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Happy December! We have a bunch of events coming up this week that we'd love to have you join us for. If you're in Melbourne, this Sunday we will have a special screening of DJÄKAMIRR on our Parkville campus which will be followed by nibbles.

If you can't make the screening, we also have two days of symposia with some brilliant multidisciplinary panels on spirituality, astronomy, and engineering amongst other topics. We will also have an online screening of the film Wild Honey: Caring for Bees in a Divided Land, followed by a conversation with Balthasar Kehi whose homeland the film focuses on.

We're excited to announce that our IKI Fellows scheme is now open for applications. Please see the news item below for further information. We'd be very grateful if you shared the opportunity with your networks.

News 📰

IKI Fellows scheme now open - The IKI Fellows scheme presents a unique opportunity for a mid-career or senior Knowledge Holder, Traditional Owner, and/or Ceremonial Leader to work as a Fellow of the IKI in a two-year role. Applications close 21 January.

Events 🎟️

Upcoming events

Webinar: Cooking the kangaroo: Conversations on Indigenous song, spirituality, and connection - 11:00 AM-1:30 PM AEDT, Thursday 9 December
Webinar: Knowledge Intersections Symposium - 10:30 AM-4:45 PM AEDT, Saturday 11 December
Film screening: DJÄKAMIRR - 3:30-5:45 PM AEDT, Sunday 12 December, Kenneth Myer Building in Parkville, Victoria. Find out more about birthing in the Elcho island community of Galiwin'ku:
- The land can shake once more - ABC
- Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake - Science Friction with Natasha Mitchell on ABC Radio National

In the media 📺

5 big ideas: how Australia can tackle climate change while restoring nature, culture and communities - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher et al discuss how Indigenous-led work on Country and other big ideas can help the climate crisis
Indigenuity: Bruce Pascoe – 8 November 2021 - Research Associate Professor Bruce Pascoe chats to Krystal De Napoli about his book 'Country: Future Fire, Future Farming'
Indigenuity: Michael-Shawn Fletcher – 15 November 2021 - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher chats to Krystal De Napoli about his educational background and research

Publications 📚

Maddison Miller. Blak emu https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1991442 Australian Archaeology, 2021

What we're watching 👀

What we're reading 📖

What we're listening to 👂

Banner image: Installation photography of Ancestral Memory exhibition, Old Quad, 2019. Photograph: Christian Capurro. Image © the artists.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands on which we live and work, and pay our respects to the Elders, past and present.