[ANU Pacific.Institute] Encounters, Agency, and Race in Oceania - Dening Lecture by Bronwen Douglas, 30 October

[Christopher Ballard]

ANU Historian Bronwen Douglas will be giving the prestigious Dening Lecture this year at the University of Melbourne, from 530pm on Friday 30 October.

Encounters, Agency, and Race in Oceania

Re-reading Greg Dening’s writings provides a sharp reminder of the global significance of Pacific history in the second half of the 20th century and his centrality in it. In this talk, Professor Bronwen Douglas discusses three episodes of encounter between European voyagers and Indigenous Oceanians which show the enduring significance to her historical practice of what Greg Dening called ethnohistory or ethnographic history. An ethnohistorical method illuminates the co-formulation of ‘anthropological’ knowledge in the fertile tension between European discourses on human difference or race, travellers’ experience in Oceania, and local agency.

You can register for the webinar at this link:

https://events.unimelb.edu.au/arts/event/8582-encounters-agency-and-race-in-oceania

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