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<p class=""><span class="">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">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.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b><i>‘The Wisdom, Wit and Wickedness of Gillian Cowlishaw’</i></b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>A Symposium in Honour of Gillian Cowlishaw</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>Time: </b>9:30</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>Date: </b>Friday March 27, 2015</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>Venue </b>Darlington Centre Conference Room, 174 City Road, Darlington </span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>Register here:</b><span class=""><a href="https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/"> https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="">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 <i>Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race</i> (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. </p>
<p class=""><span class="">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. </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">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. </span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>Participation is free, but registration for the symposium is mandatory.</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><b>A dinner at Fountain 77 in Glebe will follow the symposium. A fee of AUS $55 applies for the dinner.</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">For more information see <a href="https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/"><span class="">https://wwwgc2015.wordpress.com/</span></a></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">For all inquiries, please contact <span class=""><a href="mailto:Katarina.Ferro@sydney.edu.au">Katarina.Ferro@sydney.edu.au</a></span></span></p>
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