[ANU Pacific.Institute] 'Anglo-Worlds in Transpacific Crossings: Shipboard cultural encounters' - Frances Steel

[Nicholas Mortimer]

Drear All,
Please see below for detail of next Monday's Pacific and Asian History seminar.
With apologies for cross-posting.


School of Culture, History and Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Department of Pacific and Asian History
2014 Seminar Series


Monday, 27 Oct 2014, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU




Anglo-Worlds in Transpacific Crossings: Shipboard cultural encounters




Frances Steel
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
University of Wollongong



With the rise of steamship liner networks in the second half of the nineteenth century, long-distance transoceanic transit was no longer synonymous with exile or permanent displacement, and oceans became competitive arenas for mobility providers. In the Pacific a route between Sydney and San Francisco opened in 1875, linking two countries that enjoyed historical and cultural affinities, including a rising tide of white settler nationalism. Less imprinted by imperial hierarchies and divisions, this route was perceived as more democratic than comparative networks across the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Yet the relative absence of racial and colonial difference did not erase or overcome the negotiation of difference in shipboard encounters between white men. En route, passengers and crew developed, shared and contested a body of ‘travelling knowledge’. This ranged from embodied practices of comportment, taste and sociability, to more abstract notions of ‘steam age’ maritime culture, emerging in the Pacific later than other oceanic arenas and subject to rival British and American influences.



Frances Steel, a graduate of the ANU, teaches Pacific and Australian history at the University of Wollongong. Her research explores cultures of empire, mobility and the sea. She is writing a history of transpacific steamship routes (Sydney-Vancouver and Sydney-San Francisco) to illuminate entangled British and U.S imperialisms in the Pacific, c.1870-1960. This research is supported by an ARC DECRA fellowship. She is the author ofOceania under steam: sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c.1870-1914 (Manchester, 2011).


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Danton Leary <danton.leary at anu.edu.au<mailto:danton.leary at anu.edu.au>>



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