PROGRAMME (click on the titles for abstracts):
10 AM WELCOME
10.10 AM SESSION 1: Australian-Mauritius Connections
- Lynette Russell (Director Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash): “19th century Aboriginal seafarers on Mauritius”
- Heather Goodall (UTS): “Crews, convicts and anti-colonial christians: Aboriginal politics and the Mauritian connection: Thomas and Shadrack James and Jean Phillipe and Fred Maynard“
12.20 – 1.30 PM Lunch
1.30 PM SESSION 2: Unfree Labour: Indenture and Empire
- Richard B. Allen (Framingham College, US): “Europeans and Trans-Oceanic Labor Migration in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1900.“
- Brij Lal (ANU): “Indenture Across the Oceans: Connections and Disconnections“
3.10 – 3.40 PM AFTERNOON TEA
3.40 PM SESSION 3: Cultures across Oceans
- Srilata Ravi (UWA): “Bénarès in the Indian Ocean: circulating, connecting and creolizing island stories“
- Stephen Muecke (UNSW): “Créolité in the Indian Ocean: How far can it go?“
- Reena Dobson (UWS): “Making Mauritianité: Managing Ethnicity and Nationhood in Mauritius“
5.25 PM: END
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