June 2019
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…
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“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
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 the argument…
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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…
Find out more »Cosmopolitan possibilities: Reanimating diasporic narratives in the Transpacific
Prompted by their recent discovery of a migrant literature archive at Deakin University, Daniella, Michelle, and Safdar come together to explore how art and ‘the digital’ can be used to find new points of connection between diasporic narratives. With reference to…
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Space, Law, Coloniality: Ruptures and Continuities
There is an intimacy to the relationship between space, law and coloniality. It is an intimacy that enables continuity under conditions of rupture and returns disguised with a rhetoric of advancement. Struggles for and over land, recognition, citizenship, and the…
Find out more »Indigenous Youth Incarceration and Education – Public Forum
Indigenous young people make up 53% of Australia's incarcerated youth population, yet less than 6% of 10 to 17-year-olds in Australia are Indigenous. In Victoria, Indigenous young people make up only 1.6% of the population aged 10-19, but still represent 16% of those…
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