Undoing Australia (2022)
In 2022, the Australian Centre’s Critical Public Conversations webinar series will showcase interdisciplinary scholarship that undoes ‘Australia’. The series seeks to denaturalise the settler colonial nation-state and reveal Australia as an unfinished political project; one that is constructed, negotiated, contested, and indeed refused every day. The webinars will question how, where, when, why and for whom the colony manifests, interrogating key nation-building sites such as policy, law, education, literature, and the media.
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Keynote: How should we tell the truth about Australia?
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Dismantling settler futures
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Black Stories Matter: the media, power and Aboriginal aspirations
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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through contemporary art and memorial practices
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Whiteness in education
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Aboriginality and Alienage: Legal Pluralism at the Australian Border
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Settler Memory and the Pitfalls and Possibilities of a Third Reconstruction