[Talk] Voyages to Kaju Jawi: Asian expeditions to Napier Broome Bay, northern Australia, in recent centuries

via Monash University: Readers may be interested in this talk by Alistair Paterson and others on Asian-Australian interactions in the early modern period on 22 July. Registration to zoom below.

Professor Alistair Paterson is an ARC Future Fellow in archaeology at the University of Western Australia. His research examines the historical archaeology of colonial coastal contact and settlement in Australia’s Northwest and the Indian Ocean. His key interests are Western Australia and Indian Ocean history, Aboriginal Australia, the Dutch East India Company, colonialism and exploration, rock art, and the history of collecting in Western Australia in collaboration with the Western Australian Museum, State Library, Art Gallery, and the British Museum. He is lead CI on several ongoing ARC projects: (1) Collecting the West: Reimagining Western Australia from its collections; (2) Coastal Connections: dynamic societies of Australia’s Northwest frontier and (3) Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: a maritime archaeological reassessment of some of Australia’s earliest shipwrecks, and a CI on (4) Murujuga: dynamics of the Dreaming.

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