2015 ANZSANA Annual Conference Program Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX January 29-31, 2015 ANZSANA thanks both the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University for their generous support for this conference. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 6:00-8:00pm Welcome Reception Sponsored by Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Hotel Lumen 6101 Hillcrest Ave, Dallas, TX Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided in a heated tent on the pool deck Participants can register beginning at 5:30 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 [Registration and all panels in the Hotel Lumen’s Photon Room] 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast Breakfast will be served in the Hotel Lumen’s Cube Room 9:00 Welcoming Remarks Dr. James Hollifield, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University 9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Australian Culture: Past and Present Chair: Discussant: Dr. Michael Birkner, Gettysburg College Dr. Kim Richard Nossal, Queen’s University Magnanimous Leadership: Edmund Barton and the Australian Founding Dr. Haig Patapan, Griffith University Australia’s Lost Horizon: The Indian Contingent at the Celebration of Commonwealth, 1900-01 William Matthew Kennedy, University of Sydney Intimate Sphere, National Project: Women Writing the Domestic Space in NineteenthCentury Australia Jacqueline Sloan Morgan, University of Adelaide 10:45-11:00 BREAK 11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Animality, Humanity and Inhumanity in Australia Chair: Discussant: Genevieve Neilson Mark Harding, University of Calgary “An Alligator Got Betty!”: Retribution and Animal Agency in Far North Queensland Dr. Krista Maglen, Bloomington University Gestational Surrogacy in Canada and Australia: A Complicated Past and An Uncertain Future Dr. Dave Snow, Dalhousie University A Powerful Force? Transnational Advocacy Networks and Mandatory Detention in Australia Dr. Rhonda Evans, University of Texas at Austin 12:30-1:30 LUNCH 1:30-3:00 Panel 3: Australian-American Relations: Views from Across the Pacific Chair/Discussant: Matthew Hill, Cornell University American Views of the Australian American Alliance Dr. Alan Tidwell, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University “We Would Like To Play with America, But Don’t Know How”: Hartley Grattan’s Survey of Australian Elites on the Cusp of American Entry in World War II Dr. Michael Birkner, Gettysburg College “Life Is An Urgent, Vital Affair”: The Delicate Mission of Australian Ambassador Richard G. Casey and the Goal to Involve the USA in World War II, 1940 to 1942 Kathy Burns, George Mason University 3:00-3:15 BREAK 2 3:15-4:45 Panel 4: The Evolution of New Zealand Institutions Chair: Discussant: Dr. Krista Maglen, Bloomington University Dr. Dave Snow, Dalhousie University “Strained Interpretation” under Weak-form and Strong-Form Bills of Rights: Comparing New Zealand and Canada Mark Harding and Dr. Rainer Knopff, University of Calgary An Update on MMP: New Zealand’s Electoral System After Three More Cycles Ambassador Richard W. Teare, Center for Strategic and International Studies Journalism in New Zealand: Digital Technology and Flexible Employment in New Zealand’s News Industry Tai Neilson, George Mason University 4:45 7:00 DAY ONE ADJOURNMENT ANZSANA Banquet Dinner Meadows Museum at SMU Pre-dinner drinks and appetizers in the Founder’s Room at 7:00 Dinner in the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall at 7:30 After-Dinner Keynote: Geoffrey Garrett Dean, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania “Australia and the U.S. Compared: from Higher Education to Geopolitics” 3 SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 [All panels in the Hotel Lumen’s Photon Room] 8:15 am Breakfast and ANZSANA Business Meeting Breakfast in the Hotel Lumen’s Cube Room 9:00-10:30 Panel 5: International Relations Chair/Discussant: Dr. Alan Tidwell, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University Bipartisanship in Defence Procurement and the F-35: Australia and Canada Compared Dr. Kim Nossal, Queen’s University Gender Equality in Australia’s International Aid Policy Genevieve Neilson, George Washington University Pacifying Prosperity? The Impact of Trade on International Political Tensions in the South Pacific Matthew Hill, Cornell University 10:30-10:45 BREAK 10:45-12:15 Panel 6: Australian-American Relations: Culture, Economics, and Security, 1942-1971 Chair/Discussant: Steven Woodworth, Texas Christian University The ANZAC Dilemma – Economics and Australian Foreign Policy, 1942-1957 Bill Apter, University of New South Wales Before ANZUS: Australian-American Naval Relations, 1945-1951 Corbin Williamson, Ohio State University African American Influence on Aboriginal Australian Activism in the 1970s Jacynda Ammons, Texas Tech University 4 12:15-1:30 LUNCH 1:30-3:00 Panel 7: Economic and Intellectual Resources in Australia Chair: Discussant: William Matthew Kennedy, University of Sydney Ambassador Richard W. Teare Texceptionalism and the Big Difference: Bigness and Cultural Mythology in Queensland and Texas Dr. Leland Turner, Midwestern State University Cinema as a Weapon: The Question of Aboriginal Filmmaking Eleanor Huntington, University of Southern California Resource Price Boom, Natural Resource Tax and the Australian Economy: A Hybrid Macro-Modelling Approach Abbas Mohammadzadeh, University of Wollongong 3:00 CONFERENCE ADJOURNMENT 5