Friday 14 and Saturday 15 October 2022 UWA and Online
(all times given in AWST, UTC+8)
Time | Session |
Friday | |
9.00-9.15 am | Arrivals and registration |
9.15-9.30 am | Welcome from PMRG President Rosemary Atwell |
9.30-11.00 am | Panel 1: Experiences in the Colonial World Helen Thomas: The Feakes of Barbados: A 17th Century Colonial Quaker Family. Kathleen Burke: Wrestling with Disconnection: Memories, Food and Enslavement in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire. Alberto Guerrero Velazquez: The Ritual of the Vanquished: Resignification and Resistance in the Cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the XVI century in New Spain. |
11.00-11.30 am | Break |
11.30-1.00 pm | Panel 2: Colonialism on the Indian Subcontinent Somnath Pati: Jal, Jungle, Zameen (Water, Forest, Land): Identities, Conflict, and Assertion against the British-Indian ‘colonial state’ at Seraikela-Kharsawan. Barnak Das: Geography, Climate, and Colonialism in Bengal. Saikat Mondal: The House of Gama and their Colonial Entanglement in Portuguese India. |
1.00-2.00 pm | Lunch |
2.00-3.30 pm | Panel 3: Medieval Europe I Darius von Güttner Sporzyński: Contesting Central Europe – The Jagiellons and Habsburgs. Georgina Pitt: Negotiation and Accommodation in Viking East Anglia. Katerina Kiltzanidou: New Powers, New Donors: The Example of Female Dedicatory Portraits in Churches of the Late Byzantine and Early Post-Byzantine Periods in the Wider Area of Macedonia. |
3.30-3.40 pm | Close of Day 1 |
Saturday | |
9.25-9.30 am | Welcome to day two |
9.30-10.45 am | Keynote Dr Clare Davidson: Historicism, Real Property, and Environmental Regulation in Australia. |
10.45-11.00 am | Break |
11.00-12.30 pm | Panel 4: Medieval Europe II Diane Wolfhal: The Muted Voice of the Carthaginians in an Image of the Reconstruction of Carthage. David Holthouse: The Nubians: A Race Subjugated. Chris White: Corrupted Churches and the Returning Dead: Contested Spaces and Contested Souls in Tenth-Century Germany. |
12.30-1.30 pm | Lunch |
1.30-3.00 pm | Panel 5: European Ideas in the Colonial World Richard Read: The Eighteenth-Century Ideology of Improvement and a Pictorial Representation of Settlement at Augusta, WA, 1830. James Cassidy: The Printing Press and Aboriginal Voices in the Early Swan River Colony. Ines Jahudka: (Un)equal Temperament: European Tonal Colonisation. |
3.00-3.15 pm | Break |
3.15-4.45 pm | Panel 6: European Conceptions of the New World Jane Vaughan: Epic, Empire and Discourses of Colonialism in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Hana Ferencová: The New World in English Cosmographies. Lori Redwood: Revisiting Visitants. |
4.45-5.00 pm | Closing |
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