August 2019
Disrespect
When disrespect comes in the form of injury, mistreatment, and is systemic in existing governance arrangements, where does responsibility lie? Join our panel as it discusses the experience of refugee migrants at the hands of the state, the question of…
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Intuiting the archive
We are researchers who find ourselves in archives, without formal training. Most of the time we depend on serendipity, luck, and intuition. How can we learn from historians to infer from archives without neglecting their colonial politics and epistemologies, silences,…
Find out more »June 2019
Living and dying with oil & coal
Join us for a panel discussion on the contemporary politics of extractivism, militarisation and indigenous activism in Australia, Papua New Guinea and India. Register here. Speakers Jon Altman, Independent scholar Dolly Kikon, Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Melbourne Martha…
Find out more »Decolonising governance / Archipelagic thinking
Paul Carter, John Cunningham, Melinda Hinkson & Priya Srinivasan The Institute of Postcolonial Studies Wednesday 5 June 2019, 7.30 pm - register Join our panel to celebrate and discuss Paul Carter’s exciting new book on the geopolitics of relationality. ‘Power may be globalised, but Westphalian notions…
Find out more »May 2019
“Is eating a settler-colonial act?” History, justice, and the future of food
An IPCS panel with Stefano de Pieri, Lauren Rickards, Nick Rose, Christopher Mayes. Please register here. “If you eat, you are involved in agriculture” is a popular saying among agrarian and alternative food advocates. It is often attributed to the…
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Toxic Whiteness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBLJ5pFOYQ&t=2095s Join us for a timely panel discussion with Ghassan Hage and Jessica Gerrard who will address the intensification of racism from distinct but related perspectives. Due to unprecedented interest and our limited venue space, registration is necessary. Please register here. Building on…
Find out more »February 2019
Unpacking My Library
Discipline, Ensayos, and MADA Monash University are pleased to present a public lecture by Michael Taussig, titled ‘Unpacking my Library’. The talk presents a Benjaminian take on and in the library in Paris where Walter Benjamin assembled most of the…
Find out more »November 2018
Crafting co-existence-Please note that this event has been postponed until 2019
What, if anything, do craft, development and international law have in common? Can the grounded, tactile forms of making and cultural creativity embedded in craft offer fresh ethical and methodological insights to future-focused practices such as development and international law?…
Find out more »October 2018
Faultlines to belonging, the ground of cooperation
Wurundjeri Tribe Land Compensation & Cultural Heritage Council and Merri Creek Management Committee have built partnerships and cooperation on Wurundjeri Country through a range of projects together, especially in the last ten years. The outcomes that connect us to our…
Find out more »September 2018
Rethinking the postcolonial for precarious times
In mid-September the Institute will host a two day conference designed to respond to the contemporary pressures being navigated by all of us who work and live with postcolonial interests. We take as our initial provocation recent writings by Cultural…
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