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SUMMARY:Negotiating Education: The First School for Aboriginal Children an
 d the Diplomatic World of Colonial New South Wales\, 1814-1822 - Annemarie
  McLaren\, Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and 
 Anthropology\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Julian M. Siebert
DESCRIPTION:The first school for Aboriginal children in New South Wales wa
 s entangled in the rise of Evangelicalism\, missionary networks\, the Sund
 ay school and orphan school movements\, and pedagogical debates arising fr
 om the industrial and ‘industrious’ revolutions. In this chapter\, the
  role of this school in relationships between Aboriginal individuals\, com
 munities and the colonists is considered. What compelled Aboriginal parent
 s to place their children in this great civilizing showpiece for the Gover
 nor in 1814? Why were some children placed in only to be taken out\, and w
 hy were others left in the school? This paper suggests that the Native Ins
 titution was a key part of the world of diplomacy\, strategy and the weigh
 ing of costs of benefit in relation to the colonists and the transforming 
 social and cultural world of New South Wales. It also suggests that the sc
 hool was part of a wider web of social relations and diplomacy in which th
 e negotiation of different forms of child-rearing and the acquisition of c
 olonial knowledge and skills were being negotiated\, translated and often 
 refused.\n\n*About the Speaker*\n\nAnnemarie McLaren is an Endeavour Postd
 octoral Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, Cambridge. 
 She gained her PhD from the Australian National University in 2018 and is 
 currently working on the book (tentatively) titled When the Strangers Came
  to Stay: Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges and the Negotiation of New South W
 ales. She was awarded the 2017 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize and her work ha
 s appeared in Ethnohistory\, Australian Historical Studies\, and Aborigina
 l History. Later this year she takes up a short term fellowship at the Omo
 hundro Institute of William and Mary College\, Virginia. \n\nRefreshments 
 from 17.15 onward.
LOCATION:Syndicate Room 2\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, UK\, CB3 9BB
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