TRANS-NATIONAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Jointly sponsored by La Trobe University, the National Institute for Humanities and Creative Arts (ANU), and the Humanities Research Centre (ANU)

Dates: 8 – 10 October 2004

Conveners: Professor Ann Curthoys and Professor Marilyn Lake

Venue: Conference Room, Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House, Australian National University

PROGRAM

Friday 8 October

5.00pm
Welcome and Drinks. Followed by opening conference dinner

7.00pm
Conference Dinner at Teatro Vivaldi Restaurant, ANU Arts Centre

Saturday 9 October

8.45am–9.15am
Registration

9.15am–9.30am
Conference Welcome

9.30am–11.00am Session 1. Why Trans-National ? Gains and Losses
Pierre-Yves Saunier, Learning by Doing: DIY trans-national history
Ann Curthoys, Trans-national Histories and National Polities
Marilyn Lake, White Men's Countries in World Contexts: Breaking Down Border Protection in Historical Thinking

11.00am–11.30noon
Morning Tea

11.30noon–12.45pm Session 2. New world histories: the Post-Colonial and the Global
Chair: Ian Tyrrell
Angela Woollacott, Beyond the National: Postcolonialism and Catherine Hall’s Civilizing Subjects
Tony Ballantyne, Empires, globalizations and modernity: reading C.A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World

12.45pm–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00pm–3.30pm Session 3: The Rise of the Oceans in Historiography
Laurence Brown, The Transformation of the Tropics: Migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Cassandra Pybus, Many Middle Passages
Michael McDonnell, Rethinking Atlantic World

3.30pm–4.00pm
Afternoon Tea

4.00pm–5.30pm Session 4 Migrations: Living Here and There
John Fitzgerald, Transnational Networks and National Identities: The Chinese-Australasian Kuomintang 1923-1937
Amanda Rasmussen, Ideas, Movement and Chinese Bendigonians
Jim Hammerton, Postwar British Emigrants and the "Transnational Moment": Exemplars of a "Mobility of Modernity"?

5.30pm–7.00pm
Drinks at Old Canberra House
Eat Out. (Group bookings at several restaurants)

Sunday 10 October

9.15am–10.45am Session 5: Modernity and Trans-National Life
Desley Deacon, "Films as Foreign Offices": Paramount in the Twenties Early Thirties
Jill Julius Matthews, Modern Nomads and the problem of borders: The multi-continental career of JD Williams
Margaret Allen, Inter-colonial and trans-national relationships within the British Empire, Australian missionaries at work in India

10.45am–11.15am
Morning Tea

11.15am–12.45pm Session 6: Are emotions trans-national?
Joanna Bourke, "Windows to the Soul": Debating the Universality of Emotional Expression, 1860s to 1970s
Hsu-Ming Teo, Love makes the world go round? Historiographical debates about the transnational culture of romantic love
Joy Damousi, National or Transnational? Historical Perspectives on Melancholia in Public and Private Life

12.45pm–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00pm–3.00pm Session 7: Political Movements
John Maynard, "In the Interests of our People": Transcultural Influences on an Australian Aboriginal Movement

3.00pm–3.30pm
Afternoon Tea

3.30pm–5.00pm Session 8: Writing and Publishing Trans-national Histories: Where to Publish? Who For?
Liz Conor and Georgine Clarsens Pierre-Yves Saunier, and others

5.00pm Close

Conveners:
Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University
E: m.lake@latrobe.edu.au
Professor Ann Curthoys, Australian National University
E: ann.curthoys@anu.edu.au

Adminstration/ Enquiries
Leena Messina
Programs Manager, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
T: 02 6125 4357; F: 6125 1380
E: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au