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Citizenship, Diaspora and Belonging: migrant-Indigenous relations

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Themes of citizenship, diaspora and belonging are often approached through a dominant white settler framing, and this Conversation brings together scholars who have sought to unsettle and decolonise this framing by centring more diverse migrant perspectives and relations, often in interaction with Indigenous perspectives. We will explore what new understandings of belonging might emerge. https://youtu.be/EkfsimdZPzI […]

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Water: abundance, scarcity, risk, variability, life

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https://youtu.be/uGHjSIM0_yk Speakers Professor Lesley Head Lesley was elected to Fellowship in the Academy in 2004, taking up the role of President in November 2020. Professor Head is currently Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She has contributed to international debates about relationships between society and nature and her most recent research

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Climate Change & Heritage

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Climate change threatens many-valued parts of Australia’s heritage estate – both cultural and natural – from the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and alpine regions to thousands of historical places and cultural records housed around the country. At the same time, there are many other threats to heritage: mining activity, land-use change, trammelling of Indigenous rights,

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Bearing Witness? – Humanities teaching in times of environmental catastrophe

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  The panelists were Associate Professor Andrea Gaynor, Dr Blanche Verlie, Dr Tom Ford and Dr Paula Satizabal. Dr Verlie began by describing the ‘emotional intensity’ experienced by herself and her students when focusing entirely on the impacts of climate change for a whole semester. ‘In this era of climate change, thinking relationally about it

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.