To present within the forum of the NMAG was fantastic. Source: Deb Lee-Talbot
Deakin University has growing research and teaching presence on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. As part of this interest, I visited National Museum and Art Gallery where I was able to view again the outstanding A Bit Na Ta documentary.
Afterwards, in the company of Brad Underhill, Anna Kent, Martin Korokan and Ipul Powaseu, I delivered a brief presentation from my thesis A feminist frontier? Analysing women’s experiences on evangelical sites in Oceania, 1861-1907.
My research interests are intercultural societies, religious performances, materiality, and early encounters between indigenous and colonial representatives, especially in nineteenth-century Pacific societies. My History Honours, first-class, research paper at Deakin University is titled 'Imaginative Sketches: How expedition sketch maps represent the cultural work of both indigenous intermediaries and colonial emissaries'. My PhD thesis is tentatively titled 'Accepting change: how is culture conceptualised and performed in intercultural spaces.'
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