Programme
CENTRE FORRESEARCH ONCOLONIAL CULTUREA UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO RESEARCH CENTRE
186925th - 29th September 2019
Conference & Heritage Festival
186925 - 29 September 2019
ConventionKa muri, ki mua
1869 FestivalKa muri, ki mua
186925 - 29 September 2019
ConventionKa muri, ki mua
25 - 29 September 2019
1869 Heritage FestivalKa muri, ki mua
25 - 29 September 2019
18691869Heritage FestivalConference and
Ka muri, ki mua
25-29 September 2019
1869 Heritage FestivalConference and
Ka muri, ki mua
1869Conference & Heritage Festival
Ka muri, ki mua
25–29 September 2019
Conference andHeritage FestivalKa mua, ka muri
25-29 September 2019
25-29 September 2019
1869 1869Heritage FestivalConference and
Ka muri, ki mua
Wednesday 25 september
Thursday 26 september
5–5:30pm Registration Venue: Castle Concourse, University of Otago
5:30–6:30pm Back-Story: Heritage through Words, Pictures and Threads Panel Speakers: Tina Makereti, Lisa Chatfield, and Catherine Smith Venue: Castle 1, University of Otago
6:30–7:30pm Opening Reception for Conference Delegates Venue: Te Tumu, University of Otago
8:30–9am Registration Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
9–10:30am Mihi Whakatau/Formal Opening Keynote Address: Megan Potiki Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
10:30–11am Morning Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
11–12:30pm The Dynamics of Commercial Photography Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Jonathan HowardDeveloping confidence – William Meluish and 1860s Dunedin Christine WhybrewCountry: Alfred Burton’s first photo-graphic tour of “Otagan scenery”
Jill HaleyThe piggyback princess: popularity, power and the photographic portrait
Race, Eugenics and Medicine Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Menglu Gao“A Strange Likeness of the Chinaman”: Physiognomy and Dickens’s “visualization” of opium addiction in The Mystery of Edwin Drood Heidi LoganMary Elizabeth Braddon and the idea of Hereditary Genius
David Ellison‘This may sting’: consenting to pain in the Victorian era
12:30–1:30pm Lunch Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
Thursday 26 september cont.
1:30–3pm Flora and Fauna Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Paul GuyBotanical Heresies circa 1869
Wendy ParkinsThe Mystery of the Matoaka; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)
Musical and Performance Cultures Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Kirstine Moffat“O joy unbounded”: The cultural legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan in Australia and New Zealand
Clare Gleeson“500 Pieces of New Music This Week”: Music selling in New Zealand c.1869
Mark Houlahan1869 in stages
3–3:30pm Afternoon Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
3:30–4:30pm Realism, Character, Emotion Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Julia Kuehn He Knew He Was Right: Trollope’s Mixed Characters
Elise Silson Sanctifying Doubt, Demystifying Faith: The Revolutionary Compassion of George Eliot’s Realism in Middlemarch
Faith and Theology Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Anaru EketoneThe murder of John Whiteley
Sarah BartelsThe Devil in 1869: An Examination of Victorian Diabolic Literature
6–7pm Keynote Address: Helen Pearson Venue: St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
Friday 27 september
8:30–9am Registration Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
9:00–10:00pm Keynote Address: Marion Thain Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
10–10:30am Morning Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
10:30–12:30pm Art, Exhibitions and Collections Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Pamela Gerrish NunnFrances Hodgkins and the class of ‘69
Lara NichollsThe other October revolution: art, enlightenment and reformist women in mid-century Victorian Britain and its colonial legacy
Justine OlsenMr Osborne’s gift: the growth of decorative arts and the national collection
Rebecca Rice“A lot of paintings and drawings”: Dunedin’s 1869 Fine Art Exhibition
Marriage, Materiality and Inheritance Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Fiona McKergow“She wore her wedding-dress still”: Marriage and Silk Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Julia BradshawUntying the knot: New Zealand’s first separation and divorce cases
Lyndon Fraser“To my child now expecting to be born’: Women’s Wills as Acts of Remembrance in Victorian Canterbury
Erica Newman Practice of Adoption in Aotearoa before the 1881 Adoption of Infants Act
12:30–1:30pm Lunch Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
1:30–3pm Class, Gender and Taste Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Angela LassigThe Waste of Winter: A Wellington Draper, 1869
Tracey JonesUn-sexed and de-feminised: Victorian Mining Women in England and Wales
Jeremy MoyleHouse Style and Class in Victorian and Edwardian Dunedin, 1870-1910
Imperial Connections, Colonial ImaginationsVenue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Charlotte MacdonaldA year of appeal: to the men of New Zealand, to the imperial government
Mandy TreagusAn American Adventurer: HJ Moors and the Pacific Labour Trade
Friday 27 september cont.
3–3:30pm Afternoon Tea Venue: Atrium Level 1, Otago Museum
3:30–5pm Making Colonial Connections: Technology and Mobility in an Industrial Age Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Andre Brett“The stagnation into which the colony has at present fallen”: 1869 and the Great Public Works Policy
David HainesCrossing the pond: The Tasman Sea in late-nineteenth century colonial life
Frances SteelThe Union Pacific Railroad and its transoceanic frontiers
Criticism, Sensation and Science Fiction Venue: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
Yi-Ching TengRecreating criticism: Oscar Wilde’s critical/artistic reading of Matthew Arnold
Madeleine C SeysSecrecy, suspense and “sensuous raptures”: Sensation fiction and its legacies after 1869
Ian ChapmanFrom Jules Verne to David Bowie – “From the Earth to the Moon: A Space Oddity”
Readers, Writers, Publishers Venue: Kakapo Theatre, Otago Museum
Susann LiebichMaritime mobility and texts in transit
Lachy PatersonA year in the life of Te Waka Maori
Megan Brown1869: The Australian Journal reinvents itself
6pm Buses depart for conference dinner at Larnach Castle7:00–10:00pm Conference Dinner
Dinner Speaker: Liam McIlvanney
Saturday 28 september
9–11am Landscapes Venue: St David Seminar Room C, University of Otago
Jonathan West ‘You see the blank on the map? I wish you to fill it up’: James McKerrow’s exploration of the southern lakes in the 1860s
James Beattie and Warwick Brunton ‘The Place and Power of Natural History in Colonization’: William Lauder Lindsay and the scientific development of Otago’s human and natural resources, 1860-80
Matthew Schmidt Dunedin – a city built on reclamation
Jane McCabe A Pivotal Year: Land Alienation and Entitlement in Taieri and Hokianga
Intellectual networks Venue: St David Seminar Room D, University of Otago
Peter ClayworthSketchy Histories: What were the 1860s Pakeha views of Maori migration to New Zealand
John O’LearyHand-axes, saurian and kobongs: Governor Grey’s London year
Kate HannahCorrespondence, Colenso, and cultural shifts: Visualising New Zealand in 1869
Helene ConnorReflections on the letters of Geraldine Ensor Jewsbury (1812–80) to Walter Durrant Mantell (1820–95) with a focus on 1869
Dunedin People, Places and Institutions Venue: St David Seminar Room E, University of Otago
Lyall Hanton Joseph Mellor: the man who described the Periodic Table in 16 million words
Tom Barker and John Isdale Thames School of Mines
Susan Irvine and Sarah Gallagher Blowing Up Boundaries
Rosi Crane Beyond Albums and Paintbrushes: Women and the Otago Museum, 1869-1936
Reformers and CampaignersVenue: St David Seminar Room F, University of Otago
Anna ClarkJosephine Butler’s Women’s Work and Women’s Culture (1869): The paradoxes of individualism in Britain and New Zealand
Chieko Ichikawa Women’s Writing on Sex: Rhetoric and Gender in the Social Purity Movement
Jane Tolerton Otago’s three women’s suffrage movements: 1869-1893
Joanne Wilkes Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back from 1869
Saturday 28 september cont.
11–11:30am Morning Tea Venue: St David Ground Floor Foyer, University of Otago
11:30–12:30pm Closing Address Speaker: Tilly Boleyn, Curator, Science Gallery MelbourneVenue: St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
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