Program
Day 1 - Wednesday 11 December
| 10.00-10.30am | Registration Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
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| 10.30-10.45am | Welcome to Country Thane Garvey-Gannaway, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung educator Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| 10.45-11.00am | Housekeeping Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| 11.00am-12.00pm | Diversity of Critique: Histories of the Present and Institutional Truth Telling Professor Warwick Anderson, The University of Sydney / The University of Melbourne Chair: Dr James Waghorne Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| 12.00-1.00pm | Lunch break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| 1.00-3.00pm | Forum: Writing university histories in a time of truth-telling Professor Marcia Langton AM, The University of Melbourne Professor Warwick Anderson, The University of Sydney / The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch, The University of Technology Sydney Professor Zoë Laidlaw, The University of Melbourne Dr Ross Jones, The University of Melbourne Dr James Waghorne, The University of Melbourne Room 556 Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Afternoon tea break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | |||
| Concurrent sessions (Level 5, Arts West Building) | ||||
Medical Truths: Histories and Collections Chair: Dr Ross Jones Room 556 | Schooling and Policy in Settler Colonial Contexts Chair: Dr Matthew Keynes Room 553 | |||
| 3.30-5.00pm | Joel Barnes - Historical Truth-telling at the University of Sydney: Race and Indigeneity in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine | Rosalie Triolo - A Bush Calendar: How Victoria’s school children learned more about Australia’s plants a century ago, and what might be learned from that today | ||
| Marcia Langton - Ancestral Remains and the Donald Thomson Collection | Deb Towns - Before ‘free, secular, compulsory’ and Port Phillip’s and Victoria’s schools | |||
| Rohan Long - Human remains and invisible collectors | Ardra KS - History of an ‘Aided School’ Policy in the State of Kerala: Contested Narratives through an Ethnographic Account | |||
| 5.15pm | Launch of Special Issue of History of Education Review, 'Post-pandemic positions: new perspectives on international education and public diplomacy in Australia' University House, 53 Professors Walk, Parkville | |||
Day 2 - Thursday 12 December
| 9.30-10.30am | Education in Cultures of Redress, 1980s— Dr Matthew Keynes, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne Chair: Professor Julie McLeod Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
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| 10.30-11.00am | Morning tea break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| Concurrent sessions (Level 5, Arts West Building) | |||
Activism and Social Change in Education Chair: Dr Joel Barnes Room 556 | Memory, Testimony, and Archives Chair: Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch Room 553 | ||
| 11.00am-12.30pm | Frances Kelly - A Space to Debate issues of the day: a 1968 student union as a ‘sphere of free action’ | Gary McCulloch - The 1980 Education Act and the UK Treasury: From the Welfare State to the New Right in education | |
| Beth Marsden - School strikes for segregation? Protesting school access for First Nations communities, 1900s-1960s | Frederic Fovet - The ‘regulation’ of alternative therapeutic schools in the UK | ||
| Jessica Gerrard & Helen Proctor - The New Christian Right, sex, and sexuality in schools: transnational conservative networks of evidence and expertise, 1970s-1980s | Heather Ellis - Food for Thought: Rewriting the History of School Meals in Britain | ||
| 12.30-1.30pm | Lunch break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| Concurrent sessions (Level 5, Arts West Building) | |||
Reformers and Reforms in School and University Histories Chair: Dr Tao Bak Room 556 | Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Education Chair: Dr Rosalie Triolo Room 553 | ||
| 1.30-3.00pm | Shannon Peters - From Underlings to Social Agents: The Teacher Self-Government Movement in 1910s New York City | Issac O. Akande - Indigenous Voice in the History of Indian Education: The Potawatomi & the Treaty of 1846 | |
| Piper Rodd - ‘Our working conditions are student learning conditions’: An analysis of the recent history of industrial action by Australian university workers | Kay Whitehead - Vale Margaret Valadian (1936-2023): A purveyor of difficult truths | ||
| Neville Buch - Resolving Educational Epistemology to Defeat the Culture-History War | Frank Wilson - Learning and unlearning our histories: opportunities for anti-racist and anti-colonial teaching and learning in the Aotearoa histories curriculum | ||
| 3.00-3.45pm | ANZHES AGM Room 555, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| 3.45-4.15pm | Afternoon tea break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| 4.15-5.15pm | Land endowment and public education Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch, The University of Technology Sydney Chair: Dr James Waghorne Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| 5.30-6.30pm | Drinks (at own cost) | ||
| 6.30-8.30pm | Conference Dinner (at own cost) | ||
Day 3 - Friday 13 December
| Concurrent sessions (Level 5, Arts West Building) | |||
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Māori and Aboriginal Activists in Education: Historical Stories from Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand Chair: Dr Julian Kusabs Room 556 | Contesting Higher Education Chair: Dr Dorothy Kass Room 553 | ||
| 9.00-10.30am | Julie McLeod - Walter Page: Indigenous education advocacy, progressive ideas and ‘international understanding’ | Maria Ahmad - Standing tall to design the indigenous ways of being on/in time: Clocktowers in the colonial universities | |
| Julian Kusabs - Miraka (Mira) Szászy: An Educational Leader for Māori Women | Ren-Hao Xu - (Re)making the ‘National’ in Taiwan’s allocation of student places (1980s-2000s) | ||
| Emily Dawson - Uncle Lionel Bamblett & transforming exclusionary systems through a community-centred, Koorie-led approach. | Tao Bak - Contemplative approaches in Higher Education: examining the contributions of Arthur Zajonc | ||
| 10.30-11.00am | Morning tea break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
Student Support and the Making of Universities Chair: Dr James Waghorne Room 556 | Postwar Education: Global Perspectives on Values, Welfare, and Expertise Chair: Dr Beth Marsden Room 553 | ||
| 11.00am-12.30pm | Kate Darian-Smith (presenter), Julia Horne and Stephen Garton - Universities, Students and Rebuilding Australia: the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme | Kok Yin Chu - How did Singapore promote Confucianism as civic and moral education during the 1980s through three different persons? An outlook from Goh Keng Swee, Wu Teh-yao, and Lau Wai-har | |
| Gwilym Croucher (presenter), James Waghorne - In Search of the Commonwealth Scholarships: influences and themes | Alexandra Frost - ‘The Blending of Cultures’: At the Intersection of Anthropology and Education in late colonial Papua New Guinea | ||
| Anna Kent - Acronyms and identifiers: The many names of Australia’s international scholarships | Heather Ellis & Gary McCulloch - The Second World War and its educational legacies: the case of the UK School Meals Service | ||
| 12.30-12.45pm | Closing Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
| 12.45-1.45pm | Lunch break Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building | ||
Enquiries
If you have any queries, please contact Dr James Waghorne.