Project Outcomes

Penny Edmonds

Conferences

Convenor: ‘Empire, Humanitarianism and Non-violence in the Colonies: A Two-Day Symposium to Explore and Impact of Humanitarians from the Late Eighteenth to Twentieth Century’, Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 2014.

Convenor: Masterclass with Professor Zöe Laidlaw, Royal Holloway, University of London, ‘Network of Empire and Transnational History’ (18 PhD students), History/CAIA, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 10 September 2014.

Publications

Edmonds, Penny and Zöe Laidlaw. ‘“The British Government Is Now Awaking”: Quaker Humanitarian Repackaging of the 1837 Select Committee Report and Its Colonial Afterlives’. In Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies, ed. Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck, 38-57. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Edmonds, Penny and Zöe Laidlaw. ‘The Curious Colonial Afterlife of the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines’. Imperial and Global Forum, 3 September 2019.

Edmonds, Penelope, ‘Activism in the Antipodes: Transnational Quaker Humanitarianism and the Troubled Politics of Compassion in the Early Nineteenth Century’. In The Transnational Activist: Transformations and Comparisons from the Anglo-World since the Nineteenth Century, ed. Stefan Berger and Sean Scalmer, 31–59. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Edmonds, Penelope. ‘Elite and “Shadow Networks”: Quaker Investigative Counter Travel, Protective Governance, and Indigenous Worlds in the Southern Oceans’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 19, no. 2 (2018).

Edmonds, Penelope. ‘Emancipation Acts on the Oceanic Frontier: Intimacy, Diplomacy, Colonial Invasion and the Legal Traces of Protection in the Bass Strait World, 1832’. Law & History 20 (2017): 20–44. Awarded the Australian and NZ Law & History Theory Race and Colonialism Essay (TRACE) Award 2018.

Edmonds, Penelope and Anna Johnston. ‘Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17, no. 1 (2016).

Edmonds, Penelope and Anna Johnston. ‘Introduction: Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17, no. 1 (2016).

Edmonds, Penelope and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. ‘“The Whip Is a Very Contagious Kind of Thing”: Flogging and Humanitarian Reform in Penal Australia’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17, no. 1 (2016).

Edmonds, Penelope. ‘Honourable Colonisation? Australia’. In Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750-1850, ed. Penny Russel and Nigel Worden, 46–63. London: Routledge, 2016.

Edmonds, Penelope. ‘Collecting Looerryminer’s “Testimony”: Humanitarian Anti-slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands’. Australian Historical Studies 45, no. 1 (2014): 13–33.

Edmonds, Penelope. ‘Travelling “Under Concern”: Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker Tour the Antipodean Colonies, 1830s–1840s’. Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial History 40, no. 5 (2012): 769–88.

Keynotes, Seminars, Conferences

2023 Invited keynote: ‘In the Wake of Atlantic Slavery: Antislavery Performance and Visual Culture in Australia and the Pacific’, Bonn Centre of Excellence for Slavery and Dependency Studies, Germany, 21–22 June.

2023 Invited lecture: ‘Eyewitnesses to Empire? Quaker Humanitarians, Antislavery, and the Troubled Politics of Witnessing in the Antipodes’, Münster University, Centre of Excellence for Politics and Religion, Germany, 14 June.

2022 Paper: ‘Emancipation Acts on the Oceanic Frontier: Sea Country Diplomacy, Colonial Invasion and the Legal Traces of “Protection” in the Bass Strait World, 1832’, David Nichols Smith conference, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

2021 Paper: ‘The Case of Nie’s Refusal: Gender, Consent and Autonomy in the Trans-Pacific Frontier’, Colonialism and Slavery stream, Australian Historical Association conference, November, online.

2017 International keynote: ‘Heart, Power, Treaty, Truth: Affective, Political Performances in (Post) Reconciliation Australia’, Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture in Australian History at Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London.

2016 Invited speaker: ‘An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes: Cross-Cultural Quaker Witnessing and Botanical Collecting in the Bass Strait Islands, 1832’, Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart.

2016 Invited speaker: Paper: ‘Failing in Every Endeavour to Conciliate: Governor Arthur’s Proclamation Boards’. Panel: ‘Migrating Repertoires of Diplomacy: Strategies of British Negotiation with Indigenous Peoples’. American Historical Association, Atlanta.

2015 Invited speaker: ‘Pathways out of the Myall Creek Massacre: (Re)conciliation Performances and the Politics of Memory’. Contested Histories and the Politics of Memories, 3rd Foundation for Australian Studies in China, East China Normal University, Shanghai.

2015 Invited speaker: ‘Collecting Looerryminer’s “Testimony”: Humanitarian Anti-slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands, Van Diemen’s Land’, Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World, 1600–1900 Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

2014 Panel paper: ‘Collecting Looerryminer’s Testimony: Transnational Humanitarian Witnessing and Affect in the Bass Strait Islands’. Panel: ‘Humanitarianism, Internationalism and Affect’. Berkshire Women’s History Conference, Toronto.

2013 Invited plenary speaker: ‘Collecting “Evidence” of Empire: Quaker Humanitarian Investigative Tours and Violent Mobilities in the Bass Strait World’, Mobility and Mobilisations in History, Australian Historical Association Conference, University of Wollongong.

2012 Invited speaker: ‘Surely This is the African Slave Trade in Miniature’: Sealers, Aboriginal Women and Humanitarian Anti-slavery Discourse in the Bass Strait Islands’, Anti-slavery, Humanitarianism and Their Legacies, specialist workshop convened by Prof. Fiona Paisley, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

2012: ‘Travelling ‘Under Concern’: Quaker Humanitarians, Antipodean Journeys and Colonial Connections’, Australian Historical Association conference, University of Adelaide, 9-13 July 2012.

Elizabeth Elbourne

Publications

Elbourne, Elizabeth. ‘Violence, Moral Imperialism and Colonial Borderlands, 1770s–1820s: Some Contradictions of Non-Violence’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17, no. 1 (2016).

Zoë Laidlaw

Publications

Edmonds, Penny and Zöe Laidlaw. ‘“The British Government Is Now Awaking”: Quaker Humanitarian Repackaging of the 1837 Select Committee Report and Its Colonial Afterlives’. In Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies, ed. Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck, 38–57. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Edmonds, Penny and Zöe Laidlaw. ‘The Curious Colonial Afterlife of the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines’. Imperial and Global Forum, 3 September 2019.

Public Lecture

‘Protecting Humanity: Settler Colonialism and the Aborigines Protection Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2015.

Audrey J. Gerrard

Publications

Forthcoming:
Gerrard, Audrey. ‘Business and Spiritual Accountability: Intemperance, Whaling, and Quakerism in Tahiti, 1835’.

Gerrard, Audrey. ‘Through the Latticework: Temperance Laws, “Shadow Networks”, Queen Pomare IV of Tahiti and Quaker Humanitarian Writing’.

Published:
Peyper, Audrey. ‘Bound for Slavery? A Quaker Humanitarian Critique of Waged Labour at Koloa Plantation, Hawaii, 1836’, Labour History 113 (2017): 79–102.

Keynotes, Seminars, Conferences

Paper: ‘Imperial Inheritances, Frontier Transitions: Legislating Against Slavery in Queensland and the Western Pacific, 1860–1889’, Slavery, Institutions, and Empire: Moving Beyond Microhistory, Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford, 7–8 September 2023.

Invited paper: ‘Between Private Affair and Government Control: The Queensland Plantation Labour Debates 1880–1890’, Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights, University of Leiden, 7–8 June 2023.

Paper: ‘Contract and Consent in Queensland Colonial Lawmaking: The Pacific Islander Employers’ Compensation Act and the Long Shadow of Slavery’, FRESH Meeting on Colonialism and Natural Resources, Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, 19–20 October 2022.

Convenor: Colonising Companies, Commodities, and Labour in the Western Pacific: A Symposium (with Penny Edmonds), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 13–14 June 2022.

Paper: ‘Through the Latticework: Temperance Laws, “Shadow Networks”, Queen Pomare IV of Tahiti and Quaker Humanitarian Writing’, Embodied Lives: Women and Gender in History, Australian Women’s History Network (Hobart chapter) Symposium, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2019.

Paper: ‘“The Shrine of Sordid Interest”: The Wheelers’ Quaker Humanitarian Testimonies at Koloa Plantation, Kauai, 1836’, Thinking Labour Rights Through the ‘Coolie’ Question, University of Sydney, 17–18 September 2015.

Paper: ‘Sugar, Rum, and “Suffering”: Daniel Wheeler’s Quaker Testimony in the Pacific Islands 1835–1835’, Australian Historical Association Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 6–10 July 2015.

Paper: ‘Temperance Reform and the Civilising Mission: Daniel Wheeler’s Quaker Witness in Tahiti and Hawaii 1835–1836’, History and Classics Program Seminar Series, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Paper: ‘“The Intercourse of Distant Nations”: Daniel Wheeler, Tahiti, and Transnational Quaker Humanitarianism’, Empire, Humanitarianism and Non-violence in the Colonies: A Two-Day Symposium to Explore the Impact of Humanitarians from the Late Eighteenth to Twentieth Century, Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Paper: ‘“So-Called Christians”: Daniel Wheeler’s ‘Journey of Concern’ into the South Seas and the Authority of the Eyewitness Account’, Authority & Knowledge: People, Policy, Politics: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Melbourne, 13–14 February 2014.

Paper: ‘Trials of Faith: Daniel Wheeler’s Journal and His “Voyage of Concern” via Van Diemen’s Land, 1833–1838’, Travel-Writing-Tasmania: A Two-Day Symposium to Explore Tasmanian Travel Writing and Journeys in Tasmanian Literature, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 6–7 February 2013.