Hard Labour AWAP Seminar

Hard Labour: Working women in the State Library’s collections

8 September 2010
Australian Women’s Archives Project Seminar
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia

Discover women at work, both past and present, in the State Library’s collections at this free seminar presented by the State Library and Australian Women’s Archives Project (AWAP).

Anne Burrows, Genealogy librarian at the State Library, will tell the story of women’s work through the collections of the State Library. Christine Eid, researcher, artist and Creative Fellow, will describe her research on Victoria’s female taxi drivers. Dr Dorothy Wickham, historian, will talk about women on the Victorian goldfields. Dr Nikki Henningham, Executive Officer of the Australian Women’s Archives Project, will discuss AWAP’s latest projects.

..né. à Beyrouth Film Festival

21 – 26 August 2008
7th Edition of the Lebanese Film Festival
Centre Empire Sofil
Achrafieh, Beirut
Lebanon

Christine Eid’s short digital film ‘Transit’ will premiere in Lebanon at the ..né. à Beyrouth Lebanese Film Festival. The festival aims to promote Lebanese cinema locally and internationally as well as encouraging the Lebanese film-making industry. It is an independently organised free event that hosts a programme of film and video work directed by Lebanese cinematographers or from Lebanese origin, providing a panorama of local cinematographic production.

..né. à Beyrouth

Locating History conference

7 – 10 July 2008
Australian Historical Association 14th Biennial National Conference
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Melbourne
Australia

The Locating History conference explores the theme of history and locality – making sense of place in history and thinking geographically / spatially about the past. Amongst over 300 presenters at the conference, Christine Eid will present a paper titled ‘The Hadchit in transit in Australia: the impact of village chain-migration and kinship networks on an antipodean taxi industry’.

Locating History