Associate Professor Kate Darian-Smith
Director, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
Current ARC Projects
1999 Show time: Social and cultural histories of agricultural shows in Australia
2001, Dr SJ Wills, with Ass Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Knowing their place? A social and cultural history of British migration in late-twentieth-century Australia
International Linkages
2003 Australian Studies in Indonesia project: funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, DFAT. This project, which I direct, is cross-institutional with a number of Australian and Indonesian partnerships, and administers academic visiting fellowships, workshops etc.
Writing Cross-Cultural Australia: this is a collaborative project with Prof Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, which involves both a translation of contemporary Australian short stories about cross-cultural interactions in Australia, and analytical essays, leading to a book to be published in Japan.
President, International Australian Studies Association
Australasian Representative Member, Editorial Collective, Memory and Narrative.
Publications
Books
Darian-Smith, K and Wills, S, Agricultural Shows in Australia: A Survey, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne (1999)
Edited Books
Kate Darian-Smith (ed), Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History, Melbourne, 2002 (special issue of Australian Historical Studies)
Chapters in Books
Darian-Smith, K, Entry on 'Homefront Historiography' The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Vol 1V, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics, ed. J Beaumont, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp. 311-12
Darian-Smith, K, Entries on 'Showgrounds' and 'Agricultural Societies' for Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, ed by R Aitken, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002
Darian-Smith, K, 'Material culture and the "signs" of captive white women', in Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn eds, Body Trade: Captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge in association with Pluto Press, New York, Annandale, 2001, pp. 180-191.
Darian-Smith, K, Entries on 'Postcolonialism', and 'Captivity Narratives', for Oxford Companion to Australian History, eds. G. Davison, J. Hirst and S. Macintyre, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998 , pp. 110-111, 519-520 (revised and updated for 2001/2002 edition)
Refereed Articles
(in press) Darian-Smith, K and Wills, S, 'New Forms of Britishness in Suburban Australia: Beefeaters, Bobbies and a New Varangian Guard?' History of Intellectual Culture, (June 2004)
Darian-Smith, K, and Wills, S, 'Beauty Contest for British Bulldongs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne', Cultural Studies Review, Vol 9, No2, Nov 2003, pp. 65-83
Darian-Smith, K, 'Introduction', special 'Challenging Histories' issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April 2002, pp. 1-6
Darian-Smith, K, 'Histories and Rural Communities', special 'Challenging Histories' issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April 2002, pp. 90-99
Darian-Smith, K, and Wills, S, 'From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl: Embodying Rurality in Twentieth Century Australia', Journal of Australian Studies, Vol 71, 2001, pp. 17-32
Darian-Smith, K, 'Imagining' Australia Through Public Spectacles of Nation: From Federation to Sydney 2000, The Otemon Journal of Australian Studies (Japan), vol 27, 2002, pp. 79-97
Darian-Smith, K, Marking Capture: White Women Captives in Australia', in J Damousi and K Ellinghaus (eds) Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives: Papers Presented at the 1998 International Federation for Research in Women's History Conference, History Department, University of Melbourne. Pp. 71-78 (1999)
Government Reports
Darian-Smith, K and Lindsey, K, Report on Audit of Australian Studies in the Indonesian Tertiary Sector, for Australian-Indonesian Institute, DFAT, October 2004
Current Research Interests
memory and narrative
Australian cultural history
museum studies
gender and histories
nationalism/colonialism/postcolonial/transnational histories