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School of Humanities
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 41
Hobart, Tasmania 7001
Phone: 6226 2255
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6226 7847
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Centre for
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29th Annual Conference
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War in History: Tasmanian,
Australian and International
Perspectives
For catering purposes lunch must be pre-booked and paid for
by Tuesday 7 October 2014
Saturday, 11 October 2014
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Life Sciences Lecture Theatre
Life Sciences Building
Sandy Bay Campus
University of Tasmania
College Road, Sandy Bay
PROGRAM
8:30
Registration
9:00
Welcome: Associate Professor Stefan Petrow,
Director, CTHS and Head of History & Classics
Discipline, University of Tasmania
9:05
Opening Address
Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania
Tasmanians in the Boer War: Heroes or War
Criminals?
10:15
Morning Tea
10:45
Dr Gavin Daly, University of Tasmania
British Soldiers‟ Views of Spanish and Portugese
Violence During the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
Chair: Associate Professor Peter Chapman
11:30
Associate Professor Stefan Petrow, University of
Tasmania
Hatred, Exploitation and Disunity: Tasmania and the
Impact of World War One
Chair: Professor Michael Bennett
3:50
4.30
Dr. Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania
„“Too poor to send regular letters and gift parcels”:
the provision of comforts to Aboriginal Soldiers in
the AIF in WWII‟
Chair: Dr. Roger Kellaway
Mr. Ian Terry, TMAG and Mr. Steve Thomas,
Roar Film
The Suspense is Awful: Commemorating World War
1 at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
This panel will be followed by the screening of a few
short sequences of film.
Chair: Associate Professor Stefan Petrow
SPEAKERS
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Dr Peter Edwards, Deakin University
Vietnam at 50: Some Half-century Reflections on
Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam War
Chair: Associate Professor Stefan Petrow
2:15
Postgraduate Session
David Nolan, Caesar and Battle: Making Use of an
Ancient Source.
Andrea Gerard, Overlooked and Underrepresented:
Tasmanian Aboriginal Soldiers in the First World
War.
Anne Green, ‘Real Danger Spots‟: The Home Front
in Northern Tasmania During World War Two.
Chair: Associate Professor Peter Chapman
3.45
Stand Up and Stretch Time!
Henry Reynolds is a pioneer of Aboriginal History in
Australia and the author of many books. His book Drawing the
Global Colour Line co-authored with Marilyn Lake and copublished by CUP and MUP, which won the Prime Minister's
Prize for Non-Fiction and the Ernest Scott Prize. His latest
book is the The Forgotten War.
Gavin Daly is a Senior Lecturer in European History in the
School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He is an expert
on the Peninsular War and his most recent book is The British
Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and
Portugal, 1808-1814, published by Palgrave in 2013.
Stefan Petrow teaches Australian History at the University of
Tasmania, where he is Head of the History and Classics
Discipline in the School of Humanities. He has published
widely on Tasmanian history, specializing in legal and
planning history.
Peter Edwards AM FAIIA has published extensively on the
history of Australia‟s national security policies. His most
recent book is Australia and the Vietnam War (2014). As the
Official Historian of Australia‟s involvement in Southeast
Asian conflicts 1948-75 (Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam), he
was general editor of the nine-volume Official History and
author of the volumes dealing with strategy and diplomacy,
Crises and Commitments (1992) and A Nation at War (1997).
David Nolan has recently completed his PhD in Classics at the
University of Tasmania on the role of battle narrative in Caesar‟s
Bellum Gallicum.
Andrea Gerard is an Honours graduate from the School of
History and Classics, University of Tasmania, where she is
currently completing her Master of Arts thesis on Tasmanian
Aboriginal Soldiers in World War One.
She chairs the
Tasmanian branch of the Military History Society of Tasmania
and the Tasmanian Headstones project.
Anne Green has had a long interest in Tasmanian history and
upon completing her Master of Arts (Distinction) in Heritage
Studies, she has produced a number of published and
interpretative works in history and heritage for the Launceston
City Council, National Trust of Tasmania and St Giles. She is
Head of English at the Launceston Church Grammar School, and
has begun the process of trying to balance her work commitments
with that of her PhD.
Kristyn Harman is a social historian, and a lecturer in the
Faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of
Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles
which won the AHA Kay Daniels Award in 2014. Kristyn
researches and writes histories of captivity, domesticity, war, and
cross-cultural encounters. Her work has been published in various
scholarly journals, including the Journal of Colonialism and
Colonial History and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth
History.
Ian Terry is Senior Curator, History at the Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery where he has worked since 2006. He has curated
and co-curated several exhibitions, most recently Our Land:
parrawa, parrawa! Go Away! which opened in March 2013.
Steve Thomas is Creative and Company Director of Roar Film.
He has produced a number of film, television and digital projects
on Tasmanian history.