Centre for Native Title Anthropology Seminar Series - Native Title Governance in the Post-Mabo Era: The Torres Strait Experience
Seminar
Since 1999 there have been over twenty consent determinations in Torres Strait. This seminar examines the establishment and operation of the region’s Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate (RNTBCs) – the bodies that hold in trust or manage native title on behalf of the native title holders. Like…
HRC Seminar - Trauma and Haunting: The Irish Language as Ruin/Revenant
Seminar
The ambiguous and often contested position of the Irish language was attested to as recently as the 2011 Irish general election, where a debate on the compulsory status of the language in the educational system became a central political issue. Brief use of the language by both the British Queen…
HRC Seminar - The Adelaide District in 1836
Seminar
Using 14 illustrations, this talk describes the vegetation of the Adelaide district at the time of European settlement in 1836. Using a variety of fire and no fire regimes, Aboriginal people deliberately distributed this vegetation in patterns, to ensure that all life flourished, and to make…
HRC Seminar - Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Seminar
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel provides an alternative to the conventional wisdom produced by two staple texts for literary and cultural studies: Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel and Edward Said’s Orientalism. The talk is taken from a forthcoming book of the same…
In Memory of Mawalan
Book launch
Film screening and director's talk Director Ian Dunlop will introduce a rare screening on In Memory of Mawalan, an ealry 1970s film featuring the elaborate rituals that took place at the memorial of Aboriginal clan leader Mawalan. Presented in association with the Yalangbara exhibition of artworks…
HRC Seminar - Affecting Politics: Points for Future Living in Postapartheid Narrative
Seminar
Can there be history in affect? Is affect historical? This paper explores the study of affect in relation to the powerful plots of trauma and memory that have shaped discourse on post-apartheid remembering. While frequently cast as an ahistorical, atemporal shock to the system, be it…
HRC Seminar - War and Peace and Nigeria: Modernity, Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel
Seminar
Postcolonial approaches to historical fiction typically focus on questions of representation, epistemology, and discursive struggles over the right to narrate. While these are often illuminating, they tend to privilege a ‘resistance’ model that sees novelists as pitting themselves against…