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TIMOR LESTE: CRISIS AND BEYOND

a public form presented by

Institute of Postcolonial Studies
in conjunction with Australia-East Timor Association and East Timor Students Association

THE CRISIS: Damian Grenfell, Emanuel Braz, Louise Connor, Alex Tilman.

DEVELOPMENT: Ismenio Martins da Silva, Antero Benedito da Silva, Ann Wigglesworth, Helen Hill.

6:30pm, Wednesday 14th June

Uniting Church
51 Curzon Street,
North Melbourne 3051
(Free Entry)

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Past Lectures and Public Meetings

• The Crisis Over West Papua
  • David Manne
  • Richard Chauvel
  • Jacob Rumbiak
  • Reverend Peter Woods
• The Other Zionists (Film Screening and Discussion)
  • Eric Scott (Director)
• Ulli Beier in Conversation: Reflections on Art and Culture in West Africa / Working with Writers and Artists in Papua New Guinea
  • Ulli Beier
• Being in Place/Becoming and Space
  • Paul Carter (University of Melbourne)
  • Marcia Langton (University of Melbourne
• My Life, My Work
  • Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
• Why We Went to War in Iraq: Myths, Realities and Consequences
  • Richard Woolcott, Asia Society AustralAsia Centre
• Shadowing History: National Narrative and the Persistance of the Everyday
  • Harry Harootunian (New York University)
• Other Sources/Other Traditions
  • Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE
  • Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
• Soundtrack to War
  • George Gittoes
• A Photographic Journey through a Native Title Hearing
  • The Hon. Anthony North
• An Evening with Max Gillies
  • Max Gillies
• Empire, Machines and Desire
  • Dina al-Kassim (Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of California,Irvine)
  • John Carlos Rowe (Professor of English and Director, Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California, Irvin)
• Creativity, Culture and Violence
  • Ashis Nandy (Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
  • Gabriele Schwab (Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine)
  • Simon Ortiz (Acoma-Pueblo Poet and Visiting Professor of English, University of Toronto)
• Indigenous Voices: Survival and Renewal
  • Tony Birch, (Department of English, University of Melbourne)
  • Simon Ortiz (Acoma-Pueblo Poet and Visiting Professor of English, University of Toronto)
• The High Court and Land Rights
  • The Hon. Anthony North (Judge, Federal Court of Australia )
  • Marcia Langton (Inaugural Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne)
  • Lee Godden (Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne)
  • Paul Briggs (Chair, First Nations Credit Union)
• Lean, Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and Australian Universities
  • Margaret Thornton (Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University) (Professor Thornton's address available for purchase as an Occasional Paper)
  • John Cain (Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne)
  • Tony Coady (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne
• The Aboriginal Child and the European Imagination
  • Anne McGillivray (University of Manitoba)
• On Being a White Man: Australia circa 1901
  • Marilyn Lake (Professor of History, La Trobe University)
• Who Cares About Democracy?
  • Michael Dutton (Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne)
  • Paul James (Globalism Institute, RMIT University)
  • Sanjay Seth (Department of Politics, La Trobe University)
• Australian Postcolonial Dilemmas (available for purchase as an Occasional Paper)
  • Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE
  • Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG (Respondent)
• Democracy, Discipline and the Multitude
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty (Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
• Return to Sender: Law, Freedom and Refugees
  • Nehal Bhuta (Convenor)
  • Julian Burnside QC (Counsel for the respondent in the Tampa case)
  • Peter Mares (Presenter of ABC Radio's daily regional affairs program, Asia Pacific and author of Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2001))
  • Robert Manne (Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University, author of In Denial: the Stolen Generations and the Right (2001))
• The War Against Terrorism
  • Phillip Darby (Director, Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
  • Marcia Langton (Inaugural Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne)
  • Paul James (Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University)
  • Nehal Bhuta (International lawyer, Associate to Justice North, Federal Court of Australia
• Understanding Intolerance and the Rise of One Nation
  • Henry Reynolds (University of Tasmania)
• Describing Communal Conflicts in South Asia
  • Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India)
• A Conversation with David Harvey
  • David Harvey (Johns Hopkins University)