Elizabeth Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museums Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future
Entanglement Register
Autobiographia Literaria
Bulfinch
Re-working a photographic archive
This paper considers a group of thirty-six photographs of Aboriginal people from the Kulin nation, taken by squatter and amateur photographer John Hunter Kerr in northern Victoria during the 1850s. It provides a case study of the historical trajectory of this series of images, and describes how the intentions of the photographer and the historical context of his sitters have been overtaken and forgotten as the images left the photographer's contr…
Exhibiting Aboriginal industry
An etching on bark, made before September 1854 by an un-named member of the 'Loddon and Murray tribes' in Victoria, was recently 're-discovered' in England in a back storage area of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1 This drawing once formed part of the first systematic display of Aboriginal material held in Victoria and was later displayed in Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Only three bark drawings executed by Indigenous Australians …
Freedom, physicality, friendship and feeling
Reading and discussing poetry with spiritual themes can play a major role in children's spiritual development. The communal, oral recitation of poetry has been a means of spiritual expression in many faith traditions. How would children respond to such a time‐honoured oral group experience with poetry? What might it reveal about their spirituality? These were the questions that prompted a qualitative study involving young people in the choral rea…
Lyric Dissent
Lyric Dissent” discusses the social structure and context of lyric address, particularly the lyric's propensity for multiple voicings beyond the personal. Reading the poems of William Carlos Williams in the context of modernism's evolving countertraditions and the violent backdrop of the First and Second World Wars, this essay reconsiders the pressures within lyric poetry to respond to—or reveal—the pressures of global politics on poetry in times…
Radical Vernacular
"The Law, Politics, and "Historical Wounds
Last year, in volume 13 of this journal, Lyndel Prott published a Case Note entitled, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.”Prott, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.” In it she set out the background to a court case in Melbourne in 2004 to 2005 under the federal Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977. The case related to three nineteenth-century bark items made by Aboriginal people in northern Victoria, items now held in the…
History, Strong Stories and New Traditions
In early 2004 the author, Elizabeth Willis, curated an exhibition at Museum Victoria that displayed two Victorian Aboriginal bark etchings and a ceremonial piece made in 1854. It described interactions between the Kulin people and the squatter, John Hunter Kerr, who commissioned the etchings and displayed them at exhibitions in Bendigo, Melbourne and Paris. At the end of the exhibition the Dja Dja Warrung people imposed an injunction against the …
French nuclear tests in Polynesia
In the spring of 2005 the French periodical Damocles published as a treble issue an extensive and thorough compilation by Bruno Barrillot, with much well-informed comment, on the findings of the la
Intellectuals and war from Verdun to Baghdad
Recent papers and news items
Recent Papers and News Items
The Body at War
Contamination and Compensation
The decades-long contamination of Gruinard Island by anthrax is now a well-known part of the history of biological weapons (BW) development, as well as that of military encroachments in the Scottish Highlands and Islands (and the authorities' rather less persistent efforts at damage limitation). Some accounts have included the related episode, reportedly well-remembered by local people, of anthrax contamination on the mainland close to Gruinard. …
Autographeme
Recent papers
The legend you could come and see
Voice in the Wilderness
Sessions's journal documents her experience as a frontier midwife/healer and polygamous wife during the period of westward migration and the colonization of Utah. It enacts a poetics capable ofaccommodating the continual improvisations of existence in a geographical, spiritual, and literary wilderness. Thejournal also marks Sessions's linguistic disenfranchisement when the imagistic voice ofprivate and communal event is finally silenced by the di…
Valery's Poetics
Re-working a photographic archive
This paper considers a group of thirty-six photographs of Aboriginal people from the Kulin nation, taken by squatter and amateur photographer John Hunter Kerr in northern Victoria during the 1850s. It provides a case study of the historical trajectory of this series of images, and describes how the intentions of the photographer and the historical context of his sitters have been overtaken and forgotten as the images left the photographer's contr…
Lyric Dissent
Lyric Dissent” discusses the social structure and context of lyric address, particularly the lyric's propensity for multiple voicings beyond the personal. Reading the poems of William Carlos Williams in the context of modernism's evolving countertraditions and the violent backdrop of the First and Second World Wars, this essay reconsiders the pressures within lyric poetry to respond to—or reveal—the pressures of global politics on poetry in times…
"The Law, Politics, and "Historical Wounds
Last year, in volume 13 of this journal, Lyndel Prott published a Case Note entitled, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.”Prott, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.” In it she set out the background to a court case in Melbourne in 2004 to 2005 under the federal Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977. The case related to three nineteenth-century bark items made by Aboriginal people in northern Victoria, items now held in the…
History, Strong Stories and New Traditions
In early 2004 the author, Elizabeth Willis, curated an exhibition at Museum Victoria that displayed two Victorian Aboriginal bark etchings and a ceremonial piece made in 1854. It described interactions between the Kulin people and the squatter, John Hunter Kerr, who commissioned the etchings and displayed them at exhibitions in Bendigo, Melbourne and Paris. At the end of the exhibition the Dja Dja Warrung people imposed an injunction against the …
Valery's Poetics
Voice in the Wilderness
Sessions's journal documents her experience as a frontier midwife/healer and polygamous wife during the period of westward migration and the colonization of Utah. It enacts a poetics capable ofaccommodating the continual improvisations of existence in a geographical, spiritual, and literary wilderness. Thejournal also marks Sessions's linguistic disenfranchisement when the imagistic voice ofprivate and communal event is finally silenced by the di…
Recent papers
The legend you could come and see
Autographeme
Contamination and Compensation
The decades-long contamination of Gruinard Island by anthrax is now a well-known part of the history of biological weapons (BW) development, as well as that of military encroachments in the Scottish Highlands and Islands (and the authorities' rather less persistent efforts at damage limitation). Some accounts have included the related episode, reportedly well-remembered by local people, of anthrax contamination on the mainland close to Gruinard. …
Recent papers and news items
Recent Papers and News Items
The Body at War
French nuclear tests in Polynesia
In the spring of 2005 the French periodical Damocles published as a treble issue an extensive and thorough compilation by Bruno Barrillot, with much well-informed comment, on the findings of the la
Intellectuals and war from Verdun to Baghdad
History, Strong Stories and New Traditions
In early 2004 the author, Elizabeth Willis, curated an exhibition at Museum Victoria that displayed two Victorian Aboriginal bark etchings and a ceremonial piece made in 1854. It described interactions between the Kulin people and the squatter, John Hunter Kerr, who commissioned the etchings and displayed them at exhibitions in Bendigo, Melbourne and Paris. At the end of the exhibition the Dja Dja Warrung people imposed an injunction against the …
Radical Vernacular
"The Law, Politics, and "Historical Wounds
Last year, in volume 13 of this journal, Lyndel Prott published a Case Note entitled, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.”Prott, “The Dja Dja Warrung Bark Etchings Case.” In it she set out the background to a court case in Melbourne in 2004 to 2005 under the federal Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977. The case related to three nineteenth-century bark items made by Aboriginal people in northern Victoria, items now held in the…
Lyric Dissent
Lyric Dissent” discusses the social structure and context of lyric address, particularly the lyric's propensity for multiple voicings beyond the personal. Reading the poems of William Carlos Williams in the context of modernism's evolving countertraditions and the violent backdrop of the First and Second World Wars, this essay reconsiders the pressures within lyric poetry to respond to—or reveal—the pressures of global politics on poetry in times…
Freedom, physicality, friendship and feeling
Reading and discussing poetry with spiritual themes can play a major role in children's spiritual development. The communal, oral recitation of poetry has been a means of spiritual expression in many faith traditions. How would children respond to such a time‐honoured oral group experience with poetry? What might it reveal about their spirituality? These were the questions that prompted a qualitative study involving young people in the choral rea…
Re-working a photographic archive
This paper considers a group of thirty-six photographs of Aboriginal people from the Kulin nation, taken by squatter and amateur photographer John Hunter Kerr in northern Victoria during the 1850s. It provides a case study of the historical trajectory of this series of images, and describes how the intentions of the photographer and the historical context of his sitters have been overtaken and forgotten as the images left the photographer's contr…
Exhibiting Aboriginal industry
An etching on bark, made before September 1854 by an un-named member of the 'Loddon and Murray tribes' in Victoria, was recently 're-discovered' in England in a back storage area of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1 This drawing once formed part of the first systematic display of Aboriginal material held in Victoria and was later displayed in Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Only three bark drawings executed by Indigenous Australians …
Entanglement Register
Autobiographia Literaria
Bulfinch
The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future
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