Travelling the Colonies:
Images, Representations, Writings
Winter Symposium
Bruny Island
25 - 27 June 2008
Travel enables the expansion of empires, and colonialism makes possible mobility as well as settlement. People, commodities, books, ideas, and objects traverse imperial networks, and in doing so produce complex, mutable webs of colonial and postcolonial relations.
Travelling the Colonies featured two keynote speakers:
Lydia Wevers is the Director of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia’s research interests have included the literature of travel through which she explored the interdisciplinary approach to travel writing traversing the disciplines of history, geography, literature, anthropology, politics, art and cooking. Her current research interest is the history of reading and she is researching a nineteenth-century farm library to examine the lives of people working and living on a sheep station as well as exploring the intellectual and social history of ordinary people of that period. The Stout Research Centre has an interdisciplinary focus through the seminars and conferences it holds as well as its post-graduate programmes. Lydia works with the Centre’s post-graduate students, encouraging students to take their research in new and imaginative directions. Her recent publications include Country of Writing: Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809-1900, (Auckland University Press, 2002), and as editor, the companion volume Travelling to New Zealand: An Oxford Anthology (2000).
Richard White is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Sydney. Richard has taught at Monash University and the University of Western Sydney and joined the History Department at the University of Sydney in 1989. He teaches across a broad sweep of Australian history and his research interests include Australian cultural history, nationalism, national identity and the history of travel and tourism. Amongst several other books he is the author of Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980 and On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia. His current research includes “Cooee: its rise and fall” and “Driving to Australia: overland journeys between Europe and Australia 1888-1972.” He has a substantial supervisory load of postgraduate candidates undertaking diverse research projects, including a history of Australian tourism in Asia since 1945, Protestantism and the Australian landscape, Australia’s bohemian tradition and Australian tourism in post-war London.
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