Projects per year
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
Website
Returning Photographs https://ipp.arts.uwa.edu.au/
In November 2015 the ARC-funded project 'Returning Photos: Australian Aboriginal Photographs from European Collections' (DP110100278) launched a new website to connect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities with photographs collected by four major European museums: the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Musée de Quai Branly in Paris, and the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (National Museum of World Cultures) in Leiden, the Netherlands. The website also publishes a range of essays and blog posts linked to this project.
Returning Photographs https://ipp.arts.uwa.edu.au/
In November 2015 the ARC-funded project 'Returning Photos: Australian Aboriginal Photographs from European Collections' (DP110100278) launched a new website to connect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities with photographs collected by four major European museums: the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Musée de Quai Branly in Paris, and the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (National Museum of World Cultures) in Leiden, the Netherlands. The website also publishes a range of essays and blog posts linked to this project.
Teaching overview
UWA 2015-19 Coordinator:
• Looking for Australia (HIST2015)
• Thinking History (HIST2007)
• Eyewitness to the Past (HIST3016).
Research
Cultural history of human rights, humanitarianism and empire
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)
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)
Engagement
• Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities, (2016-2019)
• Advisory Board, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies. Postgraduate-run. (2016-)
• Advisory Panel, The Conversation, Arts and Culture (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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Projects 2013 2019
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Hopper, S., Burrows, T., Lydon, E., Konishi, S., Paterson, A., Van Gent, J. & Gregory, J.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Heritage in the Limelight: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World 1840-1940
Australian National University
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Gregory, J., Burrows, T., Lydon, E., Konishi, S., Hopper, S. & Van Gent, J.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Lydon, E., Burrows, T., Paterson, A., Van Gent, J., Gregory, J., Hopper, S. & Konishi, S.
Australian Research Council ARC
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Van Gent, J., Hopper, S., Burrows, T., Lydon, E., Konishi, S., Paterson, A. & Gregory, J.
State Library of WA (J S Battye Library of WA History)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Research Output 2007 2018
Invasion and Redemption: The Camera in Colonial Australia
Lydon, J. 1 Mar 2018 Colony: Australia 1770-1861 / Frontier Wars. Leahy, C. & Ryan, J. (eds.). National Gallery of Victoria, p. 244-253 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
File
Remembering Myall Creek
Lydon, J. & Ryan, L. 1 May 2018 Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre. Ryan, L. & Lydon, J. (eds.). Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Publishing, p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Creek
Remembering
Massacre
Settler
Colonial Administration
"Visual History at its best!": Visual Narrative and UNESCO's 1951 Human Rights Exhibition
Lydon, J. 1 Mar 2018 The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary. Griffiths, G. & Mead, P. (eds.). Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, Vol. 4, p. 279-299 21 p. (Studies in World Literature)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Witnessing Myall Creek
Lydon, J. 1 May 2018 Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre. Ryan, L. & Lydon, J. (eds.). Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Publishing, p. 52-67 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
File
Creek
Witnessing
Massacre
Settler
Colonial Administration
Aboriginal Transformations of the Photographic Archive
Lydon, J. 2017 Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art. Jorgensen, D. & McLean, I. (eds.). Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, p. 362-382 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)