Events

Settler Social Identities

Focusing on a broad definition of rational recreation, this two-day conference (24-25 July 2018) will explore how popular reading practices, circulating libraries, public lectures, soirées, exhibitions, clubs, societies, and other associations created and reinforced notions of ‘respectability’ and ‘improvement’ that both projected an image of coherent community in nascent settler colonies, and defined who was included and excluded from these new colonial formations. Our focus on the popular and recreational allows us to recover understudied facets of colonial experience including the experiences of women, working-class settlers, and indigenous and minority groups. In considering webs of cultural association we also create space for approaches to the field which privilege intra-colonial and trans-peripheral networks of influence, complicating the traditional periphery/metropole binary.

Confirmed Keynotes: Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London) and A/Prof Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)

Organising Committee: Dr Sarah Comyn, Dr Lara Atkin, Dr Sarah Sharp, Dr Kathryn Milligan (UCD)

For more information, see: https://settlersocialidentities.com

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