Minutes of Evidence project: Publications

Books

Balint J (2012) Genocide, State Crime, and the Law: In the Name of the State, London: Routledge-Cavendish. (Online link)
Evans J, Genovese A, Reilly A and Wolfe P (2013), Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. (Online link)
Lester A and Dussart F (2014), Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Online link)
Nanni G and James A (2013), Coranderrk: We Will Show The Country, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press (AIATSIS). (Online link)
Lester A and Laidlaw Z (eds) (2015), Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Online link)
Nelson E, Smith S and Grimshaw P (eds) (2015) Letters from Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867-1926, (originally published in 2002) (2nd edition) (University of Melbourne Press). (Online link)

In progress

Balint J, Evans J, McMillan M, McMillan N, Keeping Hold of Justice: The Experience of Law in the Colonial Past, Present and Future.
Cruickshank J, Anne Fraser Bon.

Book chapters

Balint J (2012), ‘Responsibility for “Doing Justice”’, in G Hage and R Eckersley (eds), Responsibility, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Balint J (2013), ‘The Ottoman State Special Military Tribunal for the Genocide of the Armenians: ‘Doing Government Business’’, in K Heller and G Simpson (eds), The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Balint J (2014), ‘Stating Genocide in Law: The Aboriginal Embassy and the ACT Supreme Court’, in G Foley, A Schaap and E Howell (eds), The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State, London: Routledge.
Evans J (2012), “Understanding 'Leading that Liberates': Liz Jones and Leadership as Life/Work” in R Francis, P Grimshaw and A Standish (eds), Seizing the Initiative: Australian Women Leaders in Politics, Workplaces and Communities, eScholarship Research Centre: The University of Melbourne, pp. 341-355 (on Minutes of Evidence project Partner Investigator Liz Jones and Partner Organisation La Mama). Available online.
McMillan N (2012), ‘Between Soldier and Bystander: Negotiating Peacekeeper Responsibility in the Rwandan Genocide’, in G Hage and R Eckersley (eds), Responsibility, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Laidlaw Z (2014), ‘Imperial Complicity: Indigenous Dispossession in British History and History Writing’, in C Hall, N Draper, & K McClelland (eds), Emancipation and the Remaking of the British Imperial World, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Laidlaw Z (2012), ‘The Victorian State in its Imperial Context’, in M Hewitt (ed), The Victorian World, London: Routledge, 329-345.
Lester L (2012), ‘Race and Citizenship: Colonial Inclusions and Exclusions’, in M Hewitt (ed.), The Victorian World, London: Routledge, 381-97.
Lester A (2013), ‘Benevolent Empire? Protecting Indigenous peoples in British Australasia’, in R Crane, A Johnston and C Vijayasree (eds), Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Australasia and India, New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2013, 3-23.
Lester A (2013), ‘Spatial Concepts and the Historical Geographies of British Colonialism’, in A Thompson, (ed), Writing Imperial Histories, Studies in Imperialism, 100th Edition, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 118-42.
Balint J, Evans J, McMillan N, Nanni G, with Melodie Reynolds (2015), ‘The Minutes of Evidence project: creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past and present’, in L Russell and L Boucher (eds), Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria, 1851–1900, Aboriginal History Monographs.
Cruickshank J and Grimshaw P, (2015), ‘Women, Authority and Power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria 1880-1910.’ L Russell and L Boucher (eds), Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria 1851–1900, Aboriginal History Monographs.
Cruickshank J (2015), ‘Women’s Leadership and Aboriginal Missions’, The e-Encyclopedia of Women's Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, J Smart and S Swain (eds), Australian Women's Archive Project. Available at: http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
Cruickshank J and Grimshaw P (2015) ’Indigenous land loss, justice and race: Ann Bon and the contradictions of settler humanitarianism’ in A Lester and Z Laidlaw (eds) Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Evans J and Nanni G (2015), "Re-imagining settler sovereignty: the call to law at the Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve, Victoria 1881 (and beyond)", in A Lester and Z Laidlaw (eds), Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Laidlaw Z (2015), ‘Indigenous Interlocutors: Networks of imperial protest and humanitarianism in the mid-nineteenth century’, in J Carey and J Lydon (eds), Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange. London: Routledge.
Lester A (2015), ‘Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines’, in J Carey and J Lydon (eds.), Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange, London: Routledge.
Lester A and Laidlaw Z (2015), 'Indigenous Sites and Mobilities: Connected Struggles in the Long Nienteenth Century' in Z Laidlaw and A Lester (eds) Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-23.
Lester A (2015) 'Empire and the Place of Panic' in R Peckham (ed) Panic: Disease, Crisis and Empire, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 23-34.
McMillan M and McRae C (2015), 'Law, Identity and Dispossession - The Half-Caste Act of 1886 and Contemporary Legal Definitions of Indigeneity in Australia' in A Lester and Z Laidlaw (eds) Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles

Laidlaw Z (2012), 'Investigating Empire: Humanitarians, Reform and the Commission of Eastern Inquiry', in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40: 5.
Skinner R and Lester A (2012), ‘Humanitarianism and Empire: Introduction’, in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History special issue, ‘Empire and Humanitarianism’, 40, 5: 729-747.
Laidlaw Z (2012), ‘Breaking Britannia’s Bounds? Law, Settlers, and Space in Britain’s Imperial Historiography’, in The Historical Journal, 55: 3, 807-830.
Laidlaw Z (2012), ‘“Justice to India - Prosperity to England - Freedom to the Slave!”: Humanitarian and Moral Reform campaigns on India, Aborigines and American Slavery’, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 22: 2, 299-324.
Laidlaw Z (2012), ‘Slavery, settlers and indigenous dispossession: Britain’s empire through the lens of Liberia’, in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 13: 1.
Lester A (2012), ‘Personifying Colonial Governance: George Arthur and the Transition from Humanitarian to Development Discourse’, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102, 6: 1468-1488.
Evans J and Fluence T (2013), 'Securing the Settler Polity: Martial Law and the Aboriginal Peoples of Van Diemen's Land', in Journal of Australian Colonial History – Special Issue: ‘Colonial Democracy and Indigenous-Settler Relations’, 1-22.
McMillan N (2014) ‘Remembering “Rwanda”’, in Law, Culture and the Humanities. Click to read online article.
Nanni G (2014), 'Bringing to Life the Voices of the Past', in The Victorian Writer, January 2014: 17-19. Click to read online article.
Balint J, Evans J and McMillan N (2014), ‘Rethinking Transitional Justice, Redressing Indigenous Harm: A New Conceptual Approach', International Journal of Transitional Justice 8:2. Click to read online article.

Ganter R and Grimshaw P (2015), ‘Introduction: Recovering Mission Women’s Lives’, in Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 39, no 1.
Grimshaw P and Cruickshank J (2015), ‘Memoirs of a Presbyterian Missionary Wife: Geraldine MacKenzie at Aurukun, Cape York, 1925 to 1965’, Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 39, no 1.
Grimshaw, P and Loney, H (2015) ‘”Doing their bit helping make Australia free”: Mothers of Aboriginal Diggers and the Assertion of Indigenous Rights’, Provenance, Issue 14. Click to read online article.
Lester A (2015) 'Commentary: New Directions for Historical Geographies of Colonialism', The New Zealand Geographer vol. 71, 120-123.
Balint J, Evans J and McMillan N (forthcoming 2016) 'Justice Claims in Colonial Contexts: Commissions of Inquiry in Historical Perspectiive', Australian Feminist Law Journal.
Evans J (forthcoming 2016) 'Living Together Justly in Settler Societies" Legacies of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve and the 1881 Inquiry Into Its Management', Journal of Social History.
Lester A (2016) 'Settler Colonialism, George Grey and the Politics of Ethnography', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 34, no. 3, 492-507.
McMillan N (2016) 'Imagining the International: The Constitution of the International as a Site of Crime, Justice and Community', Social and Legal Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 168-180.
McMillan N (2016) 'Remembering "Rwanda"', Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol. 12, no.2, 301-328.

Edited Journals

Ganter, R and Grimshaw, P eds. (2015) Special issue, ‘Humanitarianism and Women’s Work on Australian Mission Frontiers’, Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 39, no 1.

Refereed conference proceedings

Balint J and Evans J (2011), ‘Transitional Justice and Settler States’, ANZCCC: The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. (Click to read online article)
Evans J and McMillan N (2011), ‘Moving On? An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Official Responses to Structural Injustice’, Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Werribee, Australia: APSA.
Balint J, Evans J and McMillan N (2012), ‘Minutes of Evidence’: Raising Awareness of Structural Injustice and Justice’ in G Coventry and M Shircore (eds), Proceedings of the 5th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, James Cook University, Townsville. (Click to read online article)
Forthcoming 2014/15, 'Just Encounters: Bringing together Education, Arts & Research’, Conference report, in History Australia.

Conference and seminar papers

2010

Balint J and Evans J (2010), ‘Transitional Justice and Settler States’, ANZCCC: The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney.

2011

Evans J (2013), 'The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice', Royal Holloway, University of London (hosted by Z Laidlaw and A Lester).
Evans J and McMillan N (2011), ‘Moving On? An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Official Responses to Structural Injustice’, Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Canberra.
Evans J, and McMillan N (2011), 'The Minutes of Evidence project', Indigenous Postgraduate Students Conference, Murrup Barak, University of Melbourne.

2012

Balint J (2012), ‘Minutes of Evidence’: Raising Awareness of Structural Injustice and Justice’, Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 7-8 July, James Cook University, Townsville.
Evans J, McMillan N, Nanni G, with Reynolds M (2012), ‘The Minutes of Evidence project: creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past and present’ Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria Workshop, The Institute for Postcolonial Studies.
Cruickshank J, Grimshaw P (2012), ‘Gender, Authority and Power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1890-1910’, Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria Workshop, The Institute for Postcolonial Studies.
Balint J, Evans J, McMillan N, Nanni G, Bates J (2012), ‘The Minutes of Evidence project', Roundtable, Historical Justice and Memory Conference, Swinburne University.
Cruickshank J, Fitzgerald T, Jones E, McMillan N, Nanni G, Reynolds, M (2012), ‘Coranderrk: Bringing History to Life’ Keynote Presentation at the History Teachers Association of Victoria Annual Conference, Hemisphere Conference Centre, Melbourne.
Evans J (2012), 'Expanding the field of engagement: the Minutes of Evidence project', Historians and Justice Roundtable, University of Sydney.
Evans J (2012), 'The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice', University of Melbourne Engagement and Partnerships Office PopUp seminar.
Evans J (2012), 'From critique to critical practice: expanding the field of engagement with law and history', Responsible Histories panel, Receiving Laws/Giving Laws: 31st Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, University of Technology, Sydney.

2013

Cruickshank J and Grimshaw P (2013), "Ann Bon and the Contradictions of Settler Humanitarianism", 'Dispossession: Indigenous survival, land holding and loss in the midst of settler colonialism', University of Sussex, 4-5 July 2013.
Evans J & Nanni G (2013), "Re-imagining settler sovereignty: the call to law at the Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve, Victoria 1881 (and beyond)", 'Dispossession: Indigenous survival, land holding and loss in the midst of settler colonialism', University of Sussex, 4-5 July 2013.
Evans J (2013), ‘Fostering lawful relations in settler societies: the significance of “middle grounds”’, The Criminology Seminar Series, Monash University, 13 November, 2013.
Grimshaw P (2013), ‘Decolonisation, the Women’s Movement, and Women Leaders in Indigenous Rights Movements in the Postcolonial Pacific’, International Federation of Research in Women’s History, Sheffield-Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom, August 2013.

2014

Balint J, 'Law as a Site of (In)justice for Colonial Harms', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.
Balint J, Brown L, Dullard C, Evans J, Jones L, McMillan M, McMillan N (2014), 'The Minutes of Evidence Project', IILAH CONSTELLATIONS SERIES, hosted by Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, 10 October 2014. Click here for flyer and more details
Balint J, ‘Law as a site of justice for colonial harms’, at GLOBAL‐REGIONAL‐LOCAL, INSTITUTIONS, RELATIONS, NETWORKS. Past and future of the Sociology of Law', International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 21-23 May 2014
Evans J, 'Mass and State Harm and the Possibilities of Justice - Part One and Part Two', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.
Evans J, 'The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice', at "Imagining Social Equity", Inaugural Conference of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, The University of Melbourne, February 2014.
Evans J, 'Fostering lawful relations in settler societies: the significance of middle grounds', History Seminar Series, School of International Studies, Flinders University, South Australia, 17 October, 2014.
James A and Nanni G (2014), 'Coranderrk – We Will Show The Country: engaging with Australia’s past through verbatim theatre', at the AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference, Canberra, 26-28 March 2014.
Grimshaw P, ‘Relations of Colonialism in the Work Experiences of Indigenous Women: The Case of a Teacher on a Late Nineteenth-century Australian Mission’, "Berkshire Women’s History Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 2014.
Grimshaw P, 'Two Victorian humanitarians: Ann Bon and Emily Stephen’, History Seminar Series, School of International Studies, Flinders University, South Australia, 17 October, 2014.
McMillan N, ‘Imagining the International: Crime, Law and Justice on the Global Stage’, at GLOBAL‐REGIONAL‐LOCAL, INSTITUTIONS, RELATIONS, NETWORKS. Past and future of the Sociology of Law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 21-23 May 2014.
McMillan N, 'The Minutes of Evidence project', at Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law workshop, London, 30-31 May 2014.
McMillan N, 'The Minutes of Evidence project', at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium, 16 June 2014.
McMillan N, 'Imagining the International: Crime and Justice on the Global Stage', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.

2015

Evans J, 'Attending to place in academic life: living with settler colonialism', at the Colonial Cristian Missions and their Legacies, University of Copenhagen, 27-29 April 2015.

2016

Balint J, 'The Minutes of Evidence and the Record of Law', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 6 April 2016.
Balint J, 'The Minutes of Evidence Project', University of Liverpool, 'Engage seminar series, 19 May 2016. Click here for a weblink to the presentation.
Balint J, 'Constitutive legal change: recognizing state harms through activating the record of law', Law and Sociery Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2 June 2016.
Balint J, 'Activating Structural Justice: The Minutes of Evidence Project', International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of London, 8 June 2016. Click here for a weblink to the presentation.
Balint J, 'Post-colonial justice? The Minutes of Evidence Project', London Transitional Justice Network and Security in Transition, London School of Economics, 9 June 2016.
Grimshaw P and Loney H, 'Writing about Victorian Mothers of Aboriginal Diggers in World War 1', Paper presented to the History Fellows Group, Melbourne, April 2016.

Seminars, conferences and symposia hosted

Laidlaw Z and Lester L (25 May 2012): Minutes of Evidence, Bedford Square, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Lester A and Laidlaw Z (4-5 July 2013): Dispossession: Indigenous survival, land holding and loss in the midst of settler colonialism, University of Sussex.
MoE symposium (15 August 2014): ‘Just Encounters: Bringing together Education, Arts & Research’. Click here for more details
Evans J, Balint J, McMillan N, and McMillan, M, Grimshaw, P and Brown, L. IILAH Constellations Seminar Series: 'The Minutes of Evidence Project', MLS, 10 October 2014. Click here to see a video recording of the event
Evans J, Balint J, McMillan N, and McMillan M (2-3 July 2015): 'Workshop On 'Moving On?' Official Responses to Mass Harm and the Question of Justice'. International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain. Click here for more details

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