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AUSTRALIA: GENDER, RACE AND PROTECTION<BR>
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Speakers:<BR>
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Alison Holland (History, Macquarie), "The Constraints of Culture and Humanity. Defending Aboriginal Women's Rights Then and Now".<BR>
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Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (GCS, Sydney), "Cooking the Books with Bill Harney".<BR>
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Vicki Grieves (Honorary Fellow, GCS), "Understanding Intergenerational Aboriginal Family Trauma: Engaging with Local Generations in a Transnational Context".<BR>
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“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.<BR>
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Date: Friday 20 May 2011<BR>
Time: 14:00 - 16:00<BR>
Location: The Refectory, Main Quadrangle (downstairs from the Faculty of Arts)<BR>
Street: University Drive, University of Sydney<BR>
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All welcome. Drinks will follow at the New Law School Bar.<BR>
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Contact: Fiona Allon (<a href="fiona.allon@sydney.edu.au">fiona.allon@sydney.edu.au</a>) or Natalya Lusty (<a href="natalya.lusty@sydney.edu.au">natalya.lusty@sydney.edu.au</a>)<BR>
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