AAEH DRAFT PROGRAM. Europe s Entanglements Monash University, July 2017

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1 AAEH DRAFT PROGRAM Europe s Entanglements Monash University, July 2017 DAY 1: TUESDAY 11 JULY am Registration and Welcome Keynote Address: Glenda Sluga, 9:30-10: Morning Tea SESSION ONE: A: Flight, Evacuation, and Resettlement: World War II as a History of Displacements B: French Imperialism Chair: Paula Michaels Paper 1: Mark Edele, The Roads were crowded with refugees : Soviet and German evacuations of Soviet civilians, Paper 2: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Race and Resettlement: Displaced Persons from the Soviet Union and the Selection Process in the Late 1940s Paper 3: Wanda Warlik, Civilian mass movement and war: Polish evacuees from the Soviet Union in British-occupied Iran during the Second World War Chair: Jennifer Sessions Paper 1: Charlotte Chopin, The Settler Colonial Family Romance: Paternalism in Press Reports of President Loubet s Visit to Algeria, 1903 Paper 2 Sarah Dunstan, La Langue de nos maitres: Présence Africaine and the question of language at the end of the French Empire Paper 3 Julie Kalman, Mediterranean Entanglements: The French and British in Pre-Colonial Algiers, and the Role of Intermediaries

2 SESSION TWO: A: Displacements (II) B: Imperial Entanglements Chair: Julie Kalman Paper 1 Daniella Doron, Changing Homes, Reconsidering Homelands: Jewish Refugee Youth and Mobility, Paper 2 Thomas Kehoe, Fear of the refugee- Displaced Person-criminal in the Western Zones of Occupied Germany after World War Two Paper 3 Lynne Swarts, The Pursuit of German Culture and National Identity at the fin de siècle: Germans, Jews and cultural conflict Chair: Susie Protschky Paper 1 Andrew Burnett, Imperial culture and national identity in the context of Stamverwantschap (Kinship) between the Netherlands and the Dutch-Afrikaners 1875 to Paper 2 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Missing the War, Losing the Peace: Germany, China and the Aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion Paper 3 Anna Ross, Germany s Colonial Construction Projects in an Age of Global Expansion, Afternoon tea SESSION THREE: A: Displacements (III) B: The End of Empire Chair: Evan Smith Paper 1 Kylie Galbraith, A Bottle of Evian Water and a Few More Committees : The British Press and the Refugee Crisis in the 1930s Paper 2 Lauren Pikó, We're full : Capacity, finitude, and British landscapes since 1945 Chair: Matt Fitzpatrick Paper 1 Marco Duranti, Human Rights, the United Nations, and the End of the French Empire Paper 2 John Hutchinson, Waves of War: The End of Empire? Keynote Address: Jennifer Sessions, 6.00pm. Welcome Drinks: 7pm

3 DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 12 JULY Keynote Address: Tony Ballantyne ( ) Morning tea SESSION FOUR: A: Militant Europe B: British Views of Europe Chair: Iva Glisic Paper 1 Andrew Bonnel, Antisemitism, Denunciation, and Rosa Luxemburg s Frankfurt Trial, 1914 Paper 2 Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Disentangling Political Violence and Nationalist Feminisms: The Case of Ireland & UK Paper 3 Ben Mercer, Critique and Crisis in the University in 1968 Chair: Tony Ballantyne Paper 1 Anthony Artus, An unnecessary war : British scepticism during the Second Italian War of Independence Paper 2 Luke LeCras, Nation Europa or national suicide? European integration and Britain s extreme right after 1945 Paper 3 Evan Smith, Euroscepticism and the Commonwealth in British Political Discourse since 1972 SESSION FIVE: A: Soldiers and Suffering B: Ideas of Europe Chair: Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen Paper 1 Alexia Moncrieff, Entangled with the Empire: Caring for the Disabled British Ex-serviceman at the Periphery Paper 2 Susie Protschky, Home (at the) Front: Dutch Soldiers Domesticating Colonial War Chair: Glenda Sluga Paper 1 Andrew Webster, The failure of the French proposal for European federal union in : Brexit avant la lettre?' Paper 2 Thomas Lalevée, Saint-Simon and Political Unification in Early- Nineteenth-Century Europe

4 Paper 3 Briony Neilson, Shared Suffering? Entanglements between France s Penal Colonial Project in New Caledonia and Australia Paper 3 Stefan Auer, Germany in Borderless Europe: Exceptional, Normal, European? Afternoon tea SESSION SIX: A: War and Memory B: Urban Entanglements Chair: Sharon Crozier-De Rosa Paper 1 Iva Glisic, I Remember History: Internet and Memory in Contemporary Russia Paper 2 Sarah Midford, Classical Entanglements: Drawing on Europe s Past to Commemorate Australia s War Dead Paper 3 David Milazzo, He who controls the past controls the future: He who controls the present controls the past. Chair: Anna Ross Paper 1 David Garrioch, Fire in the 19th-century European city Paper 2 Johanna Conterio, Urban Planning as Social Engineering: The Politics of Green Space in the Soviet 1930s Paper 3 Flavia Marcello, Giuseppe Pagano s Architecture of Resistance: The social, cultural and historical entanglements of an Italian Architect Conference Dinner: 7pm

5 DAY 3: THURSDAY 13 JULY Morning tea SESSION SEVEN: A: Mediterranean Entanglements B: Psycho/somatic Entanglements Chair: Peter Monteath Paper 1 Anna Efstathiadou, The role of Orthodox Christianity in depictions of Greek national identity from the nineteenth century to present Paper 2 Andrekos Varnava, Cypriot Christians and Muslims Unite against the Armenian Legion, Paper 3 Stephanie Jacobs, The entangled lives of Christian and Muslim neighbours: Stories of displacement, migration, friendship, loss and reconnection among Greek and Turkish Cypriots Chair: Mark Edele Paper 1 Branca Bogdan, Abortion, vacuum-aspiration and socialist Yugoslavia: an international narrative Paper 2 Paula Michaels, The Psychological Trauma of Birth: East and West Paper 3 Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, The royal road: on history and the interpretation of dreams SESSION EIGHT: A: Revolution and Counter-Revolution B: Wars of Words Chair: Andrekos Varnava Paper 1 Thomas Schmutz, Revolutions, Visions and Diplomacy: The implications of the Russian Revolutions and the British conquest of Palestine on the German-Ottoman alliance in 1917 Chair: Richard Scully Paper 1 Paul Morisset, Local press responses to White Siberia, Paper 2 Brett Holman, William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the

6 Paper 2 Gordon Morrell, Refugees from the Bloodlands: Women in the Anglo-Soviet intelligence war of the 1930s Paper 3 - Peter Monteath, The Special Operations Unit in Crete Invisible Hand Paper 3 Alexis Antonia, Roland Boer, Euridice Charon-Cardona, and Hugh Craig, Language and History: The Stylometrics of Stalin s Speeches Afternoon tea 3:30-5:00 Annual General Meeting of the AAEH

7 DAY 4: FRIDAY 14 JULY SESSION NINE: 9:30-11 A: Legal Entanglements B: Displacements (IV) Chair: David Garrioch Paper 1 James Halcrow, Addicts of international law: Britain and the justifications for the first Opium War, Paper 2 Rukhsana Iftikhar, Mapping Sexuality in Colonial India with special reference to Prostitution Paper 3 Natasha Wheatley, Living and Dying in International Law: Austria-Hungary in the Legal History of Decolonization Chair: Andrew Bonnell Paper 1 Sacha Davis & Johanna Perheentupa, Testing the Logic of Elimination : A Comparison of Forced Romani and Indigenous Child Removal in the Habsburg Empire and Colonial NSW Paper 2 Jan Láníček, Ordinary Gendarmes? Collective Memory of the Holocaust in postwar Czechoslovakia Paper 3 Elizabeth Vlossak, Eastern Workers in the Western Marches : Nazi forced labour in Moselle Morning tea SESSION TEN: TALK FESTS 11:30-1 Chair: Andrew Webster Paper 1 Paper 1 Richard Scully, Antipodean Perspectives (Nearly) Fifty Years of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) Paper 2 Maartje Abbenhuis, The moats of time s castle: the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and the changing importance of public diplomacy in European affairs Paper 3 Philip Dehne, The 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the roots of European unification Roundtable and closing