Anti-Slavery and Australia
Public Lecture and Panel Discussion Symposium
Documentary Screening
Thursday December 17, 2015
State Library of Queensland
Chaired by Kate Evans, Radio Na onal
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Friday December 18, 2015
Queensland Art Gallery
Keynote and Panel Discussions
9.00am to 5.00pm
Friday December 18, 2015
Queensland Art Gallery
“They are We” with Producer and Director
Emma Christopher
2.45pm to 5.30pm
Slavery and an ‐slavery movements have been long entwined with Australia's poli cs, history, and
ac vist campaigns, part of an interna onal and na onal history that in the mid nineteenth century saw
the end of the formal Atlan c slave trade but the rise of indenture and other forms of unfree labour.
An ‐slavery was, among many other things, a cri que of empire and colonialism. What are the stories,
events, people and world views of an ‐slavery from the nineteenth century to the present? What was
the impact of interna onal movements in Australia and overseas on the history of se ler colonialism in
Australia? And in what ways has the history of an ‐slavery contributed to the transna onal movement
against sexual and labour enslavement?
Confirmed speakers include:  Kevin Grant, Professor of History, Hamilton College, Clinton,
NY, co‐editor of Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transna onalism (Palgrave, 2007)
 Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor
in the Humani es, University of Aus n, Texas, co‐editor of
Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain (Palgrave,
2009)  Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History, Universi‐
ty of Western Australia, co‐editor of Calling the Shots: Abo‐
riginal Photographies (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014)  Emma Christopher, An ‐Slavery Australia and History at Uni‐
versity of Technology, Sydney, author of A Merciless Place: the lost story of Britain’s convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the se lement of Australia (2010). Emma will also in‐
troduce her ground‐breaking documentary, ‘They Are We’
chosen as the United Na ons’ Remembrance of Slavery film
for 2015.
The emblem of the aboli onist movement, the kneeling slave in chains, surrounded by the words ‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’ Medallion; jasper ware; chained kneeling slave in relief in black, with inscrip on above; set in an oval gold mount. Trustees of the Bri sh Museum. All events are free but registration is essential to [email protected]
For further information contact convenor Professor Fiona Paisley
[email protected]
Griffith Centre for Cultural Research
@GUCulturalResea