FRIDAY AUGUST 2: The Role of Environmental Factors in Shaping Aboriginal/Settler Relations in Country SA – ROBERT FOSTER
In the last few years we have been researching the nature and extent of frontier conflict between Aboriginal people and settlers in colonial South Australia. This work has generated a large database of information that has cast light on some of the underlying patterns of Aboriginal/settler relations, and how it differed across the colony. There are many facets to that history, but in this paper I will focus on the influence of environmental factors.
About the Speaker: Associate Professor Robert Foster is an historian who, until his retirement in December 2023, taught in the History Department at the University of Adelaide. He has published numerous books and articles on aspects of South Australian Indigenous history, including Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia’s Frontier Wars, published in 2012 and co-written with Amanda Nettelbeck. His current work is a continuation of that project. More recently he and Paul Sendziuk wrote A History of South Australia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. He continues to research and write on aspects of South Australian history.
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