee.
Dr Jacek
Dominiczak is an architect and educator. He works on dialogic architectural
theory and design methodology and has developed a ‘Local Identity Code’
methodology for urban and architectural design. Conceived by Dominiczak, this
approach uncovers, analyses and transforms into practical design information, a
range of data that is hidden within the spatial organisation of a city. This can
be applied by cities and developers allowing local identity issues to be used as
keys to understand spatial relations between new public area and heritage
elements for urban and architectural success. Jacek is affiliated with the
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland, where he leads Architecture Design
Studio and "architecture+dialog" Postgraduate Design Program, initiated in 2003
teaming with Monika Zawadzka, an architect and cultural anthropologist. He has
taught architecture and urban design in various schools in both Europe and
America. A registered architect, he also practices architecture and urban design
as implementation of his own research works.