Sep
18
to 19 Sep

Decolonising Criminology & Crime Control: Critical Indigenous Perspective

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The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures (CGIF) Macquarie University, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), are holding a two-day event titled Decolonising Criminology and Crime Control: Critical Indigenous Perspectives. 

This event aligns with Workstream 14 - Racial Analysis and Anti-Racism Praxis. CEVAW is intimately connected to institutional violence and abuses of power. This workstream focuses on analysis and mechanisms for addressing institutional and systemic racism. Particularly, how racism occurs in the carceral system as well as in media, health, education and employment, and at the levels of policy, strategy and service provision. Research in this area applies racial analysis to VAW and the policies, services and organisations that respond to and feed into it.

Wednesday the 18th (9:30am-4pm) is dedicated to supporting HDR students interested in decolonising criminology and will involve interactive workshops.
Thursday 19 September 2024 (9.00am - 5:00pm) involves a critical analysis and commentary on the decolonisation project as it pertains to the discipline of criminology, and the criminal justice systems across so-called Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Sep
18
3:00 pm15:00

Book Launch: Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence

This collection offers a unique exploration of critical racial literacy and anti-racist praxis in Australia's educational landscape. Combining critical race and Indigenous theories and perspectives, contributors articulate a decolonial liberatory imperative for our times. In an age when 'decolonization' has become a buzzword, the book demystifies 'critical anti-racism praxis,' advocating for critical and multidisciplinary approaches.

The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures is pleased to host the launch of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies edited by Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando.

Hear from Prof Joseph Pugliese who will introduce the book, one of the two editors, A/Prof Debbie Bargallie and a range of contributors including Distinguished Prof Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, A/Prof Maria Giannacopoulos, Dr Naama Carlin and Dr Andrew Brooks and Prof Alana Lentin.

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Sep
23
9:30 am09:30

Deathscapes Afterlives

A One-Day Symposium hosted by UNSW Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice

The Deathscapes: Mapping Racial Violence in Settler Colonial Societies (2016-2020) project presents new understandings of the practices and technologies, both global and domestic, that enable state violence against racialised groups in settler states. Within the violent frame of the settler colonial state, centred on Indigenous deaths as a form of elimination and the consequent expropriation of unceded Indigenous Country, the deaths of other racialised bodies within the nation and at its borders—including Black, migrant, and refugee deaths—reaffirm the assertion of settler sovereignty. To focus on Indigenous deaths and other racialised deaths is not to collapse the differences between racialised groups but to bring into focus some of the shared strategies, policies, practices and rationales of state violence deployed in the governance of these different groups.

In this one-day symposium, we ask speakers to address how the key issues raised by the Deathscapes project continue to resonate across different Indigenous nations, settler geographies and the larger transnational asylum seeker and refugee deathscapes. We also ask speakers to reflect on the transnational dimensions of the relations of power that shape contemporary deathscapes; on the lines of shared activism and solidarity that continue to challenge and resist the lethal practices of the settler state and so-called “post-colonial” states; and on urgent moves towards the abolition of the settler prison-industrial-border complex.

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Nov
18
to 29 Nov

Visiting Scholar: Dr Liana MacDonald

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Dr Liana MacDonald

Pūkenga Matua | Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Te Kura Mahinga Tangata | School of Social and Cultural Studies

Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington

Co-Editor Whiteness and Education

Co-Editor, Genealogy Special Issue "Decolonial (and Anti-Colonial) Interventions to Genealogy". Submissions due 1 June 2024.

 

 

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Nov
22
to 6 Dec

Visiting Scholar: Dr Percy Lezard

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Dr Percy Lezard

(Mnimcelx, They, Them)
Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies, Law and Social Justice, Faculty of Liberal Arts
Wilfred Laurier University

Dr Lezard is an internationally renowned Two Spirit scholar whose research and community work promotes Indigenous knowledges, Two Spirit pedagogies, community Indigenous health, missing and murdered women and 2SLGBTQQIA1+, and gender-based violence in 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities. They are a survivor of the multi-generational impacts of the residential school system and the Sixties Scoop. They are an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and work toward decolonising curriculum and building inclusive pedagogies. They are currently working with Dr Andrew Farrell and together are editing a special issue ‘Queering Indigenous Research Methods’. Many of their publications are presented verbally and in a variety of formats for accessibility for Indigenous communities and those with disability. They are currently engaged in research that is broadly health humanities and are an advocate for culturally safe and life affirming health for 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.

 
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Nov
25
to 29 Nov

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference: Anti-Colonial Futures & Representation

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Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference 2024 
Anti-colonial Futures and Representation  

Prefix Day 25 November 
CSAA2024 Conference 26 - 29 November 

Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University 

The discipline of cultural studies has been regarded as a site of understanding culture and resistance.  Stuart Hall claimed that people need a language to speak about where they are, and what possible futures are available to them.  At the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures and the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies on Wallumattagal Campus (MQ), Dharug Country, we focus the studies of culture within an anti-colonial language and praxis. In November 2024 we look forward to you joining us to explore what this means across the broader discipline of Cultural Studies.  

This will mark the first time an Indigenous-centred site has hosted the CSAA conference. Across Cultural Studies we make choices in how our practice upholds or challenges colonialities, on how we look to the past, engage the now, and anticipate and map expansive futures.  Presenters are invited to engage expansively with the theme. The Call for Papers is now open, and will close Monday 19 August. 

CSAA2024 runs from Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 November, including an excursion day taking place on Thursday 28 November (there are three available options for this day). In addition, Monday 25 November will be the CSAA Prefix Day: Prefix precedes the CSAA Conference and is a day designed for the training and networking of emerging researchers in the field of cultural studies. HDRs, ECRs, casual academics, and independent scholars are welcome to attend. Supervisors of HDR candidates who are registered for the full conference are also invited to sit in on Prefix sessions. 

 Registration fee tiers: 

Registration fees for CSAA2024 are tiered according to income at three levels, and are inclusive of one year of membership to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. There is no difference in membership benefits across the three tiers. 

In 2024, we are introducing a policy of including First Nations scholars in the lowest tier,  regardless of income. 

There is no fee for attendance at the Prefix Day for HDRs, ECRs, and casual/independent academics. Supervisors who wish to attend should do so only if registered for the full conference. 

Conference registration includes all teas, lunches and receptions. Please note that some excursion options will attract an additional fee (museum entry), payable on the day. 

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Jun
28
12:00 pm12:00

Book Launch: Mykaela Saunders

Join Dr Mykaela Saunders as she discusses her prize-winning short story collection Always Will Be with Dr Michelle Hamadache on Friday, 28th June 2024 from 12:00pm to 2:15pm. Drinks and light refreshments provided. Books will be available for purchase.

Dr Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, researcher, editor and teacher.


When: Fri 28th Jun 2024, 12:00 pm - 2:15 pm AEST
Where: Arts Precinct B - Readers and Writers Room
25 Wally's Walk, Macquarie Park NSW 2109

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