The last e-mail from the Center incorrectly stated the times for Professor Warwick Anderson's public talks at Hawaii this week!  Below find the correct information.

Professor Warwick Anderson (M.B.B.S., B.Med.Sc., M.D. - Melbourne; M.A., Ph.D. - Pennsylvania) is currently in Hawaii while researching his latest book project. Click here for a biography!

There are two chances to meet with Professor Anderson!

PUBLIC LECTURE
Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific between the Wars

The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in relation to the investigations of Indigenous depopulation and miscegenation taking place in the Pacific, in Hawai`i especially. Those Australian scientists committed to national or continental white racial ideals--Cecil Cook and Norman B. Tindale among them--remained resistant to the lessons of the Pacific, favoring "half-caste" absorption and disappearance. Other scholars such as Stephen Roberts and A. P. Elkin took the Oceanic approach, coming to value and harness racial hybridity. This talk shows how much of Australian racial thought drifted in from the Pacific.

Thursday, February 6, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
1881 East-West Road
University of Hawaii at Manoa

SEMINAR
Professor Anderson has also agreed to meet a small group of professors and students in a seminar setting who are interested in the Philippines, Southeast Asia and American colonialism. Participants will read his paper in advance (about 20 pages)  and then meet with him for a discussion.

For those who are interested and are planning to join the seminar, please email Vina Lanzona (vlanzona@hawaii.edu) so she can send you Dr. Anderson's paper in advance.

Friday, February 6, 2009
1:00 p.m.  - 3:00 p.m.
Department of History Conference Room
Sakamaki A204
University of Hawaii at Manoa