11 April 2013

The discussion will be led by Rebecca Kummerfield (Art History and Education) and Matt Kennedy (History).

Rebecca’s readings: F W Woodhouse, ‘The History of Art: As illustrated by the Sydney Collections, Part V – Summary and Conclusion’, The New South Wales Educational Gazette, Vol 3, No.12, May 1st 1894. pp. 224-225 (download); E. W. Cole, Cole’s Funny Picture Book No.1, Melbourne: Wilke & Co Ltd. pp.95-99. (download)

Matt’s reading: Miles Taylor, ‘Queen Victoria and India, 1837-61’ Victorian Studies, Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2004, pp. 264-274. (download) This article is largely based on the pamphlet by Edward Jenkins ‘The Blot on the Queen’s Head,’ a copy of which can be found here:  http://www.archive.org/stream/blotonqueenshead00jenkuoft#page/n1/mode/2up

14 March 2013 — Emigrants

Discussion will be led by Fariha Shaik (King’s College London), and Laura Olcelli (English, University of Sydney).

Fariha will discuss Michel Foucault’s ‘Of Other Spaces,’ available here: Of Other Spaces

Laura will discuss the 19th-century Italian immigrant Pietro Munari. The reading is Chapter 4 of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture: “Of mimicry and man,” available here: http://ereserve.library.usyd.edu.au/fisher/BhabhaLocation1994Ch4.pdf

 

Meeting Dates for Semester 1, 2013

We will meet as usual in the Rogers Room from 4 to 6 pm on the following Thursdays:

March 14

April 11

May 2

May 30