ANU Gender Institute and ANU Centre for European Studies workshop
19 April 2013
The power of gender and ethnic boundaries: Examining the representation of
women’s experiences of Australia in migrant narratives
Venue: ANU Centre for European Studies, 1 Liversidge St (Building 67C)
Convenor: Kasia Williams, Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies
09.00-09.15
Registration and Coffee
09.15-09.40
Welcome address
Jacqueline Lo, Director of the ANU Centre for European
Studies
Paul Arthur, Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for European
Studies
Kasia Williams, Visiting Fellow of the ANU Centre for
European Studies
09.40-10.40
Chair: Nonja Peters
1. Ann Tundern-Smith, “Narratives of Women from the First
Transport”
2. Delaney Michael Skerrett, “History, Memory, and Gender
in the ‘Return’ of Descendants of Latvian and Estonian
Refugees to the Baltic”
10.40-11.00
11.00-12.30
Coffee
Chair: Piera Carroli
1. Sonia Mycak, “Literary production of post-war European
‘Displaced Persons’ in Australia: Elena Jonaitis, Helen
Boris, Pavla Gruden and Elga Rodze-Kisele”
2. Jayne Persian, “Displaced Women (1947-1952) in
Australia: Memory in Autobiography”
3. Paul Arthur, “Nadia’s story”
12.30-1.30
01.30-02.30
Lunch
Chair: Sonia Mycak
1. Mary Besemeres, “Poles apart? Two Polish Australian
women poets, Krystyna Wanda Jackiewicz and Liliana
Rydzynska”
2. Kasia Williams, “Narrative connections: stories of
migration, feminity and power”
02.30-02.50
02.50-4.20
Coffee
Chair: Mary Besemeres
1. Nonja Peters, “Dutch Australian Women - Mutual Heritage
Activities”
2. Ana Dragojlovic, “'If you had only married a nice blond
man' - Body politics, Gender and the White Australian
policy”
3. Piera Carroli and Vivian Gerrand, “La mia casa è dove
sono [Home is wherever I am]: Subjects and narratives
beyond national borders”
4.20-4.30
4.30-5.00
Coffee
Final discussion