Program

Day 1 - Wednesday 11 December

10.00-10.30amRegistration 
Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building
10.30-10.45am
Welcome to Country
Thane Garvey-Gannaway, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung educator
Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building
10.45-11.00amHousekeeping
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
12.00-1.00pmLunch 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
3.00-3.30pmAfternoon 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
5.15pmLaunch 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
10.30-11.00amMorning 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
12.30-1.30pmLunch 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
3.00-3.45pmANZHES AGM
Room 555, Level 5, Arts West Building
3.45-4.15pmAfternoon 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
5.30-6.30pmDrinks (at own cost)
6.30-8.30pmConference Dinner (at own cost)

Day 3 - Friday 13 December

Concurrent sessions (Level 5, Arts West Building)
 
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
10.30-11.00amMorning 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
12.30-12.45pmClosing
Room 556, Level 5, Arts West Building
12.45-1.45pmLunch break
Foyer, Level 5, Arts West Building

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