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November


Objects of colonisation and narratives of conciliation in Australian studies

Professor Kate Darian-Smith
Presented by the Hawke Research Institute and the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research

Friday 20 November, 2.30–4.30pm
Paul Hughes Room, Y2-58, Yungondi Building, City West Campus

Ideas about 'conciliation' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples have been the subject of much official, legal and policy debate in Australia as in other British colonial societies. But there has been less attention paid to the ways that settler societies have understood the role that conciliation events have played in the evolution of their distinctive national histories. This paper explores how some narratives of conciliation have circulated within the popular historical imagination in Australia, and have been expressed and re-worked over time through forms of public history making (such as re-enactments) as well as in material cultural heritage (from Governor Arthur’s Proclamation Board, to medals and gorgets). It draws on research undertaken as part of an ARC Linkage Grant with Museum Victoria, the National Museum of Australia and Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum on 'Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in Pacific Rim Settler Societies'. I will also address cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches for assessing the legacies of British colonial negotiations with Indigenous peoples on Australian frontiers.

Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely on topics including memory and history; colonial cultures and the British imperial world; and material culture. Her recent books include: Stirring Australian speeches: the definitive collection from Botany to Bali (MUP, 2004, co-author); Britishness abroad: transnational movements and imperial cultures (MUP, 2007, co-editor); Seize the day: Australia, exhibitions and the world (Monash UP, 2008, co-editor); and On the home front: Melbourne in wartime (rev ed, MUP, 2009). She has been the president of the International Association of Australian Studies, and has been involved in the promotion of Australian studies for two decades, most recently in Asia. Kate is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Senior Research Associate at Museum Victoria, and serves on a number of international editorial boards.

RSVP to Sonia Saitov
 

Itek research commercialisation and funding workshop

Chris Hill, Commercialisation Manager

25 November 2009, 10–11am
ITEK Pty Ltd, Mawson Lakes Campus, Building P, Level 1, Rm 48

Come along and learn about the funding that is available to you as a researcher and most of all learn whether your project may have some commercial value and, if so, what steps to take next. Included free: notebook and pen, morning tea, certificate of attendance

Registration form (Word)
Registration form (PDF)
Further information: Annalisa Agresta, info@itek.com.au or 8302 5300
 

Throughout 2009


Philosophers Cafe

The Philosophers Cafe is an annual series of community lectures organised by the North Adelaide Community Centre. At the Philosophers Cafe a small audience can eat a meal together, and listen to and comment on a lecture drawn from a number of topics of current interest. This year's speakers include Hawke researcher Ian Richards and former Hawke Fellow Catherine Speck.

Brochure (PDF 147 kb)
 

2010
 

Conference logoThird International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies

UniSA, City West Campus, Adelaide, 6–8 April 2010.
Hosted by the Hawke Research Institute and the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.

Invited speakers include:

Call for papers: now closed
We invite papers that interrogate emotion, society and space from diverse disciplinary and multidisciplinary backgrounds. We are interested in specific case studies as well as theoretical examinations of the nature of connections among these terms. The conference will be an exciting place to think about new ways of studying the natures, cultures and histories of emotional life. We welcome individual papers as well as panel proposals. We are happy to receive papers that engage in experimental as well as traditional formats.

Possible topics include: embodiment and emotions; affective attachment and the other-than-human; Emotional labour and management; migration, postcolonialism and emotions; Indigenous knowledges and emotion; emotional publics and passionate politics; theories of affect, emotions, feelings; affect and tourism; queer spaces of affect; emotion and political reform.

One special theme of the conference is 'consuming and producing affective spaces of taste'. Focusing on the relations of production and consumption we want to examine how spaces of tastes are being refigured within the cultural economics of transglobalisation. We are especially interested in specific studies of the changing geographies of food, tourism, and other material commodities, as well as more general theoretical investigations of the connections between production, consumption, emotions and space.

Conference website
Inquiries to CPCSGlobalisation@unisa.edu.au
Chair of the Organising Committee: Prof Elspeth Probyn, Research SA Chair & Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, Hawke Research Institute.
 

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