November 2019
Anak Araw | AFW+IPCS Film Screening
ANAK ARAW (Albino), directed by Gym Lumbera, Philippines, 2012, 63 minutes. Ának Araw follows a Filipino albino who, believing he is of American descent, teaches himself English using a dictionary. Set in the 1950s, the film integrates original celluloid footage with…
Find out more »October 2019
Creative Disasters
Creative Disasters What roles for artists in the coming disaster? The number of “natural” disasters are increasing globally. Yet, disaster research is often trapped in a reductive paradigm couched in paternalistic and technocratic language of “solutions”, which are complicit with…
Find out more »Staying with Antigone
Staying with Antigone Disobedience, morality and art in an unjust world Antigone is the protagonist of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, paying with her life the choice of rebelling against an ethically inadmissible law. Her tragedy highlights the question of disobedience when…
Find out more »Writing to Cross
Writing to Cross A workshop on migration and multilingualism in writing Ubah Cristina Ali Farah was born in Italy to a Somali father and an Italian mother, grew up in Mogadishu, and currently lives in Brussels. She is a writer, performer,…
Find out more »Postdevelopment in practice
Postdevelopment in practice 25 years ago postdevelopment critique destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and aims, but it has been necessary to push beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice. Join our panel Elise Klein (Uni. Melbourne), Katharine McKinnon…
Find out more »Big Boy
B i g B o y (2012, 89 min) Film Screening Artist Film Workshop + Institute of Postcolonial Studies 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne Friday 11 October 2019, 7.30 pm - cost $5 Filmmaker Shireen Seno will join Audrey Lam (AFW) and Camila Marambio via Skype…
Find out more »September 2019
Contempt
Contempt, A Theatrical Rendition of the Section 377 Hearings Performed by Ade Suharto, Adil Hasan Khan, Danish Sheikh, Darshan Datar, Divya Patpatia, Johanna Commins and Tarun Khaitan Over a period of two months in 2012, the Supreme Court of India…
Find out more »Beyond Sorry: On making amends for injury and injustice at Parihaka
Beyond Sorry: On making amends for injury and injustice at Parihaka Please register to attend the event. In her recent book Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (Taranaki Is The Mountain) Rachel Buchanan revisits the brutal 1881 invasion by 1,500 colonial troops of…
Find out more »Saharawi: Rights & Recognition
Western Sahara remains the last non-self-governing territory in Africa and approximately 170,000 Saharawis remain displaced in refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. While waiting for a referendum, Saharawis have called for the United Nations Mission in Western Sahara to add a…
Find out more »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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