History professors from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences will be providing expert input into special events as part of South Australia’s History Festival during May – from remembering the Loveday Internment Camp near Barmera during World War II, to examining race relations from Australia’s colonial settler era.
The event Settler-colonialism, Performance and Family History will feature a conversation with Professor Penny Edmonds and Associate Professor Catherine Kevin, presented by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders at Victoria Square, 182 Victoria Square, Adelaide, from 6pm to 7.30pm on Wednesday 5 May.
In her book Dispossession and the Making of Jedda: Hollywood in Ngunnawal Country, Associate Professor Kevin brings together a history of race relations, pastoral boom and film-making, in cataloguing the making of the 1955 movie Jedda. This story is is a personal account of coming to terms with a history of dispossession and colonial power relations in a place that offered her a strong sense of belonging and settler-colonial family heritage. Professor Edmonds is a historian with an interest in settler family histories that are entwined within frontier violence. Like Catherine, she was born and raised on Ngunnawal country in Canberra. Bookings for this free event are essential, via Eventbrite.
Professor Peter Monteath‘s book Captured Lives: Australia’s Wartime Interment Camps will be a central piece of the discussion for Remembering Loveday Internment Camp, presented by Flinders University in conjunction with Migration Museum, and being held at Level 1, Flinders at Victoria Square, 182 Victoria Square, Adelaide, from 6pm to 7.30pm on Thursday 13 May.
The Loveday Internment Camp was established near Barmera in the Riverland during the Second World War to detain mainly German, Japanese and Italian internees. The History Festival event will explore the experiences of those detained at Loveday, how those experiences are remembered and what those memories mean for community members today.
Following contributions by a panel of speakers, participants will have the opportunity to share their stories and indicate their interest in a future collaborative research project. Bookings for this free event are essential, via Eventbrite.