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Dear all,
Please be advised of this upcoming Pacific and Asian History seminar. Note that this Monday seminar will be taking place in Coombs Seminar Room A.
With apologies for cross-posting.

School of Culture, History and Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Department of Pacific and Asian History
2015 Seminar Series

Monday, 10 August 2015, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

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

Ta'isi O. F. Nelson and the Mau: Australian dimensions to a New Zealand and Samoan history

Dr Patricia O’Brien
ARC Future Fellow
School of History CASS ANU

This paper explores how Australia and Australians played a role in the history of Samoan Mau. The person predominantly responsible for making and maintaining Australian connections was nationalist leader Ta’isi O. F. Nelson.  Ta’isi had business interests in Australia, especially in Sydney, as well as unlikely friendships with some Australian public figures.  This paper will illuminates another dimension to the story of the Samoan Mau and Australia’s engagement in interwar Pacific affairs.  The paper also reveals the untold story of Ta’isi’s exile from Samoa in Auckland during the Great Depression.

Patricia O’Brien is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at Australian National University. In 2012 she was the J. D. Stout Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Victoria University Wellington.  In 2011 she was the Jay I. Kislak Fellow in American Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.  From 2001 to 2013 she was visiting Associate Professor in the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies and the Department of History in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC. She is the author of The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific (Seattle 2006), as well as numerous chapters and articles on colonialism and cultural history.  Her current project is a biography of Samoan nationalist leader Ta’isi O. F. Nelson.


Contact: patricia.obrien at anu.edu.au<mailto:patricia.obrien at anu.edu.au>
Seminar enquiries: andrew.delisle at anu.edu.au<mailto:andrew.delisle at anu.edu.au>


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