Events

Kristy Crooks will talk about her work bringing First Nations voices into infectious disease emergency planning and response. She has helped shape state-level approaches to pandemic preparedness, especially around strengthening cultural governance and making sure First Nations leadership is built into response systems.

Bryony Roberts will also join the conversation, sharing insights from her work with the FIRST Network.

This is a hybrid meeting, email onemda-info@unimelb.edu.au for zoom details.

‘These were indeed strange times. Yet the forces at work in them were not new. Men like Donald Trump are embedded in US history, mythology and popular culture. Rank populists, hucksters, fakers, grifters, rent-seekers, blowhards, tycoons, kleptocrats, narcissists, psychopaths and delinquents – or, from the other point of view, rugged individualists, entrepreneurs, men of vision, men of destiny, instruments of God. No diorama of mainstream American life in any era could be without them.’
– Don Watson, The Shortest History of the United States of America

Join Don Watson as he traces how the central conflicts of the United States – those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence – play out through its history: a country at war with itself in the 1860s, the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, and a nation beset by wild division and turmoil in the twenty-first century.

Featuring an introduction from Professor Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Culture & Engagement), at the University of Melbourne.

This event is presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture and Readings