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This HADES seminar provides an open discussion of digital mapping and its relation to humanities theory and critique.

Dr William (Bill) Pascoe focuses on how and why digital maps are especially useful for truth telling about colonial history, with examples from prior and forthcoming work.

This seminar will be of interest to those keen to learn more about digital mapping, colonial violence, counter mapping, digital history and the digital humanities.

Ahead of the seminar, you may wish to explore some of the maps, datasets and research Bill will be presenting on:

• Australian Wars and Resistance
• Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
• Mapping Australian history and culture

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Scholars have long argued that we have entered a new geopolitical era. The labels vary: some describe an “age of transition” toward a “new world disorder,” others a “hard new world,” an era of “multipolarity,” or even an “age of strategic chaos.” Increasingly, political leaders are adopting similar language. In Germany, one chancellor has spoken of a radical turning point (Zeitenwende). His successor—formerly a committed trans-Atlanticist—has acknowledged that Europe must learn to stand on its own. This view is reinforced by the latest US National Security Strategy, its “Trump Corollary” to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, Washington’s new culture-war posture toward Europe, threats regarding Greenland, and the war against Iran.

Most recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a widely discussed speech, warned of “a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality.” He urged middle powers such as Canada, Australia, and Japan to invest in collective “resilience” to balance the influence of great powers.

This roundtable brings together scholars from across the Faculty of Arts to examine both the diagnosis—what is happening to the international order and why—and the policy implications. How should Australia navigate this emerging geopolitical reality?

Presenters include: Professor Mark Edele, Dr Minerva Inwald, Professor Timothy J Lynch, Associate Professor Terry Macdonald, Professor Andrew Walter, Professor Michael Wesley, and Professor Sally Young.