Historical Identities 24th & 25th November 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Historical Identities 24th & 25th November 2016 Conference Organisers: Special Thanks to: Sarah Bendall University of Sydney Department of History Moira Kenny Lucy King School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Emma Kluge Georgia Lawrence-Doyle Prof. Chris Hilliard Pamela Maddock Hollie Pich A/Prof. Mike McDonnell Ben Vine Marama Whyte Dr Sarah Walsh Tiger Zhifu Li Kim Kemmis Live Tweeting Encouraged! Our twitter handle is: #historicalidentities @SydneyHistoryPG Historical Identities Thursday 24th November 2016 8.30-9.30 AM Registration Desk Opens, Cloisters, Western side of the Quadrangle at the University of Sydney 9.30-11 AM Acknowledgement of Country [ Philosophy Room ] Conference Opening: Professor Chris Hilliard, Chair of History Department Keynote address: Dr Sarah Walsh, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South (REGS), University of Sydney ‘Latinizing’ Whiteness: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Latin America 11-11.30 AM Morning Tea [ Cloisters ] 11.30-1 PM [S223] Race & Indigeneity in [S224] Port Cities in the Long [S225] Medieval Religious Australia Eighteenth Century Identities Chair: Emma Kluge Chair: Sarah Bendall Chair: Moira Kenny Brooke Kelly | Theresa Walker & Tommy Fleur Lankesheer | British Women of the Chris Baghos | Eastern Monastic McRae: art and the Australian colonial Other ‘Portocracy’: The Modern Wine Trade, Family Perceptions of Christian Identity and Ties and Transnational Identities 'Romanitas' Ameer Chasib Furaih | “ Peace was yours, Australian man, with tribal laws you made”: Ben Vine | Popes, Bakers, and Riotous Heather Christie | The personality of the Historical Allusions in the Poetry of Kath Walker Persons: The French Navy in Revolutionary Lesser Brothers "beyond the Alps" - The early (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Sonia Sanchez Boston Franciscans in England Felicity McCallum | Susceptible to being Sam Gribble | The Double Life of William Jessica Thomas | Femininity and Faith in Misidentified: How our Veiled Colonial History Eton? Identity, diplomacy, and empire in the Books of Hours Leaves Australia Unsure of Who We Are Late-Eighteenth century Mediterranean 1-2 PM Lunch [Cloisters] Historical Identities Thursday 24th November 2016 2 - 3.30 PM [S223] Early Modern England [S224] Identity in the [S225] Twentieth-Century Ancient World Personalities Chair: Sarah Bendall Chair: Pamela Maddock Chair: Georgia Lawrence-Doyle Stephanie Shing-Kelly | Women, Religious Patronage, and Religious Identity in Early Laura Peirce | Foreigners at Karnak: Egyptian Darren Mitchell | Rev Albert Talbot and the Reformation England Identity and the Temple as a Place of Memory Origins of Anzac: A Study of Personal and National Identity David Kearns | Sir Matthew Hale and Thomas Dustin McKenzie | The Rhetoric of Hobbes on Judicial Office in the English Topography: Cicero and the Strait of Messana Restoration Alanna Irwin | Anne Truitt - Minimalist David R. Cole | Performing the Past: Identity maverick Mark Neuendorf | ‘I Will Speak’: Mad Voices Transition and Uses of Tradition in the Epistulae of and the Question of Agency in Georgian Sidonius Apollinaris England 3.30 – 4 PM Afternoon Tea [CLOISTERS] 4—5.30 PM [S223] Histories of Activism [S224] Material Culture [S225] Textual Identities Chair: Emma Kluge Chair: Sarah Bendall Chair: Lucy King Shensi Yi | Mutual dependence and clash as Simon Wyatt-Spratt | No stone unturned – con- Anna Temby | ‘Foul birds love foul nests’: teeth and lips: A Case study of the Shanghai structing socio-cultural identities from stone arte- Discursive ‘Slum-dweller’ Identity in Colonial party-league ties in 1920s on the basis of facts Brisbane Communist Materials Alyce Cannon | Prostheses and Ancient Con- Willo Drummond | Writerly personhood and Emmet Gillespie | "Organising Community": structions of Disability the extended mind: poetics and identity Hotel and restaurant unionisation and formation in the early notebooks of Denise community-based radicalism in 1930s Louise Box | Narratives of sensibility and iden- Levertov Minneapolis tity: a poet, a painter and an eighteenth century mezzotint Dashiell Moore | 'I am the Va'a': The Tim Briedis | 'Even though we'd won, we felt Relational Poetics of Suheir Hammad and sad': student occupations and the politics of ex- Grace Taylor cess 6.30 PM Conference Dinner: Mad Pizza e Bar, 135 King Street, Newtown Historical Identities Friday 25th November 2016 8.30-9 AM Registration Desk Opens, Cloisters, Western side of the Quadrangle at the University of Sydney 9-10.30 AM [S223] Italian Identities [S224] Military Identities [S225] Asia-Pacific Chair: Georgia Lawrence-Doyle Chair: Emmet Gillespie Chair: Tiger Zhifu Li Alberto Cauli | Fascism and geographic explo- Pamela Maddock | “Men with little brains and Jarrah Sastrawan | "The King Is The Mak- rations. Power and national identity in the Duke of powerful passions”: Managing Venereal Disease in er Of His Time": Elite Identities and the Spoleto’s 1929 expedition to the Karakorum. the US Army during the Punitive Expedition, 1916 Structure of Historical Time in Southeast Asian Historiography Liam Kane | ‘The 50-50 Army Show’: Luke Vitale | Italians in WWII: interned Diggers, GIs and Vaudeville in World War Two Rainald Roesch | The Annexation Crisis between 'enemy alien' and 'British subject' Revisited Adalia Draghici | Truth, justice, and the advertising way: the reconfiguration of the "citizen- Emma Kluge | Rebels or Refugees?: West soldier" tradition Papuan border crossers and the Australian administration in PNG, 1963-73 10.30-11 AM Morning Tea [ Cloisters ] 11 AM-12.30 [S223] China & the World [S224] Food & Dining Cultures [S225] The Nation & The PM Storyteller Chair: Georgia Lawrence-Doyle Chair: Minerva Inwald Chair: Ben Vine Yi-Wang | The Transformation of Professional Darren M. Smith | Food, Identity, and Francis- Journalist Identity in the 1930s China: Debates in cans at the Thirteenth-century Mongol Court David Milazzo | Storytelling and National the Journalist Supplements of the Shanghai Identity Evening Post and Mercury Jacqui Newling | Mistaken identity or identity mistaken? Two cases of 'myth-interpretation' of Alma Studholme | History and Poiesis: Tiger Zhifu Li | Hsu Mo: China’s First profile characters in 1790s Sydney Liminal Identity of Béla Hamvas Ambassador to Australia (1941-1944) Mikael Pierre | French names for Australian Samuel Jaffe | ‘A Past We Thought Would wines: Transnationalism and identity Never Return’: Primo Levi and the Identity of a Holocaust Witness 12.30-1.30 PM Lunch [Cloisters] Historical Identities Friday 25th November 2016 1.30 - 3 PM [S223] Twentieth-Century Australian Women [S224] Ideas Crossing Borders Chair: Pamela Maddock Chair: Ben Vine Jennifer Bowen | Business girls & pioneer women: Australian Rohan Howitt | The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1911 and the Idea radio’s encounters with gender identity of White Australia Robert Skinner | How useful are women’s magazines in Sydney as Karen Bird | The Concession of Toleration, Muslims and the British a source of gender identity and roles in childbirth between 1900 and Enlightenment 1940? Katlyn Quenzer | Writing the Resistance, Palestinian Intellectuals- 1960s -1970s 3 – 3.30 PM Afternoon Tea [CLOISTERS] 3.30 - 4.30 PM [S223] Women and War [S224] Myths, Heroes, Archetypes Chair: Moira Kenny Chair: Lucy King Elicia Taylor | “ I know I’ve got more horribly independent than Giorgia Ortolani | Gilgamesh, History and Literature: The epic for Assyr- ever”: Olive King’s Unconventional Service in the Great War ians, Assyrians in Sydney & Westerners William Liu & Bin Wang | The dilemma of being “ women in Frank Russo | Repositioning the holy fool in Seventeenth Century revolution”: Examining women’s movement during the Sino-Japanese Kingdom of Naples War 4.30 PM+ Conference Close & Drinks [Philosophy Room] .