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On 28 April 1770, James Cook landed on the Australian shore and claimed the land for the British crown, an act that would ultimately lead to the colonisation of the continent and the dispossession of Australia's Indigenous peoples. In this seminar we will focus on the time of First Encounters during the early colonial era. We will engage with texts, images and films dealing with arrivals, first encounters and explorations of various kinds, from First Australians and the explorations of Cook (and others before him) to the founding of the colony of New South Wales and the first circumnavigation of the continent. Texts under discussion will include excerpts from travel reports by James Cook, Joseph Banks and Watkin Tench, maps and other visual documents as well as selected critical texts. |
