News 📰

• Library guide launches to support Indigenous knowledge research
• Congratulating Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher on receiving a prestigious ARC grant
• The Indigenous Knowledge Institute announces 2020 seed funding recipients
• The Indigenous Knowledge Institute supports next generation of leaders

Events 🎟️

Past events

• Flames of Opportunity: Could Indigenous knowledge prevent catastrophic bushfires? - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher spoke with NITV’s Rae Johnston for the annual Hugh Williamson Lecture, presented by Science Gallery Melbourne in collaboration with the Indigenous Knowledge Institute
• Objects, archives and their stories: unsettling colonial certainties - Professor Aaron Corn and Associate Provost Professor Marcia Langton spoke on a panel examining the ways people are now working with their cultural heritage that is housed in archive and museum collections

In the media 📺

• National Eucalypt Day 23 March - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher on eucalypts, their ecology, and their uses
• The Drum Friday 9 October - Aurora Milroy joined ABC’s the Drum to discuss the role of cultural burning in bushfire prevention
• This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher on the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping the Australian landscape
• Friday essay: How Indigenous songs recount deep histories of trade between Australia and Southeast Asia - Professor Aaron Corn and Brian Garawirrtja discuss Australia's earliest international relationships

Publications 📚

• Michael-Shawn Fletcher et al. The influence of climatic change, fire and species invasion on a Tasmanian temperate rainforest system over the past 18,000 years https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379121000317, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021
• Michael-Shawn Fletcher et al. The loss of an Indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-020-01339-3 Ambio, 2021
• Professor Aaron Corn. Joe Gumbula, the Ancestral Chorus, and the Value of Indigenous Knowledges https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/pdtc-2018-0027/html Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, 2019

What we're watching 👀

• Milingimbi Gatjirrk Festival 2020
• Milpirri Festival 2018

What we're reading 📖

• After 160 years, Aboriginal cultural burning returns to Coranderrk Station
• How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous language?
• Even 150 Years Later, Lush Forest Gardens Showcase The Value of Native Stewardship

What we're listening to 👂

• Right Country Right Fire - a podcast about how Australia’s Indigenous peoples use fire to care for Country
• Eavesdrop on Experts: Indigenous astronomy - a podcast about Indigenous astronomy featuring Associate Professor Duane Hamacher