The conference is a combination of a traditional academic programme with a range of public heritage festival events, special forums and social engagements.
We are building an exciting programme, including keynote addresses that will be supported by oral and poster presentations from delegates.
In addition to the conference, the 1869 committee will, throughout the week, be offering optional add-ons:
- Dunedin and surrounds site visits
- Professional development workshops
- Collaboration meetings
- Social/networking events
1869 public events
Backstory: Heritage in Words, Pictures and Threads
Wednesday 25 September 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: Castle 1
We bring four individuals together to talk about an expansive and inclusive concept of cultural heritage through the lenses of literature, literary criticism, film and textiles:
- Tina Makereti grew her latest novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, from an 1846 article in the London Times
- Lisa Chatfield is charged with bringing 1860s’ Dunedin and the West Coast to life as producer of the BBC-adaptation of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel
- Dr Catherine Smith’s current research focus is the interdisciplinary analysis of Māori textiles based on a background in archaeology and conservation of cultural materials
- Dr Madeleine Seys is an expert in the narrative and sartorial threads of Victorian popular literature. Chaired by Kirby-Jane Hallum and supported by Dunedin City of Literature
150 years of Nature: the past, present and future of a leading science journal
Thursday 26 September 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: St David Lecture Theatre
Dr Helen Pearson public keynote
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Nature, the most authoritative scientific journal in the world. The history of Nature mirrors how science and its role in society have changed over that time. Helen Pearson, Nature’s Chief Magazine Editor, will talk about the journal’s rich legacy and its continued mission to serve the global research community and communicate the results of science worldwide.
Gala Dinner
Friday 27 September 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue: Larnach Castle
$150 (includes transport, self-guided tour, canapes and beverage on arrival, three-course meal)
Situated on the picturesque Otago Peninsula, Larnach Castle is one of New Zealand’s premier visitor attractions. Lovingly restored by the Barker Family, the Castle and surrounding grounds are at the heart of the Dunedin visitor experience. Larnach Castle has received numerous national and international accolades.
Our dinner speaker, Professor Liam McIlvanney, Otago’s inaugural Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies, will comment on early predominantly Scottish early Otago’s lead in education in New Zealand. MC’d by William McKee, Toitu.
| 1 April | Submission deadline |
| April/May | Review of submissions |
| 15 May | Notification of acceptance |
| Early June | Draft conference programme available |
| 17 June | Early bird registration opens |
| 31 July | Early bird registration closes / standard registration opens |
| 1 August | Standard registration closes / late registration opens |
| 20 September | Registration closes |
Programme
Wednesday 25 September
| 5:00–5:30pm | Registration |
| 5:30–6:30pm | Bringing history to lifePanel speakers:Tina Makereti and Lisa Chatfield |
| 6:30–7:30pm | Reception for conference delegates |
Thursday 26 September
| 8:30–9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00–10:30am | Mihi Whakatau/Formal openingKeynote address:Megan Pōtiki |
| 10:30–11:00am | Morning tea |
| 11:00–12:30pm | The Dynamics of Commercial PhotographyChristine Whybrew, Country: Alfred Burton’s first photographic tour of ‘Otagan scenery’ Jill Haley, The piggyback princess: popularity, power and the photographic portrait | Race, Eugenics and MedicineMenglu Gao, “A Strange Likeness of the Chinaman”: Physiognomy and Dickens’s “Visualization” of Opium Addiction in The Mystery of Edwin Drood David Ellison, ‘This may sting’: Consenting to pain in the Victorian era |
| 12:30–1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30–3:00pm | Flora and FaunaPaul Guy, Botanical Heresies circa 1869 Virginia Henderson and Tim Webster, The Social Life of Teak Wendy Parkins, The Mystery of the Matoaka; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (with apologies to Wallace Stevens) | Musical and Performance CulturesKirstine Moffat, ‘O joy unbounded’: The Cultural Legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan in Australia and New Zealand |
| 3:00–3:30pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:30–5:00pm | Gender & LiteratureAdrienne E. Gavin, Reassessing British Women’s Fiction of the 1860s Julia Kuehn, He Knew He Was Right: Trollope’s Mixed Characters | Faith and TheologyAnaru Eketone, The murder of John Whiteley |
| 6:00–7:00pm | Keynote Address: Helen Pearson | |
Friday 27 September
| 8:30–9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00–11:00am | Art, Exhibitions and CollectionsPamela Gerrish Nunn, Frances Hodgkins and the class of ‘69 Lara Nicholls, The other October revolution – art, enlightenment and reformist women in mid-century Victorian Britain and its colonial legacy Justine Olsen, Mr Osborne’s gift: the growth of decorative arts and the national collection | Marriage, Materiality and InheritanceFiona McKergow, “She wore her wedding-dress still”: Marriage and Silk Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand |
| 11:00–11:30am | Morning tea | |
| 11:30–12:30pm | Keynote Address: Marion Thain | |
| 12:30–1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30–3:00pm | Class, Gender and TasteAngela Lassig, The Waste of Winter: A Wellington Draper, 1869 | Imperial Connections, Colonial ImaginationsCharlotte Macdonald, A year of appeal: to the men of New Zealand, to the imperial government |
| 3:00–3:30pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:30–5:00pm | Making colonial connections: technology and mobility in an industrial ageAndre Brett, “The stagnation into which the Colony has at present fallen”: 1869 and the Great Public Works Policy | Criticism, Sensation and Science FictionYi-Ching Teng, Recreating Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Critical/Artistic Reading of Matthew Arnold | Readers, Writers, PublishersSusann Liebich, Maritime Mobility and Texts in Transit |
| 6:00pm | Buses depart for conference dinner at Larnach Castle |
| 7:00pm | Conference dinnerDinner speaker: Liam McIlvanney |
| 10:00pm | Buses depart for city |
Saturday 28 September
| 9:00–11:00am | LandscapesJames Beattie and Warwick Brunton, ‘The Place and Power of Natural History in Colonization’: William Lauder Lindsay and the scientific development of Otago’s human and natural resources, 1860-80 Kathleen Davidson, Visualising Biogeography in 1869 | Intellectual NetworksPeter Clayworth, Sketchy Histories: What were the 1860s Pākehā views of Māori migration to New Zealand | Dunedin People, Places and InstitutionsLyall Hanton, Joseph Mellor: the man who described the Periodic Table in 16 Million words | Reformers and CampaignersAnna Clark, Josephine Butler’s Women’s Work and Women’s Culture (1869): The Paradoxes of Individualism in Britain and New Zealand Joanne Wilkes, Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back from 1869 |
| 11:00–11:30am | Morning tea | |||
| 11:30–12:30pm | Closing event Speaker: Tilly Boelyn, Curator, Science Gallery Melbourne | |||
