Talk on the 17th: Indigenous Research: By Us or About Us. What’s in it for us?

For more about this event, click here. Admission is free but tickets are required.

The Lin Onus Conversations Presented by The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts

Indigenous Research: By Us or About Us. What’s in it for us? Presented by the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts, the Lin Onus Conversations centre on Indigenous arts, histories and future directions, bringing leading practitioners and educators to the public. The Conversations are designed to foster collaboration and creative engagement between Indigenous and migrant peoples.

Join the conversation with guest speakers Professor Marcia Langton,

Djon Mundine lecture, Same But Different: Things That Matter

Thursday,  19 April, 7:30pm at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies,  78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne. More info here.

I think of the present day Aboriginal condition and the struggle over the last twenty years as akin to the Stalin – Lenin/Trotsky divide in the 1920s and the 1930s. One wanted to consolidate communism in one state; the other to spread the revolution universally – to take it into the international. Colonisation, I think, rolls in a progression,

Tjukurrtjanu Tour this Thursday

This Thursday we are going on a special reading group only tour of Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Art at the NGV Australia, Federation Square, with exhibition curators Judith Ryan and Philip Batty! If you’d like to join us please send me an email (or comment on this post – it will be private unless I approve it to be published).

CCP National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum

Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival

The inaugural Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival demonstrates the breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island contemporary and traditional artistic expression. 

 There’s something for everyone, with three days of dance, cabaret, visual art, theatre, comedy, films and live music.

Call for Papers: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Research Symposium

Call for Papers, full details PDF

Our inaugural Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Research Symposium will provide a forumnfor presentations on current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research by staff and graduate students of The University of Melbourne across all schools, centres and departments. Such research will include presentations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars in any field, as well as work by researchers of all backgrounds who are working on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics.

The Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for researchers, including graduate students, to present their research proposals or findings, and to establish networks with other researchers within The University of Melbourne. Leaders of research projects may wish to co-­‐present with their students. Submissions on interdisciplinary research across all faculties and disciplines are encouraged. The inaugural one-­‐day Symposium will highlight research that may bring (or is already bringing) benefits to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Namatjra presented by Big hART

Namatjra is at the Malthouse Theatre until 28 August. Read more about the Namatjira Project and Big hART by clicking here and here.

Gareth Knapman lecture: “Conciliator or pacificator: the bust of George Augustus Robinson”

1-2pm, Thursday 25 August
Discovery Centre Lecture Theatre at Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton. Entrance is opposite the Royal Exhibition Building.

Free entry. For RSVP and information contact: Dr Heather Gaunt, Indigenous Cultures Department, Phone: 8341 7367, Email: hgaunt@museum.vic.gov.au

See below for more information (copied from circular email with lecture details):

Benjamin Law’s busts of Woureddy and Truganini are shrouded in controversy. In May 2010 the previously lost bust of George Augustus Robinson was found in the Collection of the State Library of Victoria. Robinson organised for the creation of all three busts and therefore they represent a collective story of conciliation and representation. As the Protector of Aborigines in Tasmania, during the 1830s, Robinson persuaded the Aboriginal community to surrender into government protection — an approach mythologised as “conciliation” but
resulted in the Aboriginal population being exiled to Flinders Island.

27 July, Paul S.C. Taçon lecture: Protecting Australia’s Spirit: Our Unique Rock Art Under Threat

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Hosted by the School of Culture and Communication , School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

From inner Sydney to the Pilbara, from Tasmania to the Top End of the Territory, Australia has as many as 100,000 individual rock art sites. Exciting new discoveries are made each year. But because Australia has never had a national database or a coordinated approach to rock art documentation, conservation and management we still do not know exactly what we have.

July Reading: Artlink Indigenous: Beauty and Terror 2011

The Aboriginal Art Reading Group will be on vacation for the month of June. We will resume our monthly gathering on 18 July 4-5pm in Dr. Susan Lowish’s office, room 351 East Tower, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne with articles from Artlink’s upcoming issue Indigenous: Beauty and Terror 2011, which will be launched this Thursday, 2 June, at Federation Square’s Talk blak, talking back: conversations on political blak art. For more on the event click here.

More information about the upcoming issue:

Artlink Indigenous: guest co-editors Daniel Browning and Stephanie Radok.

A bumper annual survey of current developments and issues in this rich and diverse field. Artlink Indigenous: Beauty and Terror 2011 follows in the footsteps of the groundbreaking blak on blak issue