The conference takes place on, and discusses the theft of, Aboriginal lands in the places now known as New South Wales and Victoria. The convenor acknowledges the traditional owners of these lands, and expresses respect for their elders past, present and emerging.

The conference is supported by the English and Theatre Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, through the Cristensen Fund.

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• Fiannuala Morgan, Visualising the Unfamiliar: Charles Harpur’s 'The Bushfire', AI-Generated Imagery, and the Inscription of Settler Tropes

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• Michael Falk & Marc Mierowsky, Jewish Naturalisation in The Witch of Hebron

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• Alexis Harley, The Wild Bee of Australia: Charles Harpur and the poetics of nativisation

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• Stephanie Trigg, 'One Mighty Stream of Soul': Charles Harpur and Chaucerian Medievalism

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• Hannah Murray, The politics of racial ventriloquism in ‘The Slave’s Story’

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