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30 November 2022
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast is a visual theatre performance, reflecting on the nature of colonialism, intergenerational trauma, loss, land, culture, and identity.
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16 Sep 2022
IPCS Building Fund
IPCS is many things to many people, but quite simply it would not exist without our custodianship of the premises at 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne.
15 Sep 2022
The Queen is Dead
What might we at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies say on the passing of Elizabeth II, Queen of England, Australia, the Commonwealth?
22 Aug 2022
IPCS Reading Group
Our reading group works through influential and contemporary texts on postcolonialism, settler colonialism, and decoloniality, together with other work essaying critical and creative approaches to theory, knowledge and politics.
23 Feb 2022
Counter-Cartographies: The Absent Map
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) and Riwaq – Center for Architectural Conservation (Palestine) are seeking expressions of interest from artists, architects and researchers for a two-month research-based project and workshop supported by the City of Melbourne.
The Space
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Capacity: 12
The Edgar NG Gallery
The Edgar Ng Gallery is light-filled small room with a kitchenette that may be booked in addition to the Phillip Darby Room or the Ashis Nandy Room.
Capacity: 40
The Ashis Nandy Room
Named after a founding fellow of the Institute and prominent postcolonial scholar, the Ashis Nandy Room is the Institute’s main events space. During late Spring and Summer, it may be booked together with the Institute’s courtyard.
Capacity: 14
The Phillip Darby Room
The Phillip Darby Room is a medium sized space, home to the Institute’s library and the Martin Harrison Poetry Archive.