On 28 and 29 October 2010, ACIH research fellows Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent will present papers at the ‘Settler Self-Government and Indigenous Australia’ workshop, convened by Professor Ann Curthoys and Dr Jessie Mitchell at the University of Sydney.

Shino’s paper — ‘Its peculiar advantages to emigrants’: representing Aboriginal people and settler society in nineteenth-century travel writing — investigates the different ways these travel writers present the place and future of indigenous people within the new British colonies to potential emigrants from around the empire, including how Aboriginal people are compared to other indigenous peoples.

Maria’s paper — ‘Playing the Queen: Aboriginal people, the British monarch and colonial authority’ — is concerned with interpreting Aboriginal people’s ideas about the relation between the British monarch and colonial governments in the nineteenth century.