Love and Reparation is a theatrical response to a decades-long litigation battle in India that ultimately resulted in the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 2018.
Join us for a two-day online workshop focused on the imagination, politics and practice of anticolonial reading and critique.
J. Daniel Elam
Join us as we discuss the need for new kinds of storying about Australia.
To turn away, to obfuscate through deferring the issue to complexity, supposed religious animosity and orientalist narratives of Middle Eastern infighting, particularly in the contemporary climate of ethno-nationalism and far right populism would have us abdicate our role as critical intellectuals of the postcolonial and decolonial.
The Darwin Fifteen have become the Darwin Nine in recent months, but this is not cause for celebration. Early in 2020, fifteen Iranian and Sri Lankan people, legally determined to be refugees, were transferred to a tiny compound adjacent to a popular resort hotel at Darwin Airport.
The Indian state under the current ruling political formation has over the past few years been pursuing a virulent campaign of a populist anti-intellectualism, targeting the humanities and the social sciences in particular.
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.
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.
The Phillip Darby Room is a medium sized space, home to the Institute’s library and the Martin Harrison Poetry Archive.