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| Thursday
26 June |
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| 11.00 AM |
Bus
Leaves Hobart for Strahan from Campbell Street side of the Hotel Grand
Chancellor - Lunch stop at Derwent Bridge Hotel |
| 7.30 PM onwards |
registration and informal
gathering for drinks in the Macquarie Lounge, Strahan Village Conference
Centre. |
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| Friday
27 June |
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| 8:30 -9:40
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Plenary Session: conference
opening by Jan Pakulski, Dean of Arts, University of Tasmania |
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Introduction
by Henry Reynolds of the first keynote speaker |
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Keynote address Marcus Rediker |
How to Escape Bondage:
The Atlantic Adventures of the 'Fugitive Traytor' Henry Pitman, 1687 |
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| 9.45-11.15 AM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Session presented by
the International Centre for Convict Studies |
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Chair: Lucy Frost |
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Clare Anderson |
‘Weel about and turn about and do jus’ so, Eb’ry time I weel about,
I jump Jim Crow’: performance & cultural identity in Indian Ocean
penal settlements |
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Susan Ballyn |
Escape was to fight
another day in another country: The Maquis in Spain |
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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart |
The Fabrication of Convict
History: Vol.1 The Wrong Trousers? |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Stefan Petrow |
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June Slee & Richard
Tuffin |
Point Puer, a Fortress
Girded by the Whip? |
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Lynette Ross |
The Final Escape: an
analysis of suicide at the penal settlement of Port Arthur |
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James Parker |
Who was Escaping What?
Port Arthur & Perceptions of the Convict System |
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| 11.15
- 11.30 AM |
Break for morning tea |
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| 11.30 AM -1.00 PM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Chair: Jeff Malpas |
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David Hopkin |
Fantasies
of Evasion: how folktales provided soldiers and sailors with strategies
of escape (1792-1815) |
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Emma Christopher |
Ten
Thousand Times Worse than the Convicts': sailors as the focus of rebellion
and escape |
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Chris Addams |
No Escape - The Convict
Experience in Bermuda 1823-1864 |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Margaret Reynolds |
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Tina Picton-Phillipps |
Escape from the Historians:
so many men were of dubious character |
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Nicola Goc |
Infanticide as an escape
narrative: The Story of Mary McLauchlan |
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Erin Ihde |
‘Bold, Manly-Minded
Men’ and ‘Sly, Cunning, Base Convicts’: The Double Standard of Escape |
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| 1.00 - 2.00 PM |
Lunch |
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| 2.00 - 3.30 PM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Chair: Marian Quartly |
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Amanda Laugesen |
Languages of Control,
Escape, and Subversion |
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Toni Sherwood |
Escape
in the Wilderness: Representations of the West Coast in Four Tasmanian
Fictions |
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Catherine Lawler |
Escape is not an option |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Alex Thomson |
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Brad Manera |
Tommy Atkins' versus the Bolter |
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Pete Lines |
Deserters of the York
Chasseurs |
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Phil Hilton |
Escape to Captivity:
British Military Deserters and other Incorrigibles |
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| 3.30 - 3.45 PM |
Break |
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| 3.45-5.15 PM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Chair: Kirsty Reid |
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Grace Karskens |
Seeing heaven again:
early Sydney and the transformation
of escape |
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Jeff Brownrigg |
From Bondage…
Liberated': Frank the Poet’s Dreams of Liberty |
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Peter MacFie |
A Fiddler and
a Piper: Escaping with folk traditions |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Alan Blow |
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Jacqui Wilson |
Relics of Desperate
Acts: The Marketing of Escape and Containment in J Ward |
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Andrew Piper |
Poor Old Invalids: The
Convicts Who Never Escaped |
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Stefan Petrow |
From Exile to Freedom:
The Escape of the Young Irelanders from Van Diemen's Land |
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| 5.30-6.30 PM |
Plenary Session |
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Welcome to the West
Coast by Cr Daryl Gerrity, Mayor |
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Paul Collins, author
of Hell's Gates, in conversation with Philip
Mead |
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| Saturday
28 June |
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| 8.30-10.00
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Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Session sponsored by
University of Tasmania Research Cluster, Colonialism & Its Aftermath |
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Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart |
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Cassandra Pybus |
From Chattel Slavery
to Penal Servitude: the escape of John Moseley |
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Tony Stagg |
I
did not mean to tell the world I had arrived': Richard Humphreys and the
Voyage of the Seabird |
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Lucy Frost |
Escape as a Female Performance |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Linn Miller |
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Jenna Mead |
Getting Away from It
All: Caroline Leakey’s The Broad Arrow |
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Alison Alexander |
‘Little Delicacy of
Choice’: escape for female convicts |
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Marion Myhill |
A psychologist’s view
of escape – the flight of body and mind |
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| 10.00-10.15 AM |
Morning tea |
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| 10.15-11.45 AM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Chair: Alison Alexander |
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Robert Grant |
‘Idle, unprincipled, and vicious in the extreme’: the escaped convict
in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th Century |
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Mike Powell |
Thomas Conquit: Conquering
a Motley Past |
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Diane Phillips |
Exile or Escape: Life
for the Early Settlers of George Town |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Tina Picton-Phillipps |
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Kirsty Reid |
Escaping the ‘hated
stain’? Abolitionism, convicts and ‘liberty’ in Van Diemen’s Land, 1840-1853 |
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John Petersen |
The Lost World - Assembling
a Convict Past |
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W. R. Robbins |
Confined
to Barracks: The Hyde Park Convict Barracks and the Freedom of Male Convict
Workers |
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| Session 3: |
Chair: Philip Mead |
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Perry McIntyre |
Sent to freedom in a
penal colony |
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Carol Liston |
Convicted Childhoods |
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Dianne Snowden |
Arson: a means of escape
from post-famine Ireland |
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| 11.45 AM -1.15 PM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Chair: Elspeth Wishart |
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Christine Yeats |
Transportation and beyond
— escaping the traditional framework of convict research |
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Robyn Eastley |
Transported - Escaped - Transported
Again |
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Louise Connell |
A Just Measure of Pain?
Nottingham’s Shire Hall |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Michael Bennett |
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Chris Williams |
Pursuit: The Pursuer
as Escapee |
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Simon Devereaux |
Patrick
Madan: One Man’s Odyssey through England’s Penal Crisis, 1774-1784 |
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Tom Dunning |
Escape
from ‘Happy Lands’ and ‘Holy Lands’: ‘Criminal’ Families and Neighbors
in Scotland and Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840 |
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| Session 3: |
Chair: Sarah Li |
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Eleanor Casella |
Be/Longing: Ambiguities
of Escape in Austral-Irish Penal Heritage |
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Tracie Walsh & Shane McLennon |
Mutiny on the Cyprus |
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Anthony Lambert |
Whatever happened to
Margaret Catchpole? |
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| 1.15-2.00 PM |
Lunch |
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| 2.00 - 3.30 PM |
Presentation of Conference
Papers |
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| Session 1: |
Panel: Convict Sites
and the Problems of Conservation Management |
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Rosemary Sandford, Participating
Chair |
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Peter Romey |
Conservation Management
and Planning at Port Arthur |
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Anne McConnell |
No
Escape from the Sarah Island Penal Station: a conservation management
planning perspective |
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Mike Nash |
Escape and the Coal
Mines Historic Site |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Clare Anderson |
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Anoma Pieris |
Divisive Strategies:
Rising Insurgence in the Straits Prison System |
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Jeannine DeLombard |
Handed
Out of the Dungeon He Was Confined In': Textual Escape in Black Atlantic
Criminal Confessions |
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Stuart Blackler |
The Language of Escape |
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| Session 3: |
Chair: Marilyn Lake |
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Caroline Evans |
George Dudfield and
the Oatlands System |
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Judith Sackville-O’Donnell |
Ikey Solomon: Escape
to Van Diemen’s Land |
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Meg Dillon |
John Naldrett – Free,
Proud, & Political |
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| 3.30 - 3.45 PM |
Break |
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| 3.45-5.15 PM |
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| Session 1: |
Heritage Tourism Round
Table — Interpreting Convict Sites in Tasmania |
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Rob Giason, Participating Chair |
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Chris Arthur |
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Jane Foley |
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Julie Marshall |
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Brett Noble |
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Peter Romey |
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Trevor Sofield |
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| Session 2: |
Chair: Lindsay Simpson |
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Jeffrey Auerbach |
‘There’s No Escape’:
Thomas Watling, John Glover, & the Australian Picturesque |
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Peter Lane |
The Man who made Holey
Dollars and Dumps |
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Marita Bardenhagen |
Martin Edwards and Hugh
Fraser – escape from emancipation |
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| 5.30-6.30 PM |
The Ship that Never
Was performed at the Strahan Visitors' Centre |
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Tickets: very special
conference price of $8 |
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| 6.30-7.00 PM |
Drinks in the Macquarie Lounge and
Stay'd - Jo Richardson
and Lisa Morisset |
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| from 7.00 PM |
Conference Buffet
Dinner at the Macquarie Restaurant |
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Tickets: $35 (not included in registration fee) |
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| Sunday
29 June |
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| 8.30 AM |
Introduction
by Barry Jones of the second keynote speaker |
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Keynote address: Ian Duffield |
Cultural Baggage':
Tales and Practices of Escape |
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| 10.00
AM - 2.30 PM |
Boat leaves
at 10 am SHARP! Stragglers left
behind on quay! |
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Escape
on a Cruise - Tour to Hell’s Gates and Sarah Island. |
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Not to
be missed – A genuine below decks convict transportation experience! |
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Atlantic
conditions guaranteed! Bring suitable
clothing |
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Please
note – all costs of cruise trip are paid for in your registration fee
– including rations – Bargain of the Century. |
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| 3.00 PM |
Hobart Bus departure |
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Approximate arrival
time Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart - 8.30
pm |
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