Huguenot Heritage: Past & Present
6th October 2023
By Michele Rainger
“Huguenot Heritage: Past and Present”
21 October 2023
Venue: Club York
95 – 99 York St Sydney
10.00 am – 5.30 pm
The conference marks the 20th anniversary of the Huguenot Society of Australia as a registered society.
The keynote speaker is Dr Tessa Murdoch, author of Europe Divided. Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture and former Research Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; also a board member of the Huguenot Museum, Rochester. She lectures and writes widely on the history of the decorative arts.
Other outstanding speakers are Dr Robin Gwynn, author of Huguenot Heritage and The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain; Dr Randall Carter Working, author of Visual Theory of the Huguenots: Towards an Architectural Iconology of Early Modern French Protestantism; Melissa Hulbert, President of the Society of Australian Genealogists; Robert Nash, the ‘Living Treasure’ of the HSA; and Vice-President and Patron, the Ven. Dr Geoff Huard.
Cost: $165.00. Morning and afternoon tea and lunch are included.
Not included in the cost will be an optional dinner at Cellini’s in the nearby Queen Victoria Building, at 6.00pm.
Registration options:
- Online at www.huguenotsaustralia.org.au/2023-conference OR
- EFT (bank transfer) to Huguenot Society of Australia BSB 659 000 A/C 300 022 491
(Please include your family name in the reference field) OR - Cheque, payable to Huguenot Society of Australia, posted to
David Milling, Unit 105, 1-9 Woniora Avenue, Wahroonga NSW 2076
Enquiries: Pamela Summers pamelaannesummers@gmail.com
