An Insular State Thu 02-09-10, 7:30pm At least since Thomas More’s Utopus founded his ideal state by carving it free, by the use of forced labour, from the continent to which it was bound, the topos of the island, organised by an ontologised division between land and sea, has been central to the geopolitical imagination [...]
Posts Tagged ‘oceans’
The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field
Sydney Sawyer Seminar: The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009 Generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Sydney The University of Sydney is the proud host of the first Mellon Sawyer Seminar to be held in Australia. The seminar will conclude with a conference [...]
Oceanic Transformations conference
clip_image002 3rd Conference ‘Oceanic Transformations’ Victoria University Conference Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 8th – 11th April 2010 Call for abstracts by 8th February 2010 The Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS) holds a biennial conference. The first one, "Australia in the Pacific – the Pacific in Australia" was held in January [...]
Epeli Hau’ofa (1939-2009)
image Tongan writer and cultural theorist Epeli Hau’ofa passed away on Sunday 11 January 2009. Hau’ofa was born in Papua New Guinea in 1939 of Tongan missionary parents. He was educated in a variety of countries, eventually receiving his PhD at the Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. His positions included Keeper of Palace Records [...]
Indian Ocean themes
Workshop themes have been released for Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking The Indian Ocean, University Of Technology Sydney 11 – 13 March 2009 Subaltern and creole connections across imperial boundaries Islands in the ocean as sites of heightened connectivity The dissemination of knowledges, especially via printing presses using vernacular languages Comparisons and insights from Atlantic [...]
Re-thinking the Indian Ocean
INTERCOLONIAL NETWORKS; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS:RE-THINKING THE INDIAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY11th – 13th March 2009 This workshop will mark the inauguration of a new Indian Ocean research network supported by the University of Technology Sydney. It will aim to work collaboratively with the major Indian Ocean centres of research based in India and South Africa, [...]
