Conference Resources
Day One
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17 May 2022
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Introduction and Welcome
Dr Meg Foster
Newnham College, University of Cambridge (History)
// Panel 1A //
Criminalisation and Emotion
Discussant: Prof. Jane Lydon
University of Western Australia (History)
‘You are not prisoners, nor is this a prison’: reforming the most wicked and depraved children in New South Wales, 1860-1900.
Dr Claudia Soares
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and NUAcT Fellow in History, Newcastle University, UK
Legacies of Trauma: Examining the impact of Singapore political detention without trial, 1948 to 2000
Ariel Yin Yee Yap
Doctoral Candidate in Criminology, Monash University
// Panel 1B //
The Lasting Legacies of Criminal Justice Systems
Discussant: Dr Andy Kaladelfos
University of NSW (Criminology/ History)
Policing trans and gender diversity in Australia’s past
Adrien McCrory
PhD Candidate in Gender Studies and History, Australian Catholic University
Path Dependence and Imperial Legacy
Dr Emma D. Watkins
Lecturer in Criminology, University of Birmingham
Agents of Colonial Rule: the Enduring Impacts of Historical Australian Policing
Dr Eleanor Bland
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Oxford Brookes University
// Panel 2A //
Legal Histories of Empire and Crime
Discussant: Prof. Lisa Ford
University of NSW (History)
‘Lighting a Match in a Powder Keg’: Combustible Publics, and the Legal Regulation of ‘Hate Speech’ in Colonial India
Siddharth Narrain
PhD Candidate in Law, University of NSW
The Meaning of Murder: Historical Genealogies of Murder and Homicide in the Gold Coast/Ghana, c.1850-1950
Dr Stacey Hynd
Senior Lecturer in African History, University of Exeter
// Panel 2B //
Contemporary Policies and their Imperial Origins
Discussant: Dr Maeve Ryan
King’s College London (History and Grand Strategy)
Finding White Slaves: The lost historical context of modern anti-trafficking policy in Britain
Anna Forringer-Beal
PhD Candidate in Gender Studies, University of Cambridge
Colonial criminal law and racialized policing in contemporary Pakistan
Sonia Qadir
PhD Candidate in Law, University of NSW
Aviation Security: flying, friendship and enmity at the end of Empire
Angela Smith
PhD Candidate in Law, University of NSW
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The Impact of Colonialism and Settler Colonisation
Discussant: Dr Adam J. Barker
University of Sheffield (Geography)
Decolonizing the Bibliography: Colonial Legacies in Africa- and Asia-Directed Historical Criminology
Dr Alex Tepperman
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
Article 19 UNCRC – Balancing Protection, Understanding Violence: Indigenous Child Protection in Colonial Settler States
Deborah Lawson
PhD Candidate in Law, University of Liverpool
Settler-Colonialism and Agrarian Crime: A Genealogy from Palestine to Ireland
Dr Alex Winder
Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University (Middle East Studies)
// Panel 3B //
Culture, Crime, Body and Mind
Discussant: Dr Janet Weston
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (History and Public Health)
Psy Disciplines and Imperial Penal Infrastructure
Becka Hudson
PhD Candidate in Criminology and Anthropology, Birkbeck and University College London
The Missionary's Position: Pursuing Sex Offenders in the British Empire
Niyati Shenoy
PhD Candidate in History, Colombia University
“Not Regular Thieves”: Shades of Bhil Engagement with Company Criminal Justice
Nishant Gokhale
PhD Candidate in Legal Studies, University of Cambridge
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Imperial Jurisdiction and the Criminal Subject
Discussants: Dr Lorraine Paterson
University of Leicester (History)
Tali Trials: From Indigenous Justice to Colonial Crime in Western Côte d’Ivoire, 1890-1940
Wallace Teska
PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University
Intersecting imperial and military genealogies of crime: France’s North African soldiers and the First World War
Dr Claire Eldridge
Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Leeds
“The Jury Allowed Itself to Be Convinced”: Algerian Crime in French Courts in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Jennifer Sessions
Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia
// Panel 4B //
Geographies of Crime
Discussant: Prof. Stephen Legg
University of Nottingham (Geography)
River Dacoities in Lower Bengal: A Note on the Palot and the Nalchar-Tulatolly Gangs
Dr Baijayanti Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of History, University of Calcutta
Mapping Algerian Criminality: Policing and Colonial Discourse in the French Mediterranean, 1918-1939
Dr Danielle Beaujon
Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
‘We are always a little apt to imitate Melbourne in the good town of Dunedin’: Trans-Tasman links and legacies in discussions of larrikinism in late-nineteenth century New Zealand
Jasper Heeks
PhD Candidate in History, King’s College London