Lessons from Lutruwita: Calculating the Impacts of Invasion and Colonisation
Where: Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk, Launceston
When: 1:30PM, October 26, 2025
Public lecture by Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Dr Adel Yousif
Organised by the Royal Society of Tasmania - Northern Branch and supported by Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
Admission
Free for members of the Royal Society of Tasmania and for children under 12
$7 general admission
$5 for students
About
How populated was Tasmania before the arrival of Europeans?
In this presentation modelling techniques are used to argue for a larger rather than smaller population. One of the advantages of this approach is that it provides a better means of estimating the toll on the frontier. Some of the long-run implications of this are presented and parallels are made between the colonisation of Lutruwita and Palestine.
Presenters
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a Professor in Digital Humanities at UNE, and also holds and honorary position in Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTAS.
Adel Yousif is a Senior Lecturer at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture. He lives in Launceston with his wife Charlotte.