Events
Archives and Special Collections at the University of Melbourne
Featured events
MDHS Dean’s Indigenous Global Health Lecture: Dr Moana Waitoki
Oct
14
1:30pm
Public Lecture
“Being anti-racist in psychology: disrupting colonialism and asserting an ethics of restoration.”
The MDHS Indigenous Development Portfolio is pleased to host this special lecture, with Professor Mike McGuckin, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. We are delighted to welcome Professor Waikaremoana Waitoki to explore the role of anti-racism, truth-telling and Indigenous knowledge in transforming psychology.
Her talk will consider how anti-racism can disrupt the monocultural foundations of psychology and support the reclamation of Indigenous knowledge, drawing on the work of Dr Moana Jackson and his powerful concept of an Ethics of Restoration.
Spotlight On: Queer provenance in archives
Oct
15
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Seminar or Forum
In this Spotlight program archivist Morgan Flack, along with Queer Archive specialist Dr Elliot Freeman, will highlight the possibilities created by re-describing archival collections and the impact that social politics, stigma and law had on queer lives that are ambiguous on the record.
Within the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) repository sit six boxes of records documenting the life of June Barnett, her diplomatic career, testimony as witness at the 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage along with records detailing her personal life including hundreds of photos, travel documents and correspondence. In this session, Barnett’s archive will be considered through a lens of queer curiosity and contemporary archival practices including how records are now being re-interpreted or re-described for students, scholars and other audiences.
Join us for this talk and conversation and discover the current state of community-led archiving and considerations for building future queer archives.
