Program
(provisional)
(click on each title for the abstract
of the paper)
8.30-9.15: Registration
9.15: Welcome
9:30-10:30
Disciplinary
authority, history and democracy
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Univ. of Chicago
10.30-11.00: Morning tea
11:00-12:00
Barbarism
and the Historical Imagination
Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary's College, University
of London
12:00-1:00
Sharing Authority?:
Memory and the Historians
Paula Hamilton, University
of Technology, Sydney
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2:00-3:00
Predicaments
of Secular Histories
Neeladri Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University
3:00-4:00
Historical
Narrative and the Stakes of History in Mexico’s Era of
Trade Liberalisation
Claudio Lomnitz, New School, New York
4.00-4.30: Afternoon tea
4:30-5:30
Agency, Identity
and the Academy: Debating Slave Resistance in the Caribbean
Laurence Brown, The Australian National University
5:30-6:30
Revisiting the Enola
Gay Debate and Rethinking History
David Thelen, Indiana University, Bloomington
7.30-: Dinner
Friday 16 September
9.30-10.30
Perpetrator
Memorials
Klaus Neumann, Swinburne Univ.
10.30-11.00: Morning tea
11:00-12:00
The Uses
of History: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States
George Chauncey, University
of Chicago
12:00-1:00
Partisan
Histories: The Role of the Waitangi Tribunal
Keith Sorrenson, University of Auckland
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2:00-3:00
History as
Confession: Thoughts on the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission
Deborah Posel, University of Witwaterstrand
3:00-4:00
Who Speaks for History?: Memory, History and the Stolen Generations
Bain Attwood, Monash University and The Australian
National University
4.00-4.30: Afternoon tea
4.30-6.00: Discussion
