Program
Our graduate research program is designed to enhance the experience of Masters and PhD students by creating an enriching cohort experience that develops an intellectual community and facilitates opportunities to deepen students’ academic knowledge and skills.
The program is informed by approaches to doctoral pedagogy grounded in student-centred and transformative praxis. Drawing on the work of Michelle Trudgett (2014) and inspiration from the Maori and Indigenous (MAI) (Pihama et al., 2019) and Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) (Pidgeon et al., 2014) programs, our graduate research program is based on and promotes Indigenous doctoral pedagogy as best practice for all students.
The Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program is focused around a series of masterclasses delivered by scholars presenting in the Australian Centre's critical public conversation seminar series. The masterclasses are supplemented with a set of research development activities designed to accelerate research careers of students engaged in the program:
- workshops focused on ethics, research methodology, approaches for communicating research to diverse audiences across and beyond the academy,
- research symposium,
- writing retreats.
In addition to the core program, the Australian Centre facilitates a range of regular, open events and activities that we warmly invite you to join, including the seminar series, our critical reading group, public lectures and film screenings. We also invite students in the program to meet regularly throughout each semester to share research progress and to participate in writing sessions.
2023 Program
February 2023
Welcome Event
Date: Friday 24 February
March 2023
Launch of the Australian Centre
Director Professor Sarah Maddison, Deputy Director Dr Julia Hurst and the team warmly invite you to join us to launch the Australian Centre’s 2023 research program titled Country, Climate, Colonialism.
Date: Wednesday 1 March
Co-working sessions: March Shut Up and Write
This is the first of the monthly group writing sessions. Shut Up and Write sessions are useful to make your writing more focused, set aside some dedicated writing time, build a sense of community around your writing, minimise procrastination, and increase motivation.
Date: Tuesday 14 March
Workshop: Research ethics
An ethical starting point for relational work is the understanding that ‘the relations between Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the settler state [is] the focal point of inquiry rather than the lives and bodies of Indigenous peoples’ (Nakata & Maddison, 2019, p. 419). Thus we seek to decentre disciplinary authority to know Indigenous peoples, and prioritise the relations between Indigenous peoples and the settler order.This workshop will explore both the ethical principles for relational research, and critical reflections on navigating ethics approval processes.
Presenters: Dr. Kim Alley, Dr. Dan Tout, Professor Karen Farquharson|
Date: Monday 20 March
April 2023
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation on Cultural water for cultural economies.
Presenter: Dr. Erin O'Donnell
Date: Monday 3 April
Workshop: Indigenous storywork
This seminar will examine innovative practices in research which interrogate the life and positionality of the researcher as part of the design of the project, including concepts like storywork, standpoint, and strong objectivity. We will discuss how these practices are being implemented by the workshop participants and talk through the complications of utilising them in Indigenous research.
Presenter: Arlie Alizzi
Date: Wednesday 19 April
Co-working sessions: April Shut Up and Write
This is the second of the monthly group writing sessions. Shut Up and Write sessions are useful to make your writing more focused, set aside some dedicated writing time, build a sense of community around your writing, minimise procrastination, and increase motivation.
Date: Friday 28 April
May 2023
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation on Caring for Country: Deliberative policymaking.
Presenter: Justin McCaul
Date: Monday 2 May
Co-working sessions: May Shut Up and Write
May is the third monthly group writing session. These Shut Up and Write sessions use the Pomodoro technique to help to make your writing more focused. The idea is to set aside some dedicated writing time while building a sense of community around your writing.
Date: Tuesday 9 May
Workshop: Digital Settler Colonialism? Critical perspectives
The digital worlds we inhabit are shaped by profoundly unequal relations. Critical data studies emerged in recent decades as an interdisciplinary scholarly subfield dedicated to the denunciation and understanding of systematic modalities of subjection, marginalisation, dispossession, and domination. Contributing to this larger effort, this workshop explores the dynamics of digital settler colonialism: a mode of domination premised on the relentless appropriation of the online territories inhabited and curated by the digital natives, and on a logic of elimination.
Presenter: Lorenzo Veracini
Date: Monday 29 May
June 2023
Co-working sessions: June Shut Up and Write
June is the fourth monthly group writing session, the last for Semester 1. These Shut Up and Write sessions use the Pomodoro techniqueLinks to an external site. to help to make your writing more focused. The idea is to set aside some dedicated writing time while building a sense of community around your writing.
Date: Thursday 8 June
Workshop: Speak out/Geek out
“It's just a bunch of stuff, more or less sorted into an argument. Some of it's good, some of it isn't” (Richards, 2008, p. 20). As grad students and researchers, we often get excited about some pretty niche and deeply nerdy stuff, and then, we have to write it up. The process of writing, as we well know, can get pretty tough. Speak out/Geek out is a space to speak out loud something you’re trying to get your head around in your research. It’s also a space to share something exciting and geek out about it with your peers. You could share anything from half-formed thoughts to a flash of comprehension. We hope the workshop will help alleviate some writing challenges you are facing, introduce some excitement into the process, and reinforce the sense of community and camaraderie.
Presenter: Amanda Bertana, one of the Australian Centre visiting fellows
Date: Tuesday 6 June
Workshop: Sovereign Theory
How do non-Indigenous scholars who are committed to doing anticolonial research engage with Indigenous scholarship that works from Indigenous ontologies, methodologies and perspectives? This is an ethical and political question which confronts me, and many other settler researchers working in the areas of policy, politics, sociology, theory, ecology and anthropology. There are a range of positions on this question, and in this workshop I will discuss my own approach, which of course remains iterative and open to critique and which draws from the work of critical Indigenous scholars including Watego and Moreton-Robinson. The dominance of white experts claiming to know ‘about’ Indigenous lives continues to be a deeply problematic part of colonialism, and building upon a standpoint approach, I suggest that Indigenous scholarship has political and ontological priority. Yet prioritizing this work requires that non-Indigenous scholars engage with and in some cases use Indigenous analytics without claiming an ability to produce, access the ontological grounding of, or exercise authoritative judgement over, these analytics. In orienting ourselves to Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, it may be possible to enact forms of intellectual solidarity from a location of complicity. I look forward to hearing the approaches that others use, and to having a broader discussion around research as political action, sovereignty and solidarity across difference.
Presenter: Dr Liz Strakosch
Date: Tuesday 20 June
July 2023
Midyear Writing Retreat
Writing Retreats provide participants with structure, time, and encouragement to make progress on their writing in the company of other scholars. They are designed to provide you with the space to write as part of a community of productive student researchers. The program will include structured writing time, goal-setting and debriefing sessions, and the celebration of progress made.
Date: Tuesday 11 - Thursday 13 July
August 2023
Writing a research proposal workshop
Research proposals are a part of every academic’s working life, from PhD onwards. This workshop will introduce participants to a framework for developing a research proposal. Based around four simple questions, the framework will help participants to identify their central research question and outline a plan for how they will approach it. By the end of the workshop participants should have the tools they need to write a research proposal.
Presenter: Professor Sarah Maddison
Date: Tuesday 8 August
Co-working sessions: August Shut Up and Write
This is another monthly group writing session to set aside some dedicated writing time, build a sense of community around your writing, minimise procrastination, and increase motivation.
Date: Tuesday 15 August
Masterclass: Melinda Adams
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Melinda M. Adams
Date: Tuesday 29 August (TBC)
September 2023
Co-working sessions: September Shut Up and Write
This is the sixth monthly group writing session. Shut Up and Write sessions are useful to make your writing more focused, set aside some dedicated writing time, build a sense of community around your writing, minimise procrastination, and increase motivation.
Date: Thursday 7 September
Publishing workshop
The publishing workshop is focused on exploring opportunities for disseminating research and building a publication profile in the field of Indigenous-settler relations. Core topics include developing a publication plan, identifying suitable journals, understanding the difference between writing for the thesis and writing for journals, develop an ethical politics of citation in the field of Indigenous-settler relations.
Presenter: Dr Ashley Barnwell
Date: September TBC
Masterclass: Survival Int. Fiore Longo
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in the presentation about Survival International.
Presenter: Fiore Longo
Date: Thursday 21 September
Research collaborations workshop
Relations are the foundation of what we do, but what does it mean to be involved in research collaborations and projects oriented toward decolonisation and Indigenisation? In this workshop, presenter Andrew Herscher will talk us through Decolonising the Chicago Cultural Centre, a site-specific project for the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. We will discuss the relations created to work in collaboration with the American Indian Centre, along with some of the building “annotations” and the afterlife of this project.
Presenter: Associate Professor Andrew Herscher
Date: Tuesday 26 September
October 2023
Insider/Outsider Research Workshop
Insider/outsider tensions imbue engaged qualitative research. How could they not? Who we are in the knowledge (co) production processes, and the relationships and distances we share with our fieldwork communities and spaces, matters intensely. In this session, we unpack some of the entanglements that come from our relationships to, and connections with, the communities we research. We invite participants to reflect on theoretical and practical interventions with respect to these tensions.
Presenters: Dr Julia Hurst & Dr Nicholas Apoifis
Date: Friday 6 October
Co-working sessions: October Shut Up and Write
This is the seventh monthly group writing session to make your writing more focused, set aside some dedicated writing time, build a sense of community around your writing, minimise procrastination, and increase motivation.
Date: Monday 16 October
Masterclass: Omar Tesdell
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in the presentation.
Presenters: Associate Professor Omar Tesdell
Date: TBC October
November 2023
Co-working sessions: November Shut Up and Write
November is the final monthly group writing session for the 2023 program.
Date: Thursday 2 November
Research Symposium
The Australian Centre Research Symposium is an opportunity for participants to showcase and share their excellent and innovative work in the field of Indigenous settler relations. We invite attendees to share their questions and critiques, experience and knowledge. We seek to create a space to have difficult conversations, which are essential for justice and our collective futures. We will focus on developing learning communities and creating conversations that will generate collaboration among scholars in the university setting.
Date: Monday 13 November
Australian Centre International Conference: A Profound Reorganising of Things
In 2023 the Student Research Symposium will be part of the international conference hosted by the Australian Centre titled: A Profound Reorganising of Things.
Date: Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 November
December 2023
End of year Writing Retreat
The End-of-year Writing Retreat is a residential Writing Retreat, there is no online component. This retreat is the only entirely in-person activity. The retreat combines quiet writing time with collegial discussions of both our work in progress and aspects of the writing process through optional informal workshops.
Dates: Sunday 3 - Friday 8 December
2022 Program
February 2022
Welcome Event
Date: Friday 25 February
March 2022
Launch of the Australian Centre
Director Professor Sarah Maddison, deputy director Dr Julia Hurst and the team warmly invite you to the launch of the revitalised Australian Centre.
Date: Wednesday 9 March, 3:45pm - 6pm (AEDT)
Welcome to Country
Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
Performances
Djirri Djirri, Wurundjeri women's dance group
Les Thomas, singer-songwriter
Speakers
Yoo-rrook Justice Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter
Professor Ghassan Hage, Chair of the Australian Centre Advisory Board
Professor Russell Goulbourne, Dean of Arts
Professor Sarah Maddison and Dr Julia Hurst, Australian Centre Directors
Refreshments
Mabu Mabu, Indigenous Owned Events & Catering, Bar & Kitchen
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Professor Sarah Maddison and Dr Julia Hurst
Date: Thursday 24 March, 10:30am - 12pm (AEDT)
April 2022
Research Ethics Workshop
An ethical starting point for relational work is the understanding that ‘the relations between Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the settler state [is] the focal point of inquiry rather than the lives and bodies of Indigenous peoples’ (Nakata & Maddison, 2019, p. 419). Thus we seek to decentre disciplinary authority to know Indigenous peoples, and prioritise the relations between Indigenous peoples and the settler order.
This workshop will explore both the ethical principles for relational research, and critical reflections on navigating ethics approval processes.
Presenters: Dale Wandin, Dr Julia Hurst and Dr Ligia (Licho) López López
Date: Friday 22 April, 2pm - 4pm (AEST)
Study circle/Work in Progress session
This is a forum for participants to present, discuss, and develop your scholarship and an opportunity to talk about your research, methodologies, challenges, aspirations, and more with an established academic and your peers from the Program. Participants can bring work in progress, a concept, idea, question, piece of writing, text that you’ve read, or anything that you would like to consider with others. Each session will have a member of the Australian Centre’s academic community in attendance and the space is available for dialogue, input, feedback and sharing.
Facilitator: Professor Karen Farquharson
Date: Thursday 28 April, 1pm - 3pm (AEST)
May 2022
Migrants, Settlers, Sovereignties: A Workshop on Migration and Colonialism
Studies of Mediterranean migrations and diasporas in Australia have often been explored within a celebratory settler national frame of analysis. That is, the stories of Maltese, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Egyptian, Syrian, and Lebanese migrants in Australia have been framed as central to nation building developments. Narratives that showcase the migrant experience as a story of “struggle and success” have become a celebrated aspect of Australia’s past. Indeed, the story that migrants who arrived in an Anglo-British world that was largely hostile to their presence, worked hard to climb the steep ladder of social mobility to become prosperous, integrated, and, yet hyphenated Australians has become commonplace in public memory. In this sense, the experience of Mediterranean migrants settling in Australia has become a central story of the nation’s multicultural ethos. The acceptance and promotion of this migrant contribution narrative has buttressed colonial nation-building and acted to dispel the implications of past and present settler colonialisms.
This workshop, in different ways, contests this limited national framing of migration and settlement to Australia. Together, we will explore how it might be possible to realign historical stories of migration so that they engage with past and ongoing dynamics of colonialism. We will draw upon studies of Indigenous sovereignty, multicultural settler colonial structures, and migrant subjectivity to both broaden our understanding of migration and diversify stories of colonialism. Designed to disrupt and disentangle the prevailing dichotomy between settler-coloniser and colonised, the workshop aims to unravel how an assortment of individuals and groups from the Mediterranean region positioned themselves – despite being positioned as precariously white – as loyal to settler colonial ideas. We will also discuss how the cultural specificities of diasporic cultures have contributed to how migrant groups lay claim to the settler colonial worlds that they have come to call home.
This is a joint workshop with students from the Grad Program and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s PhD Program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies
Presenter: Dr Andonis Piperoglou
Date: Friday 13 May 10:30am - 12pm (AEST)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Dr Elizabeth Strakosch
Date: Friday 27 May 11am - 12pm (AEST)
Study circle/Work in Progress session
This is a forum for participants to present, discuss, and develop your scholarship and an opportunity to talk about your research, methodologies, challenges, aspirations, and more with an established academic and your peers from the Program. Participants can bring work in progress, a concept, idea, question, piece of writing, text that you’ve read, or anything that you would like to consider with others. Each session will have a member of the Australian Centre’s academic community in attendance and the space is available for dialogue, input, feedback and sharing.
Facilitator: Dr Kim Alley
Date: Monday 30 May, 1pm - 3pm (AEST)
June 2022
Study circle/Work in Progress session
This is a forum for participants to present, discuss, and develop your scholarship and an opportunity to talk about your research, methodologies, challenges, aspirations, and more with an established academic and your peers from the Program. Participants can bring work in progress, a concept, idea, question, piece of writing, text that you’ve read, or anything that you would like to consider with others. Each session will have a member of the Australian Centre’s academic community in attendance and the space is available for dialogue, input, feedback and sharing.
Facilitator: Dr Lou Bennett
Date: Thursday 9 June, 10:30am – 12:30pm (AEST)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Dr Archie Thomas
Date: Wednesday 22 June, 11:30am - 12:30pm (AEST)
July 2022
Winter Writing Retreat
Writing Retreats provide participants with structure, time, and encouragement to make progress on their writing in the company of other scholars. They are designed to provide you with the space to write as part of a community of productive student researchers.
The program will include structured writing time, goal setting and debriefing sessions and the celebration of progress made.
Dates: Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 July [online]
August 2022
Study circle/Work in Progress session
This is a forum for participants to present, discuss, and develop your scholarship and an opportunity to talk about your research, methodologies, challenges, aspirations, and more with an established academic and your peers from the Program. Participants can bring work in progress, a concept, idea, question, piece of writing, text that you’ve read, or anything that you would like to consider with others. Each session will have a member of the Australian Centre’s academic community in attendance and the space is available for dialogue, input, feedback and sharing.
Facilitator: Associate Professor Jennifer Balint
Date: Thursday 4 August, 1:30pm – 3pm (AEST)
Masterclass 1
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Dr Amy Spiers and Genevieve Grieves
Date: Tuesday 9 August, 10:30am - 12pm (AEST)
Publishing workshop
The publishing workshop is focused on exploring opportunities for disseminating research and building a publication profile in the field of Indigenous-settler relations. Core topics include:
- developing a publication plan
- identifying suitable journals
- understanding the difference between writing for the thesis and writing for journals
- develop an ethical politics of citation in the field of Indigenous-settler relations.
Presenter: Dr Ashley Barnwell
Date: Thursday 11 August, 10am - 11:30am (AEST)
Masterclass 2
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Associate Professor Jessica Gerrard, Professor Arathi Sriprakash and Dr Sophie Rudolph
Date: Friday 19 August 3pm - 4:30pm (AEST)
September 2022
Study circle/Work in Progress session
This is a forum for participants to present, discuss, and develop your scholarship and an opportunity to talk about your research, methodologies, challenges, aspirations, and more with an established academic and your peers from the Program. Participants can bring work in progress, a concept, idea, question, piece of writing, text that you’ve read, or anything that you would like to consider with others. Each session will have a member of the Australian Centre’s academic community in attendance and the space is available for dialogue, input, feedback and sharing.
Facilitator: Associate Professor Jeanine Leane
Date: Thursday 8 September, 10am - 12pm (AEST)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Professor Kirsty Gover
Date: Tuesday 20 September, 11am – 12:30pm (AEST)
Writing a research proposal workshop
Research proposals are a part of every academic’s working life, from PhD onwards. This workshop will introduce participants to a framework for developing a research proposal. Based around four simple questions, the framework will help participants to identify their central research question and outline a plan for how they will approach it. By the end of the workshop participants should have the tools they need to write a research proposal.
Presenter: Professor Sarah Maddison
Date: Tuesday 27 September, 2pm – 3:30pm (AEST)
October 2022
Insider/Outsider Research Workshop
Insider/outsider tensions imbue engaged qualitative research. How could they not? Who we are in the knowledge (co) production processes, and the relationships and distances we share with our fieldwork communities and spaces, matters intensely. In this session we unpack some of the entanglements that come from our relationships to, and connections with, the communities we research. We invite participants to reflect on theoretical and practical interventions with respect to these tensions.
This is a joint workshop with students from the Grad Program and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s PhD Program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies
Presenters: Dr Julia Hurst & Dr Nicholas Apoifis
Date: Friday 7 October, 1pm - 2:30pm (AEDT)
November 2022
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of October’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenter: Professor Kevin Bruyneel
Date: Wednesday 2 November, 10am - 11am (AEDT)
Research Symposium
The Australian Centre Research Symposium invites participants to showcase and share their excellent and innovative work in the field of Indigenous settler relations. We invite attendees to share their questions and critiques, experience and knowledge. We seek to create a space to have difficult conversations, which are essential for justice and our collective futures. We will focus on developing learning communities and creating conversations that will generate collaboration amongst scholars in the university setting.
The main aims of the symposium are:
- to bring together graduates working in different disciplines, within the Indigenous settler relations field, and to foster the exchange of information
- to help HDR scholars to progress their research themes
- to facilitate an opportunity for students to profile their topics and receive support/feedback from panels and peers
- to present successful pathways for organising and producing a thesis in the field
- to identify strategic issues in undertaking higher education in the field.
- to create an engaging space for Indigenous settler relations research
Dates: Wednesday 23 - Thursday 24 November
The album from the 2021 Symposium is available on the Australian Centre’s Facebook page.
December 2022
Summer Writing Retreat
Writing retreats provide participants with structure, time, and encouragement to make progress on their writing in the company of other scholars. They are designed to provide you with the physical and mental space to write as part of a community of productive student researchers.
The program will include structured writing time, facilitated workshops, and informal discussions, debriefing sessions and the celebration of progress made.
The Summer Writing Retreat will be held at Seacroft Estate on the Great Ocean Road.
Dates: Sunday 4 - Friday 9 December
The album from the 2021 Writing Retreat is available on the Australian Centre’s Facebook page.
Australia Centre Research Room
Room E672 in John Medley East (Building 191) is available to graduate program students during working hours. The room includes computers, desks, lockable cabinets, telephones and a meeting area with a large display screen. There is also access to a shared kitchenette with a fridge and microwave available on level 6.
2021 Program
February 2021
Welcome Event
Date: Friday 26 February
March 2021
Launch of the Graduate Research Program 2021
On Thursday March 4th join us in celebrating the official launch of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program.
Date: Thursday 4 March, 12pm - 2pm (AEDT)
Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
Speakers
Professor Russell Goulbourne, Dean Of Arts
Professor Sarah Maddison and Associate Professor Sana Nakata, ISRC Co-Directors
Musical Performance
Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung, Sovereign, singer, songwriter, language activist
Research Ethics Workshop
An ethical starting point for relational work is the understanding that ‘the relations between Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the settler state [is] the focal point of inquiry rather than the lives and bodies of Indigenous peoples’ (Nakata & Maddison, 2019, p. 419). Thus we seek to decenter disciplinary authority to know Indigenous peoples, and prioritise the relations between Indigenous peoples and the settler order.
This workshop will explore both the ethical principles for relational research, and critical reflections on navigating ethics approval processes.
Presenters: Dr Julia Hurst, Dr Ligia (Licho) López López, and Dale Wandin
Date: Friday 12 March, 2pm - 4pm (AEDT)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Professor Sarah Maddison and Associate Professor Sana Nakata
Date: Monday 29 March, 11am - 12pm (AEDT)
April 2021
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Associate Professor Morgan Brigg and Dr Mary Graham
Date: Tuesday 13 April, 10am - 11am (AEST)
Research Methodology Workshop
The interdisciplinary methodological approach of the RHD program is a framework informed by relational ethics and self-reflexivity. Guided by the understanding that ‘research is not an innocent or distant academic exercise but an activity that has something at stake and that occurs in a set of political and social conditions’ (Smith, 2012, p. 5), the program seeks to encourage critical thought accompanied by research practices that are attentive to issues of accountability, respect, care, renewal and insurgency.
This workshop will focus on methodology: what it is and why it is at the centre of the research process – yet it is rendered almost completely invisible within Western research practices, regardless of methods used.
Presenter: Distinguished Professor Maggie Walter
Date: Thursday 22 April, 1pm - 3pm (AEST)
Critical Reading Group
Join article author Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations Yin Paradies to discuss his recent publication Unsettling truths: modernity, (de-)coloniality and Indigenous futures. Bring your questions, comments, feedback, thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
Presenter: Professor Yin Paradies
Date: Monday 26 April, 12pm - 2pm (AEST)
May 2021
Collaborator workshop
Collaborator workshops are conducted in partnership with a member of the ISRC academic network and provide the opportunity to engage beyond the CPC series and academic development workshops to focus on a key area of Indigenous-settler relations.
Presenter: Professor Adrian Little
Date: Wednesday 12 May, 11am - 1pm (AEST)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenter: Professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
Date: Friday 21 May, 10am - 12pm (AEST)
June 2021
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenter: Associate Professor Sheryl Lightfoot
Date: Wednesday 30 June, 11am - 12pm (AEST)
July 2021
Winter Writing Retreat
The ISRC Writing Retreats provide participants with structure, time, and encouragement to make progress on their writing in the company of other scholars. They are designed to provide you with the physical and mental space to write as part of a community of productive student researchers.
The program will include structured writing time, facilitated workshops, and informal discussions, debriefing sessions and the celebration of progress made.
Dates: Tuesday 22 July - Thursday 24 July
August 2021
Publishing workshop
The publishing workshop is focused on exploring opportunities for disseminating research and building a publication profile in the field of Indigenous-settler relations. Core topics include:
- developing a publication plan
- identifying suitable journals
- understanding the difference between writing for the thesis and writing for journals
- develop an ethical politics of citation in the field of Indigenous-settler relations
Presenter: Dr Ashley Barnwell
Date: Monday 2 August, 10am - 11:30am (AEST)
September 2021
Collaborator workshop
Collaborator workshops are conducted in partnership with a member of the ISRC academic network and provide the opportunity to engage beyond the CPC series and academic development workshops to focus on a key area of Indigenous-settler relations.
Presenter: Professor Karen Farquharson
Date: Tuesday 7 September, 10am - 12pm (AEST)
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenters of the joint ISRC/MSEI webinar The Politics of Solidarity and Anti-Racism in Settler Colonial Contexts, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenters: Dr Kim Alley and Professor Karen Farquharson
Date: Thursday 30 September, 10am - 11:30am (AEST)
October 2021
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of this month’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenter: Associate Professor Lorenzo Veracini
Date: Wednesday 28th October, 12pm - 1pm (AEDT)
December 2021
Masterclass
An exclusive session with the presenter of November’s Critical Public Conversation series, focused on exploring the key themes and questions raised in their presentation.
Presenter: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Date: Thursday 2 December, 11am - 12pm (AEDT)
Summer Writing Retreat
The ISRC Writing Retreats provide participants with structure, time, and encouragement to make progress on their writing in the company of other scholars. They are designed to provide you with the physical and mental space to write as part of a community of productive student researchers.
The program will include structured writing time, facilitated workshops, and informal discussions, debriefing sessions and the celebration of progress made.
Dates: Friday 3 December - Wednesday 8 December
The album from the 2021 Writing Retreat is available on the Australian Centre’s Facebook page.
Research Symposium
The ISRC Research Symposium invites participants to showcase and share their excellent and innovative work in the field of Indigenous-settler relations. We invite attendees to share their questions and critiques, experience and knowledge. We seek to create a space to have difficult conversations, which are essential for justice and our collective futures. We will focus on developing learning communities and creating conversations that will generate collaboration amongst scholars in the university setting.
The main aims of the symposium are:
- to bring together graduates working in different disciplines, within the Indigenous-settler relations field
- to allow students to profile their topics and receive support/feedback from panels and peers
- to present successful pathways for organising and producing a thesis in the field
- to identify strategic issues in undertaking higher education in the field
The symposium’s purpose is to foster the exchange of information, help HDR scholars to progress their research themes, provide/receive feedback, and create an engaging space for Indigenous-settler relations research.
Dates: Thursday 9 December - Friday 10 December
The album from the 2021 Symposium is available on the Australian Centre’s Facebook page.
2021 Program of regular events
- 1st Friday of every month: Reading sprints
- 2nd Friday of every month: Shut up and write
- 3rd Friday of every month: Study circle
- 4th Friday of every month: Shut up and write