Call for Papers – British World Conference

The British World:

Religion, Memory, Culture and Society

University of Southern Queensland,
July 2nd to July 5th, 2012

Call for Papers

Download the call for papers here and visit the conference website here

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion.

This conference is an exciting regional and international opportunity for the convergence of scholars in a range of disciplines, from history, religious studies, literature, e-pedagogies, education, post-colonialism, anthropology, legal studies, sociology and indigenous studies. This conference will provide a stimulating forum for the latest research in a range of disciplines.

Abstracts are welcome on any aspect of history and or place where the government, religion, people and cultures of the British Isles have been of influence. The time period is open and may extend from the medieval to the modern period.

From a teaching perspective, the landscape in which we teach history has clearly changed over time. In recognition of such developments, under our ‘Precious Past and Digital Future’ stream, we invite papers which investigate the digital dimension of teaching history and religious studies. We especially welcome paper proposals from early career researchers and postgraduates.

Plenaries
Christopher Haigh New College, Oxford	Alison Wall New College, Oxford
Peter Goodall University of Southern Queensland	Lynette Olson University of Sydney
Helen Farley Australian Digital Futures Institute

Possible themes include (but are not limited to):

The British World

• Empire and colonial reach
• Music, art and architecture
• Education and schooling
• The English language and translation
• Environmentalism and the Church
• Gender and sexuality
• Indigenous religion meets the British
• The British Isles and the Church in literature
• The Church and the law
• Liturgical reform and Biblical Scholarship
• Medieval and the early modern Church
• Migration and transnationalism
• Religious identity
• Relations with extra-western religions

Precious Past and Digital Future

• Virtual worlds in history teaching
• E-religion
• Images and texts in teaching
• E-pedagogy
• Writing and teaching history and religious studies

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Exhibition – The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours

The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

18 June – 4 September 2011

The Poetry of Drawing exhibition includes rarely seen works by the original members of the Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt; alongside works by their followers and associates such as John Ruskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Frederick Sandys, Simeon Solomon and William Morris.

This major exhibition includes over 140 works – drawings, sketches, watercolours, illustrations and designs for textiles and stained glass – exploring the central role played by drawing in the artists’ creative process.

This is a unique opportunity to view important works from the renowned collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

At the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 4 September.

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Hustle and Bustle: Celebrating Victorian Culture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

As part of its Victorian Visions exhibition, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is holding an afternoon of lectures, including one on Darwinian ideas in Victorian art to be presented by our very own Dr Bruce Gardiner.

Bookings are not required, but seats will be allocated on a ‘first-come, first-served’ basis.

Saturday 24 July 2010, 1.30-5pm : Fashioning Modern England

1.30pm Prof Peter McNeill, UTS, From the love of finery to honest cloth: clothing in Victorian Britain
2.15pm Dr Bruce Gardiner, Department of English, University of Sydney, Throwbacks and fossils: Darwinian ideas in Victorian art
3.15pm Film: The Young Victoria (directed by Jean-Marc Valee, 2008)

Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3
Art Gallery of New South Wales

At 12pm there will be a free guided tour of the exhibition Victorian visions.

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