Colonial Formations: Connections and Collisions: Full Conference Programme

Wednesday 23rd November

Masterclass ‘Confronting Colonialism’, 9.30am-2pm (invited participants only).

2.00: Registration opens – building 67, first floor foyer 2.30 ‘Coloured’ British subjects in Protection, Improvement and Visual encounters and the colonial Settler Colonialism Roundtable Australia and the Empire Education: Cross-Colonial and gaze Missionary Perspectives 67.102 67.201 67.203 67.107

Chair: Matthew Fitzpatrick Chair: Laura Rademaker Chair: Jane Lydon The State of the Field of Settler

Colonial Studies: Historical Margaret Allen: ‘I am a British Catherine Bishop: Crossing Nikita Vanderbyl: Savage. Noble. Perspectives subject’: Indians in Australia Boundaries: a female missionary Artist. William Barak and

claiming their rights, 1880–1940 negotiates Australian colonialism transnational collecting Chair: Ben Silverstein

Kate Bagnall: Naturalised Chinese Tamara Cooper: British Missionaries, Meg Foster: What’s in a name? Sam Commentators: Katherine in British settler societies of the Activism, and Reform in Hong Kong’s Poo- ‘Australia’s only Chinese Ellinghaus, Jane Carey, Liz Pacific Rim, 1860 to 1920 Mui Tsai Controversy bushranger?’ Conor, Nadia Rhook, Lorenzo

Veracini Julia Martinez: Defining Malay Rebecca Swartz: Education, labour and Claire Lowrie: ‘What a picture can pearl-shell workers and Aboriginal civilisation: Britain, the West Indies and do’: Contests of colonial mastery in women as British subjects the settler colonies, 1830-1860 photographs of Asian ‘houseboys’ from Southeast Asia, 1880s-1920s 4.00 Pre-lecture drinks - building 67, first floor foyer 4.30- 67.107 5.45 Welcome to Country: Aunty Barbara Nicholson

Conference Opening (Jane Carey & Frances Steel); Keynote Introduction (Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Head, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry)

Public Lecture: Clare Anderson, ‘Convicts, Collaboration and Conflict: connected histories of penal colonization’

5.45-7 Reception and Book Launch: building 67, first floor foyer Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, and Vishvajit Pandya, New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). To be launched by Emma Battell Lowman and Adam Barker

Thursday 24 November (part 1)

8.30 Registration - 67.102 9am 67.107 - Welcome/Housekeeping 9.15 Keynote Lecture: Jane Lydon, ‘Anti-slavery in Australia: Picturing the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre’

Chair: Frances Steel

10.15 Morning Tea - 67.102 10.45 Global and colonial connections in Reshaping Colonised Land Gender & Colonialism: New Directions Race & Rural Spaces: SCS Stream the natural history trade [UOW Feminist Research Network Assimilation, Intervention Memorialisation and Shared Histories sponsored panel] 67.107 67.201 67.203 67.209 67.208

Chair: Rosalind Carr Chair: Lyndall Ryan Chair: Jane Haggis Chair: Georgine Clarsen Chair: Ian McLean

Deirdre Coleman: The Flycatcher: Ruth Morgan: The colonial violence Sharon Crozier-De Rosa: The Anti- Katherine Ellinghaus: Micro- Jodie Stewart: Cross-cultural encounters: Science, Slavery and Sociability on of environmental encounters: swamp Colonial Irish Women: Constructing a Mobility and Assimilation Policy Reconceptualising shared histories on the the Windward Coast drainage and resistance in British feminist ethics of violence in Alice Springs: The Gap Bundian Way’. India and the Australian colonies Community in the 1950 Anne Coote: Connecting for Sibyl Adam: Colonial Affects: Emotion Skye Krichauff: ‘He lived with them Advantage: Product Sourcing and Marguerite Gibson: Eugene von and Space in Indian Women’s Travel Sianan Healy: ‘The Miracle of [Aboriginal people] for a while – to find Indigenous Cooperation in Colonial Guerard and the Colonial Sublime Writing about Edwardian London Mooroopna’: Designing water’: the framing of settler descendants’ New South Wales within the Australian Landscape of Aboriginal Housing for narratives through a settler colonial historical Western Victoria Jessica Hinchy: Gender, sexuality and Assimilation in 1950s Victoria epistemology Jude Philp: Sir William MacGregor province-centric colonial governance in and the Bird Trade of British New Karin Speedy: The mysterious ‘Arab north India Eve Vincent: Humanitarian Adam Barker: Dispossession: Imperial Guinea castaways’: Mobilities, border intervention and the colonial violence, settler nationalism, and war protection and White Australia Liz Conor: The Comic Misadventures of racial order in an outback memorials in Ontario, Canada Simon Ville: When Commerce, Eric Jolliffe’s Witchetty’s Tribe Australian town Science and Leisure Collided: the Jessica Neath & Brook Andrew [Jessica Nineteenth-Century Global Trade Neath presenting]: Making visible Indigenous Boom in Natural History loss: remembrance of frontier violence using comparative approaches 12.45 Lunch - 67.102

Thursday 24 November (part 2)

2.00 Sociability and Respectability Colonial Connections Roundtable: Creating Identities SCS Stream Comparative Indigenous Histories: Violence, Occupation & Problems and Opportunities ‘Extinction’ 67.107 67.201 67.203 67.209 67.208

Chair: Margaret Allen Chair: Alice Te Punga Somerville Chair: Clare Anderson Chair: Frances Steel Chair: Lorenzo Veracini

Rosalind Carr: Polite sociability and Samuel Furphy: Aboriginal protectors Jane Carey, Kate Fullagar, Jane Lydon, Holy Rafika Dhona: The making of Andrew Shaler: Indigenous Peoples violence in early New South Wales, in trans-colonial perspective, 1835-1850 Michael McDonnell Sundanese: the production of and the California Gold Rush: Labor, 1788-c.1815 difference in early 20th century Violence, and Contention in the Helen Bones: Trans-Tasman literary colonial Java Formation of a Settler Colonial State Annemarie Mclaren: ‘The Politics of anthologies: Australasian mess or the Feast: Re-assessing Aboriginal- colonial world collaboration? Anne Faithfull: Hair and the Sadiah Qureshi: Dying Races, Colonial Relations at the Governor’s construction of difference Science and Modern Settler Annual Native Assembly near Sydney, Andrekos Varnava: Resistance, Colonialism 1816-1834. Collaboration and Assassination in Ian Willis: 'Just like England', a Cyprus: The Cold Case of Antonios colonial settler landscape Niccolò Pianciola: Settler Melanie Burkett: Shifting and colliding Triantafyllides Colonialism and the Soviet Union conceptions of ‘respectability’: Why (1916-1933): Kazakhs and Kyrgyz single female emigration to New South between Decolonization and State Wales was doomed to disappoint Violence

3.30 Afternoon Tea - 67.102 4.00- 67.107 5.00 Keynote Lecture: Virginia Marshall, ‘From deception to delusion: The colonial dynamics of Aboriginal citizenship, water and human rights’ Chair: Katherine Ellinghaus

5.15- Book launch: 67.102 Lorenzo Veracini & Edward Cavanagh (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (Routledge, 2016). To be launched by Georgine Clarsen.

6.30 Conference Dinner, Mango Tree, 18 Cliff Rd, Wollongong (ticket holders only). for 7

Friday 25 November

9.30 Unlocking Hidden Histories: How Digital Colonial Governance and Indigenous Agency Economic Entanglements and Identities SCS Stream Mapping Can make Colonial Frontier 67.201 67.208 Visibility, Disavowal, Appropriation and Violence Visible Recognition 67.107 Chair: Kate Fullagar Chair: Simon Ville 67.203

Chair: Michael McDonnell Lynley Wallis: An archaeological study of Sayantan Mondal: Local Hierarchies and the Chair: Deirdre Coleman Indigenous and cross-cultural exchanges at Colonial Print Commerce: The Making of Lyndall Ryan: Defining colonial frontier Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape Bengali Literary Domain in the First Half of the Michael Griffiths: The Distribution of massacre and investigating the sources York Peninsula, Queensland Nineteenth Century Settlement: Notes on The Politics of Visibility

Jennifer Debenham: The perils of translating Adam Rankin: ‘Martial Races’ or ‘Forgotten Paul Macgregor: Ecological racism and Sera Waters: Spectral Rubbish: Unearthing historical data into digital data Warriors’?: Fijian military service in the Second imperial agriculture in the Upper Goulburn three buried pasts from colonised South Australia World War Mark Brown and Bill Pascoe: Making digital Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre: You are what you Amanda Harris: “Anthropologist’s curiosity” or maps of sites of violence Kirstie Close-Barry: Aisoli Salin: From the drink: Settler Identity and Australian Wine Sales “artistry & heritage”: performing the Australian Edges to the Centre to Nineteenth-Century India settler colony after WWII

Peter Gibson: Bankrupted by ‘White Australia’? Jennifer Newman: Undoing John Howard with Chinese Furniture Factory Bankruptcies in Recognition Sydney, 1890s-1910s 11.30 Morning Tea - 67.102 12.00 67.107 Keynote Lecture: Alice Te Punga Somerville, ‘“Hope in a time of genocide”: reading connections’ Chair: Jane Carey 1.00 Lunch - 67.102 2.00 Friendship and its Limits British-Chinese/British-Indian Relations Mobilities and Tensions SCS Stream New approaches to Settler-Colonialism 67.107 67.201 67.208 67.203

Chair: Liz Conor Chair: Claire Lowrie Chair: Sadiah Qureshi Chair: Michael Griffiths

Lisa Slater: A meditation on settler discomfort Mahesh Gopalan: The Birth of a New Order: Leila Koivunen: Balancing between Local, Nadia Rhook: A triangle of emotion? Charting Reconfiguring the English presence in Early Global and Colonial. A Troupe of Australians in Colonialism from French Vietnam to Australia to Laura Rademaker: White grief in the ‘self- Modern Madras Finland in 1886 New Caledonia determination’ era: Jane Goodale’s sad friendship with Happy Cook Yichi Zhang: Sprouting from Various Flags: The Matthew Fitzpatrick: Disentanglement: The Ben Silverstein: The Heterogeneous Population Development approach of British Settlements in Disintegration of Intercommunal Accord in of Settler Colonialism Shanghai and Tianjin, China German Samoa Nicholas Hoare: Anticolonialism and the Emma Battell Lowman: From Sojourner to Politics of Friendship in New Zealand’s Pacific Rachna Singh: The framing of jail dietaries in Naomi Calnitsky: The Tonkinese Labour Traffic Settler: The experiential and affective process of early nineteenth century South Asia: tobacco, to the Colonial New Hebrides: The Role of becoming Canadian/Canadian becoming in the Jane Haggis: A Quaker Gandhian and a ‘brown prisoners, power, and punishment French Inter-Colonial Webs early 20th century Englishman’: interfaith, cross-cultural friendships and the end of empire Wong Wei Chin: The Making of “Chinese Frances Steel: Fiji Indian servants in New Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Killing the Settler, Saving Secret Societies”: The Formation of British Ideas Zealand, 1890s-1910s the Man’ about Chinese Migrant Labourers in Nineteenth- Century Malaya

4.00 Conference Close. Informal drinks, Unibar.