[csaa-forum] GCS research seminar, Friday 20 May: AUSTRALIA: GENDER, RACE AND PROTECTION

[Fiona Allon]

Department of Gender and Cultural Studies 2011 seminar series:

AUSTRALIA: GENDER, RACE AND PROTECTION

Speakers:

Alison Holland (History, Macquarie), "The Constraints of Culture and
Humanity. Defending Aboriginal Women's Rights Then and Now".

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (GCS, Sydney), "Cooking the Books with Bill Harney".
             
Vicki Grieves (Honorary Fellow, GCS), "Understanding Intergenerational
Aboriginal Family Trauma: Engaging with Local Generations in a Transnational
Context".


“Protection” is a principal term within Australian settler colonialism, and
it exists in a complicated entanglement with the violence that it is
supposed to buffer, to ameliorate. This proximity to violence is
protection‚s problem and raison d‚être.  Our panel discusses the problem of
protection‚ from three different angles. Alison Holland considers what might
be understood as a legacy of protection, in particular, she compares the
efforts of (non-Indigenous) female reformers in advocating greater
protections for Aboriginal women in the inter-war and contemporary periods;
Vicki Grieves argues that a vignette of  her family history from around the
turn of the century reveals that "protection" was actually Australia's Jim
Crow; Fiona Probyn-Rapsey discusses the fascinating life and work of Bill
Harney, a prolific writer and chronicler of Northern Territory life who also
worked as a Patrol officer (and protector‚) of Aborigines in the Northern
Territory 1940-1947.

           
Date: Friday 20 May 2011
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: The Refectory, Main Quadrangle (downstairs from the Faculty of
Arts)
Street: University Drive, University of Sydney

All welcome. Drinks will follow at the New Law School Bar.

Contact: Fiona Allon (fiona.allon at sydney.edu.au) or Natalya Lusty
(natalya.lusty at sydney.edu.au)



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