American
Civil War Roundtable of Australia - NSW Chapter
2006
Conference Program:
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Civil War Roundtable of Australia - NSW Chapter |
The
Chapter’s full-day Conference, scheduled for Saturday, April 8, 2006 at the Gordon
Club, Chatswood, is to have the theme:
APPOMATTOX
AND BEYOND
Consistent
with this theme, the Conference program has been prepared and is presented below.
The speakers for the various presentations have now been finalised with Dr Frances
Clarke, Lecturer in American History at the University of Sydney and Dr Angus
Curry, La Trobe University, having accepted invitations to address the conference.
The
program is as follows:
8:45
– 9:15 am: Conference Registration
9:15 – 9:30 am: Opening Remarks -
Stephen T Smith, United States Consul General
9:30 – 10:15 am: Presentation:
Setting the Scene - The Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia – Paul
Spencer (South Australia)
10:15 – 11:00 am: Presentation: The Surrenders
– John Cook
11:00 – 11:30 am: MORNING TEA
11:30
am – 12:30 pm: Presentation: The Lincoln Assassination and Its Aftermath
Dr Angus Curry (La Trobe University, Victoria)
12:30 – 1:30 pm: LUNCH
1:30
– 2:30 pm: Keynote Address: Wounded Veterans and the Shifting Meanings of the
Civil War - Dr Frances Clarke (University of
Sydney)
2:30 – 3:30 pm:
Presentation: The Politics and Practice of Reconstruction – Bruce Dennett,
History Teacher, Baulkham Hills High School
and former Recipient of the Premier’s
American Travelling Scholarship
3:30 – 4:15 pm: Video Presentation: The
Emergence of the “Lost Cause” Mythology - featuring Dr Gary Gallagher (University
of Virginia)
4:15 – 4:45 pm: Presentation: Appomattox Courthouse: The Finale
– Paul Kensey
4 :45 – 5:00 pm: Closing Remarks
In
lieu of an afternoon tea break it is proposed that tea/coffee/OJ be available
to Conference
participants “on tap”.