Southern Worlds: South Africa and Australia

PRE-CONFERENCE Tuesday 25 November 2008
5:00pm – 5:30pm	Registration
5:30pm – 7:00pm	Cocktail reception La Scala Restaurant, Montecasino Professor Tyrone Pretorius Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash South Africa Chair: Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM Director, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
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DAY ONE Wednesday 26 November 2008
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 9:30am	Conference Welcome Dr David Dunstan National Centre for Australian Studies The Hon Philip Green OAM Australian High Commissioner Professor Tyrone Pretorius Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash South Africa
9:30am - 10:00am	Opening Address Not just Sisters of the South: South Africa and Australia An historical perspective Dr Jim Davidson University of Melbourne Chair: Professor Bhadra Ranchod Former South African High Commissioner to Australia, University of Stellenbosch
10:00am - 10:30am	Morning Tea
10:30am - 12:00pm	Plenary Session One *The 19th Century Imperial Past* Emeritus Professor Norman Etherington University of Western Australia Professor Carl Bridge Menzies Centre, King's College London Chair: Professor David Welsh University of Cape Town
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Plenary Session Two *1890–1940 – Issues of race, gender and ethnicity* Professor Marilyn Lake La Trobe University Professor Jonathan Hyslop University of Witwatersrand Chair: Associate Professor Dina Burger Monash South Africa
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Plenary Session Three *1940-2008 - Issues of race, gender and ethnicity* Pat Turner National Indigenous Television Professor David Welsh University of Cape Town Chair: James Lekoma Monash South Africa
	Plenary Session Four Immigration and Population Movements Associate Professor Dharma Arunachalam Monash University Dr Robert Crawford Menzies Centre, King's College London & Monash University Chair: Professor Elsabe Loots Monash South Africa
6:30pm - 10:00pm	Conference Dinner Montecasino Palazzo Inter-Continental Hotel
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DAY TWO Thursday 27 November 2008
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 10:30am	Plenary Session Five *Modern History Wars* Dr Anna Clark University of Technology Sydney Professor Sipho Seepe Associaton of Building Sustainability Assessors (*ABSA)* Chair: Professor Peter Vale The Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics, Rhodes University
10:30am - 11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00am - 12:30pm	Plenary Session Six Trade and Economic Relations Professor Tony Dingle Monash University Horst Brammer Australasia and Pacific Islands, Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa Chair: Nontyatyambo (Ntyatyi) Petros Executive Editor, Business Report, Independent Newspapers
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm – 3:30pm	Plenary Session Seven *Truth and Reconciliation with indigenous and multicultural communities* Nicole Watson Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney Professor Bhadra Ranchod Former South African High Commissioner to Australia, University of Stellenbosch Dr Andrew Gunstone Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University Chair: Professor Michael Neocosmos Monash South Africa
3:00 - 3:15pm	Afternoon Tea
3:15pm - 4:45pm	Plenary Session Eight *The sporting life: rugby, cricket and other clashes* Professor Bruce Murray University of Witwatersrand Dr Andre Odendaal University of Stellenbosch Participating Chair: Professor Carl Bridge Menzies Centre, King's College London
4:45pm - 5:00pm	Conclusion Professor John Nieuwenhusyen AM Director, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
5:00pm	Conference Close
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DAY THREE Friday 28 November 2008
9:00am - 2:30pm	Tour of Soweto (optional - includes travel time and lunch)