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Sugden Institute Indigenous Oration
The Master/Head of College, Dr Stewart Gill OAM warmly invites you and your partner/guest to the next event in our Sugden Institute series.
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne
A Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Dr Ross L Jones
Dr James Waghorne
Professor Marcia Langton AO
Thursday 5 September 2024
5:30pm arrival for 6pm oration followed by
drinks and canapés
Junior Common Room, Queen’s College
Business attire
RSVP at rsvp@queens.unimelb.edu.au to Michele Mulder
Onsite parking is not available; Uber, taxi, trams recommended.
Overview
This event will discuss the latest history of the University of Melbourne with the editors of the volume. Published by Melbourne University Press in two volumes.
The first volume
“…publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It is a book about race and how it has been constructed by academics in the University. It is about power and how academics have wielded it and justified use against Indigenous populations, and about knowledge, especially Indigenous knowledge that silently contributed to many early research projects and collection endeavours.”
Panelists
Dr Ross L Jones
Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous History of the University of Melbourne Project in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Dr James Waghorne
A Wyvern (1997) and the official historian of the University of Melbourne, based in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Professor Marcia Langton AO
Professor Langton is the granddaughter of Yiman and Bidjara people in Queensland where she was born and raised. She is an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and since 2017 has also been the Associate Provost of the University.