CONNECTED HISTORIES

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.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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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.

CONNECTED HISTORIES

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 email the organisers at

historypgconference@gmail.com

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

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CONNECTED HISTORIES

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)

Bernard Keo (Monash University)

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)

Cheryl O’Byrne (University of Sydney)

Amelia O’Donnell (University of Sydney)

Nicola Ritchie (Monash University)

Kate Rivington (University of Sydney)

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)

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, 1500-2000 (2014).

Dr Hannah Forsyth completed her PhD in history at the University of

Sydney in 2012. 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 (2017-19) entitled ‘Are we all

middle class now? A history of professions in Australia 1881-2001’.

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.” The recipients of 2018 conference travel bursaries are Jessica Urwin (Australian National University) and Toby Nash (University of Melbourne).

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8.30am Registration, room S241

9.30am

11am Morning tea, room S241

11.30am Australian Histories, room S223 Chaired by Amy Jelacic

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

Bernard Keo - Global Connections: The Cosmopolitan Lives of the Peranakan Chinese of Penang, 1900-1940

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, 1945-1965

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 Lunch, room S241

2pm The Material Past, room S223 Chaired by Amy Jelacic

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

Writing About People, room S224 Chaired by Ryan Cropp

Anne Thoeming - Fake News: The Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Propaganda in Australia and Britain

Cheryl O’Byrne - “I expected that I would keep to the evidence”: Drusilla Modjeska’s Poppy as Autofiction

Peter Brownlee - Enoch’s Sydney Adventures

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Day 1 - Thursday November 29th

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)

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8.30am Registration, room S241

9.30am War and Commemoration, room S223 Chaired by Anne Thoeming

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

Australia and the World, room S224 Chaired by Ryan Cropp

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, 1931–35

Jessica Urwin - The Empire’s Winning Weapon: the Imperial Indoctrination of Australian Personnel throughout the British Nuclear Testing in Australia

American Histories, room S225 Chaired by Amy Jelacic

Kate Rivington - In its Midst: An Analysis of One Hundred Southern-Born Opponents of Slavery

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

3.30pm Afternoon tea, room S241

4pm 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, 1920–1948

Ebony Hutchin - On the Left: the Russian Social Club in Early Cold War Sydney

6pm Conference Dinner: Details to be confirmed!

Day 2 - Friday November 30th

CONNECTED HISTORIES

Day 1 - Thursday November 29th - continued

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11.30am 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

Representing the Past, room S224 Chaired by Amy Jelacic

Themistocles Kritikakos - “Memory and Cooperation: An analysis of genocide recognition efforts among Greeks and Assyrians in Australia (circa 2000-2018)”

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

1pm Lunch, room S241

2pm 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

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 (1919-1939)

3pm Closing remarks, room S223

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Day 2 - Friday November 30th - continued

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.