Thursday 3 July 2008
8:30am - 8:50 Introductions
- 8:30-8:35 Warwick Anderson, Welcome and Introduction for Duncan Ivison
- 8:35-8:40 Duncan Ivison, Head of SOPHI, University of Sydney, Welcome
- 8:40-8:50 Clare Corbould, Welcome and Overview of Conference
US Empire of Islands part 1
8:50 - 10:30 Panel 1
- Chair: Scarano
- Health: Mariola Espinosa (Southern Illinois University)
- Police: Alfred McCoy (University of Wisconsin)
- Environmental Management: Greg Bankoff (Hull University)
- Discussant: Clare Corbould (University of Sydney)
10:30 - 11am Morning Tea
US Empire of Islands part 2
11am - 12:30 Panel 2
- Chair: Anderson
- US Imperial State in the Caribbean: Francisco Scarano (University of Wisconsin)
- US Imperial State in Latin America: Courtney Johnson (University of Wisconsin)
- Trans-Atlantic Carceral Regime: Kelvin Santiago-Valles (SUNY Binghampton)
- Dscussant: Patrick Wolfe (La Trobe University)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
“Empire in American History”
1:30 - 3:30 Plenary Address
- Chair: McCoy
- Address: Ian Tyrrell (UNSW)
- Discussant: Shane White (University of Sydney)
- Discussant: William Chafe (Duke University)
3:30 - 4pm Afternoon Tea
Comparative Imperialisms
4pm - 5:30 Panel 3
- Chair: Corbould
- "Making Empire Visible or Making Colonialism Visible?": Angela Woollacott (Macquarie University)
- “The French Empire: Colonialism and its Aftermath”: Robert Aldrich (University of Sydney)
- “Australia’s Desire for a Pacific Empire”: Marilyn Lake (La Trobe University)
- Discussant: Alison Bashford (University of Sydney)
7:30pm Conference Dinner
Friday 4 July 2008
Comparative Racial & Indigenous Formations
8:30 - 10am Panel 4
- Chair: Anderson
- “Indigenous Enumeration in Anglophone Settler Colonies”: Tim Rowse and Tiffany Shellam (ANU)
- “Censuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism–Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico”: Francisco Scarano (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- “Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History”: Paul Kramer (University of Iowa)
- Discussants: Penny Russell and Kirsten Mackenzie (University of Sydney)
10am - 10:30 Morning Tea
Comparisons, Binary & Quadrilateral
10:30 - 1pm Panel 5
- Chair: Corbould
- “Roman Fever: Imperial Melancholy in America”: Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania)
- “The Spanish Empire’s colonial peculiarity: a long-term consideration”: Josep M. Fradera (Pompeu Fabra University)
- Discussant: Ian Tyrrell (UNSW)
- Discussant/French Empire: Robert Aldrich (University of Sydney)
- Discussant/British Empire: Angela Woollacott (Macquarie University)
- Discussant/US Empire: Ian Tyrrell (UNSW)
- Discussant/Australian Empire: Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney)
1pm - 2:30 Lunch