[csaa-forum] Sydney event marking Gillian Cowlishaw's retirement

[Eve Vincent]

Dear All,

Tess Lea (Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney) and Eve
Vincent (Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University) invite
registrations for an event marking Gillian Cowlishaw's retirement, to be
held in Sydney at the end of this month. All welcome. See below for more
details.

*‘The Wisdom, Wit and Wickedness of Gillian Cowlishaw’*

*A Symposium in Honour of Gillian Cowlishaw*

*Time: *9:30

*Date: *Friday March 27, 2015

*Venue *Darlington Centre Conference Room, 174 City Road, Darlington

*Register here:* https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/
<https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/>

Since the mid-1970s Gillian Cowlishaw has conducted ethnographic research
across the breadth of Aboriginal Australia. Gillian has worked with the
‘Bulman mob’ in Arnhem Land, in the stigmatised NSW country town and shared
social domain of Bourke, and in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, home to the
largest Aboriginal community in Australia. The title for this one day
symposium references Cowlishaw’s introductory comments in *Blackfellas,
Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race* (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).
Cowlishaw argued that the ‘depressing nastiness’ too readily attributed to
supposed reservoirs of racism and poverty excludes knowledge of the complex
desires, imaginings, ‘wisdom, wit and wickedness’ possessed by Aboriginal
people.

Our title is perhaps as cheeky in its bent as the sometimes-controversial
thinker whose rich and exciting body of work we wish to engage scholars in
conversation with. This one-day event explores the provocations, the
lingering disagreements, the legacies and the contribution of this woman to
a still male-dominated realm.

Confirmed speakers include Warwick Anderson, Jeremy Beckett, Ute
Eickelkamp, Ghassan Hage, Holly High, Andrew Lattas, Julie Marcus, Barry
Morris, Stephen Muecke, Heidi Norman, Kalpana Ram and John von Sturmer. See
the websites for abstracts.

*Participation is free, but registration for the symposium is mandatory.*

*A dinner at Fountain 77 in Glebe will follow the symposium. A fee of AUS
$55 applies for the dinner.*

For more information see https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/

For all inquiries, please contact Katarina.Ferro at sydney.edu.au
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