Earth Sciences
History Group
The ESHG is a
GSA Specialist Group
An ESHG conference
will be held in Melbourne in November 2007
Venue: McCoy Building, The University of Melbourne
Dates: Thursday 29th November to Saturday 1st
December, 2007.
One day field trip: Deep Leads of the Creswick area
NEW!
Provisional program
Provisional Program - download pdf file of 104 KB
The Conference Keynote Address will be free, and open
to the public, as part of the November General Meeting of the Victoria Division
of the GSA, Inc.
The lecture will commence at 6.15 pm, on Thursday 29th November 2007, in the School of Earth Sciences, at The University of Melbourne, corner of Swanston and Elgin streets, Carlton.
VICTORIAN GOLD:
A Bird’s Eye View of the Victorian
Goldfields,
from the First Rushes to the First World
War.
Professor
Geoffrey Blainey AC
The Keynote Address will cover such themes as:
The early gold-finders.
Patterns in gold discovery.
The magnetism of gold for overseas
immigrants.
How the early goldfields were operated.
A word about Eureka.
Two prophets urgently probe beneath the
ground.
The rise of the company mines and stock
exchanges.
When golden Victoria dominated the nation.
The long decline of gold output followed by
revival in the 1890s.
The king cities – Ballarat and Bendigo – and
their hallmarks.
The influence of Victorian gold on other
mining fields.
Did gold and its importance give Victoria
distinctive social and political characteristics for several generations?
About the
conference & excursions, and how to register and pay
Conference details, and how to Register and Pay - download Word file of 224 KB
Map of the
University
showing Earth
Sciences, McCoy Building at E23
Map of University - download pdf file of 200 KB
Accommodation
suggestions
accommodation near the conference venue - download Word file of 36 KB
Preliminary details were announced in the March & June 2007 issues
of The Australian Geologist:
ESHG Conference announcement in TAG, June 2007 - view text only
ESHG Conference announcement in TAG, March 2007 -
download pdf file of 516 KB
Further details, including conference fees and deadlines, were in
the September 2007 issue of The Australian Geologist
ESHG Conference announcement in TAG, September
2007 - download Word file of 36 KB
Further information:
Details of how to prepare a Short Paper for the conference:
ESHGconfdetailsSHORTPAPER – download Word file of 40
Kb
List of conference speakers to 31st October 2007:
ESHGconfspeakers31thOctober2007 - download Word file
of 36 KB
FROM THE ARCHIVES – Where to Eat in Carlton – in 1975!
1975 Carlton pubs & restaurants - download PDF
file of 104 KB
At our Business Meeting at AESC 2006, the
ESHG committee agreed to develop its own web site
On
this web site:
·
We plan
to provide copies of past Newsletters
·
We will
also develop an index to our Newsletters
·
Please
email us your other suggestions for this new site
E. B. Joyce
School of Earth Sciences
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 0427 330 117 Fax: 03 9344 7761
Email: Bernie Joyce
Prepared by Associate Professor Bernie Joyce
Chair of the ESHG
22nd December 2006
Updated 18th November 2007