[csaa-forum] ONE OF US? Complicity and Critique after the Christchurch Massacre

[Baden Offord]

Join the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University and the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance of Western Australia on Thursday 2 May at the State Library of Western Australia as we present:


ONE OF US? Complicity and Critique after the Christchurch Massacre.


Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has opened an official book of condolences for the victims of the Christchurch attacks with the words “they are us“.  Radio New Zealand March 18, 2019


We, our, us, them are the most basic units of defining belonging and non-belonging. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern chose to redefine these terms within her nation, claiming as kin the victims of the Christchurch massacre and disowning the killer. Yet, in other contexts, the killer was humanised, in line with his own self-representation as “an ordinary white man” — someone who could be “one of us.”


Who are “we”? Who is “one of us”? Who are we part of? Whose humanity do we recognise as akin to ours?

In this symposium, community members, academics and artists consider the fraught term, one of us, exploring questions of the normalization of racism, everyday Islamophobia, and the connections between various forms of othering – “us and them” – in Australia.


We consider our complicities with violence and explore ways forward. A Q and A panel will address pre-submitted questions on how to recognize and resist the destructive identifications of us and them and the ways in which they are reproduced in our daily lives.


Featuring:  Sky Croeser, Yahiya Ibrahim, Karim Jabbari (video), John Kinsella,  Marilyn Metta, Marziya Mohammedali,  Ayman Qwaider, Sabah Rind, Sara Saleh (video),  Kim Scott, Rabia Siddique,  Fadzi Whande, Yirga Woldeyes.


Convenors: Shaheen Hughes, Hannah McGlade, Marziya Mohammedali,  Suvendrini Perera


Organising Committee: Michelle Bui, Sky Croeser, Thor Kerr, Marilyn Metta, Baden Offord, Ayman Qwaider, Antonio Traverso.


PLEASE REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/one-of-us-complicity-and-critique-after-the-christchurch-massacre-tickets-59814617130?ref=eios




Professor Baden Offord, PhD
Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights
Director | Centre for Human Rights Education
Research Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities
Curtin University
T: | +61 8 9266 7186
E: | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au
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I acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation on whose lands Curtin University stands. I pay my respects to all Indigenous custodians of the lands across Australia.

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