Work in Progress Day : School of Historical Studies

Postgraduate Work in Progress Day

Thursday 6th November 2008

Session Time	John Medley Jessie Webb Library	John Medley, Rm 512	John Medley, Rm G23
9:00am – 10:30am	Decoding Medieval Messages: Approaching understandings of Medieval beliefs through text Chair: Elizabeth Malcolm Julianna Grigg The Just King and De XII Abusiuis Saeculi Kathryn Smithies Petticoats, Deception and Wilful Blindness: Moral Lessons in the Old French Fabliau Celia Scott Healing Miracles and Early Irish Hagiography Alison Ware The Sins of the Fathers. A Study of the Concept of Guilt in Late Medieval England	Moral and Religious Issues in Modern Society Chair: Dvir Abramovich Elizabeth Greentree Religious Institutions: Worth the Effort? David Llewellyn Rights in Benthamite Australia Caitlin Mahar The Last Right?	Managing Communities Through State Institutions Chair: Pat Grimshaw Ruth Liston Constructing and Protecting the Delinquent Child: Stigma and Juvenile Justice in Victoria Kirstie Close A Case Study of Whiteness and Indigenous Labour in Northern Queensland Nell Musgrove 'Do You Think You Are Proper Guardians of These Children'? Reflections on Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Victoria's Child Welfare System 1864-1954
10:30am – 11:00am	Morning Tea – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session Time

John Medley Jessie Webb Library

John Medley, Rm 512

John Medley, Rm G23

9:00am – 10:30am

Decoding Medieval Messages: Approaching understandings of Medieval beliefs through text

Chair: Elizabeth Malcolm

Julianna Grigg
The Just King and De XII Abusiuis Saeculi

Kathryn Smithies
Petticoats, Deception and Wilful Blindness: Moral Lessons in the Old French Fabliau

Celia Scott
Healing Miracles and Early Irish Hagiography

Alison Ware
The Sins of the Fathers. A Study of the Concept of Guilt in Late Medieval England

Moral and Religious Issues in Modern Society

Chair: Dvir Abramovich

Elizabeth Greentree
Religious Institutions: Worth the Effort?

David Llewellyn
Rights in Benthamite Australia

Caitlin Mahar The Last Right?

Managing Communities Through State Institutions

Chair: Pat Grimshaw

Ruth Liston
Constructing and Protecting the Delinquent Child: Stigma and Juvenile Justice in Victoria

Kirstie Close
A Case Study of Whiteness and Indigenous Labour in Northern Queensland

Nell Musgrove
'Do You Think You Are Proper Guardians of These Children'? Reflections on Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Victoria's Child Welfare System 1864-1954

10:30am – 11:00am

Morning Tea – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time	John Medley Jessie Webb Library	John Medley, Rm 512	John Medley, Rm G23	John Medley, Rm 339
11:00 am – 12:30pm	Gendered Approaches to Reconstructing Historical Memory Chair: Vera Mackie Mayuko Itoh Interviewing Peers: Benefits of Being 'One of Them' in Doing Oral History Research Erik Ropers Writings About the Past: Contested Histories of Wartime Sexual Slavery Jessica Ritchie Authenticity, Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Gender Identity in War Re-enactment	Towards and Away from Equality Chair: Sean Scalmer Cora Trevarthan Making ''Making Mabo'' Ben Debney Corporate Americanism and the Immigrant Worker 1880-1920 Wendy Dick First Victorian Women's Political Convention, June 1909	Individuals and Biography Chair: Andy Brown-May Sybil Nolan Robert Menzies and The Age Newspaper: A Relationship in Liberalism Jenny Hibben Shirley Andrews: Dance and the Australian Folk Tradition. Why Did Shirely Regret Brining the "Bush Dance" into Existence and Popularity? Sarah Martin Davis McCaughey: A Life	Politics and Plague Chair: TBA Vivienne Nicholson Grassroots activism – cost or benefit? Vannessa Hearman Women and Political Resistance in Early New Order Indonesia Angeline Brasier Bermuda's Unwelcome Guest
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time

John Medley Jessie Webb Library

John Medley, Rm 512

John Medley, Rm G23

John Medley, Rm 339

11:00 am – 12:30pm

Gendered Approaches to Reconstructing Historical Memory

Chair: Vera Mackie

Mayuko Itoh
Interviewing Peers: Benefits of Being 'One of Them' in Doing Oral History Research

Erik Ropers
Writings About the Past: Contested Histories of Wartime Sexual Slavery

Jessica Ritchie
Authenticity, Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Gender Identity in War Re-enactment

Towards and Away from Equality

Chair: Sean Scalmer

Cora Trevarthan
Making ''Making Mabo''

Ben Debney
Corporate Americanism and the Immigrant Worker 1880-1920

Wendy Dick
First Victorian Women's Political Convention, June 1909

Individuals and Biography

Chair: Andy Brown-May

Sybil Nolan
Robert Menzies and The Age Newspaper: A Relationship in Liberalism

Jenny Hibben
Shirley Andrews: Dance and the Australian Folk Tradition. Why Did Shirely Regret Brining the "Bush Dance" into Existence and Popularity?

Sarah Martin
Davis McCaughey: A Life

Politics and Plague

Chair: TBA

Vivienne Nicholson
Grassroots activism – cost or benefit?

Vannessa Hearman
Women and Political Resistance in Early New Order Indonesia

Angeline Brasier
Bermuda's Unwelcome Guest

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time	John Medley, Jessie Webb Library	John Medley, Rm 512	John Medley, Rm G23
1:30pm – 3:00pm	Challenging the Past: Reinterpreting traditions in the Early Modern period Chair: Charles Zika Michael Pickering Making vampires: some thoughts on folklore and the "universal world-spirit" Julie Davies Poisonous Vapours: Joseph Glanvill and the Mechanism of Witchcraft Michael Crennan Standing up for Tiberius: A Study in Rehabilitation	Destruction and Glory in the Ancient World Chair: Frank Sear Conor Trouw The City of David, Jerusalem: History, Myth & King David's Palace Amy Zurrer Water Logged History: Roman Shipwrecks and Architecture Sarah Davidson The Rhine: Geography at the Limits of Empire Emma Strugnell Ventidius' Parthian War: Rome's Forgotten Eastern Triumph	Australian History and Theory Chair: Keir Reeves Anne Prince Killed a Beast and Planted Flowers: The Australian Colonial Kitchen as a Site of Contradictions Ron Sulman Does History do Basic Research? Bec Sanders Theory and Method Beyond the Ivory Tower: Churchill Island and Public History in Practice
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time

John Medley, Jessie Webb Library

John Medley, Rm 512

John Medley, Rm G23

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Challenging the Past: Reinterpreting traditions in the Early Modern period

Chair: Charles Zika

Michael Pickering
Making vampires: some thoughts on folklore and the "universal world-spirit"

Julie Davies
Poisonous Vapours: Joseph Glanvill and the Mechanism of Witchcraft

Michael Crennan
Standing up for Tiberius: A Study in Rehabilitation

Destruction and Glory in the Ancient World

Chair: Frank Sear

Conor Trouw
The City of David, Jerusalem: History, Myth & King David's Palace

Amy Zurrer
Water Logged History: Roman Shipwrecks and Architecture

Sarah Davidson
The Rhine: Geography at the Limits of Empire

Emma Strugnell
Ventidius' Parthian War: Rome's Forgotten Eastern Triumph

Australian History and Theory

Chair: Keir Reeves

Anne Prince
Killed a Beast and Planted Flowers: The Australian Colonial Kitchen as a Site of Contradictions

Ron Sulman
Does History do Basic Research?

Bec Sanders
Theory and Method Beyond the Ivory Tower: Churchill Island and Public History in Practice

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time	John Medley, Jessie Webb Library	John Medley, Rm 512	John Medley, Rm G23
3:30pm – 5:00pm	War and Identity at Home and Abroad Chair: Richard Trembath Prue Mann Writing it off as Nonsense: Early Political Third Reich Memoirs as Sites of Counter-history Lisandro Claudio Mediated Militarism: Marcos, Memory, and the Ghosts of Phillippine Politics Suzanne Evans Talking to the Image: Daring to Give an Account of Yourself	Human and Heroic Relationships in Ancient Literature and Iconography Chair: Rhiannon Evans Leanne Campbell Minoan, Mycenaean and Egyptian Amarna Iconographies: Comparisons, Contrasts and Cultural Interpretations James Stratford The Oath of Achilles: Spectacle and Transformation in the Iliad James O'Maley Sibling Relations in the Iliad and Odyssey	Cultural Landscapes: Tents, Suburbia & Everything in Between Chair: John Murphy Leanne Howard Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Value: Whose Voice? Bill Garner A Canvas Colony: Sydney Cove, 1788 Susan Reidy What is Suburbia?
5:00pm – 7:00pm	Close and Drinks – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

Session time

John Medley, Jessie Webb Library

John Medley, Rm 512

John Medley, Rm G23

3:30pm – 5:00pm

War and Identity at Home and Abroad

Chair: Richard Trembath

Prue Mann
Writing it off as Nonsense: Early Political Third Reich Memoirs as Sites of Counter-history

Lisandro Claudio
Mediated Militarism: Marcos, Memory, and the Ghosts of Phillippine Politics

Suzanne Evans
Talking to the Image: Daring to Give an Account of Yourself

Human and Heroic Relationships in Ancient Literature and Iconography

Chair: Rhiannon Evans

Leanne Campbell
Minoan, Mycenaean and Egyptian Amarna Iconographies: Comparisons, Contrasts and Cultural Interpretations

James Stratford
The Oath of Achilles: Spectacle and Transformation in the Iliad

James O'Maley
Sibling Relations in the Iliad and Odyssey

Cultural Landscapes: Tents, Suburbia & Everything in Between

Chair: John Murphy

Leanne Howard
Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Value: Whose Voice?

Bill Garner
A Canvas Colony: Sydney Cove, 1788

Susan Reidy
What is Suburbia?

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Close and Drinks – 5th floor function room, John Medley Building

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Postgraduate Work in Progress Day

Decoding Medieval Messages: Approaching understandings of Medieval beliefs through text

Moral and Religious Issues in Modern Society

Managing Communities Through State Institutions

Gendered Approaches to Reconstructing Historical Memory

Towards and Away from Equality

Individuals and Biography

Politics and Plague

Challenging the Past: Reinterpreting traditions in the Early Modern period

Destruction and Glory in the Ancient World

Australian History and Theory

War and Identity at Home and Abroad

Human and Heroic Relationships in Ancient Literature and Iconography

Cultural Landscapes: Tents, Suburbia & Everything in Between