British Australian Studies Association Conference
Comings and Goings
Britain and Australia, past and future
Provisional Programme
12-14 September 2000
Unless otherwise specified all meetings are in the King's College London Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, Waterloo.
Monday 11th September
6.00 Pre-conference evening reception, at the Menzies Centre, 28 Russell Square
Tuesday 12th September
9.00am Opening & Keynote Address: Marilyn Lake Chair: Carl Bridge
10.15 Morning Tea
10.30 1st Panel (sessions A-D)
A Chair: Glenn Calderwood
Speakers: Neville Meaney The Problem of the Teleology of Nationalism in Australian History and Historiography
Regina Ganter Decentering Britain: Australia's Asian Histories
Richard Lane 'Cultural Exchanges': The Fourth Order of Australian Simulation
B Chair: McKenzie Wark
Speakers: Catriona Elder Performance and Protest: Sexualities, National Identities and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Veronica Kelly High Comedy in Late-Colonial Australia: the Performance of 'Australia' Selves
Susan Pfisterer Heads Up or Thumbs Down? Contemporary Australian Theatre in London
Liz Schafer Home & Away:the Career of Michael Blakemore
C Chair: Ian Craven
Speakers: Martin Crotty The Hun in our Midst: Surpressing Barossa Germanism, 1914-18
Phillip Deery Don't mention the War: Britain, Australia and Covert Propaganda, 1948-54
Vicki Karaminas Home Away From Home: Kosovars in Australia
D Chair: David Carment
Speakers: Susan Ballyn & Lucy Frost (not present) Outward Tickets Only: Recovering the Voices of Sephardi Jews in Convict Australia
Ian Duffield Cataloguing Blacks: The transit of a British Cultural Practice to early NSW and Van Diemen's Land
12.00 Keynote Address: Miriam Dixson The Imaginary Australian: Identity and its discontents today Chair: Susan Pfisterer
1.00 Lunch Booklaunch, Andrew Hassam, Carl Bridge & Bernard Attard
2.00 2nd Panel (sessions E-G)
E Chair: Susan Pfisterer
Speakers: Gillian Bouras Women travelling through literature and life
Kathleen McCormack The Difficulties of 'Making Lemonade': Women and Autobiography
Shirley Walker Autobiography
Heather Wearne Getting the 'Inside Story' on Culture
F Chair: Dan Foley
Speakers: John Thompson Australians at Oxbridge: a study in opportunity and ambivalence
Olwen Pryke Australia House and the Australians abroad
Joanna Sassoon Phantom of the archives - photographs held at the Australian High Commission
G Chair: Mark McKenna
Speakers David Lee Australia's Economic Relations with the United Kingdom form 1930 to 1960
Paul Nicholls The Imperial relationship and Australian Depression Politics 1929-32
Stuart Ward Australia and the British embrace in the era of 'New Nationalism'
3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.45 3rd Panel (sessions H-J)
H Chair: Miriam Dixson
Speakers: Graeme Duncan The Millennial Australian: Rival Conceptions of the Good Citizen
Mark McKenna Building 'a confessional' in the New World: the Story of 'the Australian Ballot'
John Uhr Westminster Muddles: Australian Parliamentary Innovations
I Chair: Liz Schafer
Speakers: Ian Craven Ramsay Street revisited: Neighbours in the 1990s
Andrew Hassam Anglo-Australian liaisons: the fate of the English in Australian cinema
Carole Ferrier The Antipodean Woman in Theory, Practice and Fiction
J Chair: Ian Duffield
Speakers: David Carment Fort Dundas 1824-9: Social Continuity & Transformation in N. Australia's first British Colony
Gavin Edwards Watkin Tench in Revolutionary France
Dan Foley Who sent the Convicts?
7.00 Cultural Evening: Blue Tongue Theatre event at the Australian High Commission, The Strand
Wednesday 13th September
9.00 Keynote Address: McKenzie Wark Chair: Graham Sumner
10.00 Morning Tea
10.15 4th Panel (sessions K-N)
K Chair: Angela Smith
Speakers: Elisa Morera The Comings and Goings of Unicorns and Objects
Amanda Claremont 'She's Apples': The global and the local in Australian fruit collections
David Dunstan Australian wine: a story of comings and goings
L Chair: David Walker
Speakers: Melissa Harper Australian Bushwalker or English Gentleman Walker?: William Mogford Hamlet & Romaticism in Australia
Bernard Hickey 'Tubby' Clayton of TocH
John McLaren John Morrison - Sojourner or Australian by choice?
M Chair: Susan Ballyn
Speakers: Bruce Hindmarsh From a Distant Land: The Letters of Simon Brown and Richard Taylor
Tamsin O'Connor (not present) 'Those other exiles': A soldier's life on the penal frontier of New South Wales 1804-42
Tina Picton Phillips Convict Transports' Neglected Cargo: Letters to and from Convicts
N Chair: Katherine Gallagher
Speakers: Stephen Cowden The Politics of 'Place' and 'Race' in DH Lawrence and PR Stephenson
Hena Maes-Jelinek David Malouf's 'Voyaging Imagination' the conversations at Curlow Creek
Bernard Cohen The Fool in Australian Literature
Xavier Pons Sexual pleasure in contemporary Australian fiction
11.45 Keynote Address: John Kinsella Australian Writing and the Linguistic Turn Chair: Xavier Pons
1.00 Lunch Book launch - Carole Ferrier
1.45 5th Panel (sessions O-R)
O Chair: Edel Mahony
Speakers: Anne Sunter Beggs Royals and Republicans in Ballarat: Comings and Goings
Phillip Buckner Daylight upon Magic: Deconstructing the Royal Tour of 1901 to Australia
James Curran Britishness in Australian Prime Ministerial speeches: from Mansion House to Ballarat 1972-96
Anthony May Backwards and forward to globalisation: Horwitz and Australia commercial publishing from the 1950s
P Chair: Marilyn Lake
Speakers: John Arnold The Left Book Club in Australia
Norbert Platz The Asianisation of Australia: Threat or Promise
Lyndall Ryan Resisting the Republic: Ethnicity, Class and the Monarchy in Australia
Adi Wimmer Hanson and Haider: an Austrian/Australian comparison of extremist political dramaturgy
Q Chair: John Kinsella
Speakers: Mary Ellen Lucinda Leplastier: surfacing from the past, emerging into the future
Katherine Gallagher Judith Wright - Public Poet
Angela Smith Colonial Savages
R Chair: Stuart Ward
Speakers: Judith Godden 'Like a possession of the devil': the diffusion of nurturing ideals and Anglo-Australian relations, 1866-84
Belinda Robson Eric Cunningham Dax and the appeal of English psychiatry in Victoria 1951-69
Rex Davis Pacific Partners: British, Australian and American voluntary aid in the Pacific
3.15 Afternoon Tea
3.30 6th Panel (sessions S-U)
S Chair: Miriam Dixson
Speakers: Kristin Hammett Christina Stead's vision of Australia and Britain in the 1930s
Sara Joynes The Australian Joint Copying Project and Travel Diaries
Richard White Geoffrey Dutton's Long Drive: Adventure and Tourism on the Overland Route from London to Australia
T Chair: Carole Ferrier
Speakers: Tony Birch 'Let their porgeny go to the Devil': British Colonial & Australian Government controls of Aboriginal people
Eleonore Wildeburger Encounters across borderlines: some aspects of an intercultural research analysis of Black Australian poetry
Marc Maufort Unsettling narratives: subversive mimicry in Australian Aboriginal solo performance pieces
U Chair: Sarah Scott
Speakers: John MacDonald Australians are for turning: turning to Britain, turning back to Australia or turning elsewhere
Edel Mahony 'The best-advertised country in the British Empire': Selling Australia in the 1930s
Ray Margaret Thomas Frederick Elliot (1808-80): his role in the development of nineteenth-century emigration policy
7.00 Conference Dinner, venue to be announced Special guest appearance and performance by Kathleen McCormack, 'Singing For Her Supper'.
Thursday 14th September
9.00 Keynote Address: David Walker Chair: Mark McKenna
10.00 Morning Tea
10.15 7th Panel (sessions V-Y)
V Chair: Xavier Pons
Speakers: John Davies The importance of the visual image in the colonising process
Brigitta Olubas Moving Cities: works by Australian artists in Berlin 2000
Sarah Scott Patrons of the Metropolis. Artists of the Periphery? A reappraisal of Australian art surveys in 60s London
W Chair: Judith Godden
Speakers: Bill Jones & Philip Payton Industrial skill and the construction of ethnic identities: Australia's Welsh and Cornish compared
Paul Jones Desertion from merchant ships at Australian ports, 1900-1940
Sara Wills When good neighbours become good friends: the Good Neighbour Councils
X Chair: Phillip Buckner
Speakers: Carl Bridge Anglo-Australian relations during the second world war: a reconsideration
Glenn Calderwood Archbishop Mannix and the first world war
Bart Ziino Departure and Homecoming: Attitudes of Australian recruits in the Great War
Y Chair: Stephen Cowden
Speakers: Karin Hansson 'To write is to go in search': Comings and Goings as central metaphors in Gerald Murane's writing
Julie Mullaney Robert Drewe 'The Drowner' and Britishness
Alastair Thomson Landscapes of Memory in the Migrations of Elizabeth Jolley
11.45 BASA Presidential Address: Guy Robinson Geography: the Cinderella discipline in Australian Studies? Chair: Graham Sumner
12.45 Lunch Poetry launches
1.45 Plenary Session 'Staying Put or Moving On?: Britain & Australia in the 21st Century
Keynote speakers and notable attendees Alistair Niven and Henry Reynolds
3.15 Afternoon Tea
3.30 BASA AGM
4.30-6.30 Tour to the London Eye, and Australian Writers Event: 'Eyeing London', featuring the following Australian writers:
Bernard Cohen, Justine Ettler, Peter Porter, Katharine Gallagher, Tony Birch, Nicky Gemmell, Gillian Bouras and John Kinsella.
7.00 Informal conference inconclusion at local pub
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Head Carl Bridge carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
Lecturer Susan Pfisterer susan.pfisterer@kcl.ac.uk
Secretary Kirsten McIntyre kirsten.mcintyre@kcl.ac.uk
King's College London, University of London
28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS, UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7862 8854 Fax +44 (0)20 7580 9627
Email: menzies.centre@kcl.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/menzies
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