Book Launch: The Floating University

The Floating University: Experience, Empire and the Politics of Knowledge by Tamson Pietsch

In 1926 more than three hundred overprivileged American students travelled around the world on a hastily converted troopship, led by a recently sacked university professor determined to prove that travel could be as educational as any university course. What could possibly go wrong? 

You are invited to (metaphorically) smash a bottle of champagne across the bow of Tamson Pietsch's new book, The Floating University, as it sets sail in 2023 into Australian waters. Come for the interwar highjinks and chloroformed marmosets, and enjoy a dash of epistemology on the side. 

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.