Program and speakers
Dragon Tails 2011 will be a single-stream conference held from Friday evening, 11 November to Sunday afternoon, 13 November 2011. On Monday, 14 November we will hold a special planning afternoon to discuss future directions for the field of Chinese Australian history.
We are pleased to welcome two international speakers, Elizabeth Sinn from Hong Kong and Selia Jinhua Tan from Jiangmen in Guangdong, China, who will be speaking on overseas Chinese history and heritage from a Chinese perspective.
They will be joined by a stimulating group of other speakers and, we hope, conference delegates keen to have an ongoing conversation about language, sources and approaches in the study of Chinese Australian history and heritage.
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Roundtable evening
As a welcome to Dragon Tails 2011, we will be holding a roundtable evening with Marilyn Lake and Regina Ganter, among others, to consider the question of how Chinese Australian history is re-telling Australia's history.
Included in the evening will be the launch of a special Chinese Australian issue of Historic Environment, guest edited by Dr Keir Reeves and Dr Damien Williams, by Professor Rae Frances.
This event is open to the public and refreshments will be provided. The roundtable is generously supported by the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
Exhibitions at the museum
Two special exhibitions that align with the conference's themes will be on display at the Chinese Museum during the conference:
- 'Yarra River Cargo Project' by Melbourne artist Dale Cox brings together Chinese archaeology and Melbourne's heritage in a tongue-in-cheek contemporary art work.
- A re-hanging of the exhibition 'Survival and Celebration: An Insight into the Lives of Chinese Immigrant Women, European Women Married to Chinese and Their Female Children in Australia from 1856–1986' developed by Morag Loh and Christine Ramsay in 1986.