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...display case holds hundreds of guns and rifles, from finely engraved Spanish pistols to modern Glocks, to bring home the ways in which force has always been the final arbiter in dealings between natives and settlers. Would it be useful somewhere to have that old-fashioned timeline too? Jolene Rickard, a professor at the University at Buffalo and a Tuscarora Indian, who is a guest curator, doesn't think so. "There are other places where you can learn the exact dates of the Trail of Tears," she says. "It's less important to me that someone leave this museum knowing...
...John Rickard is the visiting professor of Australian Studies and the author of Australia: A Cultural History. He is happy to talk to any student with either a research or travel interest in Australia. His e-mail address is jrickard@fas.harvard.edu...
This evening kicks off "Imagining the Aborigine: Australian Movies Since the Second World War," a three-day film retrospective at the Harvard Film Archives. Curated by John Rickard, Harvard's visiting Professor of Australian Studies, the series features (among many others) Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout, as well as several documentaries about Aborigine-European encounters on this island continent. Put some shrimps on the barbie and stroll down to the basement of the Carpeneter Center to check out these cinematic gems...
...Given the results of the Just Say No to Drugs campaign, I doubt the effectiveness of this educational effort," Ariana J. Rickard '01 said...
...Rickard doesn't find this a burden-in fact, it's exactly what he came here for: a chance to "see Australia through an American's eyes...