Professor Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia. Her books include The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights (NewSouth, 2012), Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Bloomsbury, 2016), and the edited Visualising Human Rights (Perth, 2018). She led the Returning Photographs project between 2011-2019 which can be accessed at: Returning Photographs https://ipp.arts.uwa.edu.au/. Her book No Slavery in a Free Land? Anti-Slavery and Australia, 1780-1900 (Routledge 2021) explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution.
Jane Lydon, Chief Investigator
University of Western Australia
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