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8:45am: Welcome, fifth floor common room
Session time	John Medley East G23	John Medley West 512	Jessie Webb Library, John Medley West	Australian Centre 1st floor seminar room 149 Barry street
9:00am - 10:30am	When History Speaks: Working with Oral Sources	Thinking About History	Trials and Tribulations in the Seventeenth Century	Participants in research: Sharing and telling stories
9:00am - 10:30am	Chair: Mary Tomsic Noah Riseman ‘Japan fight. Aboriginal people fight. European people fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II Crystal McKinnon Fighting to Fight Again: Contemporary Indigenous musicians resisting Australian settler colonialism Jordy Silverstein ‘We're dealing with how do these students live and work with this memory and what are they supposed to do about it’: Examining ways in which Holocaust memories are put to use in New York Jewish communities	Chair: Joy Damousi Katherine Pace The Power of Reason Ron Sulman History as Research Megan Sheehy Beyond the Book: historical scholarship on the internet	Chair: Peter Sherlock Liam Connell ‘Shee should never Enjoy him”: Mary Hale and the Bewitching of Michael Smith, Massachusetts, 1681 Helen Merritt Reconstructing the Yorkshire Plot (1674-1682) Claudia Guli The trial of Charles I and the reciprocal bond between King and Subject	Chair: TBA Pamie Fung Alternatives to mandatory detention: studies of the Maribyrnong/Midway Hostel Deb Anderson No worries? Rethinking drought in the light of climate change Caitlin Nunn Ten heads are better than one: the case for participant as co-researcher
10:30am - 11:00am Morning tea, 5th floor function room, John Medley and Australian Centre 1st floor tearoom

Session Time	John Medley East G23	John Medley West 512	Jessie Webb Library, John Medley West	John Medley East 339	Australian Centre 1st floor seminar room 149 Barry street
11:00am - 12:30pm	East Meets West: Representations, Religion, and Crusades	Ronald Reagan and His America	Writing Their Lives: Modern Australian Women	Education and Culture in Twentieth Century Melbourne	Knowing practices: visions, fantasies and silences
11:00am - 12:30pm	Chair: Catherine Kovesi Darius von Güttner Holy War on the Baltic : its narrative twelfth-century sources Christian Chenu The Art of Holy War: Internal Crusading in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Charlotte Smith The Ottoman Turks in the Biblical Illustrations of Jost Amman	Chair: Ara Keys Ross Robson Ronald Reagan, religion and individual rights Prudence Flowers ‘The Baby Killer Approach’: The Impact of the New Right into Abortion Politics in the United States	Chair: Pat Grimshaw Elizabeth Taylor Alice, Lady Northcote, wife of Lord Henry Northcote, 3rd Governor-General of Australia: the genesis of an incorporated wife Wendy Dick ‘With every feather in her hat shaking with the intensity of her indignation’: representations of Ellen Mulcahy as parliamentary candidate Jenny Hibben Biography in Progress: Shirley Andrews OAM (1915-2001)	Chair: Andy Brown-May Sarah Martin Writing Public Lives: Reverend Dr J Davis McCaughey Barbara Nichol Early Chinese restaurants and the reconfiguring of Chineseness Susan Reidy Progress for All: the rise and fall of the Fairy Hills School between the wars	Chair: TBA Isabel Jackson My people, our image Jana-Axinja Paschen Decolonizing the gaze at Uluru Georgia Shiells The white face of Australian nationalism: fantasy and nationalist/racist violence in ‘white Australia’
12:30pm - 1:30pm Light lunch, 5th floor function room, John Medley

Session time	John Medley East G23	John Medley West 512	Jessie Webb Library, John Medley West	Australian Centre 1st floor seminar room 149 Barry street
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Building Nineteenth Century Victoria	Reporting on the Home Front: newspapers and war in the twentieth century	Physical, mental and gendered frontiers of Australian settler colonialism	Constructing new narratives and connections
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Chair: Keir Reeves Robyn Ballinger Pipedreams: the making of landscape on the northern plains of Victoria Heather Holst Spanning the Distance: family ties and finding home Patrick Naughtin The Dillon Mission to Victoria and the Irish-Australian Convention of 1889	Chair: Chips Sowerwine Brett Holman Moral panics, defence panics and the British air panic of 1934-5 Kate Seward ‘Swing qui peut’: La Gerbe and the Zazous, June 1942 Peter O’Toole From Bendigo to Bien Hoa: Victorian Newspapers & the Vietnam War	Chair: Penny Edmonds Claire McLisky (En)gendering faith?: Missionary performances of masculinity and femininity on the settler-colonial frontier at Maloga mission, 1874-1888 Caitlin Murray Unsettled Minds: Medicine, Madness and the Colonial Project Ben Silverstein Indirect Rule in Australia: The Aborigines Protection League and the Victorian Aboriginal Group	Chair: TBA Erin Taylor Burmese migration to Australia: introducing a transnational history Kelly Butler Our colonial inheritance: family, nation & racial violence in Kim Scott’s Benang and Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth Robyn Vickers-Willis Celebrating transilient heroes and heroines
3:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon tea, 5th floor function room, John Medley and Australian Centre 1st floor tearoom

Session time	John Medley East G23	John Medley West 512	Jessie Webb Library, John Medley West	Australian Centre 1st floor seminar room 149 Barry street
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Us and Them: Construction of the ‘Foreign’	For Their Own Good: Managing child morality in the nineteenth century	The Making of Celebrities	New historical spaces, new communities of belonging
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Chair: Zora Simic Helen Slaney The Black Sea at Athens Peter Russell Is Biased Justice Useless Justice? Selective Prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Jeanette Krongold Breaking the Rules? Legislating out rights and asylum seekers 1992-2002	Chair: Shurlee Swain Merete Colding Smith Sunday School Reward Books 1830-1860 Amanda Barry The Racing of Class: Empire, Colonialism and Education in Victoria Nell Musgrove Children of the Empire: child protection in Victoria 1851-1874	Chair: David Goodman John Ireland R.D. Ireland in Victoria, 1853-55 Nick Frigo A career in the making – Oscar Wilde and the pursuit of “celebrity” Madeleine Hamilton ‘Smile and say cheesecake!’ Pin-up girls and Australian photography magazines, 1950-1959	Chair: TBA Penny Duckworth Community buildings and belonging Bill Garner A camping story Kieran Crichton Resisting the empire? The Associated Board comes to Melbourne
5:00pm - 6:00pm Post-conference closing remarks and drinks, 5th floor function room, John Medley

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