The British Empire and Visual Culture 1850-1950
A Symposium
Hosted jointly by the Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication and The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies,
The University of Melbourne
Lecture Theatre A, Elizabeth Murdoch Building
1-2 October 2009
Informal site visits will be incorporated into the final program
Convenors: Dr Alison Inglis (Head Art History Program): Prof Kate Darian-Smith (Professor of Australian Studies and History) & Dr Bronwyn Hughes (Art Historian and Heritage Consultant).
This two-day symposium presents papers from range of disciplines, including art history, architecture, design, literature, social and cultural history, media studies, museum studies and Australian studies. Speakers include academics and museum professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Great Britain, such as Dr Anita Callaway (University of Sydney); Mr John Kean (Melbourne Museum); Dr Andrew Montana (Australian National University); Associate Professor Catherine Speck (University of Adelaide); Associate Professor Mark Stocker (Otago University); Professor Bruce Scates (Monash University); Dr Matthew Potter (Leicester University).
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FREE EVENT THERE IS NO REGISTRATION CHARGE FOR THIS SYMPOSIUM.
However the audience is encouraged to arrive in good time so that a name tag can be provide.
Sessions include:
Performing Empire War and Commemoration Geographies of Empire Institutions and Ideologies |
Imperial networks and exchanges Aesthetics of Empire Collecting Empire Heroes and Monarchs |
For enquiries please contact Bronwyn Hughes or Alison Inglis or Kate Darian-Smith
The Symposium organisers acknowledge the support of the School of Culture and Communication.
Program
Accommodation
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Venue and technical information
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Symposium Program
1 – 2 October, 2009
Lecture Theatre A, Elizabeth Murdoch Building
DAY ONE: Thursday 1 October
8.30am Coffee and Registration
8.45-9.00 Professor Kate Darian-Smith, welcome and opening remarks
Day One, Session One: Performing Empire
9.00 – 9.20
Dr Anita Callaway, University of Sydney, ‘Playing at Blackfellow’: Being Neither One Thing nor the Other.
9.20 – 9.40
Dr Penelope Edmonds, University of Melbourne, Governor Arthur’s Proclamation to the Aborigines: Australian Conciliation Narratives and their Transnational Connections.
9.40 – 10.00
Dr Bronwyn Hughes, Empire on Exhibition: Victorian Artists' performance, pageants, and tableaux vivants.
10.00 – 10.10
questions
10.10 – 11.00 break
Day One, Session Two: Geographies of Empire
11.00 – 11.20
Ms Georgia Rouette, University of Melbourne, The Golden Age of Hobart Town: selling a dream.
11.20 – 11.40
Mr Tim Smith, University of Melbourne, Mapping the Top End.
11.40 – 12.00
Associate Professor Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide, Making Australian Art from London: ‘the frontier’ speaks back.
12.00 – 12.20
Mr Niki Alsford, National Chengchi University, Taipei,The Forgotten 'Little White House': The British Customs House at Tamsui, Taiwan 1869-1895.
12.20 – 12.30 questions
12.30 - 1.30 lunch*
* 1.00 - 1.30 Professor Jeanette Hoorn will give a brief tour of her exhibition 'Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia' at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne.
Free event meet in foyer at 12.50pm.
Day One, Session Three: Imperial Networks and Exchanges
1.30 – 1.50
Mr John Kean, Museum Victoria, Empirical Vision: Baldwin Spencer as artist, illustrator, photographer and connoisseur.
1.50 - 2.10
Ms Wendy Garden, University of Melbourne, Ethnographic Portraits and the Imaginary of Empire.
2.10 – 2.30
Dr Gareth Knapman, Museum Victoria, Museum Ethnology as a reflection of empire: developing the public collection in colonial Victoria.
2.30 – 2.40questions
2.40 – 3.10 break
Day One, Session Four: Institutions and Ideologies
3.10 – 3.30
Ms Meredith Martin, University of Melbourne, Palaces of the People: Cultural Reform and the Politics of Sociability in Late Nineteenth-Century London.
3.30 – 3.50
Dr Rod Macneil, Museum Victoria, Painting the periphery: Australian art and Empire at the Chicago World Fair.
3.50 – 4.10
Ms Suzanne Evans, University of Melbourne, Taking Empire Out of the Air.
4.10 – 4.20 questions
4.20 – 4.40 summary of day’s sessions
DAY TWO: OCTOBER 2
Day Two, Session One: War and Commemoration
9.00 – 9.20
Dr Deirdre Gilfedder, University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, We will remember them.
9.20 – 9.40
Ms Jean McAuslan, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Waller and the commemoration of war.
9.40 – 10.00
Ms Jessica Ritchie, University of Melbourne,
Resurrecting the Imperial Soldier: The Construction of Gender in First and Second World War Commemoration.
10.00 – 10.20
Professor Bruce Scates, Monash University, Sites of Memory, Shrines of Remembrance.
10.20 – 10.30 questions
10.30 – 11.00 break
Day Two, Session Two: Aesthetics of Empire
11.00 – 11.20
Ms Angela Hesson, University of Melbourne, ‘Flowing fans’ and ‘fevered curves’: Camp exoticism and the English country house.
11.20 – 11.40
Dr Andrew Montana, Australian National University, The Imperial and the Colonial: Aesthetic refractions of Empire in colonial Art and Art decoration: 1878 – 1888.
11.40 – 12.00
Ms Jennifer Harris, University of Adelaide, Two colonial collectors of Japanese art: the South Australian Samuel Way and the New Zealander J. J. Kinsey.
12.00 – 12.20
Dr Prudence Ahrens, University of Queensland, Re-imagining a Modern Pacific: Paintings by Arthur Haythorne Studd (1863-1919).
12.20 – 12.30 questions
12.30 - 1.30 lunch
Day Two, Session Three: Collecting Empire
1.30 – 1.50
Dr Mark Stocker, University of Otago, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Our Place for British Art?
1.50 - 2.10
Victoria Robson, Curator European Art, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, The building of the British art collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: the early years 1912-1936.
2.10 - 2.30
Matthew Potter, University of Leicester, Desirable object - conflict of interests: Imperial rhetoric and the acquisition of the Carpenter's Shop.
2.30 – 2.40 questions
2.40 – 3.10 break
Day Two, Session Four, Heroes and Monarchs
3.10 – 3.30
Dr Ruth Brimacombe, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, One common hero: Gordon of Khartoum – the imperial icon in a colonial context.
3.30 – 3.50
Dr Juliette Peers, RMIT, Bertram Mackennal’s royal monuments: contexts, symbols and typologies.
3.50 – 4.10
Mr Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, University of Melbourne, Representing the Empire: Tradition and Innovation in Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Franz Xaver Winterhalter".
4.10 – 4.30
Dr Alison Inglis, University of Melbourne, Visualising the Viceregal: Sir John and Lady Franklin as patrons and subjects of art.
4.30 – 4.40 questions
4.40 – 5.00 concluding remarks
Accommodation
Accommodation suggestions
15 Minute walk to the following:
Marie Babbage University College
Quest Serviced Apartments, Finlay Place Carlton
Quest Carlton Clock Tower
Downtowner on Lygon
Ridges on Swanston
25 minute walk to the following:
Vibe Hotel Carlton
Brooklyn Arts Hotel
Maps
Venue and Technical Information
Elisabeth Murdoch - Theatre A
Enter the theatre foyer at ground level through the marble doorway and large glass doors very near to Castro's Café (this is the outdoor café with the large wooden tables). You exit the theatre through the same door. Please note that there is no access to this theatre from any of the other doors into Elisabeth Murdoch Building.
Please find below a list of the multimedia equipment that will be available
in the symposium venue, the Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre A.
* Installed multimedia equipment - data projector, VCR/DVD/CD players, audio
playback
* Installed slide projector(s) - conference organisers and speakers need to
provide their own carousels. N.B. We have limited number of slide carousels
available. Please let us know well in advance of your session if you require
one.
* Networked computer(s) for presenter, with standardised software
configurations - plug in your own memory stick
* Laptop connectivity for presenters
* Whiteboards
* Overhead projector(s) for use with transparencies.
Please let us know if you will require any additional equipment.
If you intend to bring your presentation on a usb/memory stick, it is
advisable to upload it onto the theatre computer on the morning of your
presentation, so that any potential problems may be addressed early.
Useful Links
Melbourne Airport
Public Transport
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum Victoria
Contact Us
For enquiries please contact Bronwyn Hughes or Alison Inglis or Kate Darian-Smith
Please note: Symposium participants
New Deadline for Written Papers: 15 October 2009: All full papers will be refereed and it is anticipated that the scholarly conference proceedings will be published on-line.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an environmentally sustainable symposium – paper copies of documents will be limited. Please go to the symposium website for details and updates.