Programme

CENTRE FORRESEARCH ONCOLONIAL CULTUREA UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO RESEARCH CENTRE

186925th - 29th September 2019

Conference & Heritage Festival

186925 - 29 September 2019

ConventionKa muri, ki mua

1869 FestivalKa muri, ki mua

186925 - 29 September 2019

ConventionKa muri, ki mua

25 - 29 September 2019

1869 Heritage FestivalKa muri, ki mua

25 - 29 September 2019

18691869Heritage FestivalConference and

Ka muri, ki mua

25-29 September 2019

1869 Heritage FestivalConference and

Ka muri, ki mua

1869Conference & Heritage Festival

Ka muri, ki mua

25–29 September 2019

Conference andHeritage FestivalKa mua, ka muri

25-29 September 2019

25-29 September 2019

1869 1869Heritage FestivalConference and

Ka muri, ki mua

Wednesday 25 september

Thursday 26 september

5–5:30pm Registration Venue: Castle Concourse, University of Otago

5:30–6:30pm Back-Story: Heritage through Words, Pictures and Threads Panel Speakers: Tina Makereti, Lisa Chatfield, and Catherine Smith Venue: Castle 1, University of Otago

6:30–7:30pm Opening Reception for Conference Delegates Venue: Te Tumu, University of Otago

8:30–9am Registration Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

9–10:30am Mihi Whakatau/Formal Opening Keynote Address: Megan Potiki Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

10:30–11am Morning Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

11–12:30pm The Dynamics of Commercial Photography Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Jonathan HowardDeveloping confidence – William Meluish and 1860s Dunedin Christine WhybrewCountry: Alfred Burton’s first photo-graphic tour of “Otagan scenery”

Jill HaleyThe piggyback princess: popularity, power and the photographic portrait

Race, Eugenics and Medicine Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Menglu Gao“A Strange Likeness of the Chinaman”: Physiognomy and Dickens’s “visualization” of opium addiction in The Mystery of Edwin Drood Heidi LoganMary Elizabeth Braddon and the idea of Hereditary Genius

David Ellison‘This may sting’: consenting to pain in the Victorian era

12:30–1:30pm Lunch Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

Thursday 26 september cont.

1:30–3pm Flora and Fauna Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Paul GuyBotanical Heresies circa 1869

Wendy ParkinsThe Mystery of the Matoaka; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)

Musical and Performance Cultures Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Kirstine Moffat“O joy unbounded”: The cultural legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan in Australia and New Zealand

Clare Gleeson“500 Pieces of New Music This Week”: Music selling in New Zealand c.1869

Mark Houlahan1869 in stages

3–3:30pm Afternoon Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

3:30–4:30pm Realism, Character, Emotion Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Julia Kuehn He Knew He Was Right: Trollope’s Mixed Characters

Elise Silson Sanctifying Doubt, Demystifying Faith: The Revolutionary Compassion of George Eliot’s Realism in Middlemarch

Faith and Theology Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Anaru EketoneThe murder of John Whiteley

Sarah BartelsThe Devil in 1869: An Examination of Victorian Diabolic Literature

6–7pm Keynote Address: Helen Pearson Venue: St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago

Friday 27 september

8:30–9am Registration Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

9:00–10:00pm Keynote Address: Marion Thain Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

10–10:30am Morning Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

10:30–12:30pm Art, Exhibitions and Collections Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Pamela Gerrish NunnFrances Hodgkins and the class of ‘69

Lara NichollsThe other October revolution: art, enlightenment and reformist women in mid-century Victorian Britain and its colonial legacy

Justine OlsenMr Osborne’s gift: the growth of decorative arts and the national collection

Rebecca Rice“A lot of paintings and drawings”: Dunedin’s 1869 Fine Art Exhibition

Marriage, Materiality and Inheritance Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Fiona McKergow“She wore her wedding-dress still”: Marriage and Silk Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand

Julia BradshawUntying the knot: New Zealand’s first separation and divorce cases

Lyndon Fraser“To my child now expecting to be born’: Women’s Wills as Acts of Remembrance in Victorian Canterbury

Erica Newman Practice of Adoption in Aotearoa before the 1881 Adoption of Infants Act

12:30–1:30pm Lunch Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

1:30–3pm Class, Gender and Taste Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Angela LassigThe Waste of Winter: A Wellington Draper, 1869

Tracey JonesUn-sexed and de-feminised: Victorian Mining Women in England and Wales

Jeremy MoyleHouse Style and Class in Victorian and Edwardian Dunedin, 1870-1910

Imperial Connections, Colonial ImaginationsVenue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Charlotte MacdonaldA year of appeal: to the men of New Zealand, to the imperial government

Mandy TreagusAn American Adventurer: HJ Moors and the Pacific Labour Trade

Friday 27 september cont.

3–3:30pm Afternoon Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum

3:30–5pm Making Colonial Connections: Technology and Mobility in an Industrial Age Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

Andre Brett“The stagnation into which the colony has at present fallen”: 1869 and the Great Public Works Policy

David HainesCrossing the pond: The Tasman Sea in late-nineteenth century colonial life

Frances SteelThe Union Pacific Railroad and its transoceanic frontiers

Criticism, Sensation and Science Fiction Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

Yi-Ching TengRecreating criticism: Oscar Wilde’s critical/artistic reading of Matthew Arnold

Madeleine C SeysSecrecy, suspense and “sensuous raptures”: Sensation fiction and its legacies after 1869

Ian ChapmanFrom Jules Verne to David Bowie – “From the Earth to the Moon: A Space Oddity”

Readers, Writers, Publishers Venue: Kakapo Theatre, Otago Museum

Susann LiebichMaritime mobility and texts in transit

Lachy PatersonA year in the life of Te Waka Maori

Megan Brown1869: The Australian Journal reinvents itself

6pm Buses depart for conference dinner at Larnach Castle7:00–10:00pm Conference Dinner

Dinner Speaker: Liam McIlvanney

Saturday 28 september

9–11am Landscapes Venue: St David Seminar Room C, University of Otago

Jonathan West ‘You see the blank on the map? I wish you to fill it up’: James McKerrow’s exploration of the southern lakes in the 1860s

James Beattie and Warwick Brunton ‘The Place and Power of Natural History in Colonization’: William Lauder Lindsay and the scientific development of Otago’s human and natural resources, 1860-80

Matthew Schmidt Dunedin – a city built on reclamation

Jane McCabe A Pivotal Year: Land Alienation and Entitlement in Taieri and Hokianga

Intellectual networks Venue: St David Seminar Room D, University of Otago

Peter ClayworthSketchy Histories: What were the 1860s Pakeha views of Maori migration to New Zealand

John O’LearyHand-axes, saurian and kobongs: Governor Grey’s London year

Kate HannahCorrespondence, Colenso, and cultural shifts: Visualising New Zealand in 1869

Helene ConnorReflections on the letters of Geraldine Ensor Jewsbury (1812–80) to Walter Durrant Mantell (1820–95) with a focus on 1869

Dunedin People, Places and Institutions Venue: St David Seminar Room E, University of Otago

Lyall Hanton Joseph Mellor: the man who described the Periodic Table in 16 million words

Tom Barker and John Isdale Thames School of Mines

Susan Irvine and Sarah Gallagher Blowing Up Boundaries

Rosi Crane Beyond Albums and Paintbrushes: Women and the Otago Museum, 1869-1936

Reformers and CampaignersVenue: St David Seminar Room F, University of Otago

Anna ClarkJosephine Butler’s Women’s Work and Women’s Culture (1869): The paradoxes of individualism in Britain and New Zealand

Chieko Ichikawa Women’s Writing on Sex: Rhetoric and Gender in the Social Purity Movement

Jane Tolerton Otago’s three women’s suffrage movements: 1869-1893

Joanne Wilkes Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back from 1869

Saturday 28 september cont.

11–11:30am Morning Tea Venue: St David Ground Floor Foyer, University of Otago

11:30–12:30pm Closing Address Speaker: Tilly Boleyn, Curator, Science Gallery MelbourneVenue: St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago

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