The Institute runs a
number of programmes throughout the year, including our leading-edge
seminar and panel series, occasional lectures featuring speakers
from around Australia and the world, as well as the various working
groups which are based at the Institute.
Professor
Marcia Langton, Inaugural Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies
at the University of Melbourne shares a lighthearted moment with
Institute Patrons the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG and Professor
Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE at a recent Institute forum on Australian
Postcolonial Dilemmas.
The Institute's regular panel
series is truly interdisciplinary and brings together academics
and students from all major Victorian universities. There is also
a growing attendance from people outside the university system.
Public lectures have included Professor
David Fieldhouse (Cambridge), Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago)
and Professor David Harvey (Johns Hopkins.) Other
major public meetings have featured our patrons Professor Lowitja
O'Donghue AC CBE and the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG on Australian
Postcolonial Dilemmas, historian and award winning non-fiction
author Henry Reynolds on the subject of Understanding Intolerance
and the Rise of One Nation, Ashis Nandy on Describing Communal
Conflicts in South Asia and broadcaster Peter Mares, lawyer
Julian Burnside QC and Robert Manne of La Trobe University on Return
to Sender: Law, Freedom and Refugees.
Crowds in the Elm St Hall at an Institute forum
on the War on Terrorism
In addition to our lecture and panel programmes, the
Institute houses two working groups which convene around the topics
of Aborigines, Australia and Agreements: Frameworks for Co-Existence
between Indigenous and Settler Australiansand Postcoloniality
and East Timor.
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