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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Please see below for detail of next Monday's Pacific and Asian History seminar.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">With apologies for cross-posting.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">School of Culture, History and Language</span></div>
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<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>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; ">Monday, 27 Oct 2014, 3:00pm - 4:30pm</span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; ">Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">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.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">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
of</span><em style="font-size: 10pt; ">Oceania under steam: sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c.1870-1914</em><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> (Manchester, 2011).</span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Enquiries: <br>
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College of Asia and the Pacific<br>
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