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17 May 2010
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Leading Cases Conference Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 June 2010 Salmond Room, 2nd Floor, Government Buildings, Victoria University of Wellington Law School 15 Lambton Quay, Wellington Much of New Zealand's legal history remains unknown or under-explored. Court decisions not only tell us about aspects of law in the early period, but can do much to illuminate the development of both the New Zealand legal system and New Zealand society in general. In June, the New Zealand Lost Cases project will host a two day legal history symposium featuring a selection of leading cases from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Speakers from Canada, New Zealand and Australia will present on a variety of early New Zealand Supreme Court cases. Many of these cases are unknown, all represent key moments in the development of New Zealand's legal history and jurisprudence. The conference directly builds on the New Zealand Law Foundation funded project, New Zealand Lost Cases, which is based at Victoria University of Wellington. This project seeks to recover Supreme Court decisions from 1841–1883, as well as to select and publish Native Land Court decisions from the first 20 years of that court. See website For more information on the conference programme contact Shaunnagh Dorsett. For information about registrations email Olivia James or phone 04 463 6327. The conference registration form is attached. Universite Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne (Cemaf et Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siecle), Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon (LARHRA), New York University (Paris) 19–21 January 2012 For decades, colonizing was perceived and analysed as a masculine undertaking. This is probably why historians of colonisation (and decolonisation)—who themselves were mostly men—paid little attention to the study of women, of gender relations, or of how gender identities and sexualities were constructed in colonial contexts. Women were seen as negligible actors in colonial wars (both during or after the conquest), even though they were important actors within and victims of such conflicts. Moreover, as primary agents of the European "civilising mission", whose alleged principles were to "educate, cure, moralise and convert", women—both colonisers and the colonized—took part in the process of national assertion and of colonial domination. Last but not least, the colonial process created—and was constantly reshaped by—tensions as well as new forms of racial or social hierarchies and gender roles. Thus, the "colonial making of gender" proved to be a powerful vector of social transformation, both in metropoles and in colonies, as recent stimulating historical research has demonstrated. The International conference on "Women and Gender in Colonial Contexts" seeks to assess the current state of historical research on this subject in a longue duree perspective, i.e. from the late 18th-early 19th centuries to the decolonisations of Asia, Africa, and the South Sea Islands (second half of the 20th century). Participants are welcome to present research focusing on specific colonial contexts, both in terms of time and space. At the same time, studies of women's experiences or of gender construction through a comparative perspectivebetween colonies or Empires—is strongly encouraged, as it will allow a better understanding of local versus global situations. The Conference will also offer a significant opportunity to explore new sources, new approaches and new historiographical trends (notably through the combination of various epistemological tendencies such as micro-history, social history, subaltern studies, post-colonial studies or gender studies), in order to show the vitality of this field of research. The organisers encourage scholars to submit papers that investigate, within the framework drawn up by the Conference title, relevant aspects of the following : politics and policies, work, religion, education, health, family, mobilities, sexualities, body/bodies, war, slavery, violence, masculinities. Proposals in French or English (300 words) should be sent by May 31st, 2010, to: christelle.taraud@wanadoo.fr Please attach a short CV stating your institutional affiliation. My thanks to David Carment who has provided years and places of AHA Conferences from 1982. He says that he has relied on memory and requests that the entries be checked. Please see the website and send any additions, alterations, conference themes or dates to Carolyn Brewer. Thursday 20 May 2010 5:30 – 7:00pm State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Latrobe Street Melbourne. Over the past century Melbourne and other cities around the world have changed dramatically. Erik Olssen (University of Otago, NZ) and Helen Meller (University of Nottingham, UK) will be in conversation with Seamus O'Hanlon (School of Historical Studies, Monash University) about 20th century urban history and the transformations of city life in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Bookings: Admission is free all are welcome to attend, bookings required on tel: (03) 8664 7099 or online or email This seminar is part of the Making Public Histories Seminar Series organised by the Monash University Institute of Public History, the State Library of Victoria and the History Council of Victoria. Information on future seminars can be found at the website. 
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