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All welcome for a Book Launch and Panel Discussion<br>
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<strong>Courting Blakness: What can art do in a university?</strong></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Date: Thursday 5 November <br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Time: 4.00 – 6.00pm </div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Location: Moot Court 67.202, University of Wollongong<br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">RSVP: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/RLM3KI687i" target="_blank">Online</a> at <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TCWTexPU5PCzK_HHrD3eQ2lBYDXN6XpsgsbhdspfYAc/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TCWTexPU5PCzK_HHrD3eQ2lBYDXN6XpsgsbhdspfYAc/viewform?c=0&w=1</a> </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION<em>:</em></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">What does public art bring to the challenge of communicating about the issues that matter to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people? This interactive panel discussion focuses on the challenges
and achievements of the ‘Courting Blakness’ project at the University of Queensland to explore the potential and pitfalls of creative interventions at the University of Wollongong, UQ and beyond. 'Courting Blakness' was a groundbreaking exhibition curated
by Fiona Foley in the Great Court at UQ (see http://courtingblakness.com) Panellists and audience participants will engage with questions such as: What is the role of public art in reimagining the history and politics of place? What can public art contribute
to tackling some of the most intractable questions within disciplinary knowledge formations? How effective is public art in highlighting or addressing enduring tensions between Indigenous and neo-colonial ways of knowing, seeing and being in place? What might
Courting Blakness look like at the University of Wollongong?</div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Following the panel discussion, the ‘Courting Blakness’ book will be launched by Dr Aunty Barbara Nicholson.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">PANELLISTS:</div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong>Djon Mundine OAM</strong><strong> </strong>is an independent Bandjalung radical curator, writer, activist, and PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales/Art & Design.</div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong>Dr Alice Te Punga Somerville</strong><strong> </strong>(Te Atiawa, Taranaki) was born in Wellington, raised in Auckland and currently teaches Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University
in Sydney. She is also Associate Professor of Pacific Literatures at the University of Hawai’i-MaŻnoa. At its heart her research is about locating, contextualising, and analysing texts written by Maori, Pacific and Indigenous people and her first book was
called <em>Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania </em>(Minn, 2012). She also writes the occasional poem.</div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong>Dr Fiona Nicoll</strong><strong> </strong>is a lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, and an active interdisciplinary researcher
in the field of cultural studies. She has taught and published on the politics of Aboriginal art since 1993 and is a founding member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association.</div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong>Facilitator:</strong> Dr Tanja Dreher, ARC Future Fellow, Legal Intersections Research Centre.<br>
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Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts<br>
University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia<br>
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