Programme
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday
All sessions will take place in the Gartree
& Rutland and Sparkenhoe & Goscote rooms, on the 4th floor
of the Charles Wilson Building.
Morning coffee and afternoon tea will also be served in these rooms.
Lunch (both days) will be served in the Garendon Room, also on the 4th
floor. The SCR (Thursday night drinks reception and performance) is on
the 5th floor.
Wednesday 8 December
6.30pm onwards
Informal meeting point for delegates: Marquis Pub, London Road.
Thursday 9 December
9.00-9.45am (Balcony & Quorn)
Registration, welcome and coffee.
9.45-10.00am (Balcony & Quorn)
Vice-Chancellor's welcome.
10.00-11.00am (Gartree & Rutland)
Slaves, Convicts & Freedmen
Chair: Farley Grubb, Economics Dept, University of Delaware (grubbf@college.be.udel.edu)
Atlantic Slavery and convict slavery: an area for comparison
Jim Walvin, Dept of History, University of York (jw26@york.ac.uk)Slave, Apprentice and 'Khoisan' Spaces in Colonial Places: Criminal Transportation from the Cape Colony to Australia as a Site of Contested Power Relations
Ian Duffield, Department of History, University of Edinburgh (ian.duffield@ed.ac.uk)
10.00-11.00am (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Convicts, Art & Representation
Chair: Toni Johnson-Woods, Lecturer in Contemporary Studies, University
of Queensland
(entjohns@mailbox.uq.edu.au)
Australian colonial art: is there a convict aesthetic?
Max Staples, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga,
NSW (mstaples@csu.edu.au; maxstaples@yahoo.com)
Convict art and cultural capital: the case of Thomas Watling
Ian McLean, School of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of
Western Australia (imcl@arts.uwa.edu.au)
11.00-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm (Gartree & Rutland)
Punishment, Labour & Colonization in Early-Modern European Empires
Chair: Jim Walvin, Dept of History, University of York (jw26@york.ac.uk)
The Portuguese Inquisition and Banishment to BrazilGeraldo Pieroni, University of Brasilia (pieroni@pop3.tba.com.br)
Exile as a Tool in Building and Maintaining the Early-Modern Portuguese Empire.
Timothy Coates, History Department, College of Charleston, South Carolina
(coatest@cofc.edu)'Bandieten and Bannelingen': penal and political transportation in the Dutch East
India Company's Indian Ocean empire, c1655-1795
Kerry Ward, Department of History, University of Michigan
(kward@umich.edu)
11.30am-1.00pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
The Archaeology of (Convict) Knowledge
Chair: Tina Picton-Phillipps, Dept of History, University of Edinburgh
(C.Pictonphillipps@tesco.ne)
The Australian Joint Copying Project and Sources for Convict Studies
Sara Joynes, Acquisitions Consultant (UK), National Library of Australia(sjoynes@sas.ac.uk)'That Den of Infamy': The No. 2 Stockade, Cox's River
Sue Rosen, School of Cultural Histories and Futures, University of Western Sydney (smr@geko.net.au); (read by Sara Joynes, Acquisitions Consultant (UK), National Library of Australia[sjoynes@sas.ac.uk])
Leaden Hearts: convict love tokens
Tim Millet, Baldwin’s Coin Dealers, London
Gender and convict culture in Van Diemen's Land
Kirsty Reid, School of Historical Studies, University of Bristol
(Kirsty.Reid@Bristol.ac.uk)
An Alternative View of Female Convicts
Norma Townsend, Dept of Classics & History, University of New England, NSW
(ntownse2@metz.une.edu.au)
Lawless Vagabonds and Civilizing Wives: The Official Cult of Domesticity and the
Exile Problem in Early Nineteenth-Century Siberia
Abby M. Schrader, Department of History, Franklin and Marshall
College (A_Schrader@acad.fandm.edu); (read by Stephen Wheatcroft, Department of History, University of Melbourne [s.wheatcroft@history.unimelb.edu.au])
2.00-3.30pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
'Race', Power & Hierarchy
Chair: James Bradley (Wellcome Institute, Glasgow)
Convict and Aboriginal Relations in Early Australia
Jan Kociumbas, Dept of History, University of Sydney
(jan.kociumbas@history.usyd.edu.au)
Fashioning Identity: the development of penal dress in the Indian convict settlements
Clare Anderson, Department of Economic & Social History, University of Leicester ( ca26@le.ac.uk)
Between the Lines: Murder and Convict Society at Macquarie Harbour Penal Station
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Port Arthur Fellow, University of Tasmania
(hamish.maxwellstewart@utas.edu.au)
3.30-4.00pm Tea
4.00-5.30pm (Gartree & Rutland)
Punishment & Social Control: the West Indies' connection
Chair: Ian Duffield, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University
of Edinburgh
(ian.duffield@ed.ac.uk)
Commodities of the State: the trade in convict labour to the West Indies during the
Interregnum
Andrea Button, University of the West of England
(andrea3.button@uwe.ac.uk)
Back to Africa: The Deportation of West Indian Rebel Slaves in the Age of Emancipation
Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (hbeckles@uwimona.edu.jm)
An "Injurious" Population: Race and Slavery in the Transportation of West Indian
Convicts to Australia
Diana Paton, Queen's College, Oxford (diana.paton@queens.ox.ac.uk)
4.00-5.30pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Aspects of the Convict System in Van Diemen's Land
Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Port Arthur Fellow,
University of Tasmania
(hamish.maxwellstewart@utas.edu.au)
From courthouse to convict-ship to colony: the Euraylus boys in the 1830s
Heather Shore, Darwin College, Cambridge (hs232@cam.ac.uk)
'I'll be damned if I don't have some'; Convict Trangressive Consumption in Van Diemen's Land 1820-40
Bruce Hindmarsh, Department of History, University of Edinburgh (9238999@lewis.sms.ed.ac.uk)
Tasmanian Convict Workers: Modelling the Convict Labour Market in Van Diemen's Land, 1848-60
David Meredith, School of Economics, University of NSW (d.meredith@unsw.edu.au)
6.00-7.15pm (Senior Common Room) Cash bar and
performance of a vignette from The Tragedy of Alba-Eire-Africa in America,
at 6.30pm (SCR).
7.30pm Conference Dinner (The Tiffin, De Montfort Street).
Friday 10 December
9.00-10.00 (Gartree & Rutland)
Coffee
10.00-11.00am (Gartree & Rutland)
Convicts & Cultural Reproduction
Chair: Max Staples, Charles Sturt University, Wagga
Wagga,
NSW (mstaples@csu.edu.au; maxstaples@yahoo.com)
Convicts & Tobacco Consumption in Hyde Park Barracks
Samantha Fabry, Assistant Curator, Hyde Park Barracks Museum (samanthaf@hpb.hht.nsw.gov.au); (read by Ian Duffield, Department of History, University of Edinburgh [ian.duffield@ed.ac.uk])
The Dromedary Convict Hulk, Bermuda
Mark M. Newell, The Georgia Archaeological Institute and Chriss Addams, The Bermuda Dromedary Foundation (marknewell@aol.com; addamsfamily@ibl.bm)
10.00-11.00am (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Convicts in Siberia
Chair: Tim Coates (College of Charleston, South Carolina)
The 19th Century Deportations of Finnish Convicts to Siberia
Toomas Kotkas, Department of Legal History, University of Helsinki, Finland (toomas.kotkas@helsinki.fi)
The Tsarist Prison System in the Perspective of the Stalinist and Other Prison Systems
Stephen G. Wheatcroft, History Department, University of Melbourne (s.wheatcroft@history.unimelb.edu.au)
11.00-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm (Gartree & Rutland)
Indian Convict Settlements in Southeast Asia
Chair: Huw Bowen, University of Leicester
Con(vict) Tales from Bengkulen: Convict/Laborer/Slave in Early Nineteenth Century South and Southeast Asia
Anand Yang, Department of History, University of Utah (Anand.Yang@m.cc.utah.edu)
Productive iIlegalities in the Colonial Straits Settlements
Anoma Pieris, Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley (anomap@hotmail.com)
Contesting the Body: Medicine, Authority and Resistance in the Andaman Islands
Satadru Sen, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle (ssen@u.washington.edu); (read by Clare Anderson, Department of Economic & Social History, University of Leicester [ca26@le.ac.uk])
11.30am-1.00pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Text, Narrative and Convict Identity
Chair: Linda Colley (London School of Economics)
Frozen Identities: An Exploration, 1810-1830
Tina Picton-Phillipps, Department of History, University of Edinburgh (C.Pictonphillipps@tesco.net)
Hispanic and Lusophone Convicts in Australia: Research in Progress
Susan Ballyn, Facultad de Filogia, Universidad de Barcelona (susand@arrakis.es)
Constraining Foreign Tongues
Lucy Frost, School of English & European Languages & Literatures, University of Tasmania (lfrost@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au)
1.00-2.00pm Lunch (Garendon)
2.00-3.30pm (Gartree & Rutland)
'Colonial' Convicts: transportation from the Cape & North America
Chair: Bill Spellman (UNC Asheville)
Slave, Apprentice and 'Khoisan' Spaces in Colonial Places: Criminal Transportation from the Cape Colony to Australia as a Site of Contested Power Relations
Ian Duffield, Department of History, University of Edinburgh (ian.duffield@ed.ac.uk)
Exporting felons from British North America
Patricia Kennedy, Manuscript Division, National Archives of Canada (pkennedy@archives.ca)
'By any available means': The case of the Canadian Political Prisoners
Cassandra Pybus, International Centre for Convict Studies, University of Tasmania (pybus@mail.mpx.com.au) (read by Lucy Frost, School of English & European Languages & Literatures, University of Tasmania [lfrost@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au])
2.00-3.30pm (Gartree & Rutland)
The Atlantic World
Chair: Kirsty Reid, Lecturer in historical studies, University of Bristol
(Kirsty.Reid@Bristol.ac.uk)
The Trans-Atlantic Market for British Convict Labour (1767-1775)
Farley Grubb, Department of Economics, University of Delaware (grubbf@college.be.udel.edu)
Criminal Connections: Criminal Transportation and the Place of the North in the Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland (Peter.Rushton@sunderland.ac.uk; Gwenda.Morgan@sunderland.ac.uk)The Nature of Convict Transportation to North America, 1718-1775
Kenneth Morgan, Dept of History, Brunel University (hystkjm@brunel.ac.uk)
2.00-3.30pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Convict Voices
Chair: Silvia Evangelista (University of Birmingham)
Subjectivity and the Penal Colony: Convict Narratives and Foucault
Emily Warner, Department of English, University of Queensland (s000249@student.uq.edu.au)
Criminal History Transported: The Literary Origins of the Convict Narratives
Matthew P. Mauger, Department of English, University of Queensland (mpmauger@hotmail.com)
'The Hermit Convict'
Toni Johnson-Woods, Lecturer in Contemporary Studies, University of Queensland (entjohns@mailbox.uq.edu.au)
3.30-4.00pm Tea
4.00-5.00pm (Gartree & Rutland)
Transportation from North America
Chair: Bill Spellman (UNC Asheville)
Exporting felons from British North America
Patricia Kennedy, Manuscript Division, National Archives of Canada (pkennedy@archives.ca)
'By any available means': The case of the Canadian Political Prisoners
Cassandra Pybus, International Centre for Convict Studies, University of Tasmania (pybus@mail.mpx.com.au) (read by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Department of History and Classics, University of Tasmania [hamish.maxwellstewart@utas.edu.au])
4.00-5.00pm (Sparkenhoe & Goscote)
Place/Space: negotiating the convict system
Chair: Chris Williams (Open University)
Edward Smith Hall: Colonial Paradox
Erin Ihde, School of Classics, History and Religion, University of New England, NSW (sihde@northnet.com.au)
Charting New Waters With Old Patterns: The Black Marketeers, Pirates and Those Who Just Dreamed of the Way Home. The Penal Station and Port of Newcastle, 1804-1824
Tamsin O'Connor, Department of History, University of Edinburgh (tamsin2@excite.co.uk)
5.00pm Close of conference
7.00pm onwards. Informal 'Tapas' dinner and drinks; (El Aperitivo,
Highfield Street).
Saturday 11 December
Conference trip to the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham:
Meet at Leicester Station at 10am.
Morning visit to Galleries.
Informal lunch in Nottingham at Pitcher & Piano, formerly the Unitarian
Church (close to the Galleries). (Delegates are responsible for paying
for their own meals).
View poster/browse accommodation/registration
For further information, please contact:
PClare Anderson,
Department of Economic & Social History,
University of Leicester,
LEICESTER, LE1 7RH.
e-mail: ca26@le.ac.uk
tel (w): +44 (0)116 252 2784
tel (h): +44 (0)116 220 1392
fax: 0116 252 5081
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