Friends,
As many of you are doubtless aware, the AHA regional conference is being
held at James Cook University here in balmy tropical Townsville from 3 -
5 July.
Below you will find the full conference program. Those of you who are
coming and have registered will shortly receive the program, abstracts,
and other important information (i.e. how many Hawaiian shirts should I
pack, will there be champagne every night, etc.).
However, for those of you who are keen to read the abstracts of the
papers, or can't make the conference, I've posted the abstracts on the
gopher here at JCU.
The simplest way is to use veronica to get to James Cook University,
Australia. When at JCU choose the "Academic Departments" directory, then
"History" You'll then see a directory marked "1995 AHA Conference" There
you'll find the abstracts.
For those familiar with the WWW, the Uniform Resource Locator
(URL) for the JCU home page is:
One you get to the home page, go to "Academic Departments" then "History"
and then "1995 AHA Conference"
For those of you who get stuck, email me and I'll post the abstracts to you.
Cheers Paul
1995 Regional AHA Conference Program
Sunday
7.15 to 8.45 Reception and Registration in Foyer of Department of
History and Politics
Monday
8.45 Registration
9.15 Welcome and introduction of the Keynote Speaker - Kett
Kennedy
Keynote Address
9.30 Patricia Grimshaw (MU), Maori agriculturalists and Aboriginal
hunter gatherers: women and colonial displacement in nineteenth century
Australasia
Morning Tea
Room 1
Session 1 Chaired by Jim Hagan
11 Steve Mullins (CQU), Australian pearl shellers in the Arus,
Netherlands East Indies, 1890s-1943: an overview of a research program
11.30 Prue Torney-Parlicki (MU), Australia's wartime news media as
interpreters of Asian and Pacific cultures 1941-75
12 Todd Barr (UofQ), Perceiving the `strange': cultural interpretations of
Australian-Indonesian relations 1983-1993
Lunch
Session 2 Chaired by Richard Jackson
2 Noel Loos (JCU), Koiki Mabo: mastering two cultures.
2.30 Stephen Pitkin (JCU), Gough Whitlam's `Bay of Pigs'?: A new
perspective on Australia and East Timor.
3 Surin Maisrikrod (JCU), Contending notions of National Interest: a
Thai perspective.
Afternoon tea
Session 3 Chaired by Jack Walton
4 Rod Sullivan (JCU) Writing an Australian biography of an American
colonial administrator in the Philippines
4.30 Jan Ryan (Edith Cowan) Gender and Race Issues in Australian and
South African Netball
Annual General Meeting of the AHA 5.30pm Compass House
First General Meeting of the AMHA 6.30pm Compass House
Barbecue 7 to 9.30pm Compass House
Tuesday
Session 4 Chaired by John Ramsland
9 Pamela Watson (Ind), The Decimation of the Karuwali and their
neighbours.
9.30 Jonathan Cornford (JCU), Ideals vs Interests: The development of
protectionist practice in the control of Aboriginal labour in Queensland
1914-39.
10 Christine Cheater (UNSW), The myth of the universal woman:
anthropological representations of Aboriginal women 1930-50.
Morning Tea
Session 5 Chaired by Noel Loos
11 Julie Wells (NTU), Who will give Gladys away? Assimilationist
perspectives about Aboriginal women, citizenship and marriage in the
1950s in the Northern Territory.
11.30 Jan Critchett (Deakin), Aborigines and the Law: Victoria 1850-
1900.
12 Jim Hagan and Rob Castle (Wollongong), Turning Black into White:
the exemption system in Queensland 1908-1967.
Lunch
Session 6 Chaired by Steve Mullins
2 Paul Turnbull (JCU), `New Lines for old bones': The uses of
Aboriginal skulls by British Anatomists and surgeons c 1788-1840
2.30 Philip Jones (SA Museum), Ethnographic collecting in Australia: A
South Australian case study, 1870-1914
3 Russell McGregor (JCU), An Aboriginal Caucasian: Some uses for
racial kinship in early twentieth century Australia
Afternoon Tea
Session 7 Chaired by Rod Sullivan
4 Brian Wren (NTU), Aboriginalism and the Bulletin cartoon: 1901 -
1991
4.30 Geoff Genever (JCU), Whitewoman's burden: the rape of European
women by Aboriginal men in colonial Queensland
Conference Dinner 6.45 for 7 `Somewhere Nice'
Wednesday
Session 8 Chaired by Dawn May
9 Philip de Lacy & Susan-Lee Walker (Wollongong), Maximizing life
opportunities through early-childhood education and day care.
9.30 Ed Jaggard (Edith Cowan), Surf Lifesaving and Beach Culture,
1920-1960.
10 Gael Barrett (MU), The Bon Accord Club: organising entertainment
in the 1930s.
Morning Tea
Session 9 Chaired by Brian Dalton
11 Alan Smith (JCU), Tunnel construction, Cairns-Kuranda railway
1886-1892.
1.30 Jack Walton (JCU), A Case study of Norfolk (England) agricultural
labourers who emigrated to Queensland during the 1880s.
12 Warwick Frost (La Trobe), European farming, Australian pests and
weeds: environmental barriers to successful farming in nineteenth century
Australia.
Lunch
Session 10 Chaired by David Carment
2 Anne Smith (JCU), Editing the Bowley letters and reminiscences (1)
2.30 Brian Dalton (JCU) Editing the Bowley letters and reminiscences
(2)
Room 2
Monday
Session 1A Chaired by Charles Fox
11 Mel Davies (UWA), The Cornish myth - miners and the
`individualistic thesis': collective action at the Burra Burra mines 1848-
49
11.30 Diane Menghetti (JCU) Skilling and Controlling in the coal mines
12 Doug Hunt (JCU), The 1995 Mount Isa Lock-Out
Lunch
Session 2A Chaired by Mel Davies
2 Patricia Sumerling (Flinders), Walter Watson Hughes and the Moonta
and Wallaroo Mines, South Australia: Working Paper
2.30 Kett Kennedy (JCU), Herbert Hoover and Russian mining: a
Reappraisal
3 Patrick Bertola (Curtin), Concentration and centralisation of capital in
Kalgoorlie's gold mining industry after World War Two
Afternoon Tea
Session 3A Chaired by Kett Kennedy
4 Charles Fox (UWA), Explaining Mt Lyell's welfare policy.
4.30 Lenore Layman (Murdoch), Dust and Disease: A case study of
asbestos-related diseases in Western Australia.
Tuesday
Session 4A Chaired by Peter Bell
9 Ruth Kerr (Ind), Chillagoe 1897-1901: the mix of speculative
predictions and moral responsibilities.
9.30 David Branagan (SU), Joseph Campbell MA: mining cleric.
10 David Carment (NTU), Writing the mining history of Australia's
Northern Territory: past themes, current research and future prospects.
Morning tea
Session 5A Chaired by Lenore Layman
11Peter Bell (Ind), The strange tale of the Worthing mine.
11.30 Jan Wegner (JCU), Language and mining terminology: the view
from north Queensland.
12 Linda Rhodes (Curtin), Mining Wives on the Western Australian
goldfields
Lunch
Session 6A Chaired by Patricia Grimshaw
2 Raewyn Dalziel (Aukland), New Women and Old Men? The post
suffrage debate on `the other sex' in fin de siecle New Zealand.
2.30 Helen Hamley (UofQ), Doing what a man can do: the equal pay
issue in Queensland from the 1890s to 1918.
3 John Ramsland (Newcastle), Rose Scott, prison reform and the
establishment of the women's reformatory, Long Bay 1909.
Afternoon tea
Session 7A Chaired by Carole Ferrier
4 Sue Keays (Ind), `Forgotten Passages': the wartime experiences of
expatriate women in Papua New Guinea 1941-46
4.30 Eileen Taylor-Moore (JCU), W.O.Smith, Wife of: Australian women
on Penang Island during the Malayan emergency
Wednesday
Session 8A Chaired by Janice Wegner
9 Dawn May (JCU), The dichotomy between men's work and women's
work in the cheese industry
9.30 Margot Harker (ANU), `Ranged in order at those fatal rails': the
white wedding in Britain and Australia
10 James Walter (Griffith), Solid Citizens and designing families: the
dialectic of modernity and the Matrimonial Causes Bill 1959
Morning Tea
Session 9A Chaired by James Walter
11 Tracey McAskill (JCU), Nurturing the race: eugenic theory and
Australian children before 1914
11.30 Lynette Finch (QUT), Propaganda and Psychology
12 David McCallum (VUT), Power, knowledge and psychiatry: towards
a genealogy of personality disorder
Lunch
Session 10A Chaired by Paul Turnbull
2 Robin McLachlan (Charles Sturt), Miss Traill in cyberspace: using
multimedia in applied history
2.30 Carole Ferrier (UofQ), `Writing the Life': Reflections on
intersections of history, biography and cultural criticism
Afternoon Tea
3.30 Keynote Address Henry Reynolds
Farewell drinks