Panellists:
Dr. Arini Loader (Lecturer in Maori History)
Dr. April Henderson (Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies)
Dr. Giacomo Lichtner (Associate Professor of History and Film)
Professor Yiyan Wang (Professor in Chinese)
Power and Time: The Echoes of the Past, Reshaping the Present
A cross-regional discussion on writing, representing and teaching the pasts.
The past should no longer be seen as ‘another country’. Whether it be the memory and history of colonialism, destruction, defeat or the struggle to redress social injustice, in recent years, we have been increasingly challenged by issues that have arisen from the fragments of our difficult pasts. Black Lives Matter in the US, Voice to the Parliament in Australia, the controversies over the colonial statues in Aotearoa and overseas, and the memory of colonial forced labourers in Japan are only small fractions of the broader discussion about the pasts that live within us. In other words, it is timely to consider the different ways in which we seek to come to terms with the presence of the pasts that haunt the physical and mental alleyways of our present lives. In such a climate, in this seminar, we aim to discuss and reflect deeply on the ways in which we engage in historical studies and the value of thinking through our difficult pasts with two distinguished historians, students, academics and other members of the community.
Speakers
Guest Lecture 1
Dr. Andrew Levidis (Lecturer in Modern Japanese History, Australian National University)
The Temporal Lives of States: Archives and Empire in Japanese Historical Writing
Discussants:
Gilbert Levack (BA, Japanese/Linguistics)
Emma Jolly (BA, Asia/Japanese)
Guest Lecture 2
Dr. Ann-Sophie Levidis (Lecturer in French, Australian National University)
Past and Present Writings on the Francophone Pacific
Discussant:
Dr. Charles Rice-Davis (Lecturer in French)
Postgraduate Panel 1
Yuki Minami (PhD, Asia)
“Who can forget this sorrow?/that resentment becomes a river”: Forgotten History of the Zainichi Student Volunteers
Joshua Jeffery (MA, Japanese)
Play-ing with Satire: Okinawa and Haitian theatrical political satire in the 1970s and 80s
Postgraduate Panel 2
Courtney Powell (MA, History)
Unstable Meanings: Interrogating Germanness in Sāmoa through Museum Objects
Emma Johnson (MA, French)
Reading power, reading French: Travelling texts in nineteenth-century Aotearoa NZ
Roundtable Discussion
Writing, Representing, and Teaching the Pasts