<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The South Asia Seminar series is pleased to present a talk by <B>Dr Gaia Giulian</B>i on</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>31st August</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Day: <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Friday</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Time: <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>6 pm</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Venue:<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>room 210, Building 3 (755 Harris St, Broadway), UTS</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Beyond curiosity. James Mill's </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>History</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> and the new colonial imaginary.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">In the context of a rethink of role and aims of the British Empire after the American crisis and the consequent collapse of the Western Empire and the French Revolution, the reflections of Utilitarianism, and in particular, James Mill's on India represent a sort of </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>turning point</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> between the idea of Empire that dominated the preceding centuries and tthose at the end of the first half of the 19 </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.2px;">th</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> century. The time between the American crisis and the so-called "age of reforms" in the 1830s, a sort of </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Sattelzeit</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">, according to Pocock, in which «old patterns of discourse persist while new arise, both interacting vigorously to produce new discursive situations and perhaps an intensive sense of their historicity», produced the most important historiographical work of the time – J. Mill's </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>The History of British India </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">– a view of the Empire as an increasingly an active, unitary, organic political reality. Through the symbolical and material creation of a true colonial government, realised by the efforts of governors and politicians as well as theorists and philosophers, the Empire lost any feature of «informality» to gain, in India, the form of a well-organized and "consistent" political and institutional whole whose legitimacy was founded on ideas of universal progress. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>The History of British India</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> then became not just "the practical manual for the following generations of colonial officers and administrators" but a key-work that embodied the analytical paradigm and discursive structure of a colonial imaginary that was preserved, inherited and transformed coherently into the "civilizing mission" - and then betrayed in its own claims -, until the British Empire's decay. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dr. Gaia Giuliani is a scholar of "Colonial and Postcolonial Studies" at the Dept. Politica Istituzioni Storia of the University of Bologna (Italy). She took the Doctoral degree in February 2005 with a dissertation on "Liberalism, Utilitarianism and Empire: James Mill's <I>History of British India</I> and its context" which will be published by Aracne Editors (Rome) under the title <I>Beyond curiosity. James Mill e la nascita del governo coloniale britannico in India.</I> She is member of the editorial board of the first Italian review on Cultural Studies («Studi Culturali», il Mulino, Bologna) and collaborates with the most important Italian journal on history of political thought («Il pensiero politico», Olschki, Firenze; «Filosofia Politica», Il Mulino, Bologna) in which she has published two essays ("Paul Gilroy and the international debate on race and racism", 2003; "The notion of Empire in the English political thought between the 17 <FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT> and the first half of 19<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT> century"). </DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">(Dr) Devleena Ghosh</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Senior Lecturer, Social Inquiry Program</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">(University Research Centre for Communication and Culture)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Bon Marche (Bldg 3), room 550 (enter via Harris St)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">University of Technology, Sydney</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Australia</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Postal address: PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Phone and Voice Mail: +61-2-95141963</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Fax: +61-2-95142778</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au</SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>