<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Dear All,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Please see below for details of next Monday's Pacific and Asian History seminar.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">With apologies for cross posting.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">School of Culture, History and Language</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong>Department of Pacific and Asian History</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong>2014 Seminar Series</strong><br><strong></strong><br></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday, 21 July 2014, 3:00pm - 4:30pm</span><br><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU</span><br><br></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Imagined Futures in the Past: Place, Race, Empire, and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 18pt;">Bronwen Douglas</strong><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Department of Pacific & Asian History, CHL</span><br style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ANU College of Asia & the Pacific</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Since 1511, recurrent couplings of fact and fantasy have constituted the European invention, naming, regionalization, and mapping of the fifth part of the world, known as Oceania after 1816. Using comparative critique of maps as historical texts, this paper investigates cartography's varied graphic realization or anticipation of scientific, imperial, racial, colonial, and national visions. I range across the representational gamut from local charts and surveys to the regional and global syntheses they underpin. Charts and surveys are the largely empirical outcomes of located technical expertise, often in dialogue with Indigenous guides or intermediaries. Mappae mundi are the teleological products of science in the service of geopolitics, often embodying strategic misdirection and more or less fervid imaginings. Regional maps occupy the ground between, at once pragmatic, synoptic, and prescriptive and sometimes inflected by Indigenous presence. I outline successive vignettes of the fifth part of the world, or Oceania, as mapped and named from the 16th to the early 21st centuries. By adopting an existential stance that suspends knowledge of outcomes and leaves space for thinking other futures, I show how uneasy liaisons of empirical observation, deductive reasoning, and wishful thinking literally coloured Euro-American maps, culminating in the appropriated colonial palimpsest underlying modern maps of Oceania's nations.</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Bronwen Douglas is adjunct associate professor in Pacific & Asian History. She recently published<em>Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1850</em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>All welcome. You are invited to join the speaker for drinks after the seminar at Fellows Bar, University House </strong><br><br>Enquiries: <br>Danton Leary <<a href="mailto:danton.leary@anu.edu.au">danton.leary@anu.edu.au</a>></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p></div></body></html>