Sovereignty and Solidarity: Redefining belonging in so-called Australia (2024)
In 2024, the Australian Centre’s Critical Public Conversations series will explore questions of belonging, borders, and place. We investigate how Australia’s founding as a settler colony constrains capacities to welcome refugees to these shores and highlight moments of transnational solidarity that bypass the settler order. We are guided by theorists, activists, and artists exploring the intersections and incommensurabilities between Indigenous, migrant, and other racialised communities’ politics and lived experiences. This series will go beyond settler binaries, boundaries, and borders, to explore the ways more humane international, domestic, and indeed interpersonal relations are inextricably bound to justice for First Nations.