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April 2018
The making, unmaking and remaking of difference: Shifting ideas of difference in theories of settler-Indigenous relations
‘Difference’ conjures diverse meanings in contemporary discourses, and no less so in discourses on relations between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Whether our differences can be breached, and the ethics such an attempt, has been the subject of colonial, postcolonial and…
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Decolonisation and the Struggle over the Global Corporation
The end of formal empires in Africa and Asia in the twentieth century, and the onset of the Cold War, inaugurated three worlds. These worlds were not so much places, as rival projects of world-making, with distinct political, economic and…
Find out more »June 2018
The dilemmas on ontological security in a postcolonising Northern Ireland
Since the signing of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998, Northern Ireland has made significant progress towards a postcolonising transformation of its political culture and its major political and social institutions, as it has shifted away from violence and…
Find out more »August 2018
Pacific Forum
New Caledonia’s independence referendum and the future of French colonialism in the Pacific In November 2018, the French Pacific dependency of New Caledonia will hold a referendum on self-determination. The vote in New Caledonia comes as the government led…
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…
Find out more »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 »September 2018
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…
Find out more »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 »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 »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?…
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