CONNECTED HISTORIES CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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1 CONNECTED HISTORIES CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Ideas. Culture. Family. Environment. Media. War. Trade. Language. Food. Histories are connected in more ways than we can imagine. We warmly welcome postgraduate students from history and related fields to the 2018 University of Sydney Postgraduate History Conference. Our theme is Connected Histories and we look forward to two days of sharing research, forming new connections, and reflecting on the intersections present in history and in our efforts to understand it.

2 Welcome to the 2018 University of Sydney Postgraduate History Conference! We look forward to two days of engaging talks and new connections across histories, disciplines, and institutions. All presentations will run for twenty minutes with ten minutes allocated for questions at the end. Conference Organisers: Amy Jelacic and Ryan Cropp With special thanks to conference committee members: Marie McKenzie, Anne Thoeming, Orla McGovern, Ulduz Salmanova Thank you to Kim Kemmis for his invaluable organisational assistance. Many thanks to our plenary panel presenters: Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney), Dr Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University), and Dr David Brophy (University of Sydney) Our thanks to the University of Sydney Department of History for financial support of this conference. Registrations and panels will be held in the Quadrangle on the main campus of the University of Sydney. Please see the map to the right. If you have any problems please the organisers at Getting to University of Sydney The main campus of the University is situated along Parramatta Road in Camperdown, Sydney. The Quadrangle building is located at the top of University Avenue. Train: the Quadrangle is roughly 20 minutes walk from Redfern station. Catch a train to Redfern station and take Lawson St up to Abercrombie St. At the roundabout, follow Codrington St up to Butlin Ave. Follow Butlin Ave through to the campus and up Eastern Ave towards the Quadrangle. Bus: via Parramatta Road: take one of these buses: 413, 436, 438, 439, 440, 461, 480, 483, m10, L38 or L39 and alight at the main gate (University Ave). Take University Ave to the Quadrangle. Via City Road take one of these buses: 352, 370, 422, 423, 426, 428, m30, L23 or L28 and alight at the footbridge before Butlin Avenue. Cross the road or go across the bridge and take Eastern Avenue to the Quadrangle. Limited parking is available on campus we recommend public transport. Please check the university website for more details: sydney.edu.au/campus-life/getting-to-campus.html 2

3 Presenters, listed in alphabetical order: Emma Bellino (University of Wollongong) Jordan Beavis (The University of Newcastle) Danielle Broadhurst (Deakin University) Peter Brownlee (University of Sydney) Pamela Chauvel (University of Sydney) Honae Cuffe (The University of Newcastle) Troy Gillian (The University of Queensland) Abbie Hartman (Macquarie University) Ebony Hutchin (University of Sydney) Amy Jelacic (University of Sydney) Themistocles Kritikakos (University of Melbourne) Claire Macindoe (University of Otago) Alexandra McCosker (Australian National University) Elizabeth Miller (Monash University) Darren Mitchell (University of Sydney) Joanna Molloy (University of Sydney) Toby Nash (University of Melbourne) Jacqui Newling (University of Sydney) Pearl Nunn (University of Newcastle) Amelia O Donnell (University of Sydney) Nicola Ritchie (Monash University) Maria Roberts (The University of Newcastle) Ulduz Salmanova (University of Sydney) Lauren Samuelsson (University of Wollongong) Diana Sillato (The University of Newcastle) Alison Starr (The University of Queensland) Erica Steiner (University of Sydney) Anne Thoeming (University of Sydney) Jessica Urwin (Australian National University) Corinne Vale (University of Canberra) Hannah Viney (Monash University) Luke Vitale (University of New South Wales) Jacqueline Webber (The University of Queensland) Samuel Webster (University of Sydney) Alexander Wright (University of Sydney) The recipients of 2018 conference travel bursaries are Jessica Urwin (Australian National University) and Toby Nash (University of Melbourne). Plenary Panel Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice is an intellectual historian at the University of Sydney whose research is broadly concerned with the ideologies of European empires. His work spans the political ideas of early American colonization, to Europeans justifications for the appropriation of land and sovereignty in the non-european world from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth, and most recently to corporations as sovereigns. His most recent book publication is Sovereignty, Property and Empire, (2014). Dr Hannah Forsyth completed her PhD in history at the University of Sydney in After a short postdoc in Sydney s Social Inclusion Unit, she started at the Australian Catholic University where she is now Senior Lecturer. She teaches modern Australian history, Australian Indigenous history, historiography and politics. Hannah s PhD was about the commodification of knowledge in universities; her book, A History of the Modern Australian University (NewSouth 2014) focused on equity and social inclusion. Since 2014, Hannah has focused on developing new skills in economics and statistics, which she seeks to combine with social and cultural history to consider class, race and gender inequalities in the history of capitalism and settler colonialism. To this end, Hannah holds a DECRA ( ) entitled Are we all middle class now? A history of professions in Australia Dr David Brophy is Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney. He studies the social and political history of China s northwest, particularly the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its connections with the Islamic and Russian/Soviet worlds. David is the author of Uyghur Nation (2016) and currently holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship for a project entitled Empire and Religion in Early Modern Inner Asia. 3

4 Day 1 - Thursday November 29th 8.30am 9.30am Registration, room S241 Plenary Session, room S223 Welcome: Ryan Cropp and Amy Jelacic, University of Sydney postgraduate representatives Conference Open: Chris Hilliard, Chair of the University of Sydney Department of History Panel - Thinking Big : Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney), Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University), David Brophy (University of Sydney) 11am 11.30am Morning tea, room S241 Australian Histories, room S223 Jacqui Newling - Reality check: discovering the significantly insignificant place of the founding of colonial Australia in the British archives Ulduz Salmanova - The Origins of Child Labour Laws in New South Wales Amelia O Donnell - Industry Pays Debts : The Historical Archaeology of Children and Childhood at the Triabunna Barracks, Tasmania Migration and Mobility, room S224 Chaired by Anne Thoeming Luke Vitale - The Chinese of Europe : Italian and Chinese workers at the end of the nineteenth century Alexander Wright - The Theatre of Arrival and Reception: Performing Travel in the Fifteenth Century Mediterranean Women, Culture, Community, room S225 Chaired by Orla McGovern Hannah Viney - Cordial Greetings to the Women of Australia : International Links in the Australian Anti-Nuclear Movement, Lauren Samuelsson - A Piece of Cake: femininity and baking in The Australian Women s Weekly Pearl Nunn - Women of Colour in Community: Assimilation or Belonging in Eighteenth Century Britain? 1pm 2pm Lunch, room S241 The Material Past, room S223 Jacqueline Webber - To Italy and Beyond: Ancient Boat-People and their Material Representations Pamela Chauvel - The social landscape of Maria Island s industrial period: Interconnections between history and archaeology Erica Steiner - Britons, Picts and Scots: Tattooing and Rites of Passage in the First Millennium CE" Writing About People, room S224 Chaired by Ryan Cropp Anne Thoeming - Fake News: The Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Propaganda in Australia and Britain Peter Brownlee - Enoch s Sydney Adventures 4

5 Day 1 - Thursday November 29th - continued 3.30pm 4pm Afternoon tea, room S241 Ideas in History, room S223 Chaired by Marie McKenzie Amy Jelacic - William Jacob and the Dialectic Art of the Corn Law Debates Maria Roberts - Mapping the Connection: Australian Landscapes and the Enlightenment World Citizenship in Australia, room S224 Chaired by Orla McGovern Emma Bellino - Life Without Citizenship: Married Women s Nationality, Ebony Hutchin - On the Left: the Russian Social Club in Early Cold War Sydney 6pm Conference Dinner: Pizza del Noi Day 2 - Friday November 30th 8.30am Registration, room S am War and Commemoration, room S223 Chaired by Anne Thoeming Australia and the World, room S224 Chaired by Ryan Cropp American Histories, room S225 Darren Mitchell - At the going down of the sun, and in the morning - Time and place in Anzac Day ritual Alexandra McCosker - Post-war pilgrimage and the politics of commemoration in the Pacific region Alison Starr - Owning the places and spaces of war: transcultural and transnational aspects of Australia s overseas war participation Sam Webster - The Australian strategic imagination Honae Cuffe - Whose fortunes are so important to us : John Latham, the Empire Connection and Locating Australia s Place in the Near North, Jessica Urwin - The Empire s Winning Weapon: the Imperial Indoctrination of Australian Personnel throughout the British Nuclear Testing in Australia Toby Nash - Imperial Chaos: Disorder on the Waterfront in French and British American Port-Towns Elizabeth Miller - The Shame Written Between the Walls : Remembering the Bear River Massacre at the United States Bicentennial 11am Morning tea, room S241 5

6 Day 2 - Friday November 30th - continued 11.30am 1pm 2pm Illness and Disease, room S223 Chaired by Marie McKenzie Nicola Ritchie - Bengal to Birmingham: Climate, Imperialism and Cholera in the Nineteenth Century Diana Sillato - Yells, Bells and Smells: The Anzacs in Malta during the First World War Danielle Broadhurst - Places of pain and shame: venereal disease treatment centres in 20th century Victoria Lunch, room S241 20th Century Germany, room S223 Chaired by Anne Thoeming Joanna Molloy - Cinema Culture in the German Democratic Republic: Socialist Stories and Western Imports Troy Gillan - Taking Care of Business? German Business and the NSDAP s seizure of power Representing the Past, room S224 Themistocles Kritikakos - Memory and Cooperation: An analysis of genocide recognition efforts among Greeks and Assyrians in Australia (circa ) Corinne Vale - History from the inside-out: re-shaping post-colonial identity by challenging and re-building narratives of family history Abbie Hartman - A Girl I Knew Was Shot Today By A Man Called Sniper : How Video Games Can Memorialise Personal War Experience Trans-Tasman History, room S224 Chaired by Marie McKenzie Claire Macindoe - The Doctor is Now In : Medicine, Radio, and the Rural Home Jordan Beavis - They Were Always Excellent Types... The Military Education of New Zealand Officers at Duntroon in the Interwar Period ( ) 3pm Closing remarks, room S223 All are welcome to post-conference drinks at The Rose Hotel! The Rose is located less than 10 minutes walk from University of Sydney at 52 Cleveland Street, Chippendale. We ll head over in groups. 6