Provisional Program
Thursday 24th June 2010
2.00‐2.30 – welcome & introduction
2.30-4.00 – Panel 1
Panel 1: lecture theatre
Marilyn Lake, ‘Chinese colonists writing their rights’
Thomas G. Kirsch, ‘Power writ large: literacy, networking and dis/connections’
Tony Ballantyne, ‘The politics of print: Matiaha Tiramorehu and the transformation of the Kai Tahu world’
4.30-6.00 – Panels 2 & 3
Panel 2: Lecture theatre
Ellen Gill, ‘Press gangs and petitions’
Isaac Land, ‘Patriotic performances: naval veterans on (and off) the street in early nineteenth‐century Britain’
Jonathan Hyslop, ‘Zulu seafarers in the age of steam: the voyage narratives of George Magodini and Fulunge Mpofu, 1916‐24’
Panel 3: Music room
Katherine Foxhall, ‘Scribbling on the walls of empire: quarantine inscriptions from the nineteenth‐ and twentieth centuries, Sydney North Head’
Effie Karageorgos, ‘Loyal to the empire? An alternative view of Australian soldiers in the South African War, 1899‐1902’
Rhian Tritton, ‘Writing a new life: the construction of self in ss Great Britain’s emigrant diaries
6.15 - 7.15 – panel 4
Panel 4: Lecture theatre
Dirk Tang, ‘Writings from the Dutch empire’
Karen Garvey, ‘Writing an archive: the Bristol Black Archives Partnership’
7.15 – wine reception
Friday 25th June
9.30-11.00 – panels 5 & 6
Panel 5: Lecture theatre
Carol Cooper, ‘Shared stories: the words and drawings of William Barak’
Elizabeth Elbourne, ‘Orality and literacy on the New York frontier: evidence from the Draper papers’
Jennifer Jones, ‘Oral narratives and the power of the pen in Australian postcolonising society’
Panel 6: Music Room
Asha Varadharajan, ‘Transplanting the slave narrative: Frederick Douglass, B. R. Ambedkar & Ishmael Beah’
Raphael Hörmann, ‘The artisan writes back: John Thelwall (1764‐1834) and his proto‐socialist critique of the British empire’
Ian Duffield, ‘The parody of power and the rhetoric of English liberty in the life of John William Lancashire’
11.3-01.00 – panels 7 & 8
Panel 7: Lecture theatre
Clare Anderson, ‘Speech, silence, love and longing: the power of words in nineteenth‐century colonial jails’
Claudia Haake, ‘Writing against colonialism: native American political activism against land loss in the age of removal’
Maria Nugent, ‘The quest for title deeds: the meanings of texts in Aboriginal people’s oral traditions’
Panel 8: Music room
James Renton, ‘People of the book: Zionists, Palestinians and the struggle for the Holy Land’
Arnab Dasgupta, ‘Conflicting ‘selves’ and the project of empire: the case of Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan’
Kimberley Rae Connor, ‘Writing across the empire: Grace Halsell’s Many Voices’
1.45-3.45 – panels 9 & 10
Panel 9: Lecture theatre
Peggy Brock, ‘Indigenous Christians’ ethnographic writings’
Norman Etherington, ‘Begging to preach: Black Evangelists’ written responses to the colonial state’s war on mission Christianity in KwaZulu‐Natal South Africa, 1900‐1910’
Gareth Griffiths, “Speaking truth to power”: patronage and agency in texts by early Christian converts in Africa’
Jacqueline Van Gent, ‘Indigenous women’s strategies of writing the colonial self’
Panel 10: Music room
Paul Pickering, ‘The Rhythm of the Hustings: Music and Electoral Politics in Victoria’s Empire’
Kate Bowan, ‘The Wanderings of ‘John Anderson, my Jo’
Nick Nourse, ‘Music as an adjunct to punishment in the armed forces and the people of Britain and the Empire’
4.15-5.45 – panels 11 & 12
Panel 11: Lecture theatre
Caroline Bressey, ‘The writings of black working women in London, 1880‐1920’
Fiona Paisley, ‘Britain’s Gun Bragging: Aboriginal and Black on the Streets of Interwar London’
Kirsty Reid, ‘Writing racism on the streets of nineteenth‐century England’
Panel 12: Music room
Cecilia Morgan, ‘“What a difference there is between this country and America”: native people’s letter‐writing across the British empire, 1800‐1870’
Joy Frith, “Performing imperial identities at the All Hallows’ School for Canadian and Indian Girls, Yale, British Columbia’
Jessica Horton, Orality, literacy and power’
Saturday 26th June
9.30-11.00 – panels 13 & 14
Panel 13: Lecture theatre
Tony Ballantyne, ‘Littoral literacy: writing in the whalers’ world’
Devleena Ghosh, “A desire of seeing other countries and the incalculable advantages thereof”: a Khoka Muslim commercial tourist’s voyage to Australia in the 1880s’.
Samia Khatun, ‘From Battala to Broken Hill: performing Bengali Puthi literature in outback Australia’
Panel 14: Music room
Kristyn Harman, ‘Suffering from long imprisonment: Mickey’s petitions in the context of aboriginal deaths in custody in colonial New South Wales’
Gemma Romain, ‘Petitions and memorials in Grenada during the apprenticeship period’
Tina Picton Phillipps, ‘Petitioners and petitions, 1810‐1824: who wants what and why’
11.30-1.00 – panel 15
Panel 15: Lecture theatre
Antoinette Burton, ‘Postcolonial Flyover: above and below in Frank Moraes’ The Importance of Being Black (1965)
Stephanie Newell, ‘“Print Subjectivities” in colonial West Africa’
Karin Barber, ‘Popular voices in the print culture of 1920s Lagos’