About the event
Join BWB for a talk with Tony Ballantyne, author of Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire.
James Cook is one of the most contested figures in Aotearoa New Zealand’s past. Today, his name evokes not only exploration and scientific endeavour but also the violence of first encounters and the enduring legacies of colonisation. In Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire, historian Tony Ballantyne asks what these shifting narratives on Cook reveal about history and the making of national identity. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Cook and the unsettled legacies of empire.
Please join us at the National Library | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa for this lecture from the author, Tony Ballantyne.
Speakers: Tony Ballantyne will be delivering a lecture, with introductions from Charlotte Macdonald and Paul Diamond.
6-7pm, Tuesday 25th August,
Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street.
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