PRE-CONFERENCE Tuesday 25 November 2008 |
5:00pm – 5:30pm |
Registration |
5:30pm – 7:00pm |
Cocktail reception
Professor Tyrone Pretorius
Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash South Africa
Chair: Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM
Director, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
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DAY ONE Wednesday 26 November 2008
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8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration |
9:00am - 9:30am |
Conference Opening and Welcome
Dr David Dunstan
National Centre for Australian Studies
Hon Philip Green OAM
Australian High Commissioner
Professor Tyrone Pretorius
Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash South Africa |
9:30am - 10:00am |
Opening Address
Not just Sisters of
the South: South Africa and Australia
An historical perspective
Dr Jim Davidson, University of Melbourne
Chair: Dr Bhadra Ranchod
Former South African High Commissioner to Australia, University of Stellenbosch
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10:00am - 10:30am |
Morning Tea |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
Plenary Session One
The 19th Century Imperial Past
Professor Norman Etherington
University of Western Australia
Professor
Carl Bridge
Menzies Centre, King's College London
Chair: Professor David Welsh
University of Cape Town
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12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Plenary Session Two
1890–1940 – Issues of race, gender and ethnicity
Professor Marilyn Lake
La Trobe University
Professor Jonathan Hyslop
University of Witwatersrand
Chair:
Associate Professor Dina Burger
Monash South Africa |
3:00pm - 3:30pm
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Afternoon Tea |
2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Plenary Session Three
1940-2008 - Issues of race, gender and ethnicity
Olga Havnen
Combined Aboriginal Organisations
Professor David Welsh
University of Cape Town
Chair: (TBC)
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Plenary Session Four
Immigration and Population Movements
Associate Professor
Dharma Arunachalam
Monash University
Dr Robert Crawford
Menzies Centre, King's College London & Monash University
Chair: (TBC)
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6:30pm - 10:00pm |
Conference Dinner
Montecasino |
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DAY TWO Thursday 27 November 2008 |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Plenary Session Five
Modern History Wars
Dr Anna Clark, Monash University
University of Technology Sydney
Professor Sipho Seepe
ABSA
Chair: (TBC) |
10:30am - 11:00am |
Morning Tea |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Plenary Session Six
Trade and Economic Relations
Professor Tony Dingle
Monash University
Horst Bremmer
Australasia, Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa (TBC)
Chair: Nontyatyambo (Ntyatyi) Petros
Executive Editor, Business Report, Independent Newspapers |
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
2:00pm – 3:30pm |
Plenary Session Seven
The sporting life: rugby, cricket and other clashes
Professor
Bruce Murray
University of Witwatersrand
Professor Albert Grundlingh
University
of Stellenbosch
Chair:
Professor Carl Bridge
Menzies Centre, King's College London
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3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Plenary Session Eight
Truth and Reconciliation with indigenous and multicultural communities
Patrick Dodson
Lingiari Foundation (TBC)
Dr Bhadra Ranchod
Former South African High Commissioner to Australia, University of Stellenbosch
Chair: Olga Havnen
Combined Aboriginal Organisations
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| 4:30pm - 4:45pm |
Conclusion
Professor John Nieuwenhusyen AM
Director, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements |
| 4:45pm |
Conference Close |
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DAY THREE Friday 28 November 2008 |
9:00am - 2:30pm |
Tour of Soweto
(optional - includes travel time
and lunch) |
