All of these topics will be discussed at a half-day symposium on \u201cColonial Families: New Perspectives\u201d taking place on Thursday 20th August from 9-12 in Central Library Seminar Room 3, University of Otago. This event is sponsored by the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, with support from a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and\u00a0features four speakers who will present new research into the history of the family in Canada, New Zealand and the Pacific:<\/p>\n
Laura Ishiguro’s (University of British Columbia) research is trans-imperial and global in scope. She will speak about colonialism, mobility, and intimacy in the \u201clong\u201d nineteenth century through the story of one Metis family from British Columbia. Her talk draws upon her SSHRC-funded research project, \u201cSettler colonialism, global families, and the making of British Columbia, 1849-1871\u2033 (Insight Development Grant 2014-16). She guest-edited a 2013 issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on \u201cImperial Relations: Histories of Family in the British Empire,\u201d and in it called for a rethinking of the meanings of, and relationships between, family, intimacy, and imperialism.<\/p>\n
Crystal Fraser (University of Alberta) is a high-profile young Gwich\u2019in scholar who is undertaking research on the impacts of colonialism on her home community, Inuvik, located in northern Canada. She has been identified as \u201cone of the most important Canadian historians of the next generation\u201d whose research on residential schools, gender, and sexuality in Gwich\u2019in society and the Canadian North is \u201cactively shifting both fields as aboriginal people and northerners start writing and directing research in their own history on their own terms\u201d. She is also a leading voice in Indigenous social media, which included hosting @IndigenousXca where she discussed racism in Canadian academia. Crystal will speak about the current debates within Canadian history and society about residential schooling.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Ashton (Auckland) will speak about family, race and respectability in northern New Zealand during the nineteenth century. Jennifer\u2019s talk draws from her recently published, and highly regarded first book, At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 that \u201ctakes us into Hokianga to reveal how the evolving intimate relationships and economic transactions of everyday life reflected larger shifts in colonial power” through a biography of the trader and colonist John Webster and his networks.<\/p>\n
Erica Newman (Otago) will talk about her original and exciting doctoral research on orphanages and adoption in colonial Fiji. Erica\u2019s research in this area has been recognized internationally in the form of invitations to participate in pre-read workshops at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and an invited publication on her previous work on M\u0101ori adoption in the highly regarded American Indian Quarterly.<\/p>\n
Contact Dr. Angela Wanhalla (angela.wanhalla@otago.ac.nz) for further information about this free event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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