Settlers, Creoles, and the Re-Enactment of History Conference
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Friday, November 11, 2005
Vanderbilt University
Room 189, Sarratt Student Center


9:30-9:55               Coffee
 
9:55-10:00             Introductory Remarks

10:00-11:30           Panel 1: Australia and the Pacific
                            Chair: Stephen Turner, University of Auckland
 
                            Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan
                                     “Re-enacting Orpheus: Music and Missionization 
                                     in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Pacific”
 
                            Chris Healy, University of Melbourne
                                     “Re-enactment, Repetition and Remembering”
 
                            Anja Schwarz, Freie Universität Berlin
                                     “Re-enactments and Reconciliation? Performing 
                                     Pasts that Continue to Hurt”
 
11:30-11:45           Break
 
 11:45-1:15            Panel 2: New Zealand
                            Chair: Simon During, Johns Hopkins University
 
                            Alex Calder, University of Auckland
                                     “Re-enactment and the Natural History of Settlement”
 
                            Stephen Turner, University of Auckland
                                     “The Public Works of Settler History”
 
                            Mark Williams, University of Canterbury
                                     “Linguistic Miscegenation”
 
1:15-2:45               Lunch
 
                            Plenary Speaker: Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University
                                      
                                                     “Legal Terrors”
 
2:45-4:15               Panel 3: East-West Borders, Boundaries, and Exchanges
                            Chair: Dana Nelson, Vanderbilt University
 
                             Kader Konuk, University of Michigan
                                     “In the Footprints of Germany’s Jewish Past: 
                                     Reenactment and the Making of National Allegiances 
                                     in Contemporary Turkish German Literature”
 
                             Donna Landry, Wayne State University
                                     “When the Past Flashes by in a Moment of 
                                     Danger: Steppes History”
 
                             Gerald MacLean, Wayne State University
                                     “David Humprey's 'On the Happiness of America' 
                                     (c. 1786); Or, On Avoiding Imperial Nostalgia”
 
4:30                       Reception at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Saturday, November 12, 2005
Vanderbilt University
Room 118, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center


9:30-10:00             Coffee
  
10:00-11:30           Panel 4: The Americas
                            Chair: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University
 
                            Susan Castillo, University of Glasgow
                                     “Re-enacting Coloniality: Sor Juana Ines de 
                                     la Cruz’s 'The Divine Narcissus' ”
                              
                            Jean Feerick, Brown University
                                     “Creoles, Labor, and English Spirits in Ligon’s Barbados”
  
                            Sean Goudie, Vanderbilt University
                                     “Alexander Hamilton, Creole American”
 
 11:30-11:45          Break
 
 11:45-1:15            Panel 5: Africa
                            Chair: Sean Goudie, Vanderbilt University
                              
                            Iain McCalman, Australian National University
                                     “In David Livingstone’s Wake. Retracing a Voyage 
                                     on Lake Nyassa”
  
                            Monica Popescu, McGill University
                                     “Enacting the South African Past: Youth Organizations 
                                     in the Cold War Context”
  
                            Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape
                                     “History below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid’s 
                                     Last Festival”
  
1:15-2:45              Lunch
                             
                            Plenary Speaker: Gabriel Piterberg, University of California-Los Angeles
 
                                                 “The Sovereign Settler versus the Conscious 
                                                   Pariah: Theodor Herzl and Bernard Lazare”
  
2:45-4:15               Panel 6: Settler History
                            Chair: Mark Williams, University of Canterbury
  
                            Simon During, Johns Hopkins University
                                     “The Influence of Samuel Butler”
  
                            Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
                                     “Creole Bastards”
 
                            Mark Phillips, Carleton University
                                     “Native and Settler History in Canada's National Museum”
 
4:15-5:00              Concluding Remarks
 
                                     Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
                                
                                     Iain McCalman, Australian National University
 
6:30                     Dinner at the home of Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr
 

For more information, please contact Susan Crisafulli.