News 📰

• IKI Fellows scheme closing soon - 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 this Friday 21 January
• Announcing 2022-2023 IKI Research Themes - Healthy Country, Culture and Heritage, and Health and Justice

Events 🎟️

Upcoming events

• Utilizing Diné Science and Innovation to tackle long-standing water challenges in Diné communities. This University of Arizona event will take place at 9:00am on Tuesday 25 January AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra). Find out what time that is for you here. 

Past events

• Knowledge Intersections Symposium recording now available
• Cooking the kangaroo: Conversations on Indigenous song, spirituality, and connection recording now available
• Science Dean's Lecture - Indigenous Knowledge: Linking, learning, respecting

In the media 📺

• The supernatural understanding of volcanic eruptions - Research Associate Dr Justin Wejak discusses how eruptions are believed to happen when mountain spirits are angry with the exploitative behaviour of humankind
• COSMOS Magazine Summer of Science - New article about supernovae in Aboriginal traditions by Pete Swanton and Research Associate Duane Hamacher
• Legendary band Yothu Yindi and their trailblazing call for a treaty - Professor Aaron Corn reviews 'Writing in the Sand: The Epic Story of Legendary Band Yothu Yindi and How Their Song Treaty Gave Voice to a Movement'
• Aboriginal land management knowledge in mitigating Australia’s bushfire disasters - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher for SBS NITV Radio
   

What we're watching 👀

• Songlines in the Spatial Web | Mikaela Jade | TEDxCanberra
• Indigenous Plants – Journey from Paddock to Plate: A new model for sustainable agriculture
• Back To Nature (ABC iview)

What we're reading 📖

• Want to know how to save nature? Ask Indigenous scientists
• 'A quest for wisdom': How two-eyed seeing mixes Indigenous knowledge and Western science in Nova Scotia
• Credit for mitigating climate change
• "The First Astronomers: how Indigenous Elders read the stars." (Allen & Unwin) by Duane Hamacher with Elders & Knowledge Holders. Coming 1 March 2022, preorder available now.

What we're listening to 👂

• The Flats and what the Queen did not see on her 1954 Australian tour
• BlakAustralia: The sound of First Australians