Research Output 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
Tjanara Goreng Goreng reviews Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon & Lyndall Ryan
Blog: Happy WAnderer: exploring Western Australia's heritage
Conversation essay: Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
Returning Photos: Interview about Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2015.
Teaching overview
Coordinator in 2021:
• Looking for Australia (HIST2015)
• Who do we think we are? Doing Family History (HIST1004)
• Thinking History (HIST2007)
Research
Cultural history of human rights, humanitarianism and empire
Australian Legacies of British Slavery
Australian colonial visual cultures
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-)
• Advisory Board, Anthem Press, Series in Australian History (and General Advisory Board in Australian Studies) (2015-)
• Editorial Board, History of Photography (2016-2021)
• Editorial Board, Cultural Studies Review (2013-)
• Editorial Board, Australasian Historical Archaeology
• Editorial Board, Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia
Research expertise keywords
- Australian History
- Photography
- Emotions
- Visual Culture
- Humanitarianism
- Human Rights
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Network
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Research Output
British Slavery and Australian Colonisation
Lydon, J., 17 Jul 2019, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Ness, I. & Cope, Z. (eds.). 2 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Feeling for the deep past: archaeological analogy and historical empathy
Lydon, J., 10 May 2019, In : Australian Archaeology. p. 2-14Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Lydon, J., Oct 2019, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 221 p. (Critical Perspectives on Empire)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Photography and Critical Heritage: Australian Aboriginal Photographic Archives and the Stolen Generations
Lydon, J., Feb 2019, In : The Public Historian: a journal of public history. 41, 1, p. 18-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Citation
(Scopus)
‘The best day for me, looking at these old photos’: Photography and Australian Indigenous Heritage
Lydon, J., 2019, 3 p. Australia : Australian Museums and Galleries Association.Research output: Other contribution
Projects
Envisaging Citizenship: Australian Histories and Global Connections
Lydon, J., Nettelbeck, A., Miles, M. & Anderson, F.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Western Australian Legacies of British Slavery
Lydon, J., Martens, J., Arthur, P., Laidlaw, Z., Hall, C., McClelland, K. & Lester, A.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Digital Stereotypes: Combatting Minority Stereotypes of Sexual and Gender Diverse Persons in Digital Search Images Online
Lydon, J., Clarke, K., Abidin, C., Light, B., Aggleton, P., Albury, K., Marshall, D., Dobson, A., Robards, B., Botha, M., Sturm, J., Rasmussen, M. & Cover, R. I.
University of Western Australia
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, J., 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, J., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Prizes
Award for Distinguished Contribution to Photography and Anthropology
Lydon, Jane (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Honorary award