6:00 pm Welcome
Reception
Delta Chelsea
Hotel
133 Gerard Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Friday, February 17,
2012
8:00 am Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcoming
Remarks
Patty OÕBrien Greg Flynn Theodore
F. Sheckels
ANZSANA President Vice President AAALS
President
Georgetown University McMaster University Randolph-Macon
College
9:15 Panel 1: Culture and Other Influences
Trans-national
Influences in Politics: The United
States and New Zealand
Raymond
Richards, University of Waikato
Strategic
Culture and Alliance Shifts: Exploring New Zealand and AustraliaÕs Divergent
Security Engagement with the US, 1987-2011.
Matt
Hill, Cornell University
Reflection
and Images from the Pacific and Middle East of the EU: The Union through New
ZealandersÕ and IsraelisÕ Eyes
Sharon
Pardo, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
10:30-10:45 BREAK
Mark Darby, Director of Australian
Education International - North America, will discuss Australian funding
opportunities for graduate students and advanced scholars.
10:45 Panel
2: Institutions in Australia and
New Zealand
Representing Asylum Seekers Before the High Court of Australia.
Rhonda Evans-Case, East Carolina University
The Battle to Protect New Zealand's Indigenous Biological Diversity: Why Decentralized Environmental Governance is Not a Panacea.
Elena Feditchkina, University of British Columbia
Stabilizing Minority Government: Should Canada Import the New Zealand Confidence Protocol
Rainer Knopff, University of Calgary
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
Emergent Settler and Indigenous Imaginaries: Learning to
Read in Pacific Contexts."
Diana Brydon
Canada Research Chair in
Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba
1:30 Panel
3: Electoral and Voting Issues in
Australia and New Zealand
The Transformation of AustraliaÕs Electoral Boundaries
John Juriansz, University of Western Sydney
Electoral Institutions and WomenÕs Representation: The Impact of Electoral Systems and Party Nomination Practices in Newfoundland and Labrador and Tasmania
Emily Thompson, McGill University
Mixed-Member Proportional Representation Systems and Minority Representation: A Case Study of Women and Maoris in New Zealand, 1996-2011
Tracy-Ann Johnson, University of New Brunswick
ÒVote for a Better GovernmentÓ: Designing Electoral Reform Referendums in Canada and New Zealand
Holly Ann Garnett, McGill University
2:45-3:00 BREAK
3:00 Panel 4: Identity and the State
A question of consent: the contemporary regulation of young people's sexuality in Australia and Canada.
Carol L. Dauda, University of Guelph
National Identity and Census Politics
Hugh Mellon, University of Western Ontario King's University College
The Fearsome Battery of Surveillance Devices: US and Australian Jews and the Right to Privacy
Jason Schulman, Emory University
"Retaining migrant cultures" and "Leavening British traditions": A comparison of integration policies in Canada and Australia, 1950s-1970s
Jatinder Mann, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London
4:15 SPECIAL ANZSANA/AAALS PLENARY SESSION
"From Winds to God,
The Devil, and MeÓ
Alf Taylor on poetry
and memoir.
5:00 ADJOURNMENT
6:00 ANZSANA
/AAALS Conference Dinner
The Hart House
7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
A cash bar with hors dÕoeuvres will open at 6:00 PM
Buffet Dinner served at 7:00 PM
Welcome and introductions by Australian High Commissioner
H. E. Louise Hand
The game of nationhood:
Federation, recreation and modernity
Chris McAuliffe
Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of
Australian Studies, Harvard University 2011-12
Saturday,
17 February
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:15 Panel 5: Australian History – Recent and
Past
AustraliaÕs Bid for a Seat at the UN Security Council
Robert Bookmiller, Millersville University
A common language: the letters of Rosalie Gascoigne and Josephine Humphreys
Niki Francis, Australian National University
Recovering the Lost Literatures of the First World War
Richard Nile, Murdoch University
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45 Panel 6: Federalism – Australian and Comparative
The Assignment of the Criminal Law Power in Canada and Australia
Dennis Baker, University of Guelph
Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies in a Federal State: The Australian Experience
Dave Snow, University of Calgary
Parting of the Ways: Australian Federalism and the Influenza Pandemic
Patrick Hodgson, James Cook University
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
From Rupert's Land to Port
Phillip: the Voyages of Duncan and Donald McTavish Within the British Empire,
1830s-1850s.
Cecilia Morgan
Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, University of Toronto
1:30 Panel 7: Cultural
Transactions in Australian Art
Art & Language and the Provincialism Problem
Robert Bailey, University of Pittsburgh
Tom RobertsÕ Whistler: Strategies of Cultural Transformation in the Ô9 x 5 Impression Exhibition, 1889Õ
Josephine Landback, University of Pittsburgh
Strange Relatives: Rethinking Cultural Exchange in Art of the East Kimberley
Henry Skerritt, University of Pittsburgh
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00 BUSINESS MEETING AND
ADJOURNMENT