Archive for the ‘public lecture’ Category
huckabee on israel
Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands. “I cannot imagine as an American […]
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Thursday 21 October 2010 7:30-9pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne James Belich, Kate Darian-Smith, Lorenzo Veracini The southern question is figured as a struggle by colonies to liberate themselves from metropolitan centres in order to realise their own destinies at the other end of the world. This includes taking up the challenge of co-existence […]
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via Southern Perspectives A conversation between Tony Birch and Ross Gibson Two figures from the early days of the Australian colony that have fresh relevance today – an English scientist at the founding of Sydney and an indigenous leader at the birth of Melbourne. William Dawes arrived on the First Fleet as the official astronomer. […]
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Places are complex entities, not necessarily defined by physical structure or geographic location. Because of this, the ways of making place are many and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples have employed distinct strategies of place-making, and brought differing attitudes towards the constitution of place. While non-indigenous Australian histories of place-making have proved largely […]
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Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
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Coming up in Melbourne soon is this symposium on gender and settler colonialism. I will certainly attend and hopefully post some reflections about it afterwards. Here is some info: Friday 19 March, 9.45am-5.15pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies (54 Curzon St, Nth Melbourne) Confirmed speakers and commentators include: Ann Curthoys (Sydney), Patricia Grimshaw (Melbourne), Lynette Russell (Monash), […]
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This is really captivating viewing: a YouTube clip of Eugene Terre’Blanche at the end of last year. Yes, he’s has made a comeback, appealing to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging bittereinders to adjust their rhetoric of discontent. Gone is the gun-toting hyperbole of standing their ground, and subtler is the racist language of their leader. Their new […]
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Just last week, I posted on the topic of Noel Pearson and native title. Unfortunately, I had to rely on the ABC’s sources for the speech contents. Today I have discovered that the Cape York Institute has published a transcript of the speech online, and can be found here. I will post some clippings below […]
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