Mateship Conference: Program
Conference Program (PDF 65KB)
16th and 17th February 2006, Melbourne Trades Hall
Thursday 16th February
9-10am: Registration
10-11am: New Ballroom - Welcome
Mungo MacCallum - 'Mates and the Mafia'
11-11.30: Morning Tea
11.30am-1pm: Session One
The Politics of Mateship
New Ballroom
Melissa Bellanta (University of Sydney ) - 'First-wave feminists and 'the brotherhood of man' in early 1890s Adelaide'
Nick Dyrenfurth (Historical Studies, Monash University) - 'Howard's Hegemony of Values: 'Mates' and the end of the fair go'
Carolyn Rasmussen (History, University of Melbourne) - 'The 'Lone Wolf' in sheep's clothing?: Maurice Blackburn, the Australian Labor Party and the limits to mateship'
1.00pm-2pm: Lunch
2.00-3.30pm: Session Two
Sexing the Mate
New Ballroom
John Rickard (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Historical Studies, Monash University) - 'The Homoeroticism of Mateship'
Damien Barlow (Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University) - 'Queer Mates: Australian Literature and Homosocial Romance'
Madeleine Hamilton (History, University of Melbourne) - 'Voices from the wall: Australian soldiers, mateship and the World War II pin-up girl'
Fighting Mates
Meeting Room One
Lachlan Grant (Historical Studies, Monash University) - 'The Australian Prisoner of War Experience in Popular Memory'
Janelle Date (Social Sciences, Edith Cowan University) -'Mateship and the Australian Vietnam Veteran'
Rosalie Triolo (Education, Monash University) - 'No Friendships are Stronger': The Community and Camaraderie of the Victorian Education Department's Teacher-Soldiers, Great War, 1914-18
3.30-4pm: Afternoon Tea
4.00-6.00pm: Session Three
Mates and 'Culcha' Part 1
New Ballroom
Richard Waterhouse (School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney) - 'Mateship and Rural Workers: Myths and Realities'
Jocelynne Scutt - 'Mateship and Manhandling: Rape, Women's
Rights and the Sport of Men'
Margaret Rogers (School
of Contemporary Communication, Central Queensland University) - 'Big
Balls: Pub rock, mateship and Australian masculinity'
Multicultural Mates
Meeting Room One
Mari Edland (Department of English, University of Melbourne) - 'Sport, multiculturalism and mateship'
Pam Oliver (Historical Studies, Monash University) - 'Japanese mates in wartime white Australia'
Sunil Govinnage (Notre Dame University) - 'Multicultural Mateship'
Friday 17th February
9-9.45am: Registration
9.45-10.30am: New Ballroom
Eva Cox - 'Mates and mateship: exclusion and belonging'
10.30-11am: Morning Tea
11am-12.30pm: Session Four
Mateship and Social Capital
New Ballroom
Jacqueline Dickenson (History, University of Melbourne) - 'Historicising political trust'
Winsome Roberts (Social Work, University of Melbourne) - 'Mateship? Competitive fraternalism and cooperative fraternalism in the colony of Victoria, during 'the long boom' 1860-1890'
Karina Butera (History, Heritage & Society, Deakin University) - 'The disappearance of 'mateship' in the 21st century'
Working Mates
Meeting Room One
Rory O'Malley (University of Sydney) - 'Mateship in the Shearing Sheds: What was the 'wide comb dispute' all about?'
Lenore Layman (Social Sciences & Humanities, Murdoch University) -'Mates in Dangerous Workplaces: self-understandings and customary practices among miners on the Western Australian goldfields 1889-1905'
Barbara Webster
(School of Humanities,
Central Queensland University)
- ''They'd go out of their way to cover up for you':
men and mateship in the Rockhampton Railway Workshops, 1940s-1980s'
12.30-1.30: Lunch
1.30-3pm: Session Five
Mates and Strangers Part 1
New Ballroom
Ana Kailis (Historical Studies, Monash University) - 'Mateship and the Dissident: the Abandonment of David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib'
Linda Wade (History and Politics, University of Wollongong) - ''By Diggers Defended, By Victorians Mended': Mateship beyond the boundaries of nationalism'
Shirleene Robinson (History, Bond University) - 'Exclusion, mateship and Aboriginal workers in Queensland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'
Mates and 'Culcha' Part 2
Meeting Room One
Gabrielle Wolf (History, University of Melbourne) - 'A Modern Sort of Mateship?: Challenges to Australian Mateship in New Wave Theatre'
Leo Couacaud (Anthropology, University of Melbourne) - 'The commodification of mateship in Australian beer and car adds'
Christina Hunt
(School of Contemporary Communications, Central Queensland University)
- 'In Search of Cecil Holmes: Revisiting the Feature Films of
an
Australian Outsider'
3-3.30pm: Afternoon Tea and Farewell
3.30-4.30pm: Session Six
Visualising and Reading Mates
New Ballroom
Patricia McLean (School of English Film and Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington) - 'Male duality and the myth of mateship in the novels of Maurice Gee'
John Ramsland (History, University of Newcastle) - 'Mates as War Heroes and War Heroes as Mates: Charles Chauvel's Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) and The Rats of Tobruk (1944)'
Mates and Strangers Part 2
Meeting Room One
Julie McIntyre (History, University of Sydney) - 'Misplaced mateship?: wine and 'diplomacy' in early colonial New South Wales'
Annette
Falahey (Sydney University) - 'Mateship and Local Watering Holes:
Indigenous and non-Indigenous
drinking communities at
Australian hotels'
4.30-5.30pm
New Ballroom
Plenary Session hosted by Marian Quartly and Paul Strangio