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Personal profile
Biography
My research centres upon Australia’s colonial past and its legacies in the present. I am interested in the ways that popular and especially visual culture has shaped ideas and debates about race, identity and culture that persist today. In particular, I am concerned with the history of Australia’s engagement with anti-slavery, humanitarianism, and ultimately human rights. I am exploring the social and political impact of emotions aroused by visual imagery, including their application in evoking antislavery discourse, in visualizing violence on the colonial frontier, and through magic lantern performances aiming to prompt social reform.
New and Noteworthy
Tjanara Goreng Goreng reviews Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon & Lyndall Ryan
http://honesthistory.net.au/wp/goreng-goreng-tjanara-a-powerful-remembrance-of-the-myall-creek-massacre-and-of-all-that-is-reprehensible-about-the-colonisation-of-australia/
Living History with Matt McLachlan. Mat interviews Professor Jane Lydon about her new book, 'Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre', which sheds new light on one of the most infamous chapters of Australian colonial history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0d9C4adIcg
Radio National Breakfast: Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/remembering-the-myall-creek-massacre/9848276
Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
https://theconversation.com/ten-photos-that-changed-how-we-see-human-rights-104112
Teaching overview
UWA 2018-19 Coordinator:
• Looking for Australia (HIST2015)
• Thinking History (HIST2007)
• Eyewitness to the Past (HIST3016).
Research
Cultural history of human rights, humanitarianism and empire
Australian Legacies of British Slavery
Australian colonial visual cultures
Cross-cultural history and its legacies
Heritage: the colonial past in the present
CURRENT
(Associate Partner) ‘Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts’, JPICultural Heritage, Digital Heritage, Led by Prof Gil Pasternak, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, UK.(€550,000, 2018-2020)
CI, ARC Learned Academies Special Project ‘'The future humanities workforce’, (Australian Academy of the Humanities, $306,500, 2017-2019)
CI ARC Discovery ‘Heritage in the Limelight: the magic lantern in Australia and the world’, (DP160102509, 2016-2018)
Roles and responsibilities
• Editorial Board, Reviews Editor, Australian Historical Studies (2018-2020)
• Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities, (2016-2019)
• Advisory Board, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies. Postgraduate-run. (2016-)
• Council, National Trust of Australia (Western Australia) (2016-)
• International Reference Group, Negotiating History, major research project on Sámi photography, the University of Bergen, Norway. (2013-2017)
• Advisory Board, Anthem Press, Series in Australian History (and General Advisory Board in Australian Studies) (2015-)
• Advisory Board, Bloomsbury Publishing Handbook Series, The Handbook of Photography Studies, Gil Pasternak (ed), London: Bloomsbury Publishing. (2015-)
• Editorial Board, History of Photography (2016-2018)
• Editorial Board, Cultural Studies Review (2013-)
• Editorial Board, Australasian Historical Archaeology
• Editorial Board, Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia
• Western Australian Representative, Australian Women's History Network (2013-)
Keywords
- Australian History
- Photography
- Emotions
- Visual Culture
- Humanitarianism
- Human Rights
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photography
Social Sciences
narrative
Social Sciences
human rights
Social Sciences
philanthropy
Social Sciences
history
Social Sciences
beauty
Social Sciences
empathy
Social Sciences
colonization
Social Sciences
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Projects 2013 2019
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
State Library of WA (J S Battye Library of WA History)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Digital Stereotypes: Combatting Minority Stereotypes of Sexual and Gender Diverse Persons in Digital Search Images Online
Cover, R. I., Lydon, E., Clarke, K., Abidin, C., Light, B., Aggleton, P., Rasmussen, M., Albury, K., Marshall, D., Dobson, A., Robards, B., Botha, M. & Sturm, J.
University of Western Australia
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Research Output 1999 2018
Colonial 'Blind Spots': Images of Australian Frontier Conflict
Lydon, J., 10 Dec 2018, In : Journal of Australian Studies. 42, 4, p. 409-427 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
history
violence
accused
sympathy
invasion
Editorial: Indigenous Photographies
Lydon, J. & Wanhalla, A., Aug 2018, In : History of Photography. 42, 3, p. 213-216 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Photography
Indigenous Peoples
Taxonomy
Metropolitan
Childhood
Fantasy Islands: Photography, empathy, and Australia's detention archipelago
Lydon, J., 2018, Photography and Migration. Sheehan, T. (ed.). Abingdon,UK: Routledge, p. 100-114 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
photography
empathy
humanitarianism
cultural diversity
history
George Hamilton, the Bold and Dashing Bushman: The Politics of Colonial Compassion
Lydon, J., 1 Oct 2018, Foundational Fictions : In South Australian History. Collins, C. & Sendziuk, P. (eds.). South Australia: Wakefield Press, p. 79-96 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Introduction: Visualising Human Rights
Lydon, J. (ed.), 1 Oct 2018, Visualising Human Rights. Lydon, J. (ed.). Perth: UWA Publishing, p. 1-25 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Prizes
Award for Distinguished Contribution to Photography and Anthropology
Elizabeth Lydon (Recipient), 2016
Prize/award: Honorary award
anthropology
photography
Dreaming
Archaeology