An Indigenous South: German Writers on Colonial South Australia

Name: An Indigenous South: German Writers on Colonial South Australia
Start: 2024-09-19T19:30:00+09:30
End: 2024-09-19T21:00:00+09:30
Location: Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+09:30

Location

Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide | Adelaide, SA

Monthly Friends of Lutheran Archives public meeting.
Also available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live
Speakers: Peter Monteath and Matthew Fitzpatrick
$5 donation at the door. No bookings required.
From its earliest years, South Australia was the most
German of the Australian colonies. Its capital was named
for a German-born queen, and it prospered from the
sweat of immigrants who had chosen to leave their
German homelands behind them.
As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of
a British colony, these Germans observed the processes
of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives
of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than
that, they participated in those profound and tragic
changes. Importantly, these German settlers and visitors
left behind records of the events they witnessed.
The book collects those precious records and makes them
available – most for the first time in English – to a
modern Australian readership.
Peter and Matthew, the editors of this recent Wakefield
Press book, will talk about the German connection with
First Nations people in the early years of South Australia.
Peter Monteath is a Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He was born and grew up in Brisbane before attending the University of Queensland, Siegen University (Federal Republic of Germany) and Griffith University.
He has taught previously at The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Deakin University, The University of Western Australia and The University of Adelaide. He has also been Adjunct Professor at The University of St. Louis Missouri and the Technical University of Berlin, where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
Currently he is the Vice President and Executive Dean in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide. He writes about various aspects of European and Australian history, with a particular interest in things German.
Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick specialises in international history, in particular German and European history, as well as the history of European imperialism, German liberalism and nationalism. He is also interested in the comparative history of empires, and intellectual history. He is a current holder of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at Flinders University and his most recent monographs are The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire and Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914.