Online, Wednesday 6 November 2024, 1.00pm AEDT
What if the Australian colonies, far flung and usually considered peripheral to nineteenth-century Europe, were in fact central to the period’s philosophical, ethical, and scientific developments? This talk from Anna Johnston explores this provocative idea, showing how Australia was a key colonial field where British ideas could be trialled in experimental sites that transformed and distilled them before returning them as textual and material artefacts through circuits of correspondence and print culture.