FCRC Research Seminar, Sunday 7 May 2023
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Stanley Burbury Theatre
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Transported for Life: a lottery?
This seminar will focus on those convicts considered some of the worst to arrive in Van Diemen’s Land: the 780 women who were convicted to transportation for life. Presentations will examine the sentencing process, the origins of the ‘lifers’, their convict experience and the lives that they built post-sentence.
A keynote address will focus on the variable processes and inconsistencies of sentencing
Archaeologist Jennifer Jones-Travers will tell us about the recent Anglesea Barracks amazing find.
Emeritus Professor Kate Warner, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, will launch the latest book from Convict Women's Press: 'Convict Lives: Young girls transported to Van Diemen's Land'
Information & Program: www.femaleconvicts.org.au
Attendance: $60.00 (+ 50c) includes morning tea & lunch; individually boxed special diets $3.00 extra
See also Webinar option at www.trybooking.com/CFXUO
This seminar will focus on those convicts considered some of the worst to arrive in Van Diemen’s Land: the 780 women who were convicted to transportation for life. Presentations will examine the sentencing process, the origins of the ‘lifers’, their convict experience and the lives that they built post-sentence.
A keynote address will focus on the variable processes and inconsistencies of sentencing
Archaeologist Jennifer Jones-Travers will tell us about the recent Anglesea Barracks amazing find.
Emeritus Professor Kate Warner, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, will launch the latest book from Convict Women's Press: 'Convict Lives: Young girls transported to Van Diemen's Land'
Information & Program: www.femaleconvicts.org.au
Attendance: $60.00 (+ 50c) includes morning tea & lunch; individually boxed special diets $3.00 extra
See also Webinar option at www.trybooking.com/CFXUO
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