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Seminar Series 2006
We encourage all CAIA members to come along to the seminars, as not only are they a marvellous opportunity to acquaint oneself with the work and ideas of well-known and respected scholars, they provide a forum for the intellectual dialogues that CAIA seeks to cultivate.
Tuesday 21 February
CAIA Work-in-Progress Day
Henry Jones Art Hotel
25, Hunter St, Hobart — Jones & Co Room.
Programme
10 -10.30 morning tea
10:30 "History, Art, and Architecture" session - Chaired by Lucy Frost
Robert Morris Nunn and Julie Payne: Designing the Henry Jones Art Hotel.
Lindsay Broughton: Putting the Art into the Henry Jones Art Hotel.
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart: Combining history and architecture at Port Arthur.
12.30 CEH Launch
The Cultural Environments and Honours scheme — a new collaborative initiative between the Faculty of
Arts, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, The State
Library and the Port Arthur Historic Site — will be launched by David Bartlett, MHA.
2.00-3.15 Panel one - Chaired by Anna Johnston
James Bradley (Southern Cross) The Missing Links: when too much is never enough—the case of the
convict vessel Duncan.'
Marion Stell, Memory and Cultural Heritage.
Celmara Pocock: Picturing the Great Barrier Reef.
3.30-4.45 Panel two - Chaired by Libby Lester
Nicola Goc: The Victorian Doctor and Infanticide News Narratives.
Margaret Lindley: Plays for Felons: Theatre in a Penal Colony.
Shayne Breen: Mapping Deep Time in Tasmania.
4.45-5.00 Brief report from the CAIA Executive on 2006 plans
Please RSVP by Monday 13 February to caia@utas.edu.au or (03) 6226 2347 if you wish to attend the work-in-progress seminar and/or CEH launch.
Monday, 9 January 2006
Reading Legal Narratives
Location: Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Rm 540
10.15 Coffee
10.30-11.15 Dr Stephanie Jones, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK
Indian Ocean belongings and "belongers", 1668 - 1965
This paper is drawn from my larger research project on how the Indian Ocean has been imagined within literatures in English. The "literary" is here conceived in inter-disciplinary terms and involves a particular focus on the segues in narrative that might be traced between fictional and legal texts. In this paper, I will be offering readings of two works: Henry Neville's " Isle of Pines " (1668) and the judgment of Lord Justice Laws in "R (on the application of Bancoult) versus Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office" (2000). I suggest that a kind of literary continuity can be traced between this earliest of imaginings of an Indian Ocean locale in English and the latest attempts by a British court to comprehend the relationship between a colonized people--the Chagos Islanders-- and their home. I think my paper might be of interest to researchers of 18th century literature, postcolonial literature and history, island cultures, ocean studies, and particularly constitutional laws and indigenous laws (there are some interesting comparisons to be drawn between the situation of the Chagos islanders and that of Aboriginal Australians).
11.15-12 Dr Anna Johnston , SEJEL, University of Tasmania
Reading Legal Narratives in Early Colonial Australia
Early Australian legal records provide a fascinating window onto the contested and contradictory process by which both communities and individuals "became colonial". My research into Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld, the sole London Missionary Society representative in Australia in the nineteenth century, has led me to work with two bodies of legal texts: civil trials for libel and criminal trials involving Aboriginal defendants. My paper today begins to map a reading practice for such legal narratives in order to ask questions about subjectivity, race, and identity formation as they emerge in the documents of colonial institutions. Alongside the diverse and voluminous body of texts produced by and about Threlkeld and his mission, these legal narratives provide a case study of colonial discourses concerning the morality of colonisation. This paper reads these textual traces of Australia 's past as central to the formation of the modern colonial state and the modern colonial subjectivities it licenses.
For more information please contact 6226 2347 or email caia@utas.edu.au
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