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Public Lecture: 2017 Returning Harvard Chair in Australian Studies

September 7, 2017

Project CI Professor Philip Mead will present the 2017 Returning Harvard Chair in Australian Studies Lecture at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday 20 September 2017.

Indigenous sovereignty: Activism and the imagination. 

The recent ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ (May, 2017), and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June, 2017) are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia.

Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are superseded by global rule?

The Swan Book explores these scenarios in a complex interplay of utopian and dystopian modes. This lecture argues that Alexis Wright’s work is an instance of how the Indigenous world novel can address real world issues of Indigenous rights and national sovereignty.

For more information and to register for this free event please click here.

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Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The University of Melbourne
Email: lucy.buzacott@unimelb.edu.au
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