Past Events 2010/2011
Our past events for 2010/2011 include:
Three Events on the Labo(u)r Party: Past, Present and Future
(1) Nick Dyrenfurth (University of Sydney)
'Socialism would make men mates': the rise and fall of labour movement 'mateship'?
Discussants: Ian Henderson (KCL) and Simon Sleight (KCL)
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: Room S2.29, King's College London, Floor 2, Strand Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
(2) Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (London Metropolitan University)
Blue Labour and Australian Labor
Discussants: Ross McKibbin (St John's College Oxford) and Nick Dyrenfurth
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King's College London, Ground Floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
(3) The launch, by Dr Ross McKibbin, of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno (University of New South Wales Press)
Time: 6.15pm
Venue: Department of History, King's College London, Floor 8, Strand Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
All three events are on the Strand Campus of King's College London. Please ask at reception on the ground floor of the Strand Building if you need directions to the room.
RSVP (only necessary for launch) by Monday 27 June please: frank.bongiorno@kcl.ac.uk
2010/2011
Term 1
29 September 2010
David Roberts (University of New England)
Remembering Lt Oxley: National History and Provincial Memory in rural New South Wales
Followed by: Geoff Page Poetry reading. Geoff will read from a range of work but particularly from his collections Agnostic Skies (Five Islands Press 2006) and Seriatim (Salt 2007).
30 September 2010
Joint seminar with the English Department’s 19th-Century Research Group. Professor Ken Gelder (Melbourne), Reading the Archive of Colonial Australian Popular Fiction.
6 October 2010
Adam Hughes Henry (Australian National University)
Manufacturing the Debates: The Australian Foreign Policy Network in the 1960s
20 October 2010
Carol Johnson (University of Adelaide)
The Australian election of 2010: the ideological contest.
27 October 2010
Katie Holmes (University College Dublin)
The Poet’s Gardens: Judith Wright’s letters, language and landscape
28 October 2010 at 18.00, Edmond J Safra lecture theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen)
2010-11 Reese Lecture: 'From the deep black ditch of forgetfulness': Redeeming the First World War in Ireland and Australia.
Further details.
3 November 2010
Vanessa Castejon (L’Universite Paris XIII), Anna Cole (University of London, Goldsmiths College) and Oliver Haag (University of Vienna)
Ego-histoire & Australia
17 November 2010
Aruna Wittmann (King’s College London)
Guilty narratives? The use and abuse of history in Peter Carey´s fiction: a psychoanalytic view
1 December 2010
Richard Scully (University of New England)
Four Australasian Women and the German Empire
8 December 2010
Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)
Writing about the UN: Shirley Hazzard’s humanist politic
5.15pm, Thursday 9 December 2010
David Dunstan (King’s College London and Monash)
A Cartoon History of Australia During the Second World War
6.15pm-8.00pm, Wednesday 15 December 2010
Panel Discussion: Cultures of Book Reviewing
A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Australian Book Review
Peter Rose, Australian Book Review
William Eaves, Times Literary Supplement
Clare Drysdale, Allen&Unwin
Chair: Ian Henderson, King’s College London
Term 2
12 January 2011
Richard Cox
King’s College London
‘The Rise and Fall of a Colonial Landed Gentry: the Case of William Cox in New South Wales’
19 January 2011
Nigel Starck
University of South Australia
‘The Mind of Russell Braddon’
2 February 2011
Fiona Richards
Open University
‘Randolph Stow and Music’
22 February 2011(Please note this is event is on the Tuesday)
James Cotton
UNSW@ADFA
'Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010: middle power dreaming?'
Venue: 6th Floor Dining Room
23 February 2011
Jatinder Mann
University of Sydney
‘Comparing the Origins of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia’
Venue: 6th Floor Dining Room
9 March 2011
Carl Bridge
King’s College London
‘Watershed: Anglo-Australian Relations, 1960-1975’
Followed by the launch of Stephen Ashton, Carl Bridge & Stuart Ward, eds, Australia and Britain, 1960-1975 (Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Canberra) by H.E. John Dauth, High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom.
15 March 2011
18.00, English Department Seminar Room, Room S2.39*, King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Joint seminar: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, American Studies and the Department of English Language and Literature
Dr Hilary Emmett
University of Queensland
'On Felons and Fallacies: An Antipodean Reading of Edgar Huntly'
*From entrance foyer to the Strand campus of KCL take the lifts or stairs to second floor. From lifts make a right-hand u-turn and S2.39 is on your left. From the stairs, make a left-hand u-turn and S2.39 is on your left.
23 March 2011 -
CANCELLED -
Please note that this event has been replaced by the one on the 28th March.
Ian Henderson
King’s College London
‘Anthony Trollope in Australia’
28 March 2011
12.00 - 13.45
Panel Discussion: 'The Feeling of Networks'
English Department Seminar Room, Room S2.39*, King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Panellists:
Professor Josephine McDonagh (English)
Professor Clare Pettitt (English)
Dr Mark Turner (English)
Dr Ian Henderson (English/Australian Studies)
In this session we explore ways in which to conceptualise the affective field produced by the global movement of commodities in the Victorian period, and its postcolonial legacies. We will focus on the case of the novel, and specifically those by Anthony Trollope, prolific author of the mid Victorian period. Trollope’s novels disseminated a sense of provincial England to the colonies, yet they also revealed the novelist’s (and the novel’s) investment in the global communication networks of the time. We wish to use Trollope’s works as a case history for considering the ways in which global commodities, such as novels, produce and disseminate realms of feeling, and their interaction with local cultures. This panel will make an intervention in current debates about the global circulation of printed literature; about the significance of mobility as a term in cultural understandings of place and feeling; and about the place of feeling in postcolonial analysis.
Pre-circulated draft papers by Mark Turner and Ian Henderson will be available in early March. Contact ian.r.henderson@kcl.ac.uk
Event supported by:
Leverhulme International Network: Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World, 1850-1915
Department of English Language and Literature, King’s College London
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London
*From entrance foyer to the Strand campus of KCL take the lifts or stairs to second floor. From lifts make a right-hand u-turn and S2.39 is on your left. From the stairs, make a left-hand u-turn and S2.39 is on your left.
30 March 2011
Simon Sleight and Frank Bongiorno
Monash University and King’s College London
‘Anzac Day in Britain’
Term 3
27 April 2011
Shirleene Robinson
Bond University
‘Australian Aboriginal children in Britain in the nineteenth century’
4 May 2011
Sharon Mascall-Dare
University of South Australia
‘An Australian Story: Anzac Day Coverage Interrogated’
11 May 2011
Frank Bongiorno
King’s College London
‘Australia under strain: 1923-1939’
18 May 2011
Sean Scalmer
University of Melbourne
'Charles Gavan Duffy on Tour: Electioneering, Oratory, and the Development of Colonial Democracy'
25 May 2011
Tamson Pietsch
New College, Oxford
’Universities and Empire: Academic networks in the British World, 1850-1940’
1 June 2011
Poetry reading by Diane Fahey