Draft Programme
| Day 1- Tuesday 8 July 2025 | ||
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| 12:15pm Registration (in front of Room 206-220) | ||
| 12:45-1:15pm (206-220) Mihi: Welcome | ||
| Prof. Maartje Abbenhuis (President AAEH) HE Nicole Menzenbach, German Ambassador to Aotearoa New Zealand Room Support: Maartje A. |
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| 1:30-3:00pm SESSION 1 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 22: Travel and Discovery Chair: Nicole Ganbold Speakers: 1. Rose Madeline Kenilworth Thomas: On Top of a Mule, a Horse and a Dromedary: The Adventures of Charles Jacques Poncet. 2. Rui Kerr: Historiography in Action: Contextualising the ‘Discovery’ of Angkor Wat. 3. Sarah Russell: Accelerating Time, Shrinking Space, Diminishing Encounters: The Trans-Siberian Railway in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts. Room Support: Anthony A. | Panel 15: International Law and Courts Chair: Prof. Mark Edele Speakers: 1. Omar Mohamed: lūra Gentium: Jurisprudential Cultures and the Balances of Power in Late Georgian Britain, 1822-1830. 2. Miloš Vec: Historiography after Dictatorship: How German Jurists wrote International Legal History in the Post-War period, 1945-2000. 3. Marco Duranti: State Power and the Politics of Corporal Punishment in 1980s Britain. Room Support: Catriona M. | Panel 23: Global First World War Chair: Dr Adam Claasen Speakers: 1. Bernadette How: The Singapore Mutiny of 1915 in Global Perspective: Colonialism, Conflict, and the Dynamics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the First World War. 2. Saksham: Not Peripheral: Goa’s Newspapers at the Outbreak of the First World War. 3. Tanlin Liu: From Soil to Bullets: An Environmental History of Cartridge Manufacturing in the First World War. Room Support: Saksham |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:30-5:00pm SESSION 2 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 12: Imperial Competition Chair: Melinda Steele Speakers: 1. Matt Fitzpatrick: Vorsprung durch Technik? Imperial Competition and the ‘Anglo-German Antagonism’ in Siam. 2. Marissa Gavin: Reordering the Marquesas: French Empire in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century. 3. Rachel Anne Gillett: Sonic Resistance, Sonic Persistence: Popular Culture and Coloniality in the Dutch and Francophone Caribbean. Room Support: Sarah R. | Panel 26: The Global 1960s and 1970s Chair: Assoc. Prof. Francesco Ricatti Speakers: 1. Branka Bogdan: Contraception in Socialist Yugoslavia: a Global Narrative. 2. Mark Stevenson: The Mapping of Africa as Development Aid: The Directorate of Overseas Surveys. 3.Ben Mercer: Revolutionary Violence, Victimhood and the Turn to Terrorism in Western Europe after 1968. Room Support: Tanlin L. | Panel 6: First World War Histories Chair: Prof. Paul Bartrop Speakers: 1. Brett Holman: Civil Defence from Below: Street Patrols and Air Raid Risk in Britain, 1915-1918. 2. Noah Szajowitz: Got Anything To Say? Service Publications and Wartime Media. 3. Adam Claasen: Reluctant History: Keith Caldwell and the Billy Bishop Victoria Cross Controversy. Room Support: Anthony A. |
| 5:15-6:30pm Keynote (206-220) | ||
| War Artists, ‘Degenerate Art,’ Holocaust, 1914-1945 Supported by the Critical War Studies Network, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland Speaker: Prof. Annette Becker Chair: Prof. Maartje Abbenhuis Room Support: Maartje A. |
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| 6:30pm-7:30pm Welcome Reception | ||
| With grateful thanks to the German Embassy, Wellington Location: Level 2, Building 206 (in front of rooms 206-203 and 206-201) |
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| Day 2 Wednesday 9 July 2025 | ||
| 8:30am Registration (in front of 206-220) | ||
| 9-10:30am (Tūtahi Tōnu Marae) Hui: Indigenous Approaches to European History |
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| Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Scott Manning-Stevens Prof. Rev. Upolu Vaai Prof. Angela Wanhalla Chair: Assoc. Prof. Peter Keegan Conference support: Nicole P. Please note: Attendees are asked to remove their shoes at the entrance of the marae. Please refrain from eating or drinking within the marae meeting space. |
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| 10:30-11am Morning Tea (Wharekai) | ||
| 11:15-12:45pm SESSION 3 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 13: Indigenous Sovereignties Chair: Dr Nicole Perry Speakers: 1. Francesco Ricatti: Indigenous Sovereignty and European Migration History. 2. Meghan Williams: Racial Ideology and Capitalist Expansion into Te Rohe Pōtae. 3. Candida Keithley: Under the Imperial Tourist Gaze: European Binary Construction of Te Arawa Identity. Room Support: Nicole P. | Panel 9: Displacement and Refuge Chair: Teresa van der Kraan Speakers: 1. Jan Láníček: The Dark Trauma of Escaping the Holocaust: Jewish Refugees to Australia before World War 2. 2. Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen: The Borders of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Expertise and Resettlement Politics in Post-War Europe. 3. Ruth Balint: Refugee Encounters after World War 2. Room Support: Catriona M. | Panel 7: Environmental Histories Chair: Emma Wordsworth Speakers: 1. Aleksandra Kaye: Local Voices, Global Commodity: the Polish Press and the Discursive Landscape of Galicia’s Petroleum Boom, 1885-1909. 2. Gertjan Verdickt: Financial Regulation and Household Portfolio Reallocation: The Impact of the 1905 Dutch Lottery Ban. 3. Ailish Lalor: Harnessing the Imperial Littoral: The Dutch Whaling Company and the Abstraction of Antartic Protein, 1950-1980. Room Support: Anthony A. |
| 12:45-1:30pm Lunch | ||
| 1:30 – 3:00pm SESSION 4 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 11: Pacific Encounters Chair: Prof. Matt Fitzpatrick Speakers: 1. Melinda Steele: Nan Madol and Paul Hambruch: The Legacy of German Anthropology in Micronesia. 2. Nicole Ganbold: Deconstructing the ‘Murders’ Bay’: Abel Tasman’s Expedition to ‘Southland’ and Global Visual Culture. 3. James Bade: Ludovica Schultze’s 1916 Report to the German Colonial Office on German Samoa under New Zealand Occupation. Room Support: Saksham | Panel 5: Fascism and Anti-Fascism Chair: Dr Mia Ching Lee Speakers: 1. Paul Bartrop: The Failure of Facism in Norway before the Second World War: Some Noise, No Heat. 2. Teresa van der Kraan: Ernst Jünger: Reconceptualising Intellectual Entanglements within the 'Fascist Sphere': Soldierly Nationalism as Vector for the Transference of Italian Fascism to the German ‘Stahlhelm’ Veterans’ league, 1918-1933. 3. Annabel Coulter: The Art in Resistance: A Collective Effort of Resistance against the Nazi Plunder of Art in Occupied France. Room Support: Tanlin L. | Panel 10: Security Histories Chair: Sarah Russell Speakers: 1. Anthony Artus: ‘The Life and Hope of the Civilised World’ : Reading ‘Security’ in 1848. 2. Emma Wordsworth: Uprooting the Evil or Pruning Its Leaves? The Comparative Politics of British Famine Relief in India, Ottoman Anatolia and China 1873-1875. 3. Heather Wolffram: ‘Shot While Trying to Escape’: Political Violence and Forensic Medicine in Inter-War Germany.. Room Support: Sarah R |
| 3:00-3:30pm Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:30-4:30pm SESSION 5 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 19: Imagining New Zealand in a World of War Chair: Meghan Williams Speakers: 1. Rowan Light: New Horizons: Mapping New Zealand War Objects in UK and Irish Military Museum Collections. 2. Anna Czerwinska: Imagining Central and Eastern Europe in Australian and New Zealand Schools during the Great War. Room Support: Saksham | Panel 4: Rethinking Hungarian Nationalism Chair: Prof. Andrekos Varnava Speakers: 1. Alexander Maxwell: Restoring Multilingualism to the History of ‘Hungarian’ Nationalism. 2. Sacha Davis / Cristian Cercel: German ‘Settlers’ as ‘Loyal Citizens’: Transylvanian Saxon and Danube Swabian Assertions of Belonging in Habsburg Hungary. Room Support: Tanlin L. | Panel 21: Afterlives of the Holocaust Chair: Dr Jan Láníček Speakers: 1. Mia Ching Lee: The Role of Consensus in Understanding the Holocaust. 2. Giacomo Lichtner: From the Glass Booth to a Screen Near You: Cinematic Eichmanns and the Search for Meaning in Holocaust Cinema. Room Support: Anthony A. |
| 4:45 – 6:00pm Keynote (206-220) | ||
| The Long Memory of Onguiaarha: When European Conflicts Come to Our Homelands | ||
| Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Scott Manning-Stevens Chair: Dr Nicole Perry Room Support: Nicole P. |
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| Day 3 Thursday 10 July 2025-Final Day | ||
| 8:30am Registration (in front of 206-220) | ||
| 9:00 – 10:30am SESSION 6 | ||
| Lecture Theatre (206-220) | Room 1 (206-209) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 24: Roundtable: Dissonant Memories Chair: Assoc. Prof. Giacomo Lichtner Speakers: 1. Sally Hill 2. Arini Loader 3. Annette Becker 4. Nick Carter 5. Sarah Leggott Room Support: Maartje A. | Panel 3: Monarchy in Imperial Germany Chair: Prof. Andrew Bonnell Speakers: 1. Susanne Bauer: Writing to Influence – The Correspondence of the German Empress Augusta (1811-1890). 2. Jan Markert: Wilhelm I – The ‘Other Kaiser’ and the Development of Modern Germany. 3. Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh: Staging the Kaiser – Wilhelm as German Emperor. Room Support: Saksham | Panel 2: Political Killing in Cyprus Chair: Dr Sacha Davis Speakers: 1. Andrekos Varnava/Mike Hajimichael: Colonialism, EOKA and Ochlocracy in British Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958. *This session will include a musical presentation Room Support: Anthony A. |
| 10:30-11am Morning Tea | ||
| 11-12:30pm SESSION 7 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 20: Post-Soviet Worlds Chair: Dr Andrew Park Speakers: 1. Mark Edele: The ‘Russian Way of War’ : A Historical Critique. 2. Alexsandr Ivanov: Making Sense of (Counter) History and Memory of the Stalinist Perpetrators in Putin’s Russia. 3. Joshua Strong: Decolonising Soviet Architectural History: How to tackle National Architectural Legacies from the Stalin era. Room Support: Catriona M. | Panel 16: Emotive Identities Chair: Dr Heather Wolffram 1. Mark Seymour: Matrimony as a Cultural Battleground: From Holy Sacrament to the Dark Horizons of ‘l’Ideologia del Gender.’ 2. Daniel Beaumont: A Self in Crisis: Encounters with Gertrude Savile’s Melancholy of 1727. Room Support: Anthony A. 3. Emma Sadera: ‘Pretending Herself Distracted’ : The Reception of Emotional Responses in accounts of Early | TBC |
| 12:30-1:30pm Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3pm SESSION 8 | ||
| Room 1 (206-209) | Room 2 (206-201) | Room 3 (206-203) |
| Panel 18: Reading the Media Chair: Anthony Artus Speakers: 1. Andrew Bonnell: The Dilemmas of the Democratic Press in Imperial Germany: the Case of Franz Mehring. 2. Micaela Pattison: The ‘Girl Activist’ as Historical Subject: A Case Study from 1930s Spain 3. Emilia Ascione: Visual Representations of Finland’s EU Debate 1992-1995. Room Support: Anthony A. | Panel 14: International History Chair: Assoc. Prof. Marco Duranti Speakers: 1. Catriona McCallum: Exploring Neutrality through Belgium’s Participation in the Mexican Intervention (1864-1865). 2. Alexander O’Kane: ‘The Law of the Ruling Minority of the Earth’ : The Standard of Civilisation in Anglo-Japanese Treaty Revision. 3. Andrew Park: The Saar Plebiscite of 1935 Reconsidered. Room Support: Tanlin L. | Panel 17: An individual’s History Chair: Dr Daniel Beaumont Speakers: 1. David Burchell: From the Fall to the Covenant: The Political Theology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 2. Richard Scully: Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945): The Last Victorian. 3. James Braund: Birding Beyond Boundaries: The Wartime Ornithological Fieldwork of a Waffen-SS Man. Room Support: Saksham |
| 3:00-3:30pm Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:30-4:30pm (206-220) AAEH AGM and Book Prize Announcement | ||
| Chair: Prof. Maartje Abbenhuis Book Prize Announcement: Dr Ben Mercer Room Support: Maartje A. |
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| 6:30pm CONFERENCE DINNER | ||
| Location: Lulu Inn, 149 Quay Street, Princes Wharf | ||
| Lula Inn Website | ||
| Dinner Tickets can be purchased via the registration portal | ||
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