The Escape conference was held in Strahan, Tasmania 26-28 June 2003.
It was an interdisciplinary engagement with the questions:
What does escape mean?
What are the myriad ways to escape?
What are the boundaries of confinement?
http://iccs.arts.utas.edu.au/escape.htm
Islands of Vanishment
Islands of Vanishment was held at Port Arthur, Tasmania 7-10 June 2002 in partnership with the Port Arthur Historic Site and Australia ICOMOS.
It was a major international conference to consider conserving and interpreting
those heritage places which commemorate painful and ambivalent themes
in colonial societies.
http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/islands/
Colonial Places,
Convict Spaces
Colonial Places,
Convict Spaces was held at the University of Leicester, 9-10 December 1999.
This international considered penal transportation in a global context
from the use of transportation as a means of colonization in early-modern
European empires, to power relations in the penal colonies, the impact
of convict settlements on indigenous societies and the meaning of those
written sources convicts left behind.
http://iccs.arts.utas.edu.au/colonialplaces.html
The Colonial Eye
The Colonial Eye was held at the University of Tasmania, Hobart 3-6 February 1999.
It was an international
conference located in richly a textured colonial terrain that focused
on colonial Australia and included papers from Indigenous Studies, Anthropology,
Archaeology, Art, Cultural Tourism, English and Literacy Studies, Environmental
Studies, History and Museum Studies.
