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


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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


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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


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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


Day Two
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18 May 2022

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Introduction and Welcome

Dr Katy Roscoe
University of Liverpool (Criminology)


// Panel 3A //

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)


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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


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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