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migration and health in Victoria next Thursday. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">Dr Karina Smith will discuss her recent exhibition and book on Caribbean migration to Melbourne, while </font><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr Caroline Clark will tell us why gold was once used to
treat alcoholism (yes, gold). Further details below. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">When: Thursday 27 August 3-5pm</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">Where: Room C410, Building C, Footscray Park campus, Victoria University</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">RSVP: kim.richardson@vu.edu.au</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><b><font size="3">Dr Karina Smith: "Australia didn't call me. I came to Australia": Caribbean migration to Victoria from the 1960s to the 2000s.</font></b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">Caribbean migrants have been moving to Melbourne in small numbers since the 1960s. This paper will draw on research for 'Callaloo: The Caribbean Mix in Victoria' exhibition which was displayed in Melbourne’s
Immigration museum in 2009/2010 and for a subsequent book, 'Adding Pimento: Caribbean migration to Victoria, Australia' (2014) based on oral history interviews with community members. It will look at how different experiences of migration to Australia, in
conjunction with the process of ‘settling in’ to Australian society, unites and divides the Caribbean diasporic community in Victoria and, by extension, connects and disconnects them to Australia and the Caribbean.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">Dr Karina Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts. A literary and gender studies scholar, her research focuses on postcolonial literature and theatre, as well as migration and diasporic communities,
particularly the Caribbean and African diasporas. She is co-editor of the recent book 'Adding Pimento: Caribbean migration to Victoria, Australia' (2014).</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><b><font size="3">Dr Caroline Clark: ‘Good as gold’: Treating alcohol problems in Melbourne a century ago</font></b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">This presentation explores treatments for alcoholism around the turn of the 20th century and their resonances today. In the 1890s, a new American treatment promoted the use of a gold compound to treat
alcoholism, as a ‘magic bullet’ which would eliminate the disease. Most doctors dismissed it as a quack cure, but it was very attractive to drinkers and their families who were desperate, as well as to politicians who liked the idea of an ‘instant’ cure. The
search for a ‘magic bullet’ to cure drug addiction continues today, and with similar tensions; drug treatments for heroin dependence are controversial, while the lack of a medical treatment for ‘ice’ dependence is deplored.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="3">Dr Caroline Clark is a Research Officer in the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, where she is investigating drug trends in Melbourne's Western region. Her PhD explored the early history of
treatment for alcohol problems in Victoria. She has worked in the alcohol and other drugs field for over 20 years, in community development, research, and workforce education.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dr Isabelle de Solier<br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow</span></font></div>
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Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing</span></font></div>
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Victoria University</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Author of
<em>Food and the Self</em>: <a tabindex="0" href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/food-and-the-self-9780857854223/" target="">
<font color="#0000ff">http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/food-and-the-self-9780857854223/</font></a></span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Editor of
<em>Food Cultures</em>: <a tabindex="0" href="http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/issue/view/150" target="">
<font color="#0000ff">http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/issue/view/150</font></a></span></span></font></div>
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