AAEH DRAFT PROGRAM
‘Europe’s Entanglements’
Monash University, 11-14 July 2017
DAY 1: TUESDAY 11 JULY
9-9.30am
Registration and Welcome
Keynote Address: Glenda Sluga, 9:30-10:30
10.30-11.00
Morning Tea
SESSION ONE: 11.00-12.30
A: Flight, Evacuation, and Resettlement: World War II as a History of
B: French Imperialism
Displacements
Chair: John Goldlust
Chair: Jennifer Sessions
Paper 1: Mark Edele, ‘The Roads were crowded with refugees’: Soviet and
German “evacuations” of Soviet civilians, 1941–44’
Paper 1: Charlotte Chopin, ‘The Settler Colonial Family Romance:
Paternalism in Press Reports of President Loubet’s Visit to Algeria, 1903’
Paper 2: Sheila Fitzpatrick, ‘Race and Resettlement: Displaced Persons
from the Soviet Union and the Selection Process in the Late 1940s’
Paper 2 – Sarah Dunstan, ‘La Langue de nos maitres: Présence Africaine
and the question of language at the end of the French Empire’
Paper 3: Wanda Warlik, ‘Civilian mass movement and war: Polish
evacuees from the Soviet Union in British-occupied Iran during the Second
World War’
Paper 3 – Julie Kalman, ‘Mediterranean Entanglements: The French and
British in Pre-Colonial Algiers, and the Role of Intermediaries’
12.30-1.30
Lunch
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SESSION TWO: 1.30—3.00
A: Displacements (II)
B: Imperial Entanglements
Chair: Julie Kalman
Chair: Susie Protschky
Paper 1 – Daniella Doron, ‘Changing Homes, Reconsidering Homelands:
Jewish Refugee Youth and Mobility, 1940-1955’
Paper 1 – Andrew Burnett, ‘Imperial culture and national identity in the
context of ‘Stamverwantschap’ (Kinship) between the Netherlands and the
Dutch-Afrikaners’ 1875 to 1910.
Paper 2 – Thomas Kehoe, ‘Fear of the refugee- Displaced Person-criminal
in the Western Zones of Occupied Germany after World War Two’
Paper 3 – Lynne Swarts, ‘Germans, Jews and cultural entanglements:
National identity and the German Jewish symbiosis, 1901–14’
3.00-3.30
Paper 2 – Matthew Fitzpatrick, ‘Missing the War, Losing the Peace:
Germany, China and the Aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion’
Paper 3 – Anna Ross, ‘Germany’s Colonial Construction Projects in an Age
of Global Expansion, 1884-1919’
Afternoon tea
SESSION THREE: 3.30-5.00
A: Wars of Words
B: The End of Empire
Chair: Richard Scully
Chair: Matt Fitzpatrick
Paper 1 – Paul Morisset, ‘Local press responses to White Siberia, 19181920’
Paper 1 – Marco Duranti, ‘Human Rights, the United Nations, and the End
of the French Empire’
Paper 2 – Brett Holman, ‘William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the
Invisible Hand’
Paper 2 – John Hutchinson, ‘Waves of War: The End of Empire?’
Keynote Address: Jennifer Sessions, 6.00pm.
Welcome Drinks: 7pm
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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 12 JULY
Keynote Address: Tony Ballantyne (9.30-10.30)
10.30-11.00
Morning tea
SESSION FOUR: 11.00-12.30
A: Militant Europe
B: British Views of Europe
Chair: Iva Glisic
Chair: Tony Ballantyne
Paper 1 – Andrew Bonnel, ‘Antisemitism, Denunciation, and Rosa
Luxemburg’s Frankfurt Trial, 1914’
Paper 1 – Anthony Artus, ‘“An unnecessary war”: British scepticism
during the Second Italian War of Independence’
Paper 2 – Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘Disentangling Political Violence and
Nationalist Feminisms: The Case of Ireland & UK’
Paper 2 – Luke LeCras, ‘“Nation Europa” or national suicide? European
integration and Britain’s extreme right after 1945’
Paper 3 – Ben Mercer, ‘Critique and Crisis in the University in 1968’
Paper 3 – Evan Smith, ‘Euroscepticism and the Commonwealth in British
Political Discourse since 1972’
12.30-1.30
Lunch
SESSION FIVE: 1.30-3.00
A: Soldiers and Suffering
B: Ideas of Europe
Chair: Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Chair: Glenda Sluga
Paper 1 – Alexia Moncrieff, ‘Entangled with the Empire: Caring for the
Disabled British Ex-serviceman at the Periphery’
Paper 1 – Andrew Webster, ‘The failure of the French proposal for
European federal union in 1929–30: Brexit avant la lettre?'
Paper 2 – Susie Protschky, ‘Home (at the) Front: Dutch Soldiers
Paper 2 – Thomas Lalevée, ‘Saint-Simon and Political Unification in Early-
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Domesticating Colonial War’
Nineteenth-Century Europe’
Paper 3 – Briony Neilson, ‘Shared Suffering? Entanglements between
France’s Penal Colonial Project in New Caledonia and Australia’
Paper 3 – Stefan Auer, ‘Germany in Borderless Europe: Exceptional,
Normal, European?’
3.00-3.30
Afternoon tea
SESSION SIX: 3.30-5.00
A: War and Memory
B: Urban Entanglements
Chair: Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Chair: Anna Ross
Paper 1 – Iva Glisic, ‘I Remember History: Internet and Memory in
Contemporary Russia’
Paper 1 – David Garrioch, ‘Fire in the 19th-century European city’
Paper 2 – Sarah Midford, ‘Classical Entanglements: Drawing on Europe’s
Past to Commemorate Australia’s War Dead’
Paper 3 – David Milazzo, ‘He who controls the past controls the future: He
who controls the present controls the past.’
Paper 2 – Johanna Conterio, ‘Urban Planning as Social Engineering: The
Politics of Green Space in the Soviet 1930s’
Paper 3 – Flavia Marcello, ‘Giuseppe Pagano’s Architecture of Resistance:
The social, cultural and historical entanglements of an Italian Architect’
Conference Dinner (Red Spice Road): 7pm
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DAY 3: THURSDAY 13 JULY
10.30-11.00
Morning tea
SESSION SEVEN: 11.00-12.30
A: Mediterranean Entanglements
B: Psycho/somatic Entanglements
Chair: Peter Monteath
Chair: Mark Edele
Paper 1 – Anna Efstathiadou, ‘The role of Orthodox Christianity in
depictions of Greek national identity from the nineteenth century to present’
Paper 1 – Branca Bogdan, ‘Abortion, vacuum-aspiration and socialist
Yugoslavia: an international narrative’
Paper 2 – Andrekos Varnava, ‘Cypriot Christians and Muslims Unite
against the Armenian Legion, 1917-8’
Paper 2 – Paula Michaels, ‘The Psychological Trauma of Birth: East and
West’
Paper 3 – Stephanie Jacobs, ‘The entangled lives
of Christian and Muslim neighbours: Stories of displacement, migration,
friendship, loss and reconnection among Greek and Turkish Cypriots’
Paper 3 – Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, ‘The royal road: on history and the
interpretation of dreams’
12.30-1.30
Lunch
SESSION EIGHT: 1.30-3.00
A: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
B: Labour
Chair: Andrekos Varnava
Chair: Andrew Bonnell
Paper 1 – Thomas Schmutz, ‘Revolutions, Visions and Diplomacy: The
implications of the Russian Revolutions and the British conquest of
Palestine on the German-Ottoman alliance in 1917’
Paper 1 – Michael Hau, ‘The Olympics of Labor: The Reich Vocational
Competitions in Nazi Germany, 1934–39’
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Paper 2 – Gordon Morrell, ‘Refugees from the Bloodlands: Women in the
Anglo-Soviet intelligence war of the 1930s’
Paper 2 – Elizabeth Vlossak, ‘Eastern Workers in the “Western Marches”:
Nazi forced labour in Moselle’
Paper 3 - Peter Monteath, ‘The Special Operations Unit in Crete’
3.00-3.30
Afternoon tea
3:30-5:00
Annual General Meeting of the AAEH
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DAY 4: FRIDAY 14 JULY
SESSION NINE: 9:30-11
A: Legal Entanglements
B: Displacements (III)
Chair: David Garrioch
Chair: Evan Smith
Paper 1 – James Halcrow, ‘Addicts of international law: Britain and the
justifications for the first Opium War, 1839 – 1842’
Paper 1 – Sacha Davis & Johanna Perheentupa, ‘Testing the “Logic of
Elimination”: A Comparison of Forced Romani and Indigenous Child
Removal in the Habsburg Empire and Colonial NSW’
Paper 2 – Rukhsana Iftikhar, ‘Mapping Sexuality in Colonial India with
special reference to Prostitution’
Paper 3 – Natasha Wheatley, ‘Living and Dying in International Law:
Austria-Hungary in the Legal History of Decolonization’
11.00-11.30
Paper 2 – Kylie Galbraith, ‘“A Bottle of Evian Water and a Few More
Committees”: The British Press and the Refugee Crisis in the 1930s’
Paper 3 – Lauren Pikó, ‘“We're full”: Capacity, finitude, and British
landscapes since 1945’
Morning tea
SESSION TEN: TALK FESTS 11:30-1
Chair: Andrew Webster
Paper 1 – Paper 1 – Richard Scully, ‘Antipodean Perspectives – (Nearly) Fifty Years of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH)’
Paper 2 – Maartje Abbenhuis, ‘The moats of time’s castle: the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and the changing importance of public
diplomacy in European affairs’
Paper 3 – Philip Dehne, ‘The 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the roots of European unification’
12.30-1.30
1.30-3.00
Lunch
Roundtable and closing
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