News 📰

• New Indigenous Knowledge Institute Fellows welcomed to Melbourne as the University showcases Indigenous Knowledges from around the world

Events 🎟️

Upcoming events

• Introduction to Aboriginal plant use - join us for this National Science Week workshop featuring Adam Shipp from Yurbay on Saturday 20 August. Two sessions are available: 10:30-11:30 am AEST or 1:30-2:30 pm AEST
• DH Lab Webinar: Exploring musical instruments using digital technologies - Professor Aaron Corn and team will discuss 3D scanning traditional instruments and creating a tiny robot for scanning the inside of yidaki, Wednesday 24 August 2022, 10:00 am–11:00 am ACST
• Walking on Country 2022 - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher and Dr Jack Pascoe will speak at Winter Wild in Apollo Bay on Sunday 28 August

Past events

• Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings - IKI Research Associates Professor Anne Poelina, Dr Erin O'Donnell, and Dr Alessandro Pelizzon discussed rivers becoming recognised by law as legal persons and living entities
• Science and Culture on Country - The recording of our NAIDOC Week talk co-presented with Parliament of Victoria and the Royal Society of Victoria can be watched online

In the media 📺

• How scientists are working for greater inclusion of Indigenous knowledge - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher and others talk about the culture of science
• The 'biggest supermoon of the year' is here, but our fascination with the lunar cycle is far from new - IKI Research Associate Associate Professor Duane Hamacher discussed cultural understandings of the Moon

Publications 📚

• Patrick Nunn et al. Human observations of Late Quaternary coastal change: examples from Australia, Europe and the Pacific Islands https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.06.016 Quaternary International, 2022.

What we're watching 👀

• In Conversation with Veronica Gorrie
• Crystal Tulley-Cordova, from the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, USA, provides insight on Navajo Water
• NAIDOC Week Webinar: Embracing Indigenous Knowledges in STEM
• Meet the Australians saving Indigenous languages from extinction | Languages And Me

What we're reading 📖

• Northern Australia's fire management and mapping: How the integration of 'old and new' has led to success
• Thousands of satellites are polluting Australian skies, and threatening ancient Indigenous astronomy practices
• First Nations Peoples as Political Designers

What we're listening to 👂

• NAIDOC Week 2022: 7 podcasts for 7 days
• Beyond the Bars